Happy with work-from-home, no plans to go back to office- HGS

Hinduja Global Solutions, one of India’s largest BPO providers with nearly 47,000 employees, said it was quite happy with how things are going under the ‘work from home’ mode, and has no immediate plans to shift employees back to the office. The comments come even as IT firms like TCS have asked employees to be […]

Dixon starts making fully automatic washing machines for BOSCH

Dixon Technologies, one of the rare success stories of India in electronics manufacturing, said it has started making fully automatic washing machines. The appliances are being made for BSH Household Appliances Private Ltd, the local unit of the global giant that owns brands such as Bosch. Manufacturing has been started at Dixon’s Tirupati factory. Before […]

V2 Retail says 2021 festival sales above pre-COVID levels

V2 Retail, one of India’s largest value retail chains specializing in fashion and items of daily use, reported strong sales growth for July-September, and said the festival season this year has so far been better than pre-pandemic levels. Outside travel, tourism and entertainment sectors, the company had been one of the worst hit by the […]

Demand for sugar, BP machines drive Morepen Q2 profits

Medical devices and chemicals manufacturer Morepen Laboratories reported a strong increase in revenue and profitability, as demand for its home diagnostic equipment such as glucose meters shot up in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company’s revenue for the Jul-Sep period jumped by 17% on year to Rs 398 cr, while net profit jumped […]

Polycab sells copper plant to Hindalco for Rs 168 cr plus debt

Polycab India Limited, one of the best performing mid-sized companies in India and a maker of electrical goods, said it has decided to sell its copper rod manufacturing business to metal refiner Hindalco Industries, part of the Aditya Birla group of companies. Polycab said it decided to take this step as Hindalco would be better […]

October Auto Sales: Tata Motors sets a record, Maruti Suzuki has another terrible month

Tata Motors again surprised on the upside with its excellent performance as far as October auto sales are concerned, even as market leader Maruti Suzuki faced yet another month of depressingly poor sales in its core hatchback segment. Mahindra & Mahindra, meanwhile, beat the blues thanks to strong demand for its newly launched XUV700 model. […]

Kolte-Patil has a good quarter on strong real estate market

Kolte-Patil Developers reported a strong second quarter for the financial year, as the real estate recovery seen in earlier quarters continued apace. The company’s collections — a measure of the cash it managed to collect from buyers — zoomed 86% compared to the COVID-ravaged second quarter of last year, and was up 34% compared to […]

Hindustan Times group to bid for IPL team

Hindustan Media Ventures, the HT Media subsidiary that runs Hindustan — one of India’s largest newspapers — said it has decided to bid for an IPL team in the ongoing auctions. With this, Hindustan Media Ventures joins a longish list of companies interested in owning the two new franchises. Companies who win the auction will […]

Zydus Cadila starts crucial trial for fatty liver drug

Cadila Healthcare, also known as Zydus Cadila, said it has started enrolling patients in a trial that can potentially yield the first FDA approved treatment for NASH or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease with inflammation. Fatty liver disease, caused by the deposition of fat in the liver, is divided into alcohol-related and non-alcohol related. Within non-alcoholic […]

Ramkrishna Forgings wins Indian Railways order for loco shells

Ramkrishna Forgings, which recently diversified beyond the automobile market to tide over the uncertainties associated with the sector, has won yet another contract from Indian Railways. The company said it won a contract o supply loco shells, the shell or body of locomotive engines or train engines. The value of the contract was not disclosed. […]

Palred launches India’s cheapest Alexa speaker at 1,799

Palred Tech, which sells IT and entertainment accessories under the pTron brand, has launched India’s cheapest Alexa speaker, priced at just Rs 1,799. The speaker comes with Alexa voice commands, and supports streaming music from services such as Amazon Prime Music, Gaana, Hungama Music, Jio Saavn and so on via wifi. pTron Musicbot Cube will […]

Kerala Govt pushes ahead with K-Rail highspeed train, starts land survey

The Pinarayi Vijayan government of Kerala has decided to push ahead with the K-Rail semi-high-speed rail project despite opposition from the Congress-led United Democratic Front and some non-governmental organizations. The Rs 64,000 cr project is one of the most ambitious taken by any Kerala state government in recent years, and aims to reduce the north-south […]

Tata Power gets Rs 538 cr solar order from EESL

Tata Power Solar Systems, a unit of Tata Power, has received a ₹538 cr engineering and construction order for ground-based solar power generation facilities from public sector energy service company EESL. The various power generation equipment will be constructed at different locations in Maharashtra, and will together have a capacity of 100 MW. The order […]

NTPC eyes international expansion with EDF tie-up

NTPC Ltd said its tie-up with EDF or Électricité de France announced by the government yesterday is likely to help it expand globally, while also making Indian power market more efficient and carbon neutral. The deal was announced yesterday by the French Ambassador to India, Emmanuel Lenain. The French are keen to help Indian transition […]

Max Healthcare wins two plots in HUDA auction, to add 1,000 beds

Max Healthcare Institute Ltd, one of India’s largest hostpital chains, said it has been allocated around 11.36 acres of land in the heart of Gurgaon city to set up two hospitals. The two plots, allocated by Haryana Shahri Vikas Pradhikaran, measure 6.11 acres and 5.26 acres. Both plots are in well populated areas of Gurgaon, […]

Vakrangee starts distribution of agricultural products and services

Vakrangee Ltd said it has tied up with BigHaat Agro Private Ltd to provide end-to-end Agri services, digital advisory as agri input products, including seeds and fertilizers. BigHaat is a digital agricultural platform that offers valuable inputs to farmers by using science, data and technology, such as end-to-end crop guidance and market linkages for various […]

Biocon launches cancer medicine in the US

Biopharmaceuticals manufacturer Biocon Ltd launched cancer medication Everolimus tablets in the US. The formulation, a generic version of Afinitor from Novartis, is a prescription medication that is used to treat certain types of cancers and tumours. The tablet has annual sales of around $675 mln in the US, which makes it among the larger drugs […]

Aurionpro selected as Haryana Roadways’ e-ticketing partner

IT services provider Aurionpro said it has won a “strategic order” from Haryana State Transport Department — the biggest operator of bus services in the state — to implement an automatic fare collection system on a revenue share basis. The system will be ‘open loop’, which means that it will not issue its own tokens, […]