Order of the High Court of Rajasthan in the matter of Deepak Acharya Vs Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited dated 05/03/2025. The Rajasthan High Court has admitted a petition challenging installation of a Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) petrol pump near a crematorium and high-tension line. The NOCs to establish the …
The Tata group is likely to finalise plans for a world-class global research and development (R&D;) centre in the UK shortly. The global R&D; hub, will encompass R&D; activities of Tata Motors, TCS, INCAT, Corus, and Tata Chemicals and now Jaguar Land Rover among others. At present, the Tata Motors …
The Supreme Court has issued notice to the West Bengal government on an appeal challenging the alleged acquisition of fertile agricultural land for Tata Motors' Nano car project at Singur and for Salem group at Haldia. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice R V Raveendran, while …
India's largest vehicle maker Tata Motors has received the Thailand government's approval for setting up a greenfield facility to manufacture eco-cars at an estimated investment of Rs 760-1,015 crore. Thailand had invited car makers from around the world for manufacturing environment-friendly cars while proposing to give tax benefits subject to …
The Nano, the Rs 1 lakh vehicle from the Tata Motors stable, has found an unexpected champion - the environmental group, Worldwatch. In a hard-hitting piece, a Worldwatch researcher has raised questions on whether the global environment groups are not following double standards by idolising a vehicle like the Toyota …
Despite the 8% appreciation of rupee since April 2007 and the fact that it had badly hit sectors like textile and IT, the Indian automobile industry actually witnessed a double-digit positive growth in absolute numbers during the financial year 2007-08, thanks to Companies foraying into newer Markets, several new launches …
Days after the Fiat-Tata joint venture announced an investment of more than Rs 2,300 crore in the Ranjangaon plant in Maharashtra, Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra have separately committed to invest Rs 7,500 crore to increase capacity at their units in Pune and Chakan, the auto making centres in …
At Rs 1.92 lakh, Maruti is the cheapest small car now Nano, the Rs 1 lakh car, could expect some competition from Maruti's user car business, True Value. As the market launch of Tata Motors' Rs 1-lakh car, Nano draws nearer, Maruti Suzuki's top bosses have already started discussing the …
Given its Tata heritage, Tata Motors is a champion of responsible business. Recognising the brand building capabilities of Corporate social responsibility (CSR), Tata Motors formed a CSR Committee in January 2006 comprising the Managing Director Ravi Kant and other senior executives of the company. "Our CSR activities are largely dependent …
The lines are shut at the second plant of Hyundai Motor India (hmil) near Chennai and hundreds of unfinished i 10s are sitting on the brand new assembly line as journalists tour the new facility that the South Korean carmaker has established at a cost of Rs 4,000 crore. Almost …
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
This paper describes the Nano and its development and provides an excellent discussion on the economics of owning and operating a Nano and as well as its impact on motorization in India. It also provides insights on the actual selling price of the Nano when it hits roads. The paper …
Public transport service should live up to certain acceptable standards of quality, comfort and safety before it could gain public patronage. There are of course costs involved, but the people and their quality of life must come first if we destroy public transport we shall be condemned to re-invent it-but …
Ratan Tata's offer to help find funds to remove the toxic waste in UCC's Bhopal plant is inconsistent with the `polluter pays' principle. THE `polluter pays' principle, which is a basic part of environmental law, requires that polluters bear the remedial or clean-up costs of the damage they cause to …
The Hindu of December 13, 2006 published a write-up on Singur on its op-ed page: "Some facts, please' by cpi(m) politburo member and leading intellectual Brinda Karat. She was countering what she called a smear campaign against the cpim) over the acquisition of land for the proposed Tata Motors project …
Public discourse on the Singur imbroglio by and large revolves around how many landholders have handed over, or not handed over, their land to the government for the proposed Tata motorcar factory. It is as if the number of landowners is the sole indicator of the extent of
On TELCO's interpretation of WHO's views of the safe levels of particulate matter (PM) in their affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court The interpretation is certainly not correct. What WHO is trying to say is that there is no threshold for the onset of health effects. Meaning that for each …
After slapping a legal notice on environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, seeking damages worth Rs 100 crore (approximately us $25 million) for an article they had written in Business Standard on the threats posed to public health by the current trend towards dieselisation of the private automobile fleet, telco …
