To arrest the fall in demand for diesel cars, Maruti Suzuki has announced it will offer free warranty for five years or 1 lakh km to customers across the country on models such as Dzire, Swift, Vitara Brezza and S-Cross. The development comes after sales of Maruti’s diesel engine fell after the announcement made by the company to stop manufacturing these vehicles from April 1, 2020, when the BS-VI emission norms will come into effect.

State Bank of India (SBI) is currently in talks with at least 4-5 non-banking financial companies on co-origination of loans, managing director Arijit Basu said on Tuesday. This co-origination could be for home loans or loans to small and medium enterprises, he added.

The central bank had released guidelines on co-origination of loans by banks and NBFCs to the priority sector last year with a view to leveraging on the reach of NBFCs to help banks meet their priority sector lending targets. Co-lending also helps leverage on banks’ access to low cost funds.

At its annual analyst meet, the NTPC top management exuded confidence about: Reversal of the CWIP ratio to 20% over the next three years (from 42% currently) led by higher capacity commercialisation; Rs 80,000 crore regulated equity by FY22E, implying a 15% CAGR; aggressive stance in adding renewable energy (RE) capacity under various modes (PPA, merchant, flexi generation, etc), which would earn at least regulated returns, if not higher; and ramping up captive coal mines and that higher ACQ would preclude fuel-based under-recovery.

The National Restaurant Association of India (NRAI), in its meetings over the last two days with all the restaurant and food service aggregators (FSAs), has learnt that FSAs resorted to unfair business practices in order to compete with each other's offerings in the market.

Hyundai, India's second-largest car manufacturer, has launched its all-new hatchback Grand i10 NIOS priced between Rs 4.99 lakh and Rs 7.99 lakh.

NIOS is the third generation of i10 series to be launched in India. The car is available in two engine options, 1.2l petrol engine, which is BS VI-compliant and 1.2l diesel engine. The engine is the company's first BS-VI petrol engine in India.

A global glut in natural gas is threatening to undermine a $4 billion investment by Reliance Industries Ltd aimed at boosting profits at the world’s largest oil refining complex.

The project made all the sense in the world when energy magnate Mukesh Ambani’s conglomerate announced it in 2012: convert petroleum coke, or petcoke, one of the cheapest and dirtiest refinery by-products, into gas needed to power the massive Jamnagar complex on India’s west coast.

The country’s second-largest IT services firm Infosys has scope for further revision of its revenue guidance for the ongoing fiscal on the back of a strong deal pipeline.

In a note, ICICI Securities said despite talk of a slowdown, macroeconomic factors have not adversely affected the decision making process of its clients.

Wipro Limited on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to conduct advanced applied research in autonomous systems, robotics and 5G space. The two organisations have jointly set up the Wipro IISc Research and Innovation Network (WIRIN), an industry academia collaboration unit.

Shares of Yes Bank plunged more than 7 per cent after the risk and audit committee of CG Power and Industrial Solutions in which the private lender owns more than 12.79 per cent stake said there were some unauthorized transactions by certain employees of the company. CG Power also received a letter from a particular financing company regarding a certain interest payment failure which the Operations Committee of the company was unable to trace or ascertain from the financials of the company, according to the exchange filing.

India's biggest bank State Bank of India (SBI) has announced special offerings ahead of this festive season for retail customers across different product categories: auto/car loan, personal loan, education loan and home loan. SBI has waived processing fees on car loans during this festival season. In addition, SBI is offering "lowest" interest rate starting from 8.70% to customers opting for car loan, with no escalation in interest, the bank said.

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