Tata Motors' Nano, the world's cheapest car that costs slightly more than some premium bikes available in the country, is unlikely to wean away buyers from the two-wheeler segment, an industry official said on Friday. "I don't ascribe to the idea that the introduction of low priced cars in the market will affect the two-wheeler segment," S Balasubramanian, executive vice-president for operations & marketing, TVS, Srichakra Ltd said.
Maruti Suzuki India growing by a paltry two per cent in January, recorded the lowest growth in this financial year, which could be due to the launch of Tata's Nano.
Vijay Mallya will reveal the 2008 Force India F1 car in Mumbai on February 7.
Commonly known as the Bug, the Beetle would hit the Indian market in the middle of this year, Volkswagen managing director, passenger car division, Adreas Prinz told PTI.
The Nano price point would see a 65 per cent increase in the number of families that can afford a car.
Stop "fooling" the people, Rahul Gandhi asserted in a fresh broadside against Narendra Modi, dubbing his "toffee or balloon" model of development in Gujarat as nothing but "loot of public money".
The global economic downturn made 2008 an unforgettable year.
The West Bengal CM's media equation wasn't always this bad. In the run-up to the assembly elections of 2011, she was a clear favourite.
The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices underperformed the largecaps and ended over 1% lower.
While Team Indus had backing from Nandan Nilekani, Ratan Tata and Flipkart founders Sachin and Binny Bansal, it could not even muster half of the Rs 4.5 billion it required for the mission to the moon.
Carmakers fear an increase of Rs 35,000-40,000 per vehicle for safety equipments.
Hailing Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party government, top industry captains pledged mega investments at the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit
Maruti, Hyundai & Mahindra together had 72.5% market share in year's first half.
'The TMC did not bother telling me, a sitting MLA for 20 years, why I was not being given a ticket.'
Cyrus Mistry had put in place a strategy that would have pulled most of the Tata group's 'legacy hotspots' out of the financial mess from legacy issues and helped turn around the group's finances.
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Narendra Modi has expressed readiness for a probe by any government agency to be completed within 30 days into charges by Congress leaders that he had spent Rs 10,000 crore on poll publicity and offered to write to the Election Commission himself in this regard.
The new car, which would come in four variants and two options, is priced between Rs 2.57 lakh and Rs 3.53 lakh.
'Didi' became the real 'Dada' as she got past the post, on a wheelchair and a foot in cast, a souvenir from the Nandigram battle against former protege-turned-rival Suvendu Adhikari.
Kanika Datta explains why the Modi sarkar is gunning for non-profit organisations
At the height of the agitation against Tata Motors and after, the decibel level at Singur has always been high. The coronavirus scare, however, appears to have tempered it. The lockdown has hit Singur's inhabitants hard in more ways than one, reports Ishita Ayan Dutt.
Market leaders saw good traction for new cars, including the electric ones.
The campus placements process usually starts in July-August, but is likely to start earlier this year.
On Wednesday, Bengal's own daughter she firmly pitched herself as, was sworn in as the chief minister of the turbulent state for the third successive term amid raging fires of political violence and a rampaging pandemic.
Hyundai's entry-level Santro still packs a punch but, flanked by spunkier siblings, seems worn out.
If you really enjoy driving, then you wouldn't enjoy it; but if you are more practical and want a decently priced car to carry you in relative comfort, you could certainly consider it, says Cyrus Dhabhar.
India took the first step towards legalising drones by officially publishing draft rules for drone operations in the Official Gazette on Friday. The rules, termed The Unmanned Aircraft System Rules, 2020, are open for public consultation for 30 days.
'So far the youth were Modi's strength.' 'It now seems under pressure, and for good reason: Crisis in education, jobs, slowdown in manufacturing, and thereby trading,' points out Shekhar Gupta.
'While Modi is undoubtedly the star of the show, the online sphere has found in Modi the champion to re-engineer what it means to support the right.'
First time in 13 years the company has declined payment of dividend.
Down in the Indian Ocean, cricket turned out to be the great unifier and Archana Masih, only an intermittent fan, became its ambassador of sorts.
Pawan Ruia has finally done it, a beaming Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, then West Bengal chief minister, had said at the reopening of the 70-year-old Sahagunj factory owned by Dunlop in 2005. But with the Calcutta high court passing a winding-up order in 2013 and the Trinamool Congress-led state government passing a Bill to take over the company in 2016, the once-upon-a-time undisputed leader in the Indian tyre industry looks vastly undone. But that can hardly be a deterrent for Ruia, who has a penchant for making headlines one way or the other.
Among key stocks, Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp, L&T, Wipro, ICICI Bank, Dr Reddy's Labs and ICICI Bank, all up between 1%-3%
The Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, which catapulted to power because of the Singur and Nandigram agitations, on Friday decided to withdraw cases filed by previous Left Front regime against activists, including two ministers and a prominent Trinamool Congress MP.
Nissan's affordable hatchback, especially made for India, also has a good drive quality.
Gujarat has topped with a score of 71.14% on ease of doing business list.
Communist Party of India - Marxist Politburo member Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Friday alleged that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party were hand-in-glove and took anti-people decisions in tandem.
Most Asian markets ended with gains.
Hours after taking charge as CM, Mamata had announced returning 400 acres to 'unwilling' land-losers
In the midst of huge job losses as a fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami has signed 17 MoUs for an investment of Rs 15,100 crores that aim to provide 47,100 jobs. But a clearer picture on where the projects stand will emerge only after the Covid-19 induced fear psychosis ends, to see if popular protests will derail them like they have done so many others, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
India Inc is ready to diversify into unchartered areas.
