After months of negotiation, India’s largest real estate firm, DLF, is likely to announce its 40 per cent stake sale of DLF Cyber City Developers (DCCDL), for Rs 13,000 crore, to an affiliate of Singapore’s GIC in its next board meeting on August 25.

The sale would bring some relief to DLF, which reported a decline of 58 per cent in its consolidated net profit at Rs 109.01 crore for the quarter ended June.

The Modi government, true to its intentions of divesting Air India, has put apartments owned by the airline across Mumbai on the block. These apartments, most of which are concentrated in upmarket South Mumbai, are expected to fetch Air India a minimum of Rs 305 crore. According to the company’s auction documents, the minimum price (called the reserve price from which bidding shall start), range from above Rs 10 crore to a little under Rs 1 crore.

While the bids for some these properties need to be submitted on or before August 31, bids for others can be submitted a day later on September 1, 2017. Cushman and Wakefield has been appointed as the advisors for the sale of these properties.

Walmart and Google are today announcing a new partnership that will enable voice shopping through Google Assistant, Google’s virtual assistant that lives on devices like its smart speaker, Google Home. Specifically, consumers will now be able to take advantage of Walmart’s “Easy Reorder” feature through an integration with Google’s shopping service, Google Express. This will allow consumers to shop from hundreds of thousands of Walmart products just by speaking, the companies explain.

Related to this, Google Express is also today ditching its membership fees, and now promises free delivery across its retailers in one to three days, as long as customer orders are above each store’s minimums.

After a game of patience, GMR Infrastructure Ltd’s sustained focus on airports is slowly paying off. Return on investments in airports’ development and maintenance is improving, as regulations are being eased and traffic at key airports is rising.

On Tuesday, the company detailed its expansion plans for its prized asset, Delhi International Airport (Pvt.) Ltd (DIAL), where it leads the consortium. A 60% increase in capacity for passenger traffic and increase in cargo handling infrastructure, besides world-class facilities, will be done in three phases over a decade. Although this would imply cost increases in the near term, it would gradually ramp-up revenue and profit. In fact, June quarter passenger traffic at Delhi airport grew by 14%.

New Delhi: The government is close to finalizing a proposal to grant licences in perpetuity to pharmaceutical companies, scrapping the existing policy that required renewal of licences every five years.

Aimed at enhancing the ease of doing business in India, the government has proposed that manufacturers be granted licences that will remain valid as long as they comply with good manufacturing practices (GMP).