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Bharti steps up capex plans ahead of Jio's launch

To raise capital expenditure by Rs 1,300-2,600 cr to spruce up 3G and 4G sites across India

Bharti Airtel's voice business weakens

Minutes per user drop 3 per cent, even as company adds 4.5 million new subscribers

Bharti Infra: Lower energy costs hit sales growth

Tenancy up at 2.15 times per tower in Q2 from 2.05 times last year

For HCL Tech, sequential growth to stay uneven

Client additions remain robust, despite muted 0.5% dollar revenue growth

Competition hurts Hindustan Unilever

Investors had built in a higher earnings trajectory given the sharp fall in crude prices

Vodafone pads up for innings in banking

The telecom company, which has a licence to start a payments bank, can leverage its wide distribution network

Auto sector's Q2 likely to be a mixed bag

Ashok Leyland, Eicher & Maruti to lead earnings momentum on higher volumes & lower costs

Telcos' revenue growth in Sept quarter to be hit

Voice volumes are expected to dip between 3-4% during the quarter, which would impact revenues of Idea and Bharti

Maruti: Moving away from core competence a concern

Peaking valuation, unconventional deal with parent, concerns over premiumisation drive downgrades

Reliance Jio's voice strategy remains unclear

Offerings to be constrained by spectrum

Global deflationary trend to drive rate cuts

Central bank does 50 bps rate cut to boost demand as growth and reforms falter

Sun Pharma's anaemic product pipeline likely to hurt FY16 sales

Outlook for Halol facility cloudy; Gleevec approval, if delayed, could be a negative

Time fast running out for a rate cut

All conditions set by RBI for a rate cut have been met, say economists

Newsmaker: SN Subrahmanyan

Driving big revenues with big orders

Making too much out of Volkswagen episode: Motherson Sumi's Sehgal

Analysts estimate recall to impact less than 3% of revenues

Pricing pressure on IT to drive consolidation

Street looks past near-term pressures on revenues, margins; focuses on opportunities

The truth about spectrum shortage in India

If spectrum is so scarce in India, why did 52.7 MHz (11.17% of auctioned inventory) of spectrum find no takers?

US central bank lift-off on Thursday positive

A delay might lead to uncertainty and further capital outflows; but some want easy money to flow

Auto sales slacken ahead of festive season

High inventories with dealers spark worries over demand in coming months

'4G Challenge' proves to be a tough one for Bharti Airtel

Consumers where Airtel has launched its 4G services, are already claiming compensation as speeds are not uniform across the country