There is some bad news for domestic air travelers. In a latest move major Airlines (Air India, Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines) including low-cost carriers have withdrawn all promotional fares and increased basic fares by around Rs 2,000 on several sectors from Tuesday.

The companies have decided to stop the low-fare advance purchase (APEX) schemes, quoting that the airfares would now be decided by the market.

The initial public offer (IPO) of Chennai-based Edserv Softsystems of Rs 20 crore managed to sail through even while the Rs 44-crore IPO of Gemini Engi-Fab has been pulled off last week due to lack of investor confidence.

According to data revealed by National Stock Exchange, the IPO of EdServ Softsystems has received 51,49,000 bids as against issue size of 39,73,908 shares and got subscribed 1.30 times.

The price band for the issue was fixed between Rs 55 and Rs 60.

In today's trading session, Tata group stocks witnessed mixed reaction from investors on news that Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, has pledged shares of some of the group companies, to finance operations in a tight liquidity situation in the credit market.
 
In its filing with the NSE, Steel giant Tata Steel, announced that the company's founders have pledged 9.89 crore shares, or 13.53 per cent of the total equity capital.