'When there are no good roads and no buses plying to villages, your spending on development is skewed.'
Security forces tightened their cordon around a forest area in the higher reaches of Doda district on Tuesday evening following an encounter with hiding terrorists, officials said.
According to the plan, Volvo will buy used tippers, which are used in mining and construction, from its customers at an agreed price and refurbish them internally and externally, before reselling them to a new buyer with a six-month warranty.
The paramilitary Rangers, which were called in to maintain law and order in the disputed region, came under attack while moving out of the region, the Dawn newspaper reported.
RusPromAvto, Russia's automobile corporation, is to begin assembly of heavy-duty cross-country 'Ural' trucks in India from next month.
Appealing people not to celebrate Independence Day, Naxals torched six trucks in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada district.
Singh, the joint secretary heading the division for Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran in the ministry of external affairs, held talks with Taliban's foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi on Thursday.
A 62-year-old farmer, who was part of the 'Delhi Chalo' agitation, died of heart attack in Khanauri on the Punjab-Haryana border, a farmer leader said on Friday.
For the first time in seven months, trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops crossed from Pakistan to Afghanistan on Thursday after authorities in Islamabad lifted a blockade of the vital routes ending a bitter standoff with the United States.
Former India pacer Praveen Kumar and his son had a narrow escape when his SUV collided with a trailer truck
Kamal Haasan is right where he left off from the first film but there is only so much he can do to salvage an already lost cause, observes Arjun Menon.
Pakistan is about to resume normal arrangement of trucks with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation supplies passing through its territory, the country's top diplomat in Islamabad has said, amidst reports that Pakistan officials for the first time in six months have allowed four trucks to go to Afghanistan.
'What's sad today is that there are so many people who cannot find work, not because the country is devoid of that opportunity, but because we are not doing enough in the country.'
Tata Motors' commercial vehicles segment, which contributes more than half of the company's stand-alone profits and is the biggest truck maker in the country, on Monday said it has seen a slight revival in demand for heavy trucks and hopes for the trend to continue in the festive period.
The Mumbai-based firm has lost almost 10 percentage points in market share since 2009-10, even as other brands have fought hard to wrest share away.
Former BCCI chief curator Daljit Singh is shocked by the "poor quality" of drop-in pitches being used for the T20 World Cup games in New York
Contradicting Army Chief General V K Singh, Defence Research and Development Organisation chief V K Saraswat on Saturday said Tatra trucks were "outstanding" and there was nothing substandard about the vehicles used as base for launching all important missiles like Prithvi and Agni.
The Indian crew onboard a crippled container vessel that collided against a key bridge in Baltimore last week is healthy , according to a nonprofit organisation that has been in touch with the personnel.
Five army personnel were killed and six injured on Monday when terrorists ambushed their vehicle in the remote Machedi area of Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district, officials said.
Violence erupted in south Kashmir's Anantnag town after an army truck crushed a youth on Saturday afternoon. Angry mobs took to the streets after a passing army truck ran over a youth identified as Mohammad Yasir Wani, 24, in the Anchidoora area of Anantnag town. The mobs roughed up the truck driver and a soldier and torched the vehicle.
In May 2005, Tata Motors had launched the Ace, a small truck of 0.75 tonne. The company had studied the market for three-wheeler goods carriers for a while and had concluded that small transporters were ready to switch to a mini truck.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the attack was linked to terror.
At least 14 people were killed and around 25 injured when a speeding Gonda-Ayodhya passenger train rammed into a truck at an unmanned level crossing in Gonda on Sunday afternoon.
An insurance company is liable to pay compensation to the accident victim's kin even if the driving licence of the offending vehicle's driver has expired and not renewed, as an expired licence would not make him an unskilled driver, the Bombay high court has said.
Commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland, part of the London-based Hinduja Group, is to enter Britain's mid-range truck market through a tie-up by its Prague-based subsidiary, Avia Ashok Leyland.
On how long the crew would have to stay on board the ship, the spokesperson said, "At this time, we do not know how long the investigation process will take and until that process is complete, the crew will remain on board."
Meet IAF Veteran Bhopinder Singh Saini from the Viro ke Vir Indian Party.
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, who passed away on Friday, was an inspiration in more ways than one for Derek Trucks, a rock guitar phenomenon with a growing, global fan following."When I heard the news [of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan's death], it was like losing Ray Charles, or John Coltrane, or Charlie Parker," Trucks said.
Truck tracking solutions and services provider truckkhoj.com on Tuesday said it would expand its physical network across the country by this year end to improve its service of tracking vehicle movement.
The government has given clear instructions to the state governments to take necessary steps to ensure smooth transportation of essential commodities. "If the situation demands, the law of the land will prevail. The law of the land says the permit of truck operators could be revoked if the situation demands. The government is committed to provide full support to the state governments," said Brahm Dutt, secretary, ministry of road transport and highways.
Swedish auto major Volvo on Wednesday said it has shipped 150 heavy duty trucks, built at its India plant, to Korea in the last six months.
India's largest auto maker Tata Motors on Tuesday said it will set up in Myanmar a heavy truck manufacturing facility with a capacity of 1,500 units per annum.
Six vehicles, including three trucks carrying food grain, were torched by Maoists in Naxal-affected Palamu district on Thursday.
The cement plants at Barmana (Bilaspur district) and Darlaghat (Solan district) had closed operations on December 14 due to the dispute between the company and truckers engaged in the carriage of cement and clinkers. According to a government statement, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said, "We have arrived at consensus, thereby protecting the interests of both the truck-operator unions and the management, besides welfare of all others who were being directly or indirectly hit by the stalemate."
Detailed order, to be passed on Monday, will consider green tribunal's decisions
Tata Motors is India's largest automobile company, with consolidated revenues of Rs 1,65,654 crore (Rs 1.65 trillion)
As an outrage over transporting the bodies of four slain policemen in a garbage truck erupted, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh on Wednesday claimed the truck was 'clean' and that no disrespect was shown to them.
Their agitation will begin next week and continue till the central and Assam governments give an assurance that they would not be targeted.
