More than two years after the idea of doorstep delivery of fuels was mooted, Reliance Industries (RIL) is preparing to enter the fray. The state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs), on their part, will add at least 500 doorstep fuel delivery vehicles within the current financial year.

The OMCs — Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL — will soon be issuing advertisements to select interested start-ups and entrepreneurs to enter the field, said a source.

Fitch Ratings on Wednesday downgraded the long-term issuer default rating (IDR) of Tata Motors (TML) to ‘BB-’ from ‘BB’ with a negative outlook. The stock of Tata Motors ended the day at Rs 151.25, down by 3.17%, or Rs 4.95, on the BSE. Data from Bloomberg showed that total debt of Tata Motors stood at Rs 1.06 lakh crore as on March 2019.

Hyundai Motor is planning to develop a new electric vehicle (EV) platform for India to address the mass market. The company plans to invest around $200 million to develop the new platform.

"We are working on a (electric) platform, which will be for Indian mass market and it would cost around $200 million," said S S Kim, MD and CEO of Hyundai Motor India, adding that the product may be launched in the next 3-4 years.

India’s second largest public sector lender, Bank of Baroda, has cut its savings deposit interest rates by 25 basis points (bps) to 3.25% per annum, which is the lowest among its peers. The rate has been revised on saving accounts with balance below Rs 50 lakh and are applicable with effect from July 20. The bank last week also cut its term deposit rates across tenures; for 1-year term deposit, interest rate was cut 25 bps to 6.45% per annum.

The Digital Communications Commission (DCC) on Wednesday approved the recommendation of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to levy a total penalty of Rs 3,050 crore on Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea for refusing to provide points of interconnection to Reliance Jio. The apex decision-making body of the telecom sector will now send its verdict to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) for the final decision. The affected telcos are likely to move court once the DoT formalises the decision.

Rating agency ICRA has downgraded private lender YES Bank’s long-term rating while maintaining a negative outlook on the bank, citing the lenders’ inability to reduce its exposure in the ‘BB’ and below-rated accounts and erosion in tier-1 capital on account of increase in risk-weighted assets and accelerated provisioning, leading to muted profitability.

Public sector lender, Bank of Baroda (BoB) revised its interest rates on fixed deposits (FDs) effective 20 July 2019. Bank of Baroda offers interest rates ranging from 4.50% p.a. to 6.60% p.a. for FD with tenures ranging from seven days to 10 years. The bank has reduced the rate of interest across all maturities. FD rates of Bank of Baroda now range from 5.25% p.a. to 6.25% p.a. on deposits with a tenure of 7 days to less than one year.

Easing working capital woes for India’s burgeoning MSME sector, private sector lender Yes Bank is offering secured working capital loan between Rs 1-3 crore in the form of overdraft, letter of credit, and financial bank guarantees. The bank has launched a programme called Smart Edge for MSMEs — a “first-of-its-kind surrogate lending model,” the company said in a statement,

DLF’s CEO Rajeev Talwar has welcomed the National Housing Bank’s recent circular that asked the housing finance companies to desist from offering loan products for subvention schemes offered by builders. It is widely speculated that the new norms could have an adverse impact it may have on the industry, which is weighed down by a slowdown due to lack of demand and a liquidity crunch caused by the NBFC crisis.

Shares of Vodafone Idea slipped below its face value of Rs 10 at Rs 9.90, down 6 per cent on the BSE on Wednesday on the back of heavy volumes. The stock of the telecom services provider hit an all-time low on the bourses.

Till 02:26 pm, around 200 million equity shares, representing 0.69 per cent total equity of Vodafone Idea, changed hands on the NSE and BSE. About 9.5 million shares of the company changed hands via single block deal, the BSE data shows.

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