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Sunday, April 5, 2026
TopicAuto industry slump

Topic: Auto industry slump

Never been a better time to buy a car—even models that never gave discounts seeing price cuts

Car manufacturers are now realigning production, with a possible decline in the coming months across the board as they and dealers clear excess inventory.

Bosch India plans to cut thousands of jobs in next 4 years as auto sales shrink

Bosch India MD, Soumitra Bhattacharya said the German company will cut about 10% of 3,700 white-collar jobs and a slightly higher percentage of 6,300 blue-collar jobs.

Maruti Suzuki, hit by automobile sector slowdown, reports lowest profits in 4 years

The festive season sales may not be enough to overcome the 39% slump in profit Maruti Suzuki India has suffered since last year.

Is sinking Indian economy beginning to chip away Modi’s larger-than-life image?

Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the US this week to meet Donald Trump and global business leaders amid growing worries over economic slowdown.

Maruti contradicts Sitharaman’s millennial remark, says cabs not a factor in auto slowdown

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has attributed the auto industry slowdown to millennials preferring use of Ola and Uber cabs over owning cars.

Nirmala Sitharaman right to point at millennials’ Uber-Ola use and EMI fear for auto slump?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the automobile sector, facing its worst slowdown, has been ‘affected by the mindset of millennials’ who don’t want to pay EMIs for a vehicle and prefer Ola and Uber rides.

Truck drivers to contract engineers, lakhs are jobless in Gurgaon-Manesar auto hub

At Maruti, Hero, Honda facilities in the Gurugram-Manesar belt, young employees are being let go, others are worried they’ll follow.

On Camera

From central Asia to India—the annual migration of Rosy Starling

In India, this bird can be seen from the Northern Peninsular to even in the South, like Kerala. However, the most amazing photographs of its murmurations are from Gujarat.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.