Will never reduce our focus on buyers who cannot afford expensive cars: Maruti Suzuki Chairman

At a time when the small car segment continues to shrink in the domestic passenger vehicle industry, Maruti Suzuki India Limited Chairman RC Bhargava reaffirmed that it will not disregard the needs of budget-conscious buyers who cannot afford affordable vehicles. Read more here

Take a look at these key events

Today
Q1 earnings: Bharti Airtel, HCC, Marico, ONGC, Orient Cement, Centuryply, Tata Chemicals, Vijaya Diagnostic
Unicommerce IPO anchor book to open
Coaching centre deaths: Court to hear bail pleas of basement co-owners
Excise policy cases: SC to hear Manish Sisodia's bail plea
Delhi HC to hear plea on mother, son drowning into waterlogged drain in Ghazipur
Olympian Manu Bhaker's coach Samaresh Jung's eviction on hold: Delhi HC to review case
SNAP 2024: Applications process to begin
Kamala Harris to announce her VP pick
Infiniti Note 40X launchTomorrow
Hiroshima Day
Q1 earnings: Tata Power, Raymond, NCC, PFC, PNC, Bajaj Electrical, Bluestar, Fortis, Gujarat Gas, Indigo Paints, Lupin, JM Financial, IIFL, 3M India, Bata India
First cry IPO to open
Exercise Tarang Shakti: India's Largest multinational air exercise to begin
Huawei to launch new MatePad Pro and MatePad Air

RBI Policy, Q1 Earnings, Oil Prices, among 10 key factors to watch

Looking ahead, the market is anticipated to consolidate with a negative bias. More than 900 companies will release their quarterly earnings in the coming week including Nifty 50 names like Bharti Airtel, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Eicher Motors, and Grasim Industries. Key factors to watch include the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy, corporate earnings, and oil prices. Read here

IPO launches and listings this week

The primary market is set for an action-packed week as a series of new public issues prepare to hit Dalal Street. Starting on August 6, Brainbees Solutions, the operator behind Firstcry, will launch its significant Rs 4,194-crore initial public offering (IPO), while Unicommerce eSolutions, a SaaS platform, will also open its Rs 277-crore IPO on the same day. Read more here

In your early 30s and planning to retire by 50? Here are a few things to keep in mind

Let’s say you are 32 years old and fed up with your job. While you want to quit today itself, for practical reasons you target being financially independent (to have the option to retire early) by the age of 50. Now you have 18 years to save money for your retirement. But with rising life expectancy, chances are that you will live till 85-90 or even more. So, if you retire at 50, then you will need to have a corpus that can help last a very long 40 years of retired life (from the age of 50 to 90). Read on

How India’s largest equity mutual funds won the race for small investors?

On August 1, the Nifty crossed 25,000 and the Sensex 82,000- mark for the first time. It took the Nifty almost 29 years after it came into being to climb Mt 25k, returning a 13.4 percent compounded annualised growth. Equity mutual funds have been an integral part of this journey and have rewarded long-term investors. Moneycontrol takes a look at the 10 largest equity funds across categories. Read here 

OnePlus Nord 4 review: Where style meets substance

As soon as you unbox the OnePlus Nord 4, you know that this is a very different phone from the ones you are used to. The OnePlus Nord 4 opts from a totally different look from its predecessors with a bold design overhaul. Ditching the familiar glass sandwich construction, the new Nord boasts a predominantly aluminium chassis — it is what the gen Z would call a throwback to relatively classic era of smartphone design. Read on