Equitas Small Finance Bank has raised Rs 550 crore in total from the government of Singapore, Singapore's central bank (Monetary Authority of Singapore) and a host of local mutual funds in the qualified institutional placement of equities.
Veteran Nobel-winning virologist Luc Montagnier died in Paris recently. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS, along with his colleague Francoise Barr-Sinoussi.