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Tesla's Shanghai plant may be first wholly-owned facility in China
23 Oct 2017
Tesla has reached an agreement with authorities in Shanghai to set up a wholly-owned plant in China, making it the first foreign automaker to be permitted to do so
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Toyota puts brakes on hybrid Camry as high GST cuts demand
23 Oct 2017
Toyota Kirloskar Motor, the Indian arm of Japan’s Toyota Motor Corp, has halted the production of its hybrid Camry as sales declined a steep 73 per cent after tax incidence on the cars hit 43 per cent under the GST regime
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General Electric profit down 10% at $1.8 bn in July-Sept quarter
21 Oct 2017
GE’s new CEO John Flannery vowed to shed more than $20 billion worth of assets and hold executives accountable for failing to deliver after what he called “horrible” results in the third quarter
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Hero logs record Dhanteras sales, TVS does well as rural demand picks up
21 Oct 2017
The country’s largest two-wheeler maker Hero MotoCorp has recorded its highest ever single-day sales of over three lakh vehicles on 17 October, Dhanteras day.
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Nissan suspends car production at all Japanese plants
20 Oct 2017
Nissan failed to streamline the final inspection process at its plants, despite warnings and corrective measures, as these were still being carried out by technicians not properly registered to perform those duties
Amazon infuses fresh Rs260 cr into Amazon Pay
20 Oct 2017
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Rio Tinto’s former CEO faces fraud charges in African coal mine deal
18 Oct 2017
US authorities have filed fraud charges against Rio Tinto and former executives Tom Albanese and Guy Elliot over the 2014 sale of the company’s African coal assets for $50 million, three years after its $3.7 billion acquisition
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Flipkart in talks with Biyani for Future Lifestyle stake: report
18 Oct 2017
The top management of both sides met last week in Mumbai to discuss the matter and follow-up meetings are due after Diwali, The Economic Times reported citing sources
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The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
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India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation
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