When Narendra Modi took office as India's prime minister just over four years ago, a top priority for the economic reformers who had supported his candidacy was the privatization of India's incredibly inefficient public sector. Among their biggest targets was the state-run airline, Air India -- a clunky, loss-making behemoth that has long been rendered irrelevant by buzzy domestic competitors. I would personally have cheered that outcome:

The Enforcement Directorate in its report against jeweller Nirav Modi have said that owners and directors of at least five firms based out of Hong Kong earned only between Rs 8,000 and Rs 30,000 every month, an Indian Express report has revealed.

Amazon.in might be the most visited shopping site in India, but for Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of the technology giant, it is still Day 1 in what may be the second-most important market for the firm outside the US.

Bezos, in a letter to customers, said that Amazon now has customers in 100 per cent serviceable pin-codes in the country and is shipping packages from more than 50 fulfillment locations in 13 states.

SatSure Analytics, a satellite data analytics company, has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), for furthering geospatial big data analytics.

Shares of Biocon hit a record high of Rs 695 per share, up 6% on the BSE in opening deal in otherwise weak market, after the company and its partner Mylan have received nod for their first biosimilar of cancer medicine Pegfilgrastim from the US drug regulator for selling in the American market.

“The United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has approved Mylan’s Fulphila (pegfilgrastim-jmbd), a biosimilar to Neulasta (pegfilgrastim), co-developed with Biocon,” the company said in a press release.

An Indian Air Force Jaguar fighter jet today crashed soon after it took off from the Jamnagar air base in Gujarat, killing the pilot, official sources said.

They said the aircraft was on a routine training mission and crashed around 10.30 am.

India on Monday received its cheapest LNG under a long-term deal as Russia began shipping natural gas at a delivered price of close to $7 per million British thermal unit.

At current oil prices, the Russian rate is $1.5 per mmBtu less than the price at which Qatar, India’s oldest supplier, delivered liquefied natural gas (LNG). Russian supplies are also cheaper by $1-1.5 per mmBtu than the LNG sourced from Australia and the US.

BENGALURU: Wipro has given a 6-7% average increment to its employees for the year beginning June, according to a person familiar with the matter. This is similar to that given by larger rivals TCS and Infosys, but significantly better than Capgemini's 0.5-1%, which earned the French company much ridicule.

A few months ago, DLF Ltd’s promoters infused funds to trim its ballooning debt through a stake sale in the rental subsidiary. That pulled it out of the debt trap.

But, weak cash flow prospects in the near-to-medium term raise fresh concerns on whether the company can achieve its guided “net zero-debt” milestone in fiscal year 2019 (FY19).

The BSE benchmark Sensex slipped below the key 35,000-mark in early trade today following losses in banking, power, realty and capital goods stocks.

Investors are cautious ahead of RBI’s policy decision due tomorrow, brokers said.

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