In a bid to increase the services it provides via its virtual assistant, Alexa, in tune with the demands of Indian customers, e-commerce Amazon has led an $11-million investment round in Shuttl, a Gurugram-based urban mobility start-up backed by Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Ventures and others.

The round was led by Amazon, in connection with the Amazon Alexa Fund and Dentsu Ventures, along with existing investors.

With Life Insurance Corporation and ICICI Bank insisting on exiting Indian Highways Management Company Ltd (IHMCL), the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) is likely to wind up the company, constituted five years ago to carry out electronic tolling and other ancillary works for it.

These institutions, along with State Bank of India, hold 24.81 per cent stake in the company but do not see enough return from it.

A day after some people claimed to have accessed personal details of Trai Chairman R S Sharma after he disclosed his Aadhaar number on Twitter, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has denied that the details were fetched from its servers or Aadhaar database.

New Delhi: State-run NTPC Ltd, India’s largest power generator, said on Saturday that fiscal first-quarter net profit dipped 1.14% from a year earlier period, even as it benefited from higher electricity output and improved efficiency.

The utility registered a net profit of 2,588.14 crore for the quarter ended June as compared to 2,618.17 crore posted for the corresponding period last fiscal on account of other income such as interest payment received.

Public sector lender Bank of Baroda's net profit more than doubled to Rs 5.28 billion in the first quarter ended June, 2018, on improvement in its interest margin. The stabilisation of asset quality leading to a fall in provisions for bad loans also helped the bank report a robust growth in net profit.

Vijay Mallya's Force India Formula One team has been put into administration after a court hearing in London on Friday, deputy principal Bob Fernley said.

"An administrator was appointed by the court for Force India F1 this evening," he confirmed to Reuters.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) said it will launch an electric SUV by H2 2019 under the CKD format. The company hinted that it may look out for collaboration with like-minded partners, as the cost in developing an EV in India will be high and hence collaboration.

Paytm is on a major global expansion drive. After launching its wallet in Japan, sources said Paytm is planning to make an entry into Europe. However, things are at a nascent stage and plans of entering Europe might not kick off before next year. After gaining 300 million mobile wallet users in India, the firm has now expanded operations to Japan via PayPay Corporation, a joint venture established by SoftBank Corp and Yahoo Japan Corporation.

Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) posted a 17.9 per cent year-on-year growth in its June 2018 quarter (Q1) net profit (excluding exceptional items) on the back of robust performance of its petrochemicals (petchem) operations as well as strong show in the retail and telecom businesses.

For the April-June 2018 quarter, RIL posted a net profit of Rs 94.59 billion compared to Rs 91.08 billion reported in the year-ago quarter, which is a rise of 3.9 per cent.

Reliance Industry's telecom arm Jio Infocomm reported a net profit of Rs 6.1 billion for April-June quarter, a rise of 20 per cent from Rs 5.1 billion during the year-ago period. The average revenue per user (ARPU), however, fell marginally to Rs 134.5 (from Rs 137 last quarter), but continued to be higher than the industry average.

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