In a big relief for passengers planning travel at the last moment due to the emergency, Air India will now sell last-minute tickets at over 40 percent discount.

L&T on Friday reported a 8 percent year-on-year (YoY) jump in net profit at Rs 3,418 crore for the March 2019 quarter.

Thousands of visitors, many of them train enthusiasts, are expected to crowd onto a remote bluff in northern Utah for a day of speeches, music and a historical re-enactment marking the 150th anniversary of the first US Transcontinental Railroad. The three-day "Golden Spike" celebration opened on Friday at Promontory Summit, 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Salt Lake City, where the Central Pacific Railroad from the west was joined to the Union Pacific Railroad from the east on May 10, 1869. Now a national historic park, the wind-swept site saw the culmination of a six-year feat of 19th-century engineering that transformed the American West as the nation was emerging from a bloody civil war.

Drug firm Strides Pharma Science on Friday said it is expecting high teens growth from the US market.