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Mercedes-Benz, India’s biggest luxury German car maker by sales, is arguably betting big on its iconic performance division called AMG in Asia’s third biggest car market.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the AMG brand, which became a sub-brand of the company in the year 1967, Mercedes-Benz last week introduced the GLC 43 AMG Coupe with a price band of Rs 74.80 lakh at any showroom.

With increasing overheads and newer food service concepts emerging, restaurants are now trying to provide an experience and cater to the interests of the new generation.

To counter Reliance Jio, Vodafone is targeting students with a new scheme that will offer unlimited calls with 1 gigabyte of 4G/3G data every day for 84 days, according to a company official.

Reliance Jio is offering similar benefits for Rs 399 along with free roaming and unlimited SMS.

Maruti Suzuki, India’s top-selling car maker, posted a quarterly profit that missed estimates even though sales grew steadily, as a rise in commodity prices and the impact of a new nationwide sales tax ate into earnings.

The company, majority-owned by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp, announced on Thursday a profit of Rs 1,556 crore ($242.66 million) for the first quarter ended June 30, up 4.4 per cent from the year-ago quarter.

That was below the Rs 1,701 crore average estimate of analysts, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Kent RO Systems Limited, India’s leading reverse osmosis (RO) water purifier brand, has teamed up with the Dubai-headquartered Sands International to foray into the GCC markets. Sands International offers focused, cutting edge, value-added distribution services to the consumer electronics, Information Technology, home appliances industry segments across the GCC and is also expanding to new regions in Africa and India. Interestingly, Kent RO Systems has also lined up expansion plans into north Africa.

Online restaurant guide and food ordering app Zomato has partnered homegrown cab aggregator, Ola that will allow users to book rides and pay using the latter's mobile wallet.

Bharti Airtel plans to roll out VoLTE service, that enables phone calls using 4G technology, across the country by the end of the current financial year, a top official of the company said on Wednesday said.

“We have done (VoLTE) trials in five-six cities. Towards the end of this fiscal year, we will be taking VoLTE everywhere. The uptake of VoLTE devices will depend on certification...We should be very much national in the coming six-nine months,” Gopal Vittal, MD and CEO (India and South Asia), Bharti Airtel said during an earnings call.

Japanese car manufacturer, Datsun on Wednesday introduced new Datsun redi-Go, a hatchback, in Asia’s third biggest car market to boost sales. The company will also launch the automatic version soon to increase customer base.

With a starting price band of Rs 3.57 lakh at any showroom, it will take on the likes of  Maruti Suzuki Alto K10, the popular French brand Renault Kwid and Hyundai Eon.

The Datsun brand is Nissan Motor’s third global brand, started sales in India in March 2014. Nissan and Infiniti are other two brands.

Snapdeal’s board has passed the ball into the shareholders’ court. With the decision pending on whether to accept Flipkart’s offer or consider other options, the board has now sought shareholders’ approval.

When it comes to performance motorcycles, Yamaha has always given us products, which have been ahead of the competition.