Eeco, Beat set streets on fire
Feb. 1: Two cars — Maruti Suzuki Eeco and Chevrolet Beat — launched at the Delhi Auto show has set the streets on fire after 20 days of their inception in the market.
Enfield to get dearer
New Delhi, Feb. 1: Bike maker Royal Enfield, a part of Eicher Motors, on Monday said it will increase prices of its models once the new stricter emission norms are implemented.
India’s exports rise by 9.3%
New Delhi, Feb. 1: India’s exports rose for the second month in a row in December after declining for a year as overseas markets have started showing signs of recovery.
Recovery of economy: It’s so near, yet so far
Mumbai, Feb. 1: The worst may be over but we are still not out of trouble. That seems to be the message from the third quarter financial results that have just gotten over.
For Cong, plenty to hate in budget
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1: U.S. President Barack Obama’s budget proposals seem to have given every legislator in Congress a little something to hate. After a first year of epic battles over healthcare, climate change and the economy, Obama has handed Congress another thorny battle with an uncertain fate.
Infra firms get bullish on roads
HYDERABAD, Feb. 1: The ambitious agenda of the transport minister, Mr Kamal Nath, has opened a new avenue of business — BOT road projects — for infrastructure companies. The Central government is planning to spend Rs 3.4 lakh crore to build a 37,050 km road network in the country over the next five years.
Former ONGC chief passes away
New Delhi, Feb. 1: Subir Raha, arguably the most influential former chairman of the government-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, died of lung cancer here on Monday.
Jindal inks deal with Toshiba
CHENNAI, Feb. 1: Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt Ltd, a joint venture between Sajjan Jindal promoted JSW Energy and Japan-based Toshiba Corporation announced the setting up of a plant that would manufacture super-critical steam turbines and generators for thermal power plants in India.
Indian chip industry has a new agenda
Bengaluru, Feb. 1: At the India Semiconductor Association’s (ISA) annual Vision Summit, Mangalorean Ignatius Orwin Noronha was drawing quite a crowd. A strange looking jar-sized device sat on a table that also displayed innumerable posters and certificates. If the device works when it hits the market in three months’ time, Noronha could well be called India’s ‘Mosquito Man’.
ISRO will soon enable sat-calls
Bengaluru, Feb 1: India is building a spacecraft for mobile applications that will enable use of satellite phones without dependence on foreign players, a top space scientist said here today.