Any concerned citizen ought to start practicing hygiene by washing their hands properly and be aware of the brands that are certified.
While hybrids, CNG and biofuels found favour in 2018 among many carmakers including Maruti Suzuki, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Honda, others such as M&M and Tata Motors have shown full faith in electric vehicles.
The latest numbers showed 34 of India's 90 power stations were running on critical coal stocks.
The Supreme Court Wednesday directed the Centre and states to ensure implementation of the decisions taken in a meeting to curb air pollution, observing that it cannot get into the 'nitty gritty' and the bureaucracy has developed a 'sort of inertia' of not taking decisions which are left to the courts.
The auto sector is doing well in India, despite stock market meltdown, emerging signals of industrial slowdown and rising costs.
Aircraft reconfiguration and Kingfisher's slide help the airline consolidate its top spot, but widening losses and IndiGo's rapid rise are big concerns.
The company had recently stopped production of petrol models, including the Alto, M800, A-Star, Estilo and Omni for three days to prevent inventories piling up further.
Broader market outperformed the frontline indices with the Smallcap and Midcap gaining up to 1%
To prevent rise in air pollution levels, oil marketing companies and thermal power units were planning to procure stubble from farmers to make bioethanol and promote the central government's 'Agricultural Mechanization' for crop residue management. But both have seen minimal success.
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After all its flights remained grounded for most part of the day on Wednesday, cash-strapped SpiceJet resumed operations in the evening as oil companies, which had stopped fuel supplies to its aircraft, eased the restriction.
The market, however, reacted negatively to SpiceJet's announcement and the company's stock dropped by 0.87 per cent as analysts became wary of diversion into a new business during a high fuel price environment.
Top losers in the Sensex pack include Bharti Airtel, Infosys, Asian Paints, RIL, Coal India, HDFC Bank, HDFC, TCS, ONGC and M&M, falling up to 3.09 per cent.
The Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensex opened 30 points higher at 15,993, and soon slipped into a negative zone in early trades after the government announced the hike in fuel prices.
IOC sales rose to Rs 109,859.49 crore (Rs 1,098.59 billion) in Q2 from Rs 105,791.29 crore (Rs 1,057.91 billion) in the same period of 2012-13 fiscal, the company said in a filing to the stock exchanges.
Not all change is good, but this one is, applauds Shekhar Gupta.
Broader markets outperformed with BSE Midcap and BSE Smallcap adding 0.23% and 0.45%, respectively
Inflation rose to 4.67 per cent for the week ended July 22, from 4.52 per cent in the previous week mainly due to increase in the prices of vegetables, pulses, industrial fuel and some manufactured items.
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While most experts suggest the government loosen its purse strings and not worry about the fiscal deficit in a pandemic impacted year, it will be a tightrope walk for the government to increase spending without going overboard.
Both TMC and CPI-M today walked out from Rajya Sabha opposing fuel price hike.
Prices of two-wheelers, passenger and commercial vehicles are set to rise 15-25%
The S&P BSE Midcap and S&P BSE Smallcap indices hit a new lifetime high
Last week, the Consumer Price Index-based inflation for the month had contracted to 4.4 per cent.
The government imposed restrictions under Section 144 CrPC in Srinagar district.
While higher fuel costs and irrational pricing are key concerns, infusion of funds to retire debt is crucial if Kingfisher Airlines has to improve its financials.
While higher fuel costs and irrational pricing are key concerns, infusion of funds to retire debt is crucial if Kingfisher Airlines has to improve its financials.
Debt-ridden Kingfisher Airlines today reported that its net loss doubled to Rs 468.66 crore (Rs 4.68 billion) in the quarter ended September 30, 2011, as higher fuel prices depressed operating margins.
Stock market volatility forced investors across the globe to pull out $24.5 billion from emerging market equity funds in the January-March quarter of 2011, including over $ 2 billion from funds focused on BRIC markets.
The lower quarterly profit was mainly due to rise in fuel costs, foreign exchange loss and lower yield
The rupee had closed barely steady at 63.75 on Wednesday.
Employees of PSU oil firms said they will strike work on Tuesday against the proposed privatisation of cash-rich oil refiner Indian Oil Corp.
Telecom stocks fell after Mukesh Ambani extended Reliance Jio's free offers till March 2017.
This first-of-its-kind-in-India centre is fully funded by Reliance Foundation and includes a negative pressure room that helps in preventing cross-contamination and helps control infection. All beds are equipped with the required infrastructure, biomedical equipment such as ventilators, pacemakers, dialysis machines, and patient monitoring devices.
While two-wheeler sales are down 15 per cent year-on-year, passenger vehicles sales are lower by 5-7 per cent.
Reliance Industries has posted good growth in Q1 of the current financial year.
Navratri and Onam saw flat sales, but industry hopes to turn the corner with a cracker of a Diwali.
Among top losers that dragged down key indices were Infosys, TCS, Reliance, SBI, Tata Steel and ITC, falling up to 2.15 per cent.
The government is planning to probe into diesel imports by private firms that had been given a license to retail the imported fuel but are selling it to industrial and bulk consumers.
Auto stocks Hero MotoCorp and Mahindra & Mahindra gained 1-2 per cent on the back of strong sales in the month of September.
The home minister took stock of the situation and was briefed about the steps taken to maintain peace along border areas as well as in the Valley, a security official said.
