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2 weeks ago | rediff.com | Deepak Patel

Home  » Business » Only 12% Indian households can afford to buy a car: Maruti's Bhargava 4 Minutes Read Listen to Article Car purchases in India are largely limited to the top 12 per cent of households with an annual income exceeding Rs 12 lakh, while even small cars have become unaffordable for the remaining 88 per cent, said R C Bhargava, chairman of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL), on Friday.

2 weeks ago | rediff.com | Deepak Patel

Airlines waive cancellation and rescheduling fees and boost flight capacity from Srinagar. IMAGE: An Indigo aircraft arrives at the Srinagar airport. Airfares from Srinagar have seen a “notable reduction” in the past two days, with a Srinagar–Delhi flight falling from over Rs 20,000 to under Rs 10,000, following swift government action to curb prices, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said on Thursday.

2 weeks ago | rediff.com | Deepak Patel

Executives from India's leading airlines are conducting internal meetings to devise alternative routes for their international flights that currently pass through Pakistani airspace. Kindly note the image has been published only for representational purposes.. Pakistan on Thursday, April 24, 2025 announced the closure of its airspace to Indian carriers, two days after a terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir's (J&K's) Pahalgam killed 26 people, most of them tourists.

3 weeks ago | rediff.com | Deepak Patel

'CORSIA has set impossible targets. It tries to limit countries to the emission levels of the number of aircraft that they had in 2020. That has to be opposed.'IMAGE: Kindly note that this image has been posted for representational purposes only. Indian airlines on Wednesday voiced concerns over the new global emission standards CORSIA, set to take effect in 2027, calling the targets "unrealistic" and warning that the norms could impose a "significant" financial burden on them.

1 month ago | rediff.com | Deepak Patel

While sedan sales have declined in the mass-market segment in recent years, demand remains strong for BMW sedans, which account for 45 per cent of its sales in India. Kindly note the images has only been published for representational purposes. At a time when most mass-market carmakers are expecting low single-digit growth, BMW India is projecting strong double-digit growth in 2025, driven by demand for its electric vehicles (EVs) and long-wheelbase models.