It kick-starts rally with the Africa Twin motorcycle; three more launches slated for the year
Skoda Auto, Volvo Cars and Daimler India Commercial Vehicles are not participating in the Expo.
Profit taking in index heavweights RIL and HDFC weighed on sentiment while ICICI Bank surged 7%.
IT exporters were the top gainers amid a weak rupee along with select index heavyweights.
At Rs 1.24 lakh, it's the most expensive scooter manufactured in the country but the 450 deserves every penny.
Faced with a situation where the spouse's transferable job keeps taking the family to different locations, thus jeopardising their own careers, many women simply fall off their career track and resign themselves to relocation every time their husband gets transferred, says Sudha Menon.
Markets shrugged off RBI's neutral stance on key policy rates.
Urban and rural FMCG sales growth data for the last five quarters show the latter outperformed the former consistently.
Benchmark share indices ended lower on profit taking after they touched record highs in the previous session.
Scooters such as those from Kinetic Motors had become gearless by then and were no more family rides, but peppier individual modes of transport.
Rather than focussing on manufacturing, Indian companies need to concentrate on conceiving, designing and branding products.
Auto sector has nothing to look forward to in the Budget.
The US is still a place for innovation and entrepreneurship, and it is good to see Indian Americans and immigrants contributing to this in a major way, says K V Seshasayee who visited the US after four years and found the gloom had dissipated.