The benchmark indices have erased some of its early gains with IT major Infosys and Tata Motors contributing nearly 36 points to the decline.

The barometer index, Sensex is up 123 points at 25,765 and Nifty is up 34 points at 7,698 levels.

Ever since the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) announced a voluntary recall policy in 2012, carmakers have resolved defects in more than half a million vehicles.

After close to a month long closure, Tata Motors has resumed production trials of the Nano car at its Sanand facility.

Post maintenance, the production trials are believed to be for a new Nano variant. The company had closed the facility citing maintenance and re-tooling for new variants last month.

Tata Motors' domestic medium and heavy commercial vehicle (MHCV) volumes in June-14 at 9,620 units (-13.6% y-o-y) remained weak after declining by 23% in FY14. Our channel checks reflect some moderation in discounting, however, it continues to be at significantly high levels (10%+ on the headline ASP—average selling price—for key models) reflecting persistence of weak demand environment. We expect MHCV industry demand to revive over FY15-17 (18% p.a.).Tata Motors' domestic medium and heavy commercial vehicle (MHCV) volumes in June-14 at 9,620 units (-13.6% y-o-y) remained weak after declining by 23% in FY14. Our channel checks reflect some moderation in discounting, however, it continues to be at significantly high levels (10%+ on the headline ASP—average selling price—for key models) reflecting persistence of weak demand environment. We expect MHCV industry demand to revive over FY15-17 (18% p.a.).

Markets have started the trading session on a firm note with the Indices hitting lifetime high. The first Budget session of the 16th Lok Sabha begins today.

Indices continue to scale fresh highs on account of strong foreign inflows and budget optimism.

In a rare case of investor activism on managerial remuneration, shareholders of Tata Motors, India's biggest automotive maker, rejected compensation payment in excess of prescribed limits to three directors.

The company did not get the required 75 per cent votes in a postal ballot to compensate Executive Director (commercial vehicles) Ravindra Pisharody, Executive Director (quality) Satish Borwankar and the legal heir of former managing director Karl Slym (who died in January) in excess of the limits for the year ended March.

Mumbai: After declining for 33 consecutive months, sales of medium and heavy-duty trucks picked up in June, as an improvement in the mining sector and a pick-up in manufacturing led to some revival in demand for commercial vehicles.

With the exception of Tata Motors Ltd, the market leader in the commercial vehicles, sales at most firms, including Ashok Leyland Ltd, Eicher Motors Ltd, Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles Ltd and Mahindra Trucks and Buses Ltd, saw a spike.

Ratan Tata, who steered the country's biggest industrial group for two decades, said he would discuss everything, from mergers to his private life, in memoirs to be published in a Japanese newspaper.

The 76-year-old industrialist, in comments carried on Tuesday in Japanese in the Nikkei newspaper, said stepping down in December 2012 as chairman of the Tata Group, had given him a chance to reflect.

In a revival sign for the country’s troubled automobile industry, nine leading carmakers’ combined sales in June was 18 per cent higher than those in the same month last year.

A new and stable government at the Centre seemed to have bolstered consumer sentiment, as buyers returned to showrooms — the nine passenger vehicle manufacturers that released their numbers on Tuesday sold a combined 204,287 units in the month, compared with 173,624 in June 2013.

Knight Assets & Co, which advises funds owning stock in Tata Motors Ltd, is pushing India's largest automaker to list its Class A shares on the New York Stock Exchange to boost shareholder value. Tata said it had no plans to list these shares in New York presently.

Tata Motors' ordinary and Class A shares - which carry a 10th of the voting rights - are "materially undervalued" and worth atleast Rs 700 apiece, London-based Knight Assets said in a statement on Wednesday. They traded at Rs 445.8 and Rs 293, respectively, at 11:43 am in Mumbai.

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