'Zero Day' visitors like Maruti Suzuki, TVS, Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp, Ashok Leyland and Bajaj Electricals are visiting fewer campuses.
From discounts to hundred per cent financing to talks of a price hike, companies are doing everything to ensure retail sales pick up this month.
The domestic currency had lost 15 paise to close at 63.82 on Wednesday.
Dealers attributed the rupee's fall to increased demand for the US currency from importers.
There could be some significant changes in motorcycles over the next few years says Shobhana Subramanian.
'India's future: To manufacture so efficiently that we do not need protection,' says Naushad Forbes.
The Rupee is seen strengthening against the dollar.
The dollar maintained its bullish momentum in Asian and early European trade
A-Star, Suzuki's new world car that will be made only by its Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki India, will have four different names in markets across the world, which will indicate the role it is expected to play in the Japanese car maker's stable as well as of compatriot Nissan Motor.
The rupee fell back against the pound to 98.72 from overnight close of 98.48 and turned negative to end at 77.44 per euro from Rs 77.37.
The alliance will extend an existing partnership between the two.
In this lockdown, no matter how many similarities the memory dredges up from past events and associations, there is one thing that has no precedent: The isolation that it has imposed on people, reports Arundhuti Dasgupta.
Rising for the second session, the Indian rupee on Thursday climbed by 50 paise to nearly four-week high of 62.67 against the greenback on persistent selling of dollars by banks and hopes of capital inflows in view of a strong equity market.
Domestic equity markets opened with losses which capped the rupee gains.
A Russian medallist at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is suspected of having tested positive for a banned substance, a source at the Games said on Sunday, in a potential major blow to Russia's efforts to emerge from a drug-cheating scandal.
Japanese motorcycle major, Yamaha Motor Co, has drawn up a Rs 800 crore (Rs 8 billion) capex plan and is eyeing a 10 per cent marketshare in the fast growing high-end motorcycle market in India, a top company official said.
But splitting management bandwidth by investing in non-core businesses will not be appreciated by the market in the long run.
The rupee had shed 13 paise to close at 64.04.
Rupee ends day stronger against the dollar.
Charting out ambitious plans for India, Japanese automaker Nissan on Tuesday said it plans to have as many as nine models by 2012 out of which five will be locally made as it aims to garner around five per cent of the market.
The dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a trade-weighted basket of six major currencies, was up by 0.19 per cent at 95.48.
The yen may have depreciated to 110 against the dollar from a high of 96 earlier this year, but bankers are advising extreme caution in using the Japanese currency for raising resources and hedging risks.
Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) on Friday said Japanese telecom major NTT DoCoMo's open offer for a 20 per cent stake in the company has been deferred following a delay in approval from market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Persistent foreign capital inflows also boosted sentiment.
Robust capital inflows alongside a slightly weaker greenback too reinforced the dominance of the home currency
Dairy major Amul, Life Insurance Corporation of India and mobile manufacturer Nokia have emerged as India's top three brands according to Asia's Top 1000 Brands
The rupee dropped on renewed demand for the American currency.
Japan's Daiichi Sankyo makes Ranbaxy Laboratories an offer it can't refuse -- $4.6 billion for a 50.1% stake in India's largest drugmaker.
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