Indian Railways is set to come out with an IndicativeNotice on Saturday, initiating the process for filling up 131,000 vacancies. The national transporter had recently faced criticism over the timing of the announcement of these vacancies, as the Election Commission expected to come out with a notification for Lok Sabha polls early next month.

The new set of job notification include recruitment of 100,000 staff in Level-1 (erstwhile Group-DCategories) for which online registration would open on March 12. The registration for remaining 30,000 will happen in three tranches. The eligible candidates for the first tranche of recruitments in Non-Technical Popular Categories can do registration of online applications from February 28.

A Supreme Court Bench led by Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi will consider the review petitions filed in the Rafale case against the December 14 judgment in chambers at 1.45 p.m. on February 26.

The Bench, consisting also of Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K.M. Joseph, will examine whether the petitions deserve to be heard in an open court.

Twitter Inc. co-founder Evan Williams will step down from the company’s board at the end of February.

It’s been an incredible 13 years, and I’m proud of what Twitter has accomplished during my time with the company, Williams, 46, now chief executive officer of web publisher Medium Corp., said Friday in a company filing.

Describing the current situation between India and Pakistan as very, very bad, US President Donald Trump Friday said his administration was in contact with both sides and hoped hostilities would soon end in the Valley.

Right now between Pakistan and India, there is a very, very bad situation. A very dangerous situation. We would like to see it (hostilities) stop. A lot of people were just killed. We want to see it just stop. We are very much involved in that (process), Trump told reporters at the Oval Office.

The Adani group, which straddles the businesses of power, ports, real estate, agriculture and defence, among others, is moving into airports.

A few days ago, the group made an aggressive entry by bidding for all the six airports put up for privatisation by the Airports Authority of India, locking horns with big boys in the airport infrastructure business (the GMR group has thrown its hat into the ring for all the airports).

Three companies — GMR, GVK, and Doit Smart Infrastructure India — have submitted their bids for green-field Bhogapuram International Airport project. The deadline for filing of bids ended on Friday.

A senior official of the Andhra Pradesh Airports Development Corporation, the government nodal agency handling the bidding process, has confirmed the development.

Uber Eats, the food delivery arm of ride-hailing app Uber Technologies Inc, is close to a deal to sell its Indian business to Bengaluru-based Swiggy, the Economic Times reported on Friday.

The share-swap deal is expected to close by next month and will give Uber a 10 percent stake in food delivery service Swiggy, the paper said, citing people privy to the development.

Buyers of Samsung’s Galaxy S series of premium smartphones will have to shell out close to Rs 1.18 lakh to get their hands on the top-end model of the device that starts selling in India from March 8.

Samsung had launched three models - Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S10 and Galaxy S10e - in San Francisco on February 20. These flagship devices will compete head-on with Apple’s iPhone that is seeing sales slowdown in many markets, including China.

GMR Infrastructure on Friday said its subsidiary GMR Airports and its Greek partner Terna Group have signed a concession agreement for construction of the new international airport in Greece's island Crete.

The consortium intends to invest over EUR 500 million (approx Rs 4,034.28 crore) for development of the new airport, GMR Infrastructure said in a regulatory filing.

Oil marketing companies hiked the price of petrol by 14-15 paise and that of diesel by 16-18 paise a litre the major metros on Friday. In Delhi, petrol prices were hiked by 14 paise to Rs 71.29 a litre as against Rs 71.15 yesterday. One litre of diesel can be purchased for Rs 66.48 in the national capital. In case of Mumbai, one litre of petrol can be purchased for Rs 76.93 up from Rs 76.79 per litre, implying a 14 paise hike.

The diesel cost has been raised to 69.63 in the financial capital. In Kolkata, one litre of petrol is retailing at Rs 73.39, while diesel can be bought for Rs 68.27. In Chennai petrol prices have been hiked to Rs 74.02, while consumers will now have to pay Rs 70.25 in Chennai. The revised rates are applicable from 6 am on Friday morning.

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