Manu Bhaker and Saurabh Chaudhary staged a remarkable comeback to claim the mixed 10m air pistol gold, ending India’s campaign on a rousing note in the World Cup.

Representing the other Indian team in the same event, Yashaswini Deswal and Abhishek Verma won the silver as India picked up the maximum possible medals on the final day of the tournament.

Infrastructure major L&T on Tuesday said its construction arm has bagged the contract for construction of the Navi Mumbai International Airport. The company did not provide value of the contracts but said the orders fall under “major” category which ranges between Rs 5,000 crore and Rs 7,000 crore as per its classification of contracts.

The state-run carrier Air India is still the market leader to fly on international routes with more than double the capacity of rival IndiGo, the airline said on Monday. The clarity on the matter comes a day after a report said that the Maharaja has been pipped by IndiGo as the later “now has the largest share of international seats to/from India”, a consultancy firm, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), said in its report on August 31.

In the competitive fashion e-tailing segment, smaller e-tailers and online-first private labels are now flocking to the sector’s mega marketplaces in order to survive. Consider how fashion marketplace Voonik, which has pivoted its business model to become a fashion brand, recently launched 350 products on Snapdeal. The start-up also plans to introduce its products on Amazon and Flipkart-owned Myntra.

Reliance Jio may have big plans for its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services — to be commercially launched on September 5 — but analysts feel the launch of the new service would not be as disruptive for the incumbents as Jio’s mobile services had been when launched three years ago on the same date.

If at all, there’s any major disruption by the launch of Jio’s wireline FTTH services JioFiber, it will be for the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL), which is currently the market leader in this segment.

Auto industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) on Monday sought immediate steps from the government, including reduction in GST rates and initiation of scrappage policy, as sales continued to fall with passenger vehicle makers witnessing a decline of 30% offtake in August.

Siam said even commercial vehicle and two-wheeler sales are significantly negative, indicating that the market has still not responded to the various steps initiated by the finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman last month.

Reserve Bank of India seems to have stopped pursuing the introduction of plastic notes which was one of the main agendas until last year.

Instead, it will come out with a varnished note. As a pilot the Central bank will varnish a few batches of Rs 100 notes.

Maruti Suzuki India, India’s top carmaker, has reduced its production by 33.99% in August, making it the seventh straight month that the country’s largest car maker reduced its output.

The company produced a total of 1,11,370 units in August as against 1,68,725 units in the year-ago month, it informed the BSE on Monday.

Four people were killed and three others injured after a fire broke out at the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation's (ONGC) plant in Navi Mumbai township of Maharashtra on Tuesday, police said.

The ONGC said there was no impact on oil processing and that the gas was diverted to its Hazira plant in Surat district of Gujarat.

India’s top oil and gas producer ONGC on Friday unveiled a USD 15-16 billion investment plan to double output from its domestic and overseas fields and expand its refining capacity three folds alongside diversification into renewables in a new vision document for 2040.

“The new strategy document aims to transforms ONGC in a new ‘avatar’ in this new energy landscape as a diversified energy company with strong contribution from non-E&P businesses,”

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