A total of 110,179 cars rolled off assembly lines last month leaving output in the first 10 months of the year down a third at 743,003 vehicles

State-owned fuel retailers started to steadily increase prices on Friday after international Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) broke a nearly two-month-long hiatus from daily fuel price revisions

SpiceJet founders venture into COVID-19 testing SpiceHealth, a healthcare company founded by the promoters of low-cost carrier SpiceJet, announced on November 23 that it would conduct Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests, touted as the most decisive and crucial test for COVID-19, starting at Rs 499. The company also claimed that the test report will be generated in a record time of 6 hours after sample collection, in stark contrast to the current 24 to 48 hours it takes at mos...

The Road Transport and Highways Minister while addressing a virtual conference said that the government has taken several steps to promote electric vehicles which include reduction in GST to 5 per cent

Fuel price update: In Delhi, petrol was hiked by 0.07 paise per litre and diesel by 18 paise per litre on Monday. Petrol in Delhi stands at Rs 81.53 per litre and diesel at Rs 71.25 per litre

In three hikes, the petrol price has gone up by 40 paise per litre in Delhi.  In Mumbai, petrol prices were raised to Rs 88.16 per litre from Rs 88.09 on Sunday

Vistara has seen a rise in demand for non-stop flights, as passengers try to avoid stopovers to reduce the risk of getting infected - a trend it expects will continue in the future

The price of petrol in Delhi was hiked to Rs 81.38 per litre from Rs 81.23, Diesel rates went up from Rs 70.68 to Rs 70.88 per litre, according to a notification from oil marketing companies

The current predicament of Delhi has also garnered the attention of the Health Ministry, which said the spike in daily new COVID-19 cases and fatalities in Delhi are having a spillover effect in the NCR regions of Haryana and Rajasthan

E-commerce is blurring lines between online and offline with faster digitisation, says Amazon India head Amit Agarwal

The savings from keeping the rates unchanged prevented OMCs from hiking fuel prices by a higher margin, and now that choice is exhausted, regular price revision could resume

This is the first recall of any sort by the South Korean auto brand in India since the launch of Seltos in August 2019

If Agarwal's Vedanta buys BPCL, it will pit him directly against Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani in the oil sector

Digital media outlets must bring down FDI to 26% by Oct 2021: I&B Ministry The Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has issued a notice regarding Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to all entities which are involved in uploading or streaming news and current affairs through digital media. In the notification, the ministry has asked the news aggregators and news agencies, which supply information to digital media firms and companies uploading news and current affairs on webs...

New Innova is also expected to come with an air purifier, 360-degree camera and other safety features like cruise control, keyless entry and seven airbags

Reliance Industries, which was considered a potential bidder as BPCL would have added 22 per cent fuel market share to its fledgling retail business and made it the nation's number one oil refiner, did not put in an expression of interest

The asking price of close to $10 billion by the government for selling its entire 52.98 per cent stake may keep the energy giants away from bidding for a majority stake in the second largest oil refinery and marketing company in India

Gold imports, which have a bearing on the current account deficit, decline 47.42 per cent to $9.28 billion during April-October due to a decline in demand in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to announce next week a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030; Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) subsidiary Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL) acquires a majority stake in online furniture startup Urban Ladder Home Decor Solutions Pvt Ltd. Watch this and more on News Blast.Also Read: WPI inflation for October rises third month in a row to 1.48%

Look forward to celebrating Diwali at the White House next year: Biden, Harris US President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wished people on the occasion of Diwali and said that they look forward to celebrating the festival of lights at the White House next year. Extending their wishes, Biden and Harris said in a joint statement that, like many cherished traditions, Diwali too symbolises of \"light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, and empathy over apathy\" ami...

The government, which is exiting BPCL by selling its entire 52.98 per cent stake, has already extended the date of putting in the preliminary expression of interest (EoI) on four occasions