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Time of India
04-08-2025
- Automotive
- Time of India
Hyundai Verna is offering a massive Rs 65,000 discount this August; here's everything you need to know
This August, Hyundai is turning up the heat with an exciting festive offer on its flagship Verna Sedan. With a limited-time discount of Rs 65,000 available until August 31, the Verna becomes an even more exciting option in the mid-size sedan segment. Known for its bold design, advanced features like Level 2 ADAS, and powerful turbocharged engine options, the Verna already stands out as a leader in its class. The added savings now make it a smart pick for buyers who want premium styling and cutting-edge tech without stretching their budget. Combined with Hyundai's strong after-sales service and wide dealership network, this deal is hard to ignore for anyone considering a sedan upgrade this festive season, reported Times Bull. Exclusive limited-time offer According to Hyundai's Advaith dealership, customers purchasing the Verna can avail of total savings of Rs 65,000. This package includes an Rs 20,000 instant cash discount, an Rs 35,000 scrap bonus for exchanging an old vehicle, and an additional Rs 10,000 Pride of India discount. These incentives apply to selected variants, with ex-showroom prices ranging from Rs 794,100 to Rs 1,352,600. The offer is valid only until the end of August. Powertrain and performance details The Verna is available with two engine options. The first is a 1.5-litre naturally aspirated petrol engine delivering 113 horsepower and 144 Nm of torque. The second is a more robust 1.5-litre turbocharged petrol engine, offering 158 horsepower and 253 Nm of torque. Transmission choices include a 6-speed manual, a 6-speed torque converter automatic, and a 7-speed dual-clutch transmission, catering to drivers seeking a seamless and engaging driving experience. Engine Choices: 1.5L MPi Petrol: As per Hyundai Worldwide, this engine delivers 115 PS of power and 144 Nm of torque. It comes paired with either a 6-speed manual transmission or an Intelligent Variable Transmission (IVT), as specified by Hyundai. 2.5L Turbo GDi Petrol: Offering a more powerful performance, this engine produces 160 PS and 253 Nm of torque. Buyers can choose between a 6-speed manual gearbox or a 7-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Dimensions: Length: 4535 mm Width: 1765 mm Height: 1475 mm Wheelbase: 2670 mm Boot Space: 528 litres. FAQs Q. What is the price of the top Verna car? According to Car Dekho, the price ofthe Hyundai Verna starts at Rs 11.07 lakh and the top model price goes up to Rs 17.58 lakh. Q. Is the Hyundai Verna a luxury car? The Hyundai Verna is generally considered a premium sedan rather than a full-fledged luxury car. For the latest and more interesting auto news, keep reading Indiatimes Auto.
Indian Express
31-07-2025
- Indian Express
Taxi driver, friends rob businessman at gunpoint in North West Delhi, arrested after 2 days
The Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a taxi driver and three of his friends who allegedly robbed a businessman in North West Delhi of cash and gold a few days ago. The four masked men — Kamal Raj, 22 Ashok Kumar, 26, Surat, 22, and Rocky, 26 — armed with three country-made pistols, allegedly held Jatinder Singh, who runs an electronics store in Mukherjee Nagar, his teenage son, and maid hostage at his house and fled with Rs 1.5 lakh in cash and two gold bangles on Sunday morning. 'The accused asked the hostages to stay put or risk losing their lives. One of the men went to the room where the valuables were kept and got hold of the items. They then fled from the house,' a police officer said. After the incident, Jatinder lodged a complaint at the Mukherjee Nagar police station around 11.30 am, stating that he was robbed at gunpoint. A police officer said that Kamal had contacted Ashok Kumar, a wrestler who had given cardio lessons to the family of Singh, to know where the businessman had kept the valuables in the house. 'Ashok Kumar was doing the recce of Singh's house and had informed Kamal about the cash and jewels in his house. But they were not proceeding with the plan as they were working on an escape strategy,' a police officer said. A team led by Inspector Rajesh Shah, SHO, Mukherjee Nagar, tracked the car used in the crime using the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. 'The number plate was put on the Vahan app, which showed that it was registered for a 2011-model Verna. The police followed the car's trail and found that it had not been on the roads since 2021. But the number plate was found to have been used since early 2025. CCTV footage showed that the accused moved towards Delhi Cant and Hauz Khas. They were finally arrested from the MIS unit area on Tuesday,' a police officer said. Kamal told the police that he had been operating his brother's taxi for the past six months. 'He acquired the number plate in January and decided to use it for the robbery. The accused spent the amount on luxuries, but the bangles have been recovered,' a police official said. Singh ran his store in Lala Lajpat Rai Market in North West Delhi's Mukherjee Nagar, the police said.
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Business Standard
11-07-2025
- Automotive
- Business Standard
Nuvama initiates 'Buy' on Hyundai India, sets ₹2,600 target on growth push
Nuvama on Hyundai India: Automobile company Hyundai Motor India (HMI) is likely to stay in the spotlight today after domestic brokerage Nuvama initiated coverage with a 'Buy' rating and a target price of ₹2,600, which reflects a 24.3 per cent upside from the last close of ₹2,091.65 on the BSE. Analysts at Nuvama said the company is entering a high-growth phase supported by a strong launch pipeline and backing from global parent Hyundai Motor Company (HMC). HMI, India's second-largest passenger vehicle (PV) original equipment manufacturer (OEM), is planning 26 launches by FY30, including 7-8 all-new models. 'Over the next 18 months, we expect a new compact SUV, a micro E-SUV and multiple refreshes, ratcheting up HMI's domestic MS by ~1pp to 15 per cent by FY28E,' Raghunandhan NL, Manav Shah, and Rahul Kumar of Nuvama said, in a note, 26 launches by FY30, market share set to rise The product roadmap, analysts suggested, includes facelifts for models like Venue, Verna and Exter, along with new entries based on the Bayon platform (to compete with Maruti Fronx) and a micro electric SUV to rival Tata Punch EV. Nuvama expects this aggressive expansion to lift Hyundai Motor India's domestic volume/revenue CAGR to 6 per cent/9 per cent over FY25–28, aided by SUV mix and premium features like ADAS and sunroofs. Parent support brings tech, global access The company gains a major edge from its parent Hyundai Motor Company (HMC), the world's third-largest mass-market PV maker, with over 40 models sold across more than 200 countries. With $2.9 billion in average annual research and development (R&D) spend (2.5 per cent of revenue), the parent firm enables Hyundai India to fast-track innovation and expand exports. Export volume/revenue CAGR is expected at 9 per cent/11 per cent over FY25–28, with strong demand from Latin America, Africa, and recovery in Asia and the Middle East, analysts noted. Solid financials back valuation Nuvama projects Hyundai Motor India to clock revenue/Ebitda CAGR of 9 per cent/12 per cent with a 57 per cent average RoIC over FY25–28. Annual free cash flow is estimated at ₹4,300 crore during FY26–28, pushing net cash from ₹7,800 crore in FY25 to ₹17,200 crore in FY28. The ₹2,600-target is based on a discounted cash flow (DCF) model implying 30x Sep-27E core PE plus ₹117/share in net cash. Risks to watch Potential risks, analysts believe, include weaker-than-expected domestic or export growth, poor product performance amid heightened competition, and margin headwinds from discounting or currency and commodity volatility.
Technical.ly
17-06-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
Let's Rallie brings Philadelphians together IRL — with a little help from their phones
For Robbie Verna, business is all about community. The 29-year-old, originally from Delaware County, has been reimagining how communities connect and celebrate through event technology platform Let's Rallie since 2021. His cofounder, Wendy Verna, a longtime entrepreneur and founder of Octo Design Group, also happens to be his mom. Both companies are located on South Street in Philly. 'We started it during COVID as a fun little startup,' Robbie told 'Since then, we have pivoted the business to our current business model with the same mission, to drive commerce to different neighborhoods.' The platform is an app to to help users navigate in-person community events, serving local organizations, nonprofits and community groups across the Philadelphia region. It supports everything from festivals to brewery tours, providing interactive features like scavenger hunts, voting and custom event maps. Embracing the city's community vibes Verna left his hometown of Media for college at a Connecticut university, where he studied marketing and entrepreneurship. After graduating in 2018, he was ready to move back home, but instead of suburban Delco, he moved straight into the city of Philadelphia and has been there ever since. Verna embraces life in Philly, from the strong sense of community to the easy access to networking events. Depending on the weather, he bikes, walks or takes the bus from where he lives in the Graduate Hospital area to the office. His desire to see the city's communities thrive fueled Let's Rallie. 'Our mission is to drive traffic to local businesses and also support neighborhoods and their operations,' he said. 'Our goal is to help different community teams with their event technology [and] to keep people in those areas, exploring new things.' Let's Rallie's bread and butter, Verna said, is a software service for local organizations looking for technology for their events. Some of its clients include The South 9th Street Italian Market, Manayunk Development Corporation and CampusPhilly, as well as regional clients including the New Jersey Tourism Association and Harford County, Maryland. Attendees download Let's Rallie to their phones, where they can access features like schedules, interactive maps, push notifications, raffles and scavenger hunts. A voting feature allows events to interact with attendees, who can use it to participate in things like pet costume contests at a Halloween event. 'We do a ton of festivals,' Verna said. 'We've done ice sculpture festivals, food truck festivals, the Italian Market Festival, and we also do a lot of tours and crawls, like a burger crawl, a seafood crawl. We're right now doing a brewery tour.' Now, he said, Let's Rallie is expanding into multi-day events like restaurant weeks and soccer tournaments, too. 'We started out in the East Falls and Manayunk area, and they took a chance on us,' Robbie said. 'And then from there, some people from South Philly heard about us, and it just snowballed.' Born into entrepreneurship Both of Verna's parents are business owners, something he says has been a benefit as he launched his own startup. 'It was certainly helpful to have both of my parents in my corner,' he said. 'It let me know that it was possible, and made it a little less scary.' Wendy Verna's 25 years of doing business in Philly and making relationships gave the business insight into how things work in the city, like having a built-in mentor. Logistically, the Vernas had to start by building the app, which they did with the help of a friends and family round of funding. Since then, they've been bootstrapping. 'We did join an accelerator with Philly Startup Leaders early on,' Verna said. 'They helped us with our business model and making sure everything was buttoned up and ready to go. They were certainly a big help, with connections as well, so that helped us grow.' As clients started signing up, they learned to listen to their needs to keep the business growing. 'As we got those clients, we reinvested that money back into what would be helpful for them, so trying to be as nimble as possible,' Verna said. 'We're ear-to-the-ground, listening to clients, and making sure that we weren't just building something and trying to make it fit.' Ultimately, he said, the clients are communities, in a city and region where community is a big part of its identity. 'The creativity and the true community energy that the city has, and the willingness to help each other, is definitely something that has been very beneficial to our business,' Verna said. Rallie -ing to the future In the future, Verna would like to see the app evolve into an all-purpose events tool that community members can take with them and use, even after a specific event has passed. The map feature, for example, could be used to show a user all of the events happening in the area on a given day. A tool that a user can open when they go to a new town in the region — or, eventually, beyond the mid-Atlantic. 'We're growing, one relationship at a time,' Verna says, 'and now, with people expecting an app for their events — we're right where they want us to be.'
Indian Express
17-06-2025
- Indian Express
2015 Verka case: Cops in civilian clothes firing at vehicle occupant cannot be considered official duty, says SC
Police personnel 'surrounding a civilian vehicle in plain clothes and jointly firing upon its occupant by its very nature bears no reasonable nexus to the duties of maintaining public order or effecting lawful arrest,' the Supreme Court observed in its April 29 order, dismissing the plea of nine Punjab policemen, challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court's order of May 20, 2019 where it refused to quash the murder case against them in a 10-year-old alleged fake encounter case. 'The availability of official firearms, or even an erroneous official objective, cannot transmute acts wholly outside the colour of authority into those 'done while acting or purporting to act in the discharge of official duty',' the detail SC order uploaded recently reads. According to the case, on June 16, 2015, a police team, travelling in a Bolero, an Innova and a Verna, intercepted a white Hyundai i20 on the Verka-Batala road in Amritsar, Punjab. After giving a brief warning, they allegedly opened fire on the car using pistols and AK-47 rifles, killing driver Mukhjit Singh, alias Mukhha. The complainant (then riding a motorcycle nearby) and another witness claimed to have seen the shooting and raised an alarm that drew locals to the spot. The complaint alleged that after the firing incident, the then Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Parmpal Singh arrived at the scene with additional personnel and ordered the removal of the vehicle's registration plate. Hearing the matter, the division bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta restored the charge of 'destruction of evidence' against DCP Parmpal Singh, observing 'actions taken under the guise of official duty, but aimed at obstructing justice, cannot be deemed related to police duty'. The court also clarified that 'no prior sanction is required to prosecute DCP Parmpal Singh and the other police officials for their alleged actions'. The bench rejected the submission of eight police personnel that cognisance of the complaint against them cannot be taken as it was barred under Section 197 of CrPC under which prior permission was needed to prosecute public servants. 'An act that is per se directed to erasing a potential exhibit, if ultimately proved, cannot be regarded as reasonably connected with any bona-fide police duty. The test consistently applied by this Court is whether the impugned act bears a direct and inseparable nexus to official functions. We believe that where the very accusation is suppression of evidence, the nexus is absent on the face of the record. In such a situation the bar of Section 197 CrPC is not attracted, and sanction is not a condition precedent to cognizance. The cloak of official duty cannot be extended to acts intended to thwart justice as held by this Court in Gauri Shankar Prasad v State of Bihar,' the SC order reads. 'The part of the impugned order of the High Court dated 20.05.2019 that set aside Criminal Complaint No. 112 of 2016 and the summoning order of 17.08.2017 in respect of Deputy Commissioner of Police Parampal Singh, is set aside. Proceedings against the respondent stand restored, to be continued in accordance with law,' the order reads. In the separate petition by the rest of the eight officials, the court said, 'The contention that the death, even if established, resulted from a mistaken identity and therefore attracts no culpability is a matter of defence; whether the petitioners acted in good faith, or whether they fired at all, are questions of fact that can only be resolved on evidence at trial. At the stage of summoning or of framing of charges the Court is not expected to weigh the probative value of the materials in microscopic detail but merely to see whether the facts, taken at their face, disclose the commission of an offence. The order of the Magistrate summoning the petitioners, and the subsequent order of the Sessions Court framing charges, proceed on an appreciation that there exists prima facie evidence of concerted firearm assault. No error of law or perversity of approach is shown. Therefore, we are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment and order. The Special Leave Petitions are, accordingly, dismissed.' After the victim's family reached the court, Parmpal Singh was summoned into the case. Besides, Parmpal Singh, eight other police personnel had challenged the HC order of May 20, 2019, wherein the court refused to quash the case registered against them, in the Supreme Court. Human rights activist and lawyer Sarabjit Singh Verka said, 'The SC order was uploaded on June 15. The order has opened the doors for justice the victim's family has been seeking for a decade.' G Nageswara Rao, then Inspector General of Police (Crime), Punjab, headed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) inquiry into FIR No. 242 dated June 16, 2015, registered under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act. Based on the findings, the SIT concluded that the allegations made in the FIR against the deceased, Mukhtjit Singh, alias Mukha, relating to offences under IPC section 307 and the Arms Act, were not substantiated. Instead, the SIT recommended filing a police report under section 173(2) of the CrPC for offences punishable under Section 304, read with Section 34 of the IPC, against several police officials. These include SI Ramesh Kumar (No. 1382/GSP), ASI Joginder Singh (No. 2639/ASR), HC Ranbir Singh (No. 821/ASR), HC Rajesh Kumar (No. 3564/ASR), HC Sandeep Kumar (No. 2176/ASR), HC Jasbir Singh (No. 669/ASR), C-II Navjot Singh (No. 2895/ASR), and Ct. Satwinderjit Singh (No. 3894/ASR). The report also mentioned that the prosecution would require necessary sanctions under Section 197 of the CrPC. Additionally, the SIT noted procedural violations and recommended departmental action against other officers. 'Ct. Love Kumar (No. 3568/ASR) was found to have allowed HC Rajesh Kumar to use his issued AK-47 rifle (No. 88320625) during the incident. Both officers were recommended for departmental action for this lapse. Furthermore, MHC Baljit Singh (No. 70/ASR) was found to have permitted the misuse of a Malkhana vehicle (PB-08-BP-4613) by SI Ramesh Kumar. Similarly, HC Kanwaljit Singh (No. 1957/ASR), in charge of the Cyber/Computer Cell, misused another official vehicle, a Verna car (PB-33A-7979). Departmental action was recommended in both these cases,' the SIT recommended.
