Tokyo: Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp is planning to build a new factory in India capable of producing more than 250,000 vehicles a year, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.
Suzuki aims to start operations at the new plant as soon as 2013, the newspaper reported without citing a source.
London: Alcohol consumption in Britain saw its sharpest decline in more than 60 years in 2009 in contrast to the perception that the country has a growing drink problem, the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) said on Friday.
The organisation, which represents the brewing and pub sector, said total alcohol consumption last year dropped 6 percent, the largest decline since 1948 and the fourth annual drop in five years.
New York: Flying in the developing world is 13 times more dangerous than flying in the United States or other first world countries, according to a new study.
Arnold Barnett, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a researcher on aviation safety, calculated that the odds of dying on a scheduled flight in first world countries such as Canada and Japan are one in 14 million.
Mumbai: The grit and grime of rural India, its people and problems are all finding their way into the glamorous world of mainstream Bollywood films.
Made on smaller budgets than an average Bollywood film and shorn of big stars, some movies are exploring themes such as farmer suicides and sexual attitudes in rural India, something rare in an industry dominated by soppy romances or family dramas.
London: British women have been named the world's most ugly tourists, 'rude' in behaviour and 'ending up drunk in the gutter'.
Women from the country are known across the world for their bad behaviour, poor dress sense and drinking habits when on holiday, the Daily Express reported on Saturday.
London: A 106-year-old woman in Britain is not only a virgin, she has never ever been kissed.
Isa Blyth, who turned 106 on Saturday, puts her longevity to being a virgin, The Sun reported.
Panaji: Environmentalists in Goa have began campaigning for an eco-friendly Ganesh festival in the coastal state this year.
With Ganeshotsav getting increasingly modern and, in its turn, detrimental to the environment, green minds have started convincing people to celebrate an ‘eco-chaturthi'.
Chicago: When it comes to changing health behaviours, it takes more than a far-flung network of friends on Facebook egging you on. It takes a jostling herd, US researchers said on Thursday.
Social scientists have assumed that changing behaviour would spread like the flu, which transmits best via individuals with lots of long-distance contacts.
London: Here's a great piece of news for those who love going in for those beer binges frequently. A chef in the US has come up with what he claims to be the world's first recipe for deep-fried beer.
According to chef Mark Zable, the beer is placed inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunked in oil at 375 degrees for about 20 seconds, a short enough time for the confection to remain alcoholic.
New Delhi: Indian car market leader Maruti Suzuki on Wednesday reported its highest ever monthly sales of 23.6 per cent for August at 104,791 units as compared to 84,808 vehicles for the like period of 2009.
According to the company, the domestic market for its cars grew at 32.5 per cent at 92,674 units in August as compared to 69,961 cars for the corresponding period of last year.
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