HDFC Bank cuts lending rate by up to 0.90%
Mumbai
HDFC Bank on Wednesday cut its benchmark lending rate by up to 0.90%, joining over a dozen banks and housing finance companies that have slashed rates in past few days. The new rates are effective January 7. PTI
New Delhi
Maruti opens online booking for Ignis
Maruti Suzuki India on Wednesday opened online booking for its premium hatchback ‘Ignis’ that it plans to launch next week. The model will be launched on January 13. This is for the first time an option of online booking has been introduced through Maruti Suzuki Nexa’s exclusive website. PTI
Chandigarh
SBoP to hold auction of stressed assets
To expeditiously resolve stressed assets, State Bank of Patiala will hold mega auctions on January 17 and 31 to sell properties. During the past nine months, it has put on auction 678 properties situated in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal, Rajashtan, Delhi NCR & Chandigarh involving NPAs amounting to Rs 864.03 crore and has sold 87 properties. TNS
Chandigarh
New Chief Commissioner of Income-tax
Kailash Chandra Jain has taken over as Principal Chief Commissioner of Income-tax, North West Region, Chandigarh. A 1980-batch IRS officer, he has handled almost every wing of the department such as investigation, HR, legal, infrastructure, among others. TNS
Jaipur
Toll-free helpline to resolve GST queries
A national toll-free helpline (1800 103 9271) was launched on Wednesday for resolving GST-related queries. It would answer queries of small-scale businessmen in six languages — Hindi, English, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada and Malayalam. TNS
Chandigarh
Tata Docomo unveils unlimited calling plan
Tata Docomo has launched an all-new bouquet of “Unlimited Calling Plans” with unlimited STD and local calls priced as low as Rs 148 for its customers across Punjab. The plan provides pre-paid customers unrestrained voice bandwidth both within and outside of the network coupled with 3G data (on select packs) at the best available market rates. TNS
