India’s natural gas production will rise by a third provided the output locked in a dozen fields of state-owned ONGC and OIL is opened up by giving remunerative market prices, people with knowledge of the matter said. India currently produces about 90 million standard cubic meters per day (mmscmd) of natural gas and has ambitious plans to double output by 2022 to reduce its reliance on imports and replace some of the polluting liquid fuels to cut emissions.

New Delhi: The country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Tuesday said it has ramped up the production of its compact SUV Vitara Brezza to reduce waiting period of the model.

The company has increased production of the vehicle by 10 per cent to 94,000 units during April-October period of the current fiscal as compared with same period of 2017-18.

Mumbai: The benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 100 points in early session on Tuesday, breaking its three-day winning run as metal, IT, realty and banking stocks retreated, tracking sell-off in the global market.

The 30-share index dropped 104.41 points, or 0.29 per cent, to 35,670.47 points in opening trade. The gauge had rallied about 633 points in the previous three sessions.

Mumbai: Cash-strapped Air India Ltd expects to raise as much as $850 million (about 6,100 crore) by selling and leasing back seven wide-body aircraft over the next 15 days. The list includes six Boeing 787 (Dreamliner) and one Boeing 777 aircraft, which were delivered to the airline between November 2016 and March 2018, according to a tender posted on 16 November on the airline’s website.

New Delhi: Wipro Ltd has appointed former International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) executive Bill Stith to revive the fortunes of the Bengaluru-based company’s healthcare and life sciences division. Stith, who headed IBM’s healthcare and life sciences business in the US, is the third top external hire by chief executive officer Abidali Neemuchwala. His hiring is also Wipro’s third top-level management change in 2018.

New Delhi: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) will work with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to launch an online portal to monitor applications and approvals for setting up telecom infrastructure, and whether state-wise Right of Way (RoW) rules are being complied with. The portal will enable the government and telecom infrastructure providers to keep a tab on the process, right from the time an application is filed till the final approval.

Mumbai: ICICI Bank Ltd has drawn up a plan to raise as much as ₹25,000 crore for on-lending as India’s second largest private lender seeks to fill in the vacuum left by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), which are facing a liquidity squeeze. ICICI Bank intends to issue non-convertible debentures (NCDs) and other fixed-income securities for raising funds in the year ahead, according to a document sent recently to shareholders after its annual general meeting.

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Ford’s product development team in India will play an increasingly bigger role in the launch of new models in the country, according to Anurag Mehrotra, Ford India president and MD.

“India product development team is already playing a big role. Next year, we will launch our global technology and business centre. Once the centre comes into being, there will be more product development in India. In future, it will be much higher,” he said.

The H1 Ebitda at Rs 5 billion (up 30% year-on-year, in line) and PAT at Rs 1 billion (up 100% y-o-y) fortify our view that Apollo Hospitals is on track to achieve 20% Ebitda CAGR over FY18-21. An incremental Rs 6-billion swing in Ebitda to Rs 14 billion over FY18-21 will be led by (1) new hospital beds maturing, (2) matured hospitals’ Ebitda margin recovering to 23%, (3) margin expansion in pharmacies as stores mature and proportion of in-house brands rises, and (4) breakeven in clinics business.

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