Life insurers end FY14 with 11.5% new premium growth

The life insurance industry has seen a 11.5% rise in new premiums for FY14. Life insurers collected total premiums of Rs 119,641 crore for FY14 compared to Rs 107,235.44 crore in FY13.
Life Insurance Corporation (LIC), India's largest insurer collected new premiums of Rs 90,123.75 crore for the fiscal, a rise of 17.8% over the previous fiscal.
However, private life insurers saw a 4% drop in new premiums to Rs 29,517.38 crore. 
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LIC buys 4.66% stake in BHEL for Rs 1,889 crore

NEW DELHI: Life Insurance Corporation has bought sharesworth Rs 1,889 crore, about 4.66 per cent stake, in state-owned power equipment maker BHEL through an openmarket transaction LIC has purchased 11.41 crore shares in BHEL at a price of Rs 165.55 apiece through a block deal on the BSEThe Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, last week decided the timing and mode of disinvestment in BHEL.  http://www.myallagents.com/LIC-buys-466-stake-in-BHEL-for-Rs-1889-crore/details.html