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Chandigarh, Sept 17 (ANI): In a bid to provide quick, hassle free and reasonably charged mode of transportation, a dial-an-auto service equipped with GPS navigation system has been launched for the first time in Chandigarh.

The neat and clean pink coloured motor rickshaws, known as Tuk Tuk, are changing the way people travel in the city.

The [...]

Patna, Sep 14 (ANI): Unidentified persons in Patna kidnapped an eight-year-old boy at gunpoint in Patna on Monday at 7.30 am.hreyas Srivastava, is a standard one student at Christ church school in Kankarbagh area.

According to the police, the incident occurred early morning when Shreyas Srivastava was going to school along with [...]

Mumbai, Sep 7 (ANI): The Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) touched a 52-week high of 4743.75 on Monday following early trends of good purchasing in all Asian markets.

Earlier, during the intra-day the Nifty registered the high of 4737.20 and low of 4679.30.

Indian markets were well-poised Monday taking cues from the positive global [...]

Mumbai, Sep 1 (ANI): Tata Motors, India’s largest vehicle maker have posted a consolidated loss for its fiscal first quarter, but remained confident about the prospects of its loss-making Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) unit.

This was disclosed by the C Ramakrishnan, Chief Financial Officer at a press conference that was also addressed [...]

New Delhi, July 8 (ANI/Business Wire India): Volkswagen India today announced the appointment of Volkswagen Delhi West as its third authorized dealer in New Delhi and NCR region.

The announcement came at a time when the company is witnessing an upsurge in demand from across the country and its plant at Chakan, Pune is ready for [...]

London, July 8 (ANI): Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo is putting three of his luxury cars up for sale for 195,000 pounds.

According to The Sun, his close friends also believe that he plans to sell his four million pound mansion in Cheshire.

First up for grabs are his Bentley Continental GT Speed (114,950 pounds), Porsche 911 Carrera [...]

New York, June 20 (ANI): US President Barack Obama sent the crowd into stitches with his jokes at the 65th Annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association Dinner.

The popular leader made other politicians, the economy, health care reform, his own White House team and other problems facing the nation the butt of his jokes during the [...]

Mumbai, May 29 (ANI): Tata Motors, India’s leading manufacturer of both heavy and light automobiles, launched a new line of trucks, named ‘World Truck’ here on Thursday.

The launching of the new series of trucks also marked the company’s objective to bring international standard top quality trucks in the Indian market.

The range, which comprises of [...]

London, May 25 (ANI): A poll conducted in Britain has revealed that 12 per cent of drivers use their cars as “love-mobiles” to indulge in passion with their partners.

Carried out by Auto Trader, the survey on bad driving habits involved responses from over 2,700 motorists nationwide.

Matt Thompson, marketing director of Auto Trader, says 41 [...]

Ludihana, May 13 (ANI): A group of engineering students in Ludhiana has developed an eco-friendly motorbike which runs on air-pressure and doesn’t require fuel.
The 100cc bike equipped with two compressed air cylinders, gives a mileage of 11 miles per hour, which the students have plans to increase with some changes in near future.

Students of Auto [...]

Washington, May 6 (ANI): Despite Democrat politician and former presidential candidate John Edwards’ denials that he fathered a baby with his onetime mistress, Rielle Hunter, his betrayed wife Elizabeth said she has “no idea” whether he is a new dad.

In an exclusive interview set to air Thursday, Oprah Winfrey asks Elizabeth Edwards about rampant speculation [...]

Tokyo – Tokyo stocks lost more than 2 per cent to close Tuesday trading on fears of swine flu and concerns over the US economy. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 232.57 points, or 2.67 per cent, to close at 8,493.77.
The broader Topix index of all first-section issues was also down 21.11 points, or [...]

Washington – Reports that General Motors might kill off its muscled Pontiac line – Firebird, Grand Prix and Bonneville – pushed GM to nix the idea on Friday, at least for now.
GM is already working to shake off Hummer, Saab and Saturn as part of its belt-tightening ahead of the crucial June 1 deadline, [...]

Berlin – The German government has demanded that potential Opel investors preserve jobs and factories in Germany, the German daily Bild reported. “Every investor must strengthen Germany,” Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefensee said in an interview to be published Sunday. “Anyone who wants to close plants and cut jobs is not a suitable Opel partner,” Tiefensee [...]

Washington, Apr.30 (ANI): Socialising and partying in official Washington has undergone a change in the last decade and a half.

Washington doesn’t demand or even want a sit-down dinner with an evening port.

According to Politico, partygoers tend to prefer more-breezy, fly-in, fly-out casual events, like birthday parties for A-list reporters and staffers.

Faced with [...]

Superb fusion of “music, style, design, and exclusive features,” the GM200 and the KM335 are the two new phones that LG has recently launched in the Indian market. The LG GM200 and the LG KM335 are the music centric phones offering unique and unexampled audio experience.
Let’s start with the LG GM200, the first Dolby Mobile [...]

Citing the rather poor performance of the Indian heavy truck segment, the Hero Group has decided to pull out of its joint venture with Daimler! With the Hero Group quitting the collaboration for making commercial vehicles in India, Daimler will buy back Hero’s 40 percent stake – worth 16 million euros – in Daimler Hero [...]

Berlin – European car sales fell 17.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2009, data released Thursday showed, as the crisis in the global auto industry deepened.
The Brussels-based European car makers’ industry association (ACEA) said the slump during the first three months of the year came in the wake of a 9-per-cent fall in [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Steven Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration’s auto task force, was one of the investment-firm executives involved with payments now under scrutiny in a state and federal investigation into an alleged kickback scheme at New York state’s pension fund, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A “senior executive” of Rattner’s firm, Quadrangle [...]

NEW YORK, April 16 (Reuters) – Steven Rattner, the leader of the Obama administration’s auto task force, was one of the investment-firm executives involved with payments now under scrutiny in a state and federal investigation into an alleged kickback scheme at New York state’s pension fund, The Wall Street Journal reported.
A “senior executive” of [...]