Hyundai Motor Group plans to make Ola Cabs, India’s largest cab aggregator, the test bed for a new range of affordable electric vehicles slated for introduction around 2021, said two people aware of the development, requesting anonymity.

Hyundai is developing the vehicles under its “Smart EV" platform. These “special purpose vehicles" will be designed and developed specifically for ride-hailing applications, they added.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it will let users set up their profiles to automatically delete location and web-browsing data, giving people a middle ground to the internet giant’s always-on or always-off data hoovering mechanisms.

Users can now choose to have their data deleted after a three-month or 18-month period, the company said Wednesday in a blog post.

Essel Group is once again in market to sell its 685-MW solar power portfolio, this time on a piecemeal basis. The company is said to be in talks with Adani Power, Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) after Actis Energy’s discussion to purchase the entire portfolio hit a valuation hurdle, people close to the development told FE.

The Airports Authority of India (AAI) has thrown its weight behind Bid Services Division (Mauritius), an arm of Bidvest, in its stake sale dispute with equity partner GVK group.

The AAI on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that GVK Airport Holdings has lost the opportunity to exercise the right of first refusal (ROFR) for buying out the 13.5% stake in Mumbai International Airport (MIAL) as the time period to exercise that choice has expired.

Sales at India’s top two manufacturers of passenger vehicles (PVs) fell sharply in April over the same month a year ago as the companies curtailed dispatches to dealers amid weak buyer sentiment and slowing sales.

While Maruti Suzuki’s PV sales in the domestic market dropped 19.6 per cent in April, for Hyundai the fall was 10 per cent over last year, the companies said in a statement on Wednesday.

Kurubarahalli is a congested corner of India's technology capital, packed with narrow roads, alleys, heavy traffic, shops and darshinis, as small self-service eateries are called here. The area starts humming with activity as early as 7.30 am.

Among the first to arrive at the labour hub here are daily wagers seeking employment. On any working day you can see 1,000-1,500 workers waiting to be picked up for jobs, mostly as plumbers, painters, carpenters and masons.

The rupee on Thursday opened 5 paise lower at 69.61 against the US dollar amid fall in crude oil prices and subdued Asian equities. The domestic unit on Tuesday ended at 69.56, up 46 paise, mainly on account of slip in crude oil prices.

Forex markets were shut on Wednesday on account of International Labour Day.

The GST investigative arm has found Tata Starbucks guilty of profiteering to the tune of Rs 4.51 crore by not reducing prices of coffee despite a cut in the rate.

Investigation by the Directorate General of Anti Profiteering (DGAP) has revealed that Tata Starbucks, the equal joint venture between the Tata and global coffee chain Starbucks, had hiked the base price of one its coffee variant after the GST Council cut tax rates on restaurants from 18 per cent to 5 per cent with effect from November 15, 2017.

Larsen and Toubro Ltd on Tuesday formalized its stake purchase in Mindtree Ltd from Café Coffee Day (CCD) founder V.G. Siddhartha and two CCD affiliate firms for ₹3,218.32 crore and is now looking to buy at least 6% more from the open market within a week.

A 26% stake in Mindtree will entitle L&T to get a dividend income of ₹102 crore.

Reliance Industrial Investments Holdings Ltd (RIIHL), the investment arm of India’s most valuable company, plans to raise ₹13,900 crore through a rights issue of non-cumulative optionally convertible preference shares.

The funds will be used for acquisitions and to meet the group’s other funding requirements, two people aware of the development said, requesting anonymity.

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