M&M's used car biz becomes the first private firm to tie up with a bank for conducting online auctions of repossessed and off-lease cars. Ajay Modi reports.
Budget announcements will come right before five states, with population of around 250 million, go to polls.
Amid persistent fear of prosecution and penalty, people across income classes are looking for ways to do away with stacks of higher denomination currency.
German luxury car maker has expanded its product offering with the launch of 11 products this year.
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
The focus is likely to be on consolidation and improvement of existing rural-centric programmes to ensure their completion ahead of the next general elections in 2019, rather than announcement of new schemes. Sanjeeb Mukherjee and Arup Roychoudhury report.
It is immediately not clear how GST will impact the mass car market. Experts, however, say the level of tax on smaller cars will have to be at a differential to the sedans.
Strong festive demand in October helped carmakers register a seven-per cent volume growth in the domestic market, even as the largest player, Maruti Suzuki, reported low single-digit growth.
Maruti Suzuki growing in double-digits; Suzuki's Japan Q1 top line rose only 1%.
One of the smallest players in India's car market, it is banking on new-look Etios to make inroads into the personal vehicle segment
BMS, BKS and SJM are trying to forge common cause with outfits on the other side of the ideological divide over the government's policies they are not in agreement with.
Good pay hikes, positive macroeconomic factors and the taming of inflation have had a positive effect on purchases
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian says that he hopes GDP growth will be at the upper end of the 7-7.5 per cent range.
A number of companies, including Maruti Suzuki, Renault and Nissan, are giving gold coins to buyers who book cars by the month-end. There are other benefits as well, reports Ajay Modi.
The NITI Aayog has big plans for Indian sport.
The fund allocated for pulses buffer is more than 40% of entire farm ministry's 2016-17 budget.
The first major pricing error was made by market leader Maruti Suzuki when it launched its first crossover the S Cross
Rains have been 5% below normal so far, but Met department sticks to its forecast
The textiles sector is India's largest organised employer and critical for the prime minister's dream of creating jobs
Only 10,059 tourists have visited the state this month compared to around 90,000 in July