Sunday, 18 August 2019

18 August 2019 News

©orporate Updates on 18.8.2019

· Small cities in India hold clue to AI's dirty little secret

· Auto sector may shed 500,000 jobs in Q3

· Jaishankar, Akbaruddin worked in tandem to defy Pak

· FM wants overzealous taxman to take it a bit easy

· Gains and losses of using a discount broker

· In another jolt, US cuts $440-mn aid to Pak

· PM Modi cements Bhutan ties with RuPay launch

· IMD to create common alert protocol: IMD Chief

· As Earth warms up, South India to bear the brunt

· Auto part makers find a way to stay afloat

· Modi govt is going after missing DeMo notes

·  Still a democracy?: Priyanka Gandhi slams detention of Congress leaders in J&K

· Delhi: Man arrested for making hoax bomb call at IGI airport to stop wife from leaving India

· I see no future for Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti: Jitendra Singh

· Mahindra sets up car assembly plant in Sri Lanka

· ED attaches Usha Martin assets worth Rs 190 crore

· Khadi records 145 per cent growth in 5 years, turnover crosses Rs 74,323 crore in 2018-19

· Hyundai India joins others to declare production holidays

· How a glut in diamonds is taking a toll on an already embattled industry

· A luxury yacht and 5-year-old firm in middle of an unusual insolvency case

· Coffee Day seeks more time from creditors to repay Rs 4,970-crore debt

· Highway road map: Bidder selection criteria for BOT projects may ease

· How one billionaire kept three nations hooked on coal for decades, Gautam Adani.

· Founder Goyal admits to 'mistakes', plans to alter Zomato Gold scheme

· SoftBank plans to lend up to $20 billion to employees to invest in new fund

· Airbnb records 30% growth in Q1 booking strength, says report

· TVS Motor's Singapore arm invests $3.2 mn in analytics firm Predictronics

· Slow revenue growth of top four US banks likely to affect Indian IT firms

· Ahmedabad-bound IndiGo aircraft returns to Mumbai airport after engine snag

· Home repainting biz adds gloss to paint firms' Q1 show in times of slowdown

· CSR law flawed, India needs inclusive growth: US professor Aneel Karnani

· UBI mulls special loan offers for start-ups, brainstorms on $5-trn GDP goal

· Indian firms need to push the digital agenda by identifying quick wins

· Legal ambiguity, lack of human resources ailing CBI's functioning: CJI