Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) maintained its leadership position in the domestic passenger vehicle (PV) market in May as seven of its models featured in the top 10 selling brands.

According to the latest data from Society of Indian Auto-mobile Manufacturers (SIAM), in the top 10 best selling PVs, Maruti’s Alto retained the top position in May with the sales of 21,890 units as against 23,618 units a year ago.

To encourage Smart Cities, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has announced nine awards in three categories that include Project Award, Innovative Idea Award and City Award under the India Smart Cities Awards.

Surat city has been selected for the best city award under the Smart City Mission’s award for showing great momentum in implementation of projects especially in the categories of urban environment, transport and mobility and sustainable integrated development.

The benchmark Sensex climbed over 123 points to 35,670.39 in opening tradeled by gains in index heavyweight Reliance Industries, amid continued buying by domestic institutional investors.

The 30-share index was quoting higher by 123.06 points, or 0.35 %, at 35,670.39. It had gained 260.59 points in the previous session.

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Bonsai, an artificial intelligence (AI) startup based in San Francisco, to boost its AI and machine learning capabilities. Microsoft said its acquisition of the small startup is “another major step forward in our vision to make it easier for developers and subject matter experts to build the “brains — machine learning model for autonomous systems of all kinds.”

Odisha Slurry Pipeline Infrastructure (OSPIL), which owns the pipeline carrying iron ore to Essar Steel, has not been receiving payments from the steelmaker, Sunil Kanoria, vice-chairman, Srei Infrastructure Finance, has confirmed. Essar Steel is currently in the midst of a corporate insolvency resolution process. Kanoria told FE that since the pipeline is a leased asset, payments should have been regular. “It’s an operating expense and the company should have paid the monthly rentals.

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has clarified that telecom operators can provide internet telephony to its subscribers using internet services from other service providers. Internet telephony services are untethered from the underlying access network. Hence, internet telephony service can be provided by telecom operators using internet service of other service providers, a DoT notification said.

Going by the recent order on Alok Industries from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), it would appear State Bank of India (SBI) has no objection if the resolution plan is not put to vote again. When the plan was voted on, in April, 70% of the lenders voted for it. However, since the law at the time required a 75% majority for a plan to be approved, the plan was turned down.

NEW DELHI: The telecom department has received legal opinion on the issue of raising demand for dues pertaining to Vodafone, ahead of the proposed mega-merger of Vodafone and Idea Cellular in the Indian market, according to a senior government official.

The legal opinion had been sought by DoT (Department of Telecom) recently as some of the demands for arrears are sub judice.

Anil Chanana let the cat out of the bag at an analyst call earlier this year. The chief financial officer of HCL Technologies said he expects half the growth for the current fiscal to come organically. “If I take 10.5% as being the middle of the range, I am cutting it exactly in half — 5.25% is organic and 5.25% is inorganic.”

It looks like the government wants to play safe with Air India's privatisation as general elections are just around the corner. Weeks after the divestment process found no takers for the beleaguered national carrier, the government said it would soon review the plan to sell a stake in Air India. The process, now turned out to be a complete failure, was anyway facing stiff resistance from not only the opposition but from some within the government.

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