About 900 employees would lose their jobs following the suspension of operations at the plant.
Lumia range is make-or-break for both Nokia and Microsoft where each is desperate for a successful device that can take Windows operating system to the masses.
Taking the fight to rivals manufacturing high-end mobile devices, the world's largest handset-maker, Nokia, on Tuesday unveiled three new smartphones in an attempt to increase its market share.
Can the launch of smartphones under its own brand name by Finnish company HMD Global - despite having a licence to use the Nokia brand which it bought from Microsoft - help it regain its once dominant position in the mobile phone sweepstakes in India, where it was once routed? In 2009, Nokia was the country's largest MNC with revenues of $4 billion and a market share touching 80 per cent in 2010. After this, its fortunes fell. Although it had been the first global player to set up an assembly plant, not only to assemble phones for the local market but for exports, it had to shut down operations in 2014.
The software is pure Android, the fingerprint sensor is 99 per cent accurate and very responsive and the notch doesn't bother me yet, says Veer Arjun Singh.
Nokia launches Nokia 7 Plus, 8 Sirocco series in India; relaunches Nokia 6 with new features.
This MWC 2018 Nokia is going all guns blazing.
Nokia Technologies will receive royalty payments from HMD for sales of Nokia-branded mobile products, covering both the brand and the intellectual property rights.
Nokia has unveiled its first high-end smartphone running on Linux software.
Nokia, that has already begun manufacturing of 5G equipment at its Chennai plant, is also readying for exporting the products to several key markets like the US.
With the India launch of Nokia 3, Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 confirmed, buzz around the launch of the flagship Nokia 8 grows.
The deal will help Huawei expand its smartphone business.
Indian and Finnish finance ministry officials on Tuesday discussed Nokia's Rs 21,153 crore (Rs 211.53 billion) tax dispute case and reviewed the double taxation avoidance agreement.
Looking inside the unconventional flagship smartphone.
Nokia was looking at how Microsoft's Surface tablet went in the market before launching its own.
The phone has the ability to store up to 6,000 songs on a 32 GB memory card.
Later, he joined Ericsson India where he handled corporate affairs and communication.
A spiffy OS, shining more so with the Mango update Nokia Lumia 800 seems far superior. Critically, it again boils down to the pricing bit, and we hope Nokia gets it right.
The agreement will result in the settlement of all patent litigation between the companies, including the withdrawal by Nokia and Apple of their respective complaints to the US International Trade Commission.
Nokia is one of the leading telecom equipment manufacturing companies in India
The move comes from the Finnish mobile phone maker days after the US International Trade Commission made the initial determination that Apple did not violate some other patents held by Nokia.
Workers had gone on strike yesterday, demanding better wage settlement terms and reinstatement of workers suspended in January this year. Nokia India Employees Progressive Union was spearheading the strike.
The company is facing a string of losses and shrinking customer base.
Last Friday, the apex court had ordered Nokia to give a Rs 3,500-crore (Rs 35-billion) guarantee before it transferred its Sriperumbudur facility, one of its biggest plants globally.
This is the first Windows Phone 8 device with a full high-definition 1,080-pixel display.
To help customers identify original Nokia batteries from the counterfeit ones, Nokia has introduced hologram labels with authentication codes in all its new batteries.
Both are smart feature phones. But who will conquer the market?
Nokia, after scripting a comeback of sorts with its Windows based phones, has launched an Android phone through its new offering, Nokia X dual-SIM. Will this gamble succeed?
Unions will 'fight to death' if company 'decides' to shut Chennai factory.
The workers who were hired straight out of school as unskilled labourers are now struggling to find alternative employment because they lack skills.
Nokia said the freezing of the fixed assets would not have any impact on the day-to-day operations of the company.
Nokia has managed to enter the top-five list in the feature phone market within six months of its comeback
Enjoy the visual tour of the Nokia World 2013 convention at Abu Dhabi, UAE captured entirely through the Lumia 1020.
The move is expected to help Nokia expand its presence in the key US market.
In an effort to further boost its base among low-end customers, mobile phone major Nokia on Wednesday launched two new handsets for entry-level buyers.
With Nokia starting to spin out mobile devices that come loaded with its music download service, the Finnish company is eager to see how consumers would use its 3.5-million music library, currently offered free.
