A group of activist shareholders are proposing that Amazon.com Inc. stop selling facial recognition software to government agencies until its board determines the technology doesn’t threaten people’s civil rights.

The investors, including the Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood, a member of the Tri-State Coalition for Responsible Investment, filed a resolution on the subject to be voted on at Amazon’s annual meeting later this year.

Reliance Industries (RIL) is ready to unleash its e-commerce dark horse to take on the likes of Amazon India and Walmart-owned Flipkart. Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani on Friday said Reliance Retail and Reliance Jio Infocomm were set to jointly launch their new e-commerce platform in the country.

State Bank of India (SBI) is in talks with a clutch of hedge funds and private equity (PE) players to sell its Rs 15,431-crore loan to Essar Steel.

The bank, also the lead lender for Essar Steel, announced on Wednesday that it was putting its exposure for sale on January 30.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chief R S Sharma has reiterated that consolidation in the domestic sector is in line with the international practice.

“My sense is that the sector is going to acquire stability, and looking at the examples around the world, 3+1 is a good number. I don’t see this number going down,” he said on the sidelines of an event here.

The dates for the Lok Sabha elections are likely to be announced in the first week of March, sources indicated on Friday.The term of the present Lok Sabha ends on June 3.

The Election Commission is in the process of deciding the number of phases and the months in which polling would be held, they said.

MS Dhoni hit his third half century in as many matches while Kedar Jadhav scored an unbeaten fifty as India beat Australia by 7 wickets in the third and final match to win the ODI series 2-1.

Chasing a target of 231, India lost Rohit Sharma early. However, Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli moved the score ahead. It was left to Dhoni along with Jadhav this time to take India home again.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Friday asked markets regulator Sebi to look into the issues of certain entities and individuals allegedly adopting unfair trade practices prejudicial to the company's shareholders.

Against the backdrop of reports that a second whistleblower complaint has been filed against it and shares taking a beating on the exchanges, Sun Pharma has written to Sebi flagging concerns that certain entities are allegedly adopting unfair trade practices.

Japanese auto maker Suzuki Motor Corporation Friday said it will commission its third plant at Gujarat by 2020 and will aggressively introduce new hybrid vehicles in India with technical support from Toyota.

Speaking here at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit here, Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC) President Toshihiro Suzuki also sought an enabling policy support from the government to further invest in localisation of components of hybrid and electric vehicles.

Shares of Wipro were trading firm at Rs 341 apiece, up 1.5 per cent on the BSE, in an otherwise subdued market, ahead of the board meeting today to consider bonus issue and December quarter results.

in comparison, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 0.15 per cent at 36,320 points at 11:06 am. Wipro was trading close to its 52-week high of Rs 344 hit on December 13, 2018, on the BSE in intra-day trade.

The BSE benchmark Sensex and NSE Nifty on Friday started on a volatile note tracking heavy selling on pharma and banking banking counters amid weakening rupee.

After opening marginally higher, the 30-share index turned negative and was trading 79.53 points, or 0.22 per cent, lower at 36,294.55 in early trade.

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