Indian Oil Corp, the country's top refiner, will invest $1.94 billion to expand the capacity of its Barauni refinery in eastern Bihar state by 50 per cent to 180,000 barrels per day by April 2023, the company said on Friday.

The state-run company is raising its refining capacity to meet growing demand for petroleum products in the country.

Air India's 423-seater jumbo B747 plane will depart from Delhi airport at 12.30 pm on Friday to Beijing to evacuate Indian nationals who are in China as the neighbouring country deals with novel Coronavirus outbreak.

The B747 plane is all set to depart from Delhi at 12.30 pm. It came from Mumbai on Friday morning only, said a senior airline official.

Shares of Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) continued to reel under pressure with the Nifty CPSE index trading near four-year low after falling 3 per cent on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Friday.

At 10:02 am, Nifty CPSE index, the top loser among thematic indices, was down 3 per cent at 1,720 on the NSE. The index has fallen below its previous low of 1,757.75, touched on August 23, 2019.

Bharti Airtel on Friday said its name has now been removed from the denied entry list for non-fulfilment of export obligation under an export promotion scheme.

We are actively engaged with the authorities to complete the formalities and provide additional documents for closure of the remaining cases, the company said in a statement.

The wife of a man who had held 23 children hostage and was killed by the police in Uttar Pradesh's Farrukhabad district has died after being beaten up by the villagers.

Twenty-three children were rescued and the captor was killed by the Uttar Pradesh Police after an eight-hour standoff and encounter that started on Thursday evening in Farrukhabad district.

Wipro slipped over 2 per cent in the morning trade on Friday after the company announced that Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director (MD) Abidali Z Neemuchwala has decided to step down due to family commitments.

Neemuchwala, 52, is leaving due to family commitments and will continue to hold office until a successor is appointed, said Wipro in a regulatory filing.

Hyundai Motor India (HMIL) is expected to roll out a mass market electric vehicle product in two to three years.

The company expects the second half of the year to show improvement in domestic market and while there are concerns about the comparitively higher price for the BS-VI models, there might also excitement among the customers on the new technology, said Tarun Garg, director, sales and marketing division, HMIL.

Indian-origin technology executive Arvind Krishna has been elected Chief Executive Officer of American IT giant IBM after a world-class succession process, succeeding Virginia Rometty, who described him as the right CEO for the next era at IBM and well-positioned to lead the company into the cloud and cognitive era.

The IBM Board of Directors elected Krishna as company CEO and member of the Board of Directors effective April 6.

The Indian Banks' Association has dubbed the 12.25% wage hike offer to bank employees as adequate, given the financial strains lenders face, though employees associations have called a two-day all-India bank strike on January 31 and February 1 and threatened to escalate their agitations later on if their demands are not met.

IBA has convened a wage negotiation committee meeting with union leaders on January 30 to discuss the matter again.

Tata Motors on Thursday announced the retirement of Ralf Speth as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) at the end of his contract term in September.

Speth will maintain his relationship with the Tata Motors-owned firm by taking up the role of non-executive vice chairman, N Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons, Tata Motors and Jaguar Land Rover, said in a regulatory filing.

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