Japanese small car major Suzuki launched new model in Paris on October 2, 2008. It is the fifth global model of the company.

Its new small car A star is expected to come in the market by the end of this month. The company ranked the new model just below the popular Suzuki Swift model of the company.

The Executives of the Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) are in Bangalore for a week to meet possible partners for doing their IT work. This step of out-sourcing has been taken by the HBOS to cut-down on its expenditure. However, a leading newspaper reveals that the trip of 11 Executives has cost the company 45,000 pounds. 

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.

New Delhi, Oct 3 : Wife of the captain of the ship hijacked by armed Somalian pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday sought intervention of Central government in rescuing the 18 Indian crew members on board the hijacked ship.

Seema Goyal, wife of Prabhat Goyal, captain of hijacked ship MT Stolt Valor, ran from pillar to post trying to meet different ministers over past two days to seek their assistance in resolving the crisis.

New Delhi, Oct 3 : The Union Cabinet on Friday gave its approval for revising the income criteria for “creamy layer” from the present Rs. 2.5 lakhs per annum to Rs. 4.5 lakhs per annum.

The revision of income criteria was done to exclude socially advanced persons or sections (creamy layer) from the list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs)

This action of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government gains momentum in the wake of upcoming elections in various States later this year.