News in Infographics: FADA releases April auto sales data, Cognizant Q1 results & more

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News in Infographics: FADA releases April auto sales data, Cognizant Q1 results & more

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Total vehicle retail sales rose by 37 per cent on-year in April, as per the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association (FADA) data released on Thursday. The total vehicle retail sales stood at 16.27 lakh units in April 2022 versus 11.87 lakh in April 2021.   

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Cognizant said that it has added 9,800 employees for Q1, 2022 ( January-March) , and is seeing the attrition rate coming down in two consecutive quarters. The New Jersey headquartered firm which has more than 2 lakh employees working out of India saw the highest attrition in 2021 at 33 per cent during September quarter 2021 (above than average industry rate).

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Nothing is now getting ready to launch a smartphone, after their earbuds. As teased by the company and founder Carl Pei, the Nothing Phone (1) is coming this summer, so we just probably need to wait a little more.  

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Logistics and supply-chain start-up Delhivery on Thursday said that their future strategy is to capture untapped growth vectors. The Gurugram-based company fixed a price band of Rs 462-487 a share for its Rs 5,235-crore initial public offering (IPO) which will open for subscription on May 11 for three days.  

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Google said that in 2021 it has removed over 3.4 billion ads and restricted over 5.7 billion ads. The tech firm stated that over 5.6 million advertiser accounts were suspended, while 1.7 billion publisher pages were either blocked or restricted. Google also took site-level enforcement action against over 63,000 publisher sites.  

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The Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Jhund will release on Zee5 on May 6 whereas the Hindi version of the Prabhas-starrer Radhe Shyam has already released on Netflix on May 4. Anil Kapoor-starrer film Thar will hit Netflix on May 6 whereas the late Puneeth Rajkumar-backed Man of the Match released on Amazon Prime Video on May 5.    

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 Chasing promoters' activities sometimes can help you to understand the prospects of the company. Pledging of shares is one of them. For the latest quarter ended March 31, 2022, promoters pledged shares worth Rs 2.1 lakh crore, which is about 0.86 per cent of the total market capitalisation of the BSE 500 stocks.