North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has threatened to destroy USS Michigan, an American naval submarine, if it gets any closer to the Communist nation's waters.

The Ohio-class nuclear-powered submarine is currently docked at a naval base in South Korea's Busan, where it was recently joined by the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group, the Daily Mail reported.

Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday recommended India's top-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara for the prestigious Arjuna award.

Besides Pujara, Indian woman's cricket team player Harmanpreet Kaur has also been nominated by the Board for the award.

Maruti Suzuki India (MSIL) hit a new high of Rs 6,700, up 2.7% on BSE in early morning trade after the company reported a record monthly domestic sales of 144,492 vehicles in April 2017. The company had sold 117,045 vehicles in April 2016.

All segments of vehicles except vans grew in double digits: the mini segment (Alto and WagonR) grew by 22%; the compact segment (Swift, Celerio, Ignis, Baleno, and Dzire) by 39%; and utility vehicle by 28%.

Infosys, India’s second largest software services firm, is planning to hire 10000 Americans over the next couple of years. The Bengaluru-headquartered company said it would open four new Technology and Innovation Hubs across the United States focusing on cutting-edge technology areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, user experience, emerging digital technologies, cloud, and big data.

Mumbai: Banks have locked horns with IRCTC, the ticketing arm of Indian Railways after it started demanding that they put up hefty security deposits and share half of their transaction fees with it if they want to be on its rail booking website.

Under its new policy, Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp. Ltd (IRCTC) wants new banks wishing to integrate with it for payment gateways to put up Rs20 lakh as a security deposit, while those already present must pay Rs10 lakh.

Ahead of its first quarter results of 2017 on Wednesday, media reports say Facebook may announce it has nearly 1.9 billion users who log onto the social media platform every month. The company is also expected to report a blockbuster set of results, with revenues rising 45 per cent, The Telegraph reported on Sunday. Earlier this year, when Facebook announced its earnings for the fourth quarter and full year 2016, it showed a steady growth in its revenue and user base.

Punjab National Bank has revised down marginal cost based lending rates by 0.10-0.15 per cent for various maturities effective today. The maximum of 0.15 per cent has been effected for the overnight marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) tenure to 8.05 per cent. For one, three and six months as well as one, three and five years, the new MCLR has been revised down by 0.10% each.

Hyundai Motor India Ltd on Monday reported 3.6 per cent growth in sales to 56,368 units in April as compared to 54,420 units sold in the same month in 2016.

Out of the total sales in April, its domestic sales stood at 44,758 units, up 5.7 per cent from 42,351 units sold in the corresponding month of the last financial year.

State-run oil refiners plan to invest Rs20,000 crore by 2020 to meet rising demand for cooking gas, two officials from the companies said.

The investments by Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL), Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd (BPCL) and Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd (HPCL) will go into setting up terminals to import liquified petroleum gas (LPG), laying pipelines, and building LPG bottling plants.

Earnings season hasn’t really thrown up any big surprises so far and neither are there any clear indications, there’s turnaround coming soon. The effects of demonetisation appear to have lingered on in the three months to March though some businesses did rebound towards the end of the quarter. If the topline growth for a sample of 115 companies (excluding banks and financials) is showing a robust 17.5 year-on-year growth it is thanks to RIL’s 42% y-o-y growth; excluding RIL, the growth collapses to 7% y-o-y.

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