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Running hard with an aim of getting its share out of lucrative Indian automobile market, Volkswagen may soon launch the crossover sports utility vehicle called Rocktan soon in the domestic circuit.

In fact, sources also state that the company is also looking at launching a product based on the SX4 platform after acquiring a 19% stake in Suzuki Motor Corporation.

They found a lower rate of prostate cancer among people with diabetes, German, Swedish and U. S. researchers have said.

The researchers could only speculate about the causes, Study leader Kari Hemminki at Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in Heidelberg said.

Hemminki said in a statement, "Possibly, a lower level of male sex hormones in diabetics may be among the factors that are responsible for this."

FIFA world cup this June in South Africa may well prove as a turning point for the IT major Mahindra Satyam. Notably, it may prove as a chance that the company has been waiting since its takeover of Satyam Computer services after its Founder Ramalinga Raju made the financial frauds public.

It may be noted here that around 2.3 lakh people involved across the functions of ticketing, accreditation, transport, materials management and overall event management will be using the software developed by a team of 160 engineers working at the company.

Arsenic in playground structures may be nothing to worry about, Canadian researchers have said.

Their findings did not support a popular idea that playing on chromated copper arsenate-treated wood playground structures was a threat to children's health, University of Alberta researchers have said.

After facing several rounds of price hikes from various automotive companies, it is now the turn of state government to make the car purchasing affair even more costly for the consumer.

The Consumers will have to pay at least Rs 5,000 more to buy a car and up to Rs 2,000 for purchasing a two-wheeler in the National Capital after the state government has announced its decision of raising road tax on the vehicles.

Reducing the niacin added to many fortified foods may help prevent obesity, researchers in China have suggested.

It has been reported that the researchers at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Medical College, Dalian University in China looked at oral glucose tolerance tests with and without nicotinamide, a water-soluble vitamin and part of the vitamin B group, in the same five healthy subjects.