General Motors operations in India still on track

October 2nd, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist rebels on Tuesday blew up a railway track between the Dania and the Jogeshwar railway stations under Dhanbad Division of East Central Railway in Jharkhand. The powerful explosion damaged about one-metre of the track, which led to disruption of rail traffic for over 11 hours.

July 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - With 65 bikers from across the country, the All India Monsoon Dirt Track Race Championship began in Indore on Saturday. The championship has been jointly organised by Extreme Bikers Club and Indore Bikers Association.

July 10th, 2009 DETROIT — The new General Motors will be far faster and more responsive to customers than the old one, and it will make money and repay government loans faster than required, CEO Fritz Henderson said Friday as the company emerged from bankruptcy protection. Henderson said the automaker completed its 40-day stay under court supervision far faster than anyone thought it could, saying it would repay about $50 billion in government loans ahead of a 2015 deadline.

July 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel on Tuesday said that a major revamp of Air India's top management would be carried out in 30 days and it would start low-cost domestic operations in a bid to turn around cash-strapped Air India in the next two years. According to sources, the entire top management of Air India, which is under a loan liability of Rs 15,000 crore, would be recast in the next 30 days.

May 31st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Although the composite dialogue process between India and Pakistan has come to a halt, "track-two diplomacy" is being revived, with an important Indian delegation expected to visit Islamabad next week, a media report said Sunday. A team from India comprising writers, former diplomats and intellectuals will visit Pakistan to resume the efforts of the previous teams to normalise relations between the two countries, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) said Sunday citing official sources.

May 1st, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Motors-owned British luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is set to launch its premium brands in the Indian market next month, the company said in a statement Friday. 'We are delighted to be formally entering the Indian market, an economy which is still growing appreciably, and able to offer our premium products to a whole new group of customers,' a JLR statement said.

April 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Hero Motors Ltd, part of the Hero Group, has bagged a $250-million order from a Canadian manufacturer of recreational vehicles, the company announced Tuesday. The order from Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) is for supplying transmissions for the Canadian company's vehicle range that includes all-terrain vehicles, motorcycles and snow-mobiles.

April 9th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Tata Motors showrooms across the country witnessed heavy footfalls Thursday as thousands of people queued for application forms to book their much-sought Nano, the jellybean-shaped small car. Delhi, which has over 15 Tata Motors outlets, witnessed more than 7,000 eager customers rushing to book the 'people's car' at the opening of the 17-day booking period.

March 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - With the newly-built departure terminal at Delhi airport set to be opened in the first week of April, India's national carrier Air India Friday said it would not shift its operations to the new terminal. 'We will continue to operate from the existing 1A terminal,' an Air India spokesperson told IANS.

March 21st, 2009 PATNA - Suspected Maoist rebels blasted a railway track in Bihar's Gaya district, disrupting train services on the Gaya-Mughalsarai section, officials said Saturday. Railway sources said a group of armed Maoists blew up the track between Guraru and Pairayya stations in Gaya this morning.

March 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Air India will introduce a daily Hyderabad-Chicago flight via Delhi and Frankfurt March 29, an official said here Friday. Air India deputy general manager (commercial) Ashok Kumar told reporters here that the flight will depart from Hyderabad at 9 p.m.

March 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Helicopters will soon get separate corridors for landing at all major airports in the country, an Airports Authority of India (AAI) official said Monday. 'This would minimise traffic chaos at the airports, where wide-bodied aircraft share their space with choppers also,' the official said.

February 10th, 2009 MUMBAI - Industrialist Vijay Mallya, chairman of Force India Formula Team, has roped in actress Deepika Padukone to be the face of his team. Deepika said, if she could manage time from her busy Bollywood schedule, she would love to be one of the team's 'speed divas' and travel around the world for the Formula One Grand Prix event 2009.

February 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - A tragedy was averted Monday when the pilot of a New Delhi-bound Air India flight aborted take-off from the Mumbai airport after he spotted an army chopper landing on the same runway. The helicopter was part of President Pratibha Patil's entourage, an Air India spokesperson said.

January 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Auto major Tata Motors has bagged a contract worth Rs.22 billion (Rs.2,200 crore) from the Delhi Transport Corp (DTC) to supply 1,625 low-floor buses and maintain them for 12 years, the company announced Thursday. The contract comprises about Rs.9 billion for the supply of buses and Rs.13 billion for their 12-year maintenance, Tata Motors said in a statement.