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The Hindu’s Editor-in-Chief has been given clean chit by the Madras High Court. During a telephonic interview, Hindu’s Editor-in-Chief Ram said, “We are happy about the order that vindicates our position”.

Ram has been in news since May when he moved to Madras high court against CLB. CLB is a part-judicial body which acts as an umpire in corporate disputes. On 20th May, the CLB asked The Hindu to change its tradition of posting family members to the editorial post. The dispute was actually raised between the two groups of the board of The Hindu’s publishers Kasturi and Sons Ltd and Ram.

In a recent development, it was revealed that the Indian Rupee has gained a few points in comparison with the euro. The rupee gained its highest in two months and this has happened due to inflow of the dollars. The euro has also been stable for a while now and this is the reason for the recent gain.

The final position of the rupee was 44.5825/5925 in comparison with Dollar. The highest it reached was about 44.5175, and this is the strongest record since last recorded in May.

After the Pollution Board Notice that has revealed the functioning of the power station, there is trouble smelling everywhere. The Talcher Super Thermal Power Station, from Kaniha is brewing something fishy again.

They have been issued a show cause, and there has been a detailed explanation demanded on why the levels of emissions of their suspended particle matter has exceeded the limits.

The crux behind the matter is that it was found out that the TSTPS electrostatic reactors are not functioning to their best levels and this is perhaps the reason they are emitting high levels of emissions. This can be very harmful for the environment.

What if India was earlier not affluent enough, with a very small car market and may be for that matter, it had never been a preferred destination for the top car manufacturers in the world but for now the things seem to have changed for so called developing country, India. The great Indian auto industry has developed manifold, with it to have stunned the world by becoming one of the world’s fastest growing auto industry today.

A highly improved version of the German car manufacturer, Volkswagen’s Touareg SUV was recently seen in Pune. Volkswagen has announced to introduce the improved version of Passat and Jetta by September this year and that of Touareg SUV soon after.

Experts have predicted that the Volkswagen Touareg SUV will be high in performance and powerful in appearance. The new Touareg will have the same V6 TDI diesel engine which will produce 240 bhp and 550 Nm torque but improvements will be seen in fuel consumption and emissions reducing BlueMotion technology. Another attractive feature of the machine will be an eight speed transmission that will save fuel.

GSAT-12, a 1,410kg India’s communications satellite will be launched on July 12. The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) engineers are preparing the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17) at Sriharikota Space Centre so that it can carry GSAT-12. Finally, the long wait of 9 years is about to be over for the researchers.