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Glasgow GP Margaret McCartney is reported to have stated that the recommended drinking of 8 glasses of water a day, is ‘thoroughly a debunk of nonsense’, as there are presently no detailed evidence to prove there are benefits from drinking water.

Also, the NHS is said to be one of the supporters of the 8 glasses of water recommendation, as their Choices websites is said to state: “Try to drink about 6 to 8 glasses of water a day to prevent dehydration”.

Eicher Motors announced that, Chief Minister Jayalalitaa have officially allotted them 50-acreland for construction plant for its two-wheeler division, Royal Enfield, at the Oragadam SIPCOT Industrial Park, near Chennai and they are expecting that within 5 years this plant will earn them a profit of Rs 350 crores.

Eicher Motors, Managing Director and CEO Siddhartha Lal adds, " By the first quarter of 2013 , the plant will get ready and the new facility will have an initial installed capacity of 1.5 lakh units per annum, which could be expanded, depending upon demand”.

Maruti Suzuki India Pvt. Ltd (MSIL) is known as India’s best selling cars and now with the launch of new Swift kept in August 2011 they have raised their bar. Owing to heavy demand the booking of Maruti cars is on the waiting list since 2005.

This new model would be in stiff competition with Toyota’s Liva and Honda’s Brio.

Essar Oil Company has registered 3% growth with net profit of Rs 4.69 billion besides to the loss it incurred in last year of 0.7 billion. This recorded growth was for the first quarter of the financial year 2011-2012.

The officials of the company informed that the company’s refinery expansion would be complete by September 2011. They also informed that they would heave $1.5 billion (around 6000 crore) in foreign currency instead of Indian rupee for their ongoing projects.

Sales growth in passengers’ vehicle in India is the highest in the world. The information came in lime light when the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (Siam) presented the data for the June quarter in which the recorded growth of India was 18.2%.

After India, other countries which registered positive growth were -America with 14.4%, Germany with 14.3% and China with 11%.China’s position has dropped drastically as compared to last year as China was former topper.

India's industrial production declined in previous month and fell below the pace of 6.3%. The main reason behind the decline was slow growth in the manufacturing sector. The index of industrial production (IIP) rose 8.5% in May 2010. Manufacturing sector constitutes about 80% of the IIP and it increased at a rate of 5.6% in May as compared to 8.9% last year. These figures were revealed by the ministry of statistics and programme implementation.