India's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki is gearing up to introduce four new products in 2017-18.

The company, which has been bringing about two new products each year in the past couple of years, is accelerating the introduction with an eye to strengthen its hold in the market.

Even though a suspected terrorist has been killed in the Lucknow encounter, the Islamic State threat to India looms large as reports suggest that an IS cell was planning to carry out serial blasts at Kanpur's Dewa Shareef.

According to a Hindustan Times report, the Islamic State group had planned to attack the shrine of the revered Sufi saint Waris Ali Shah on March 27.

US News & World Report, along with Y&R’s BAV Consulting and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on Tuesday released an annual survey of the best countries in the world. Their 2017 rankings prioritized countries that enjoyed some measure of peace, quiet and prosperity. Switzerland took the top spot for the first time based on a combination of its attitude toward education, democracy, business and quality of life. Canada was ranked second and Britain third. Germany, last year’s winner, slid to fourth because of a string of terrorist attacks. Japan came in fifth place.

In the tariff war between Reliance Jio Prime, Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, users have found themselves in a fix among the confusing plans on offer. Ever since Reliance Jio announced its plans in India, there has been an interesting tariff war among telecom companies, where many of the rivals like Airtel and Vodafone have accused it of disrupting the market. While Jio offered its calling and data services for free earlier, both the ‘Welcome Offer’ and ‘Happy New Year’ have now ended. This means, now consumers of Jio network will have to pay for the data services in order to avail the offers. However, the calling will remain free forever, according to Reliance Jio.

Delhi University professor GN Saibaba and five others were on Tuesday convicted by Maharashtra's Gadchiroli court under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case of alleged Maoist links. While Saibaba and and four others were givenfive years jail sentence, one person, Vijay Tirke, was given a ten sentence.

Judge SS Shinde convicted Saibaba under sections 13, 18, 20, 38 and 39 of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act which deals with conspiracy, being a member of terrorist gang or organisation and offences relating to support given to a terrorist organization. Saibaba is currently out on bail.

Ravichandran Ashwin's 25th five-wicket haul was the cornerstone of India's remarkable turnaround as the hosts defeated Australia by 75 runs in the second cricket Test to level the four-match series 1-1 in Bengaluru.

Defending a competitive target of 188 with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on line, Ashwin was unplayable on a tricky on a fourth-day surface with magnificent figures of 6 for 41. Australia ended up decimated for 112 in only 35.4 overs.

India's home-grown auto major Tata Motors on Tuesday unveiled its first sports car, RACEMO, at the international motor show here.

Besides the two-seater sports coupe, the first product under the company's new sub-brand TAMO, the company is showcasing the special editions of its next generation product line-up in the compact segment — sedan TIGOR and SUV NEXON.

Indian women earn 25 per cent less than Indian men, according to the Monster Salary Index (MSI) on gender for 2016. This goes on to prove that gender is a major parameter in determining the salary of the employee, reported Livemint.

Men earned a median gross hourly salary of Rs 345.8, while women earned Rs 259.8 in 2016. This gap got narrowed by two percentage points from 27.2 per cent in 2015 and is closer to the 24.1 per cent in 2014. About 68.5 per cent women at Indian workplaces also feel that gender parity is still a concern.

Hyundai Motor India discontinued the successful little Santro in 2015 and since then has been missing out on the segment. However, the road's not closed for Santro as the company is planning to launch an all-new one as reported by us in November, 2016. It is expected that the manufacturer will retain the tall boy design hatchback in 2018, while adding new features and cosmetic changes. Hyundai had discontinued the Santro and that slot is now being covered with the old i10. When launched, the new Santro will be positioned between the Eon and Grand i10 in the company's model lineup. The hatchback will be developed by the Hyundai R&D team at the Indian centre.

Reliance Capital has sold its nearly 1 per cent stake in popular digital payments firm PayTm for Rs 275 crore to China's Alibaba Group in a deal reaping huge gains for the Anil Ambani-led group firm.

The financial services arm of Reliance Group had invested Rs 10 crore for this stake in Paytm.

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