MUMBAI: India's biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki will continue to operate at the troubled Manesar factory, and will build its third plant At the site by the middle of next year, The Economic Times newspaper reported on Saturday, quoting Managing Director Shinzo Nakanishi.

Maruti Suzuki stopped production at the factory on Wednesday after workers attacked managers at the plant and set fire to company property. It faces a shutdown that could last several weeks or more.

The ...

BRATISLAVA - Slovakia’s auto sector is speeding into high gear despite eurozone’s hard times, making it the world’s top per-capita carmaker and fuelling the best growth in the crisis-struck 17-nation currency bloc.

While leading French auto-maker PSA Peugeot Citroen recently announced it was shutting a plant and slashing 8,000 jobs at home, the company’s Slovak branch has hired 900 new workers. A eurozone member since 2009, Slovakia is home to three spr ...

KARACHI -The Transport and Communication Department of KMC would constitute a mobile checking team to find out the causes for traffic accidents on roads.The step is being taken on the directives of Administrator Karachi Muhammad Hussain Syed. This was stated by Senior Director Transport and Communication Muhammad Ather while addressing as chief guest in a seminar held by City Institute of Image Management on the subject of “Traffic Management during Ramazan for City Wardens” ...

FRANKFURT: Volkswagen AG unit Audi AG aims to become the world's largest maker of premium cars no later than 2020, Audi Chief Executive Rupert Stadler was quoted telling Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published on Saturday.

Asked when Audi expected to become the number one and overtake BMW as the world's largest luxury carmaker, Stadler was quoted saying: "By 2020 at the latest. It is not about overtaking BMW tomorrow or the day after, but to seize and secure the top ...

LONDON: Rolls-Royce said on Monday that it had won an important contract to service helicopter engines for the US army.

"Rolls-Royce has received a contract valued at $183 million (149 million euros) to service M250 engines, which power the US Army's fleet of OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout helicopters," it said in an official statement.

The London-listed group added that the contract, to support 500 M250 engines on more than 300 aircraft, would begin in July 2012 fo ...

LAHORE: Changes in current policy governing the motorcycle industry – following the Board of Investment’s initiatives to incentivise a Japanese motorcycle manufacturer’s re-entry in the Pakistani market at zero rates – have purportedly shaken the confidence of investors and local manufacturers.

Stakeholders say the sector had progressed tremendously due to consistent policymaking on part of the government, but the new policy has threatened their &nda ...

ISLAMABAD - Traffic problems in the twin cities have aggravated due to the negligence of concerned authorities, which pay no heed to address the traffic related issues.

According to details, during last few years, number of vehicles plying on different roads of the federal capital has significantly increased resulting into traffic problems. The situation speaks volumes about the traffic management of the authorities.

Hundred of commuters who come from Rawalpindi to ac ...

KARACHI, July 17: Eighteen new Suzuki pickups given to Karachi under the Prime Minister’s programme for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis have been gathering dust in the open on a government hospital premises for over 10 months, it emerged on Tuesday.

Some of the vehicles delivered to the Karachi Municipal Corporation in 2011 were also used for some internal spray during the last dengue epidemic peak months in the city, while the authorities concerned are largely indecis ...

ISLAMABAD  - The Islamabad capital administration has imposed a ban under Section 144 on setting up car showrooms on public parkings in G-8 and G-9 Markaz of the federal capital. Assistant Commissioner Industrial Area, Imran Ali Sultan has issued formal notification of the ban, which would last for two months. It was stated in the notification that showroom owners have been using public parking for establishing car showrooms., which is permanent security risk besides creating probl ...

RAWALPINDI  - Rawalpindi Police has decided to speed up trackers installation in all its vehicles meant for operational duties to ensure monitoring of performance and accountability of police in the province. IG Punjab has given clear directives to ensure optimum security measures in this regard. The computers installed at police line will make sure and monitor the position of vehicles.On the other hand, additional police force has been deployed and for proper monitoring of the sys ...