Bengaluru: Hyundai Motor Co said on Thursday it would invest in self-driving car software startup Aurora along with Kia Motors Corp to speed up development of autonomous vehicle technologies.

"With the new investment, the companies have agreed to expand research to a wide range of models and to build an optimal platform for Hyundai and Kia's autonomous vehicles," Hyundai said.

Walmart is expected to pump $1.2 billion into Flipkart's operations Flipkart. The world’s largest retailer acquired homegrown e-commerce company Flipkart for $16 billion last year, pitching it in direct competition with its rival Amazon.com in a battle for dominance of India’s online retail market.

The independent directors’ committee (IDC) at Mindtree on Wednesday said Larsen and Toubro’s open offer price of Rs 980 seemed “fair and reasonable”, and recommended that shareholders take independent but informed decision on tendering their shares.

Shares of YES Bank hit a 40-month low of Rs 126, down 6 per cent on the BSE in the early morning trade on Thursday after reports said global brokerage firm UBS has cut the target price of private sector lender to Rs 90 from Rs 170.

The stock was trading at its lowest level since January 20, 2016, when it touched Rs 126.44 in the intra-day trade.

“Mothers are now able to reach us even during the monsoon,” said Arundhati Das, 52, pointing at the asphalt road outside a one-room government health sub-centre in Bhojkhowa village. The centre serves a population of 10,000 in Assam’s flood-prone Sonitpur district and Das has been in charge of it since 2001. There is a bed in one corner, and a baby weighing scale on top of it.

The BSE Sensex snapped its three-day rising streak to end 194 points lower on Wednesday, pressured by losses in banking and auto stocks amid a broad sell-off in overseas markets.

Investors were also cautious ahead of the release of inflation and factory output numbers, traders said.

The UK High Court on Wednesday denied bail to diamond merchant Nirav Modi, who is fighting his extradition from Britain to India in the nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case.

Judge Ingrid Simler at the Royal Courts of Justice said that there are substantial grounds to believe that Modi will fail to surrender. Moreover, the judge felt that there could be interference with the witnesses and obstruction of justice.

Digital payments major Paytm Wednesday said it will invest Rs 250 crore this year for the expansion of Paytm QR in tier IV and V towns.

"With this investment, Paytm expects to reach more than 20 million merchants across India by the end of this fiscal," it said in a statement.

Independent Directors' panel of Mindtree has said that Larsen and Toubro's open offer price at Rs 980/share appears "fair and reasonable".

The committee cited the closing market price of Mindtree shares on the stock exchanges on June 10, being "lower than the offer price" and said that L&T's offer price of Rs 980 a share is in accordance with the regulations and "appears to be fair and reasonable".

Indian Oil Corp has issued a tender for short-term commercial lease of its liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank at Ennore terminal near Chennai, according to a notice posted on the company website.

The company is seeking bids for the short-term lease for LNG unloading, storage and reloading services at the 5 million-tonnes-per-annum (mtpa) import facility which was commissioned earlier this year.

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