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Foxconn plans EV manufacturing unit in India

Foxconn plans EV manufacturing unit in India

Foxconn is planning to setup an electric vehicle manufacturing unit in India.

Indian electric scooter-maker Ather Energy planning to treble capacity by end of FY2023

Indian electric scooter-maker Ather Energy planning to treble capacity by end of FY2023

Indian electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer Ather Energy has announced plans to increase its annual production capacity to three times of its current capacity within two years if the trend of rising

Four killed in bizarre train accident in southern India

TAMILNADUNew Delhi - Four people were killed and 11 injured Wednesday in a bizarre train accident in southern India when unknown persons drove an empty train out of a station leading to a collision with a goods train, officials said. "The empty rake which was waiting at a suburban terminal near Chennai was removed by some unauthorized miscreants onto the sector track and it collided with a goods train coming from the opposite direction," Southern Railways chief public relations officer Meenu Ittyerah said.

The accident took place at the Vyasarpadi Jeeva station in the north-western suburbs of Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu state.

Tamil Nadu Newsprint to spend Rs 1000 crore on Capacity Expansion

Tamil Nadu Newsprint to spend Rs 1000 crore on Capacity ExpansionTamil Nadu Newsprint and Papers Ltd, the leading manufacturer of printing and writing papers and newsprint in India, has plans to spend Rs 1000 crore on capacity expansion.

Through the latest decision, the company intends to tap 12-13% market share of the printing and writing paper segment, by 2011-12.

Jayalalithaa attacks Congress for calling her anti-national on Ealam demands

Jayalalithaa attacks Congress for calling her anti-national on Ealam demandsChennai, Apr. 27 : The Congress party was on Monday attacked by All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) Chief Jayalalithaa for dubbing Eelam demands as `anti-national'.

"I am a patriot, why are my credentials being questioned?" she said.

Jayalalithaa claimed that her demand on Eelam was based on the humantarian crisis of trapped Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka and she was not demanding a separate nation being carved out of India.

Lankan crisis likely to end in 24-48 hrs: Chidambaram

Lankan crisis likely to end in 24-48 hrs: ChidambaramSivaganga (Tamil Nadu), Apr 26 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has expressed hope that the ongoing Sri Lanka crisis would come to an end "in another 24 or 48 hours".

Talking to reporters in Sivaganga last night, Chidambaram said Foreign Secretary Shivasankar Menon and National Security Advisor M. K. Narayanan, who met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday in Colombo, had made a strict demand to stop the hostilities.

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