Manali Petrochemicals restarts production of Propylene Glyco

Manali Petrochemicals has restarted production of Propylene Glyco from April 03, 2020 from both the plants of the company. Resumption of production of the other products will be decided in due course. Manali Petrochemicals is a leader in the production and marketing of Propylene Oxide, Propylene Glycols and Polyols in India. The Company operates two … Read more

Moody’s downgrades AXIS Bank’s outlook to negative

The credit rating agency — Moody’s Investors Service has revised the outlook for AXIS Bank from stable to negative. Further, it has downgraded the counterparty risk assessments of the Bank to Baa3(cr)/P-3(cr) from Baa2(cr)/P-2(cr), and the local currency counterparty risk rating of the Bank to Baa3/P-3 from Baa2/P-2. Axis Bank is the third largest private … Read more

Moody’s affirms deposit ratings of ICICI Bank at Baa3

The credit rating agency — Moody’s affirmed the deposit ratings of ICICI Bank at Baa3. The Bank’s baseline credit assessment (BCA) and adjusted BCA are also affirmed at ba1. Moody’s has lowered the counterparty risk assessment from Baa2(cr)/P-2(cr) to Baa3(cr)/P-3(cr) and the local currency counterparty risk rating from Baa2/P-2 to Baa3/P-3. The outlook on the … Read more

HDFC Bank’s advances increases by 21% in Q4

HDFC Bank’s advances has increased to approximately Rs 9,930 billion as of March 31, 2020, a growth of around 21% as compared to Rs 8,194 billion as of March 31, 2019 (Rs. 9,360 billion as of December 31, 2019). The Bank’s deposits aggregated to approximately Rs 11,465 billion as of March 31, 2020, a growth … Read more

Bharti Airtel, CuriosityStream deepen ground-breaking content partnership

Bharti Airtel and CuriosityStream have deepened their ground-breaking content partnership to bring premium content from CuriosityStream to TV homes in India. Airtel Digital TV, the DTH unit of Airtel, has launched an exclusive Free to Airtel channel with the full catalogue of CuriosityStream’s award-winning factual entertainment films and series. The CuriosityStream TV channel (419) will … Read more

M&M rejects proposal to inject fresh equity in SYMC

  (M&M) board has rejected a proposal to inject any fresh equity into its loss-making Korean arm SsangYong Motor Company (SYMC). The management and labour union of SYMC had sought a funding of 500 billion KRW (USD 406 Million) from the company over the next three years. The company’s board has urged SYMC to find … Read more

Force Motors’ SCV & LCV production stands at 929 units in March

Force Motors has reported the production, sales and export of the products manufactured during the month of March 2020. The company’s production of Small Commercial Vehicles (SCV) & Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV) stood at 929 units and Utility Vehicles (UV), Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) & Tractors stood at 269 units. The company’s domestic sales for … Read more

Shalby incorporates wholly owned subsidiary

Shalby has incorporated a new wholly owned subsidiary (WOS) company under the name and style ‘Mars Medical Devices’ on April 3, 2020 for R&D, manufacture, trading, importer, collaborator of all types of implants, medical devices, appliances and apparatus etc. and other related items. Shalby is a chain of Multi-specialty tertiary care hospitals based out of … Read more

NMDC fixes prices of iron ore

NMDC has fixed the prices of iron ore with effect from April 4, 2020. The price of Lump Ore (65.5%, 6-40mm) has been fixed at Rs 2,650 per ton, while the price of Fines (64%, -10mm) has been fixed at Rs 2,360 per ton. The above FOR prices are excluding Royalty, DMF, NMET, Cess, Forest … Read more

HCL Technologies sets up COVID-19 control centre in Noida

HCL Technologies has set up a control centre for the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration to help respond to citizens’ queries about coronavirus. The Integrated Control Centre has been set up by HCL at one of its facilities in Noida with support from the district administration, police, health department and Noida as well as Greater … Read more

BPCL develops novel technology to test quality of crude oil

Bharat Petroleum Corporation (BPCL) has developed a novel technology to test the quality of crude oil at a fraction of the cost and time that it takes now through the lengthy lab tests. The technology, which has a number of patents including those from the US and the EU, is a ‘crude horoscope predictor tool’ … Read more

HDFC Bank receives mandate to collect donations for PM Cares Fund

HDFC Bank has received the mandate to collect donations for the PM Cares Fund. Users can pay conveniently from their homes using a slew of channels, including debit cards, credit cards and other digital banking channels. HDFC Bank is one of India’s premier banks providing a wide range of financial products and services using multiple … Read more

Tata Steel amplifies its response to combat COVID-19

In its amplified response to combat COVID-19, Tata Steel is reaching out to the citizens of Jamshedpur through various initiatives to deal with the pandemic. Tata Steel, through Tata Steel Foundation (TSF), recently launched a ten-point Combat Covid19 programme to empathise, empower and equip the communities proximate to Jamshedpur. While some of these programmes have … Read more

Lupin launches Mycophenolic Acid Delayed-Release Tablets USP

Lupin has launched Mycophenolic Acid Delayed-Release Tablets USP, 180 mg and 360 mg. The company’s alliance partner Concord Biotech (Concord) had received an approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (U.S. FDA) earlier. Mycophenolic Acid Delayed-Release Tablets USP, 180 mg and 360 mg, is the generic equivalent of Myfortic Delayed-Release Tablets, 180 mg … Read more

Westlife Development’s arm introduces ‘Work From Home’ policy for restaurant management teams

Hardcastle Restaurants (HRPL), a Master Franchisee for West & South India operations of McDonald’s restaurants and a subsidiary of the Westlife Development, has introduced a unique ‘Work From Home’ policy for its restaurant management teams and the frontline crew, who are unable to go to work due to the nation-wide lock down. The move is … Read more

Roto Pumps resumes operation with limited manpower

Roto Pumps has received permission from District Administration to resume operations from April 06, 2020, with the limited manpower to ensure supply of the products to emergency service providers. The company’s most of the staff was continuing to work as per work from home policy of the company. Roto Pumps is an engineering company with … Read more

India Ratings affirms ratings of IndusInd Bank

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has affirmed IndusInd Bank’s Long-term Issuer Rating at ‘AA+’ with revised Bank’s outlook from Stable to Negative. The agency has also affirmed Short-Term Issuer Rating at ‘A1+’. The agency has also affirmed rating of bank’s Senior Unsecured redeemable Bonds worth Rs 2000 crore at ‘AA+’ with outlook revised to Negative … Read more

Bajaj Finance acquires 1.9 million new customers in Q4FY20

Bajaj Finance has reported 42.6 million customer franchise as of March 31, 2020 on consolidated basis, as compared to 34.5 million customer franchise as of March 31, 2019. During Q4FY20, the Company acquired 1.9 million new customers. The company’s new loans booked during Q4FY20 was 6.0 million as compared to 5.8 million in Q4 FY19. … Read more

Solar Industries partially restarts manufacturing operations

Solar Industries has partially resumed its manufacturing operations with the limited manpower and with all the necessary safety precaution measures to ensure the supply of products to emergency service providers. The management continues to monitor the situation closely and is taking appropriate steps – actions as per directions from local authorities and all other relevant … Read more

Bharti Airtel’s arm partners with Bharti AXA General Insurance

Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary — Airtel Payments Bank has partnered with Bharti AXA General Insurance to offer health insurance plans to provide cover and give financial protection against COVID-19. Under the tie-up, they are offering two health insurance plans — Bharti AXA Group Health Assure which offers lump sum benefit of Rs 25,000 and Group Hospital … Read more

I have no regrets, my career has been fulfilling, says Vengsarkar

NEW DELHI: The epithets of colossus and regal were reserved for Sunil Gavaskar and Gundappa Viswanath but Dilip Vengsarkar has no regrets that he was not as feted as his two illustrious colleagues, saying he cherished an “extremely fulfilling” career. Vengsarkar, who turned 64 on Monday, was India’s batting mainstay during the mid 80s when … Read more

[Rediscover Yourself] Now is the Time to Think, Predict & Innovate: Dipesh Shah

During a video call with his team last week, Dipesh Shah, Managing Director of Samsung Research Institute-Bengaluru (SRI-B), found pressure-cooker whistles often interrupting the meeting. Serious discussions would pause abruptly, followed by giggles and jokes from the bunch of senior and millennial engineers.   This team at SRI-B, Samsung’s second biggest R&D center outside South … Read more

Quarantined youth hangs to death in Udaipur

Udaipur : A 20-year old youth was found hanging from the ceiling of a room of a building where he had been quarantined with others, on Sunday morning. The deceased Vishnu son of Tej SIngh was resident of Shahdabad in UP and worked in a hotel in Surat. Vishnu was among the 182 workers who … Read more

Royal Challengers Bangalore burdened by title pressure: Virat Kohli

NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bangalore need to rediscover the joy of cricket if they are to end their Indian Premier League (IPL) title drought, captain Virat Kohli has said. Star-studded RCB have reached three finals of the Twenty20 league but are one of only three existing franchises — along with Delhi Capitals and Kings XI … Read more

Banswara’s Kushalgarh town under curfew after father- son duo test positive

  Udaipur : Curfew was clamped in Khushalgarh town of Banswara on Saturday morning after a father son duo were tested positive. The entire area was sealed and vehicular movement was completely prohibited after passes issued on earlier occasions too were terminated . Banswara collector Kailash Bairwa inspected the curfew hit areas in the evening … Read more

Community at the core as Hindustan Zinc ramps up COVID-19 combat

The Udaipur based Metal and Mining company has taken extensive and expansive measures to ramp up their existing community outreach across 189 villages in Rajasthan and Uttarakhand in an effort to effectively mitigate the community at risk. As doctors, nurses, paramedics and several other frontline runners continue to help out people in this COVID-19 pandemic, … Read more

Airtel announces measures to shield over 80 million low-income mobile customers from the impact of COVID-19 crisis

Udaipur.  Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s largest integrated telecommunications company, today announced special measures to assist low income group customers impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Airtel has extended the pre-paid pack validity for over 80 million customers till April 17th, 2020. All these customers will continue to get incoming calls on their Airtel mobile numbers even after … Read more

18 arrested for defying Covid.-19 lockdown for group namaz arrested in Chittorgarh

Udaipur : Eighteen persons were arrested in Nimbaheda town of Chittorgarh  on Friday for allegedly gathering for the prayer in violation of the lockdown restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus threat. Among the arrested include few senior citizens and most in the age bracket of 25 to 40 years who had gathered at the old Masjid … Read more

Our Response to COVID-19

To the global Samsung community,     As COVID-19 continues to spread across the globe, our thoughts are with each and every one of you. We know this situation has affected each of you differently and that COVID-19 will have a lasting impact on our society. Despite this challenging time, we also see hope in … Read more

Vedanta doubles its contribution to 201 crores to fight COVID -19

Vedanta contributes 101 crores to PM-CAREs fund. Pledges 10 lac meals across India to the daily wage earners To feed more than 50,000 stray animals daily for the next one month Steps up various other relief measures across the country through multiple initiatives  Mumbai/Delhi April 2nd, 2020: Vedanta has contributed Rs 101 crores to the … Read more

IOC chief Bach thanks PM Modi for his support to Tokyo Olympics

LAUSANNE: International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach has thanked India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his unflinching support to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which has now been shifted to 2021 because of the global coronavirus pandemic. In a letter to Modi, dated April 1, Bach said he was “grateful” to the Indian Prime Minister … Read more

Useful Tip To Get Your Air Conditioner Summer Ready

Summer’s round the corner and your AC needs service. As you’re home, and our service teams can’t reach you right now, here’s a useful tip that will help you get summer ready.   Let’s begin by cleaning the AC filters.   The air conditioner’s filter removes contaminants such as smoke, dust particles, pollen and grease … Read more

Toyota Kirloskar Motorextends support to partners, announces unique sustenance packagesforits dealer network

Udaipur. In its determined endeavors to counter the repercussions brought about by COVID-19 and the nationwide lockdown that followed, Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) today, announcedDealer Support Package – ‘COVID Package’ for its associates in order to support and protect their interests. This unique package will provide necessary assistance to the dealer partners to overcome the … Read more

Wimbledon cancelled in 2020 due to coronavirus pandemic

LONDON: The Wimbledon championships were cancelled for the first time since World War II on Wednesday as the coronavirus pandemic struck another blue-riband sports event off the calendar and wiped out the entire tennis grass-court season. While the decision had looked inevitable for some time, since the virtual shutdown of world sport and ponement of … Read more