Taking a cue from his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath, Gujarat Chief Minister (CM) Vijay Rupani, it seems, is planning to join the bandwagon of renaming cities. The state government is poised to rename Ahmedabad as Karnavati. The CM announced that his government would rename Ahmedabad before 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The government is mulling selling as many as 149 small and marginal oil and gas fields of ONGC to private and foreign companies and allow the state-owned firm to focus only on big fields, sources with knowledge of the development said.

When Devendra Kohli, general manager (operations) at LTC Logistics, had to purchase trucks for his company three years ago, he tried a relatively new brand, the Blazo, the heavy-duty truck of Mahindra Trucks and Buses (MTB).

But the decision wasn’t an easy one. Unlike models from Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland, it didn’t have a long-running history to depend upon.

India’s government and the central bank have had disagreements, but the relationship has never looked so irretrievably broken as it does now.

Before the global financial crisis, the finance ministry saw the Reserve Bank of India as an incompetent regulator, one that managed the state-dominated banking industry by keeping it puny and primitive.

After facing a huge backlash from the top US lawmakers and leaders of the corporate sector, Trump administration has assured that the Americans would get an opportunity to respond to its proposal of revoking work authorization to H-4 spouse visas. The Donald Trump administration has been tightening the H-1B visas rules, which allow foreign workers to take jobs in the US for several years.

Sensex and Nifty recorded minimal gains during the truncated week ended Friday amid the festive season and volatility in the global markets. However, easing crude prices provided some relief to the rupee. On Friday, benchmark Brent crude oil fell below $70 a barrel for the first time since early April. The week also marked the end of the Samvat 2074.

NASA is planning to send small devices containing human cells in a 3D matrix -- known as tissue chips or organs-on-chips -- to the International Space Station (ISS) to test how they respond to stress, drugs and genetic changes.

Made of flexible plastic, tissue chips have ports and channels to provide nutrients and oxygen to the cells inside them.

SBI, the country’s largest bank, has eased rules for submission of Form 15G and Form 15H by its account holders. SBI in a communication through Twitter said account holders can submit Form 15G and Form 15H at any of its bank branches, instead of just the home branch. “No need to worry about going to the home branch anymore! Now, SBI accepts your form 15G/H at any and every SBI branch,” the bank said on Twitter. A home branch is the branch where a customer has a bank account.

Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., two of the world’s most valuable technology companies, struck a deal to get the newest iPhones into the hands of Amazon customers. Amazon said Friday it would begin selling the most-recent iPhone, iPad, Mac computer, Apple Watch and Apple TV models on its website, along with branded accessories and headphones from Apple’s Beats subsidiary.

The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has raised the ceiling tariff for auctions for the 10 gigawatt (GW) manufacturing-linked solar scheme to Rs 2.85/unit from Rs 2.75/unit set earlier.

The ceiling tariff was initially set at `2.93/unit, and later cut by `0.18 in the wake of falling prices of solar modules. The nodal agency for central government-run renewable projects has also deferred the last date for receiving bids to November 19, the fifth postponement since the initial deadline of August 20.

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