Founded in 2015, Meesho is one of the country's fastest growing social commerce platforms, and provides small and independent entrepreneurs with products and tools to start, maintain, and grow their businesses. Facebook's interest in the digital commerce follows Reliance Industries' entry into the hybrid e-commerce ecosystem.
Ashish Narsale/Rediff.com offers a quick checklist of the best of CES's Auto World. The future is here, you will witness self driven cars to flying cars controlled by AI. We bring you the highlight of the CES auto world.
Studies suggest net benefits of hydro-power, nuclear energy or natural gas as sources of electricity are greater than those of wind and solar.
The company has signed deals Mint and digital television network Ping.
From high-performance cars and customised bikes to accessories and in-car entertainment technology, the Autocar Performance Show 2014 held in Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex turned out to be paradise for car lovers.
India will next Monday sign a key safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency to allow supply of atomic fuel and technology to the country moving a step closer to operationalising its international civil nuclear cooperation after the 34-year-old nuke trade embargo was lifted.
Future strategy will not just revolve around EVs: Maruti Suzuki's Ayukawa. Maruti Suzuki's MD&CEO says electric vehicles cannot be a solution outside the cities.
Deccan Engineering Enterprises (DEE) , a specialty automobile body-building unit based at Hyderabad, is now looking to specialise in bullet proofing vehicles.
After much speculations and wait, Honda has finally launched its highly awaited CB Hornet in India. With the starting price of Rs 79,900 (ex-showroom, Delhi), the bike is available in two variants -- the standard variant with a single disc and Dual Discs with CBS.
With IndiGo executing its long haul low-cost plans the airline will certainly need a lot of cash going forward.
Tata Motors' passenger vehicle sales stood at 229,325 units in the last financial year, registering a market share of just 8.9 per cent.
The innovations would make travelling by planes, trains or automobiles a more convenient and hassle-free experience within the next few years, a company release said. It would also curtail fuels wastage and incidence of accidents.
The small car would be produced from the company's Gurgaon plant along with other two small cars- A-Star and Ritz which also have the KB-series engine, sources added. Riding on the success of the new fuel-efficient technology, MSI planned to bring the KB-series engines in other existing as well as new models. It had set a target to gradually introduce this next generation light-weight fuel efficient engine series on other models over a period of next 3-5 years.
'There are 25 million farmers in India with at least 2 to 3 cows each.' 'If all them use biogas to cook, millions of LPG units and firewood can be saved.'
The company's revenue fell to Rs 67,470 crore (Rs 674.7 billion).
Maruti, which is majority owned by Suzuki Motors of Japan, pays massive tax, generates huge employment (its staff are almost entirely Indians) and also makes its investors extremely rich. JLR, on the other hand, though owned by Tata has its factories in England and China and in every way (sales, employment, technology) has nothing Indian about it.
In perhaps what could be his valedictory address before he departs from Washington when his terms expires on March 31, the Indian ambassador to United States, Ronen Sen--a key protagonist of the US-India civilian nuclear agreement--said the consummation of the deal freed India from "an albatross around our necks," in the form of nuclear technology and fuel isolation that worsened after India's May 1998 Pokhran nuclear tests.
Bajaj Auto, the country's second-biggest maker of two-wheelers, says it will use its famed digital twin-spark plug technology in its compact car, due for launch in 2011.
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India Meteorological Department has predicted deficient rains.
For Hero MotoCorp, India's largest two-wheeler company, it's a calculated gambit to revive Harley-Davidson whose ride in India has been anything but easy since it got here.When automotive firms embark on alliances, it's a roll of the dice on how such marriages will play out.
Indian automobile website MotorBeam brings to you 10 performance bikes that excited and captivated the enthusiasts with their seductive looks and impressive power.
Buses that run on battery, trucks that purr on LNG, and more from the stables of Tata Motors, Mahindras and Ashok Leyland. The Auto Expo 2018 had these and more.
Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Wednesday launched an updated variant of its entry level hatchback Alto 800 priced between Rs 2.55 lakh and Rs 3.76 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi).
The report published by an English daily said the promoters wanted to sell their entire stake as they were unhappy over the manner in which the company was being run.
The company also maintains that its original equipment (OEM) partners such as Taiwan-based Asustek Computer, HTC, HCL, Gigabyte and Palm, will start rolling out cheaper internet-enabled notebooks and handsets at prices that will drive mass adoption in emerging markets.
Chinese automakers Great Wall Motors, FAW Haima Automobile, and Changan Automobile, after dithering about entering India for some years, have been encouraged by the robust sales performance of the late entrants Kia Motors and MG Motors even in a slowing market.
Working round-the-clock over the past few days, an Indian Institute of Science team is buildingan indigenous ventilator prototype for Covid-19 victims, and it is expected to be ready in the current month itself. A ventilator can be a life-saver for patients whose lungs are damaged by the Covid-19 infection. But India, like all countries grappling with this pandemic, is likely to face a large shortage of ventilators.
Noting that the India-specific fighter on offer and its programme's size, scope and success will enable Indian industry to take advantage of unprecedented manufacturing, upgrade and sustainment opportunities well into the future, Lall said the platform will give Indian industry a unique opportunity to become a part of the world's largest fighter aircraft ecosystem.
Son's offer to supply free power after 25 years is based on the idea that the cost of running a solar plant would progressively decline while its efficiency would increase.
'It is a gradual process of saying we want to have all the decisions across business sectors available in India as well.'
Minister of State in the PMO Prithviraj Chavan said India needed to have international cooperation to acquire uranium technology and fuel which is insufficient in the country. Noting that all countries in the world had uranium-based nuclear programmes, he said that India is deficient in the fuel and whatever reserves existed would be exhausted after some time. He allayed the impression that the government was not exploiting thorium, which is available in sufficient quantity.
Based on the Skytrax ranking for 2018, IndiGo is number two among the best low-cost carriers in Asia, behind rival AirAsia.
The prime minister's visit to Washington should focus more on shopping for energy security and stopping the US from snooping on us, reigning in its popular and innocuously operated instruments to gather intelligence like Google, says Tarun Vijay.
Indian companies led by Anil Ambani's Reliance Power (RPower), Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) plan to invest over Rs 100,000 crore in the next five years to expand their presence in the nuclear energy sector after the country signs the nuclear agreement with the US, paving the way for import of fuel and transfer of technology.
'If Indians are as smart as their counterparts in university, and have equal opportunity, then what is the reason that we cannot produce inventions of quality that are recognised by the world?'
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The leaders of the world's wealthiest economies did not come up with any tangible solutions to solve the problem other than suggesting an increase in the production and refining capacities in the short term.
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