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Bharat Forge inks largest domestic contract with Ministry of Defence

Mar 27 2025

Bharat Forge Limited inked the largest domestic contract of 184 indigenously developed Artillery Systems with the Ministry of Defense. This accounts to 60% of the Rs 6900 crore procurement by the MOD. The Advanced T...

Maruti Suzuki begins commercial production at Kharkhoda

Maruti Suzuki begins commercial production at Kharkhoda

Feb 25 2025

Maruti Suzuki India began commercial production at its Kharkhoda facility in Haryana. The foundation stone, for this facility, was laid by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi in August 2022, virtually.

India’s first automobile in-plant railway siding at Suzuki Motor Gujarat

India’s first automobile in-plant railway siding at Suzuki Motor Gujarat

Mar 12 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated India's first automobile in-plant railway siding at Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Maruti Suzuki India Limited (MSIL) via video conferenci...

XLRI Delhi-NCR to set up India’s first dedicated school of automobile design, management

XLRI Delhi-NCR to set up India’s first dedicated school of automobile design, management

Mar 04 2024

Driven by a strong post-pandemic revival, evolving consumer tastes and need for sustainable mobility solutions, India's automotive sector is poised for its next phase of growth. A critical component will be the capa...

Prime Minister reviews India's first indigenous alkaline electrolyser by BPCL

Prime Minister reviews India's first indigenous alkaline electrolyser by BPCL

Feb 06 2024

Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL), a leading player in the energy sector, marked a significant milestone at the India Energy Week 2024 in Goa. Prime Minister Narendra Modi reviewed the operation of the fir...

Beginning of golden period for mobility sector, says PM

Beginning of golden period for mobility sector, says PM

Feb 02 2024

“India is on the move and is moving fast”, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing a programme at India’s largest and first-of-its-kind mobility exhibition - Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2024 at Bharat Man...

Kalyani Group green steel under the brand Kalyani Ferresta

Kalyani Group green steel under the brand Kalyani Ferresta

Dec 20 2022

Saarloha Advanced Materials Private Limited (Saarloha), a Kalyani group company, has launched first of its kind in India, green steel under the brand “Kalyani Ferresta” in the presence of Jyotiraditya Scindia, Union...

PM inaugurates DefExpo22 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat

PM inaugurates DefExpo22 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Oct 19 2022

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi inaugurated the DefExpo22 at Mahatma Mandir Convention and Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

Indian auto industry stares at Rs 48,300 crore loss for 21 days closure of plants

Indian auto industry stares at Rs 48,300 crore loss for 21 days closure of plants

Mar 25 2020

The auto industry will be very adversely impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. The shutting down of plants temporarily by all auto OEMs and component manufacturers across the country will trigger a loss of more t...

1 millionth Maruti Suzuki car exported from Gujarat’s Mundra Port

1 millionth Maruti Suzuki car exported from Gujarat’s Mundra Port

Sep 19 2019

Maruti Suzuki India Limited announced that it has achieved the milestone of one millionth car exports from the Mundra Port in Gujarat. An Oxford Blue colour popular sedan Dzire left for Chile from Mundra. Mundra por...

Cabinet approves Scheme for FAME India Phase II for e-mobility

Cabinet approves Scheme for FAME India Phase II for e-mobility

Feb 28 2019

The Union cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi approved the proposal for implementation of scheme titled 'Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Electric Vehicles in India Phase II (FAME India Phase II)' fo...

ABB showcases the Terra HP fast-charging system

ABB showcases the Terra HP fast-charging system

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For the first time in India, ABB showcased the Terra HP fast-charging system, which can power up a car for 200 km in just a single charge in just 8 minutes. It is ideally suited for highway rest stops and petrol sta...

Cero, India’s first auto shredding facility by Mahindras is ready

Cero, India’s first auto shredding facility by Mahindras is ready

Mar 27 2018

Mahindras will finally be inaugurating its new auto shredding plant in Greater Noida in Delhi NCR in April 2018. The plant built in Greater Noida in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh is India’s maiden organise...

Modi, Japanese PM Abe inaugurate Suzuki lithium ion battery plant

Modi, Japanese PM Abe inaugurate Suzuki lithium ion battery plant

Sep 14 2017

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his counterpart from Japan Shinzo Abe have inaugurated the Suzuki Motor Gujarat Private Limited's vehicle manufacturing facilities and lithium ion battery manufacturing facili...

Govt increases cess on luxury  cars to 25% under new GST regime

Govt increases cess on luxury cars to 25% under new GST regime

Aug 30 2017

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared an ordinance to increase the cess on mid-size, large cars, luxury cars and SUVs from current 15% to 25% under the new GST regime. The cabinet gave it...

GM exit, a planned scam, say protesting GM India dealers

GM exit, a planned scam, say protesting GM India dealers

Jun 27 2017

General Motors India’s decision to stop domestic sales in India is a planned scam, stated several dealers who were protesting along with their employees in New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar area on June 27, 2017. General Mo...

Suzuki, Toshiba, Denso to invest Rs 1185 crore in Li-ION battery plant in India

Suzuki, Toshiba, Denso to invest Rs 1185 crore in Li-ION battery plant in India

Apr 14 2017

While Tesla, the US based electric car maker which has its own lithium ion battery plant, is still to decide its India entry despite an open invitation from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japan’s Suzuki Motor...

Cabinet approves Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016

Cabinet approves Motor Vehicle (Amendment) Bill 2016

Aug 03 2016

The important provisions include increase in compensation for Hit & Run cases from Rs. 25000 to Rs. 2 lakhs. It also has provision for payment of compensation upto Rs 10 lakh in road accidents fatalities.

Interview with Arvind Balaji, President, ACMA

Interview with Arvind Balaji, President, ACMA

Feb 18 2016

Prime Minister Narendra Modi talked about “Make in India” and we took that message very deeply. For our industry we translated that as Make Quality and Technology in India.

GREEN DAY: Geete takes his new Mahindra electric car to Parliament

GREEN DAY: Geete takes his new Mahindra electric car to Parliament

Dec 22 2015

Members of Parliament have in the past travelled to the august House on their cycles, scooters, auto rickshaws, horse carts, fancy cars and what not to grab the attention of the media. But for the first time, a Mini...

Dharmesh Arora - President & CEO,  Schaeffler India

Dharmesh Arora - President & CEO, Schaeffler India

Nov 03 2015

Pankaj Kapoor - Deputy Managing Director, Tenneco Automotive India Pvt Ltd

Pankaj Kapoor - Deputy Managing Director, Tenneco Automotive India Pvt Ltd

Oct 25 2015

Pankaj Kapoor, Deputy Managing Director, Tenneco Automotive India Pvt Ltd in an interview with P.Tharyan, Editor, Motown India, notes that Make ...

Rohit Saboo - President & CEO, National Engineering Industries

Rohit Saboo - President & CEO, National Engineering Industries

Oct 25 2015

Rohit Saboo, President & CEO, National Engineering Industries says in an interview with P.Tharyan, Motown India that <...

German Chancellor Merkel, Modi visit Bosch facilities in Bangalore

German Chancellor Merkel, Modi visit Bosch facilities in Bangalore

Oct 06 2015

On October 6, 2015, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the facilities of Bosch in Bangalore. The visit is part of the chancellor’s three-day state visit to India,...

Toyota Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada meets PM Modi

Toyota Chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada meets PM Modi

Sep 02 2015

Takeshi Uchiyamada, Chairman of the Board, Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discussed the growing Indo-Japanese bilateral ties as well as the company's plans to grow wi...

Interview with Anders Grundstromer, MD, Scania Commercial Vehicles India & Sr. VP, Scania Group

Interview with Anders Grundstromer, MD, Scania Commercial Vehicles India & Sr. VP, Scania Group

Aug 25 2015

Scania India a capacity of 2500 trucks and 1000 buses. We have to double that by 2017-18. We need that by then. As soon as we reach a peak in India which I hope will not take many years, then we hope to export also.

General Motors to make fresh investment of US $1 billion in India

General Motors to make fresh investment of US $1 billion in India

Jul 29 2015

In a major announcement by General Motors in India that is bound to have far reaching implications on the fortunes and growth of the company in the country, the US based auto giant has confirmed that it will make US...

Dr Pawan Goenka is envoy of Foreign Investment Promotion for Korea

Dr Pawan Goenka is envoy of Foreign Investment Promotion for Korea

May 22 2015

Dr Pawan Goenka, Executive Director, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd., was appointed Honorary Ambassador of Foreign Investment Promotion for Korea at a special ceremony which was held in Mumbai. He was conferred with this t...

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Mong-Koo Chung meets Modi

Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Mong-Koo Chung meets Modi

May 19 2015

Hyundai Motor Group’s Chairman Mong-Koo Chung met with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to exchange ideas on Korea-India’s auto industry’s cooperation and mutual development. This was stated in a press release i...

Interview with Sandeep Balooja, Vice President, ACMA

Interview with Sandeep Balooja, Vice President, ACMA

Mar 29 2015

Interview with Sandeep Balooja, Vice President, Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India / Member-Anand Management Committee/ Executive Chairman- Mando

Over 215 research papers to be presented at Pune auto tech meet

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Over 215 research papers are expected to be presented at the 14th Symposium on International Automotive Technology (SIAT) to be held at the ARAI campus in Pune in the state of Maharashtra from January 21 to 24, 201...

Govt would invest heavily in road transport system

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Sounding extremely optimistic about the Indian automobile industry, Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, stated that the Indian auto industry has the ability to convert the various challenge...

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