Swedish furniture brand IKEA will turn rice straw into a renewable material source for the IKEA products in a bid to stop crop burning, all telecom operators, except Reliance Jio, failed to meet call drop benchmark in drive test andother business stories

Tata Sons board to meet today to decide Jet Airways takeoverThe board of Tata Sons is likely to meet Friday to discuss a proposal to take over the Naresh Goyal-controlled Jet Airways, which is looking for investors to tide over liquidity crunch that it has been saddled with, according to people familiar with the development. Airline's deputy chief executive and chief financial officer Amit Agarwal earlier this week had admitted that the company was in talks with \"multiple interested parties\...

The company has said that the first IKEA product prototype, which will be based on rice straw, will be ready by this year end. The products will be officially sold in IKEA's India stores in 2019-2020.

Overall exports in September contracted by 2.15 per cent to $27.95 billion primarily due to high base effect last year, but healthy order books indicate better export growth in coming months.