NEW DELHI: Toyota and Suzuki’s tie-up for cross-badging of cars is set to result in a high-pitched battle between the two Japanese companies in the Indian market. Toyota, which will start selling Suzuki’s Brezza mini SUV and Baleno compact from next year as part of the ambitious deal, has said that it will aim to maintain the pricing on the cars even while giving them a new look on the exterior and the interior.

We have just learned that the median salary of employees at Amazon.com Inc. is $28,446, excluding its chief executive officer and founder, Jeff Bezos. That pitiful number raises an intriguing question: Is Amazon a high-paying tech company or a low-wage retailer?

“Both” is the obvious answer, but to this Amazon aficionado that answer is incomplete.

Sebi today slapped a fine of more than Rs 1 crore on wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy for violating insider trading norms.

A total fine of Rs 1.1 crore, including Rs 5 lakh on an official, has been imposed as the company failed to disclose price sensitive information as required under the listing regulations on "more than one occasion".

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has played a stellar role in helping the Tatas to become the first private business group to enter the Rs 10-trillion market capitalisation league. This has happened because of the double-digit rally in the TCS share price in the current year.

Shares of TCS, the most valuable Indian company, on Friday closed at a lifetime high of Rs 3,406. At the current price, TCS is valued at Rs 6.52 trillion, or $98.52 billion, a whisker away from the $100-billion mark.

The benchmark indices logged their fourth straight weekly gain but ended weak on Friday amid weakening of the rupee and a surge in government bond yields.

Release of the minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting after market hours on Thursday indicated that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) might shift to a hawkish monetary stance in June, which dented investors’ sentiment.

President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will discuss the Iran deal and the situation in Syria when they meet each other next week, a senior US official has said.

Macron will arrive here on Monday for a three-day state visit and Trump and First Lady Melania are throwing a red carpet to welcome the French president.

Mobile wallet firm Paytm today said its gold sales rose three-fold to 20 kg in a single day on the occasion of Akshaya Tritiya on April 18. Maximum sales were reported in Bengaluru, Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata. Over 1.5 million customers transacted 20 kg of gold items, mainly 24 carat gold coins, on its platform on the Akshaya Tritiya day this year, compared with 6.5 kg gold items on the same day last year, Paytm said in a statement.

Senior bureaucrat Suresh Kumar is likely to be the new acting chairman and managing director of the world's largest coal miner CIL.

He will replace Gopal Singh who was given the additional charge as CMD of the maharatna firm in September last year.

To meet its FY19 capacity addition target of 5,000 MW, state-owned power producer NTPC is coming up with tenders to build for more than 2,900 MW of generation units in this quarter. A top NTPC official said while tenders for two 660 MW units at its Talcher super-critical power plant are almost ready, the company is also planning to begin the tendering process for two 660 MW units at its Singrauli station and two 800 MW units at the Lara power plant.

India’s largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) posted its first-ever drop in the full year net profit on Thursday in a span of last 14 years since the firm got listed on Indian exchanges in 2004. But the shares of the market capitalisation leader TCS went on a joy ride on Friday to hit a record high level.

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