Hinting that Tesla will not put a manufacturing plant in India the carmaker's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elon Musk on Friday tweeted that until the company is first allowed to sell and service imported cars in the South Asian country there will be no setting up of bases.

Responding to an individual on Twitter, who questioned Musk vis-a-vis Tesla's plans to put up a manufacturing plant in India, the billionaire responded, Tesla will not put a manufacturing plant in any location where we are not allowed first to sell and service cars.

National Conference (NC) president and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has been summoned by the ED for questioning in a money laundering case in Delhi on May 31, official sources said on Friday.

The questioning is reported to be in connection with a case of alleged financial irregularities in the Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) that is being probed by the federal agency.

The Eastern Railway has achieved 100 per cent electrification of its 2,848 km network with the completion of work in the 41 km Hansdiha-Godda section, an official said here on Friday.

The total electrification will help reduce carbon emission significantly and support the Indian Railway in achieving its target of making the country's railway network carbon neutral by 2030, he said.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid tributes to the country's first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.

In a tweet today, the Prime Minister wrote, Tributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Ji on his death anniversary.

The official Twitter handle of the Congress party also paid tributes to India's first Prime Minister, on his death anniversary.

Shares of Muthoot Finance sunk 9.4 per cent to Rs 1,029 per share on the BSE in Friday's intra-day trade after the gold financier reported a weak set of number for January-March quarter of FY22 (Q4FY22). At 10:30 AM, its shares quoted at Rs 1,060, down about 7 per cent, as against 0.6 per cent rise in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex.

India's largest gold financing company on Thursday reported a 4 per cent decline in standalone profit at Rs 960 crore as compared to Rs 996 crore profit reported during the corresponding period last year. The company's standalone income also dipped 5 per cent to Rs 2,678.37 crore.

Shares of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) fell 2 per cent to Rs 318 on the BSE in Friday’s trade, in an otherwise firm market, as the government has called off the privatisation process of the state-owned oil marketing company for now. The development comes after two of the three companies that had shown interest in acquiring the public sector undertaking (PSU) withdrew their bids. In comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 0.74 per cent at 54,653 points at 1:00 PM.

Shares of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) hit a four-month low of Rs 142.35, down 6 per cent on the BSE in Friday’s trade after the company said it will invest Rs 31,000 crore over the next three years in exploring the Indian sedimentary basin for fuel reserves.

The stock of the state-owned oil and gas exploration was also under pressure after the UK imposed a 25 per cent energy windfall tax on oil and gas producers to help households as bills surge.

Alphabet Inc's Google is in talks with the Indian government to integrate its shopping services with the country's open e-commerce network ONDC, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Late last month India soft-launched its Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) as the government tries to end the dominance of U.S. companies Amazon.com and Walmart in the fast-growing e-commerce market.

A Hero Photon Electric scooter in Odisha reportedly caught fire while it was being charged and the incident has left the scooter partially damaged.

According to media reports, the incident was first reported on Wednesday, and the cause is thought to be a short circuit at the power socket from where the electric scooter was being charged overnight.

Shares of Piramal Enterprises hit a 52-week low of Rs 1,679, down 10 per cent on the BSE in Friday's intra-day trade, after the company's financial services business reported loss of Rs 321 crore in March quarter (Q4FY22) due to additional provisioning and interest reversals totaling Rs 1,037 crore. The company had posted profit after tax (PAT) of Rs 243 crore in Q4FY21.

The company said additional provisioning and interest reversal totaling Rs 1,037 crore corresponded to select wholesale non-RE accounts that moved to Stage-2.

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