Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The dream of climate-friendly, petroleum-free motoring is creeping closer - thanks to a clutch of breakthroughs in nanotechnology. Several recently reported lab findings promise to vastly improve the safety and performance of the high-capacity batteries that electric cars will need, at last making them a viable alternative to today's petroleum-powered …
Japan's top three carmakers produced a record number of vehicles globally last month, highlighting the resilience of the Japanese car industry in the face of a higher yen, soaring oil prices and slowing economic activity in key markets. Toyota said January production for the group, which includes Daihatsu, the mini-vehicle …
WORLD-CLASS: (from left) M.Takedagawa, President and CEO, Honda Siel Car India; T. Oyama, President and CEO, Asian Honda Motors Co.; and H. Iwata, Operating Officer, Honda Motor Company and GM, Suzuka Factory, at the inauguration of a new production facility at Greater Noida near New Delhi on Monday. NEW DELHI: …
New models seen giving a boost to '08 vehicle sales Bloomberg Domestic vehicle sales may rise this year as carmakers introduce new models, the country's automobile dealers group said. Vehicle sales excluding minicars may be higher than the 3.43 million sold in 2007, Yoichi Amano, chairman of the Japan Automobile …
The Impact On Urban Transportation By TATHAGATA CHATTERJI Thousands of sleek, little Tata-Nanos are likely to jostle for urban road space within a year. Nano boasts a brilliant design innovation for the all-weather travel requirements of the budget-conscious Indian family. However, the very affordability of the car has raised certain …
Hyundai Motors India Ltd (HMIL) is evaluating the feasibility of introducing a diesel and a CNG variant of its compact new offering - i10. The petrol version of the small car is presently being manufactured for domestic and export markets at its recently inaugurated second plant within its existing plant …
This column was the first to mention that the compressed air powered engine was on its way to Tata Motors, for use in a small car, and now the Tatas have confirmed this in a separate news report. Obviously, it will not be the only engine of choice in the …
IT'S official now. Tata Motors will kick off trial production of Nano at its Singur factory by June-July. The much-awaited Rs 1-lakh car will be commercially available nationally by September-October. This was announced on Wednesday by Tata Motors MD Ravi Kant. Mr Kant, who had dropped into the Singur factory …
The trial production of the Tata Motors' controversial small car will begin at Singur in June or July to be followed by commercial production around October, Mr Ravi Kant, its managing director, said today after reviewing the progress of the ongoing construction. However, the Trinamul Congress greeted the announcement with …
The small car meets the aspirations of the consumer but may just compound the problems for the society he lives in. V.V. DESAI shows how. Makers of small cars view their products as a timely and remarkable innovation fulfilling the aspirations of India's rising middle class, and as a solution …
As Tata Motors gears up to launch the world's cheapest car Nano later this year, financing companies, including ICICI Bank, SBI Bank, HDFC Bank and Saraswat Bank, are busy charting out attractive finance schemes to woo the buyers. The Mumbai-based Saraswat Bank is offering a loan of Rs 70,000 at …
Nano could spell further privatisation of transport, more traffic congestion and pollution, and THE utterly uncritical, unfailingly breathless and mindlessly euphoric manner in which the bulk of the Indian media reported and commented on the unveiling of Tata Motors
With the Olympic Games breathing down Beijing's neck, the city is racing against the clock to ensure it meets one of the commitments it made when it won the bid for the games in 2001: blue skies. As one alights on the Jingshun highway that connects the airport to Beijing, …
>> In a non-binding report, the European Parliament has given more time to car manufacturers for reducing CO2 emissions from tailpipes. Manufacturers should reduce the emissions to 125 grammes per km by 2015, rather than to 120 grammes by 2012 as proposed by the commission in December, 2007. >> Two …
Last fortnight, when the world's richest Indian Lakshmi Mittal visited Kolkata, the city of his youth, he was thrilled to see change. Mittal told the media that the biggest difference he saw was the many flyovers dotting the city skyline and "disciplined traffic". This is great progress, he told journalists, …
