Automobile major Maruti Suzuki India on Monday said its smart hybrid vehicles (SHVs) have crossed cumulative sales of 100,000 units this month.

The company offers the smart hybrid options in its sedan Ciaz and MPV (multi-purpose vehicle) Ertiga.

Global software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Ltd on Monday announced that Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran will also be its non-executive Chairman from Tuesday.

"Tata Sons Ltd has nominated N. Chandrasekaran as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company in place of Ishaat Hussain from February 21," said TCS in a regulatory filing to the BSE.

Uber users in India, who until now had Chinese Internet giant Alibaba-backed PayTM as the only payment wallet option available to book a ride, will now be able to pay through Reliance Jio Infocomm's Jio Money.

Reliance said on Monday it had struck a partnership with Uber Technologies Inc which will help it challenge PayTM's dominance in digital payments.

The government has kickstarted the process of listing three rail PSUs IRCTC, Ircon and IRFC by seeking initial bids from merchant bankers for their respective IPOs (initial public offer) in just less than three weeks of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s announcement regarding the disinvestment of these companies. The government has sought expression of interest (EoI) from merchant bankers by March 16 for managing the IPOs.

Tata Consultancy Services' (TCS') board of directors has approved a proposal to buyback up to 5,61,40,351 equity shares of the company for an aggregate amount not exceeding Rs 16,000 crore, the company informed BSE in a filing.

The buyback size works out to 2.85 per cent of the company's total paid up equity share capital, at Rs 2,850 per equity share.

The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has rebranded its corporate website as "bank.sbi" from the earlier sbi.co.in.

Bank.sbi is the highest domain protocol, known as generic top level domain (gTLD).

Mumbai: Lower oil prices and the scrapping of fuel subsidies have allowed India’s biggest energy companies to slash borrowings to the lowest in at least eight years.

Total debt at Indian Oil Corp., the nation’s largest refiner, stood at Rs419 billion ($6.2 billion) at the end of September, down from Rs863 billion rupees in March 2014, according to the most recent data from company filings. Liabilities at Hindustan Petroleum Corp., the third-biggest fuel retailer, shrunk 65% in the same period, the data show.

NEW DELHI: State-run NTPC's Power Management Institute will soon impart training to state discom staff across the country for capacity building under the Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS).

The IPDS' objective is 24x7 power supply for consumers and reduction of AT&C losses.

The benchmark BSE Sensex faltered in early trade, declining by over 40 points on profit booking by investors in recent gainers amid mixed Asian cues.

The 30-share barometer fell 40.24 points, or 0.14%, to 28,428.51 with metal, auto, FMCG and banking stocks trading in the red. The index had gained 313.19 points in the previous two sessions.

Maruti Suzuki has sold over 1 lakh of its smart hybrid vehicles this month, the homegrown carmaker informed the stock exchange on Monday.'

In a press release, Maruti Suzuki India said "its Smart Hybrid Vehicles - Ciaz SHVS and Ertiga SHVS - had crossed cumulative sales of 1,00,000 units this month. This marks the sucess of Maruti Suzuki's efforts in hybrid and electric mobility in India.

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