China to test new fuel efficient bullet train

Image: A high speed bullet train in China. Photograph: David Gray/Reuters China will soon conduct a trial run of its new high-speed bullet train, which uses a cutting-edge traction system......

Sensex gains 128 points ahead of Fed meet; Ranbaxy up 6%

Benchmark share indices ended higher on Tuesday, ahead of the two-day US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meet, led by pharma shares after better-than-expected second quarter earnings from......

Chinese firms to team-up with India for rail projects

Chinese firms are teaming with Indian companies to jointly bid for five high-speed railway projects in India in an apparent attempt to compete with Japan's plans to build bullet trains. The Indian......

Automobile slump stoking labour unrest at companies

Seventy nine workers were hospitalised and 26 arrested in a confrontation with the police at Shriram Piston and Ring Ltd’s manufacturing facility in the Pathredi Industrial area of Alwar,......