New Delhi  - Indian auto major Tata Motors plans to shut down its unit in Jamshedpur in eastern India for five days from November 25 due to a slump in sales, news reports said Sunday.

It would be the second time the Jamshedpur plant, the company's main manufacturing facility, is being shut down this month after it was closed for three days starting November 6.

The Tata Motors plant in Pune, in western Maharashtra state, and another plant in Lucknow, capital of northern Uttar Pradesh, have also been shut down for five days each in November, Indian Express newspaper reported.

In October, Tata Motors announced it was reducing its production target by 15 per cent due to slowing demand.

Washington, Nov 5: A US based company is developing a vehicles that would require nothing but air to run on the roads, with Indian carmaker TATA already buying the rights to make the car for the huge Indian market.

According to a report in Environmental News Network (ENN), Zero Pollution Motors is developing a vehicle that can motor around all day on nothing but air and a splash of salad oil, alcohol or possibly a pint of gasoline.

New Delhi - India's Tata Motors announced Friday that it was scrapping plans to manufacture the world's cheapest car, the Nano, in the eastern India state of West Bengal because of continuing protests over farmland acquired for its plant.

Tata group chairman Ratan Tata told reporters in the state capital Kolkata that the company feared for the well-being and safety of its employees.

Singur, Sept 16: Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) is luring displaced farmers with an enhanced rehabilitation package including cash assistance, land and community development plans.

CPI-M state Secretary Biman Bose told in a huge rally at Singur, the controversial site of Tata Motors' 'Nano' small car plant said that those whose land has been acquired but have not taken money would be given 50 per cent extra compensation, in addition to the 10 per cent offered earlier if they accept it by September 22.

Kolkata, Sept 12: With the four-member committee holding a crucial meeting here this afternoon to find a solution to the Singur stalemate, the TATA Motors is still continuing the suspension of work at their Nano car project site.

The State Government is planning to discuss with the Tatas the possibilities of sparing some land from within the project site to break the deadlock.

On Wednesday, the panel had visited the project site to identify land. But the visit proved unproductive.