Aiming to attract more fliers and achieve higher seat occupancy in its flights on trunk routes, Air India has decided to lower its last minute ticket fares to the level of 2-tier AC of Rajdhani trains.

As part of the pricing strategy, Air India will drop fares on four key routes--Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Chennai, Delhi-Kolkata and Delhi-Bengaluru--four hours before the departure of flights to these destinations.

Shares of three private sector banks – HDFC Bank, IndusInd Bank and YES Bank – have hit their respective lifetime highs on expectation of robust earnings for the first quarter (April –June) of the current financial year 2016-17.

YES Bank (up 2.5% at Rs 1,147), HDFC Bank (2% at Rs 1,196) and IndusInd Bank (up 1.8% at Rs 1,147) were up more than 1% each, touching their respective record highs on the BSE in intra-day trade. At 10:24 AM, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 1.7% or 472 points at 27,598.

Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the engineering and construction major, is all set to take its engineering services business unit, L&T Technology Services public. The Group will be filing the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) in the next three to five weeks.

The technology services business is looking at a valuation of $1-1.5 billion, said two sources in the know.

Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) is likely to interrogate United Spirits (USL) officials over Vijay Mallya's severance package of $75 million, said a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

On July 9, the USL had accused Mallya of fund diversion worth Rs 1,200 crore from the company to various Mallya-owned entities, including Force India, Watson Ltd and Kingfisher Airlines.

Donald Trump has promised to liven up this year’s Republican National Convention. But some of America’s biggest corporations are bailing on the party.

Apple recently became the latest company to give the GOP’s presumptive nominee the cold shoulder; it won’t contribute money or products to the Republicans’ big shindig in Cleveland this month.

Mumbai: Engineering and construction company Larsen and Toubro (L&T) on Friday raised Rs.372.75 crore through sale of shares in its information technology (IT) services unit ahead of the Rs.1,233 crore initial public offering (IPO) next week, the company said in a stock exchange filing.

The public issue will open on 11 July and close on 13 July.

Mumbai: Indian stocks fell, with the benchmark index erasing a weekly advance, as energy and telecom shares dropped and investors focused on the start of the results season next week.

Bharti Airtel Ltd and Idea Cellular Ltd, the nation’s largest mobile-phone operators, slid more than 2% each after the government said it will recover money from them for understating revenues for four years. Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd (ONGC), the biggest state explorer, retreated for a third day as crude oil traded below $46 a barrel.

Khadi and Village Industries Commission today said it has bagged a Rs 5.34 crore order from state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC).

"The power major has placed an order for 23,000 sleeveless jackets for its employees. The order would fetch KVIC a revenue of Rs 5.34 crore," KVIC said in a statement.

Bank employees have decided to go on strike, as earlier planned on July 12 and 13, since the conciliation meeting failed to yield any results. The Unions have called for a strike against the proposed closure of Associate Banks and merger with SBI, proposed privatisation of IDBI Bank, among other issues.

C H Venkatachalam, general secretary, All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) said that the Chief Labour Commissioner, Ministry of Labour, Government of India convened a conciliation meeting in his office in Delhi on Friday.

The Odisha State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) has extended the validity of the consent to establish order issued to DLF Ltd for a period of five years. The revised order is now valid till August 30, 2017.

The order is for DLF’s Cyber City project coming up at Patia on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar. DLF is investing Rs 1,000 crore on the commercial IT real estate project where apart from an IT park and ITes (IT enabled services) establishment, business centres, hotel and retail services as well as service apartments are being developed over an area measuring 54 acres.

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