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Reuters: Tata Motors said late on Friday its group Chief Executive Officer Carl-Peter Forster has resigned with immediate effect, only 18 months after joining the company. Tata, India’s leading maker of trucks and buses and owner of the luxury Jaguar and Land Rover brands, said Forster resigned due to “unavoidable personal circumstances,” but will remain ...
- Car Concepts (Category: Business)
- Heavy Trucks (Category: Business)
- 35 Starbus owners to tour TATA Motor’s plants (Category: Business)
- High Gear (Category: Business)
The Association of Accounting Technicians Sri Lanka (AATSL) will hold a two-day international conference from September 27 to 28 at the Hotel Galadari Colombo. The inauguration will commence at 6.00 pm on 27th September and the theme of the conference will be “Confronting the New Economic Landscape.” “This theme has been chosen to address the ...
- Sri Lanka to launch the Climate Justice Forum (CJF) at COP 28 (Category: Breaking News)
- New Instrument (Category: Business)
- Cherishing China! (Category: Business)
- Toastmasters dazzles at the Semi Annual Conference in Mangalore (Category: Business)
NEW DELHI (AFP) – US auto giant Ford has started construction on a US$1 billion (S$1.2 billion) manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said on Tuesday. The new manufacturing facilities in Sanand in the western state of Gujarat will create 5,000 ...
- Tuesday, December 1st: From Trees to Treasure (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- It's official: Harrison Ford will return in a fifth 'Indiana Jones' movie (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- 2021 Chevy Tahoe Diesel fuel economy: Large SUV leads its class in efficiency - Roadshow (Category: Technology)
- Tuesday, December 1st: From Trees to Treasure (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
Ford building $1bn manufacturing complex in India
Oil futures fell on Friday as the market nervously awaited U.S. jobs data for new evidence on whether the world’s largest crude consumer can avoid recession. A storm blowing off the U.S. Gulf of Mexico provided modest price support after major oil and gas producers shut down platforms and evacuated workers to limit any damage. ...
- Oil gains on US stocks draw (Category: Business)
- Brent slips below $123 (Category: Business)
- Saudi says high oil prices a worry, will take steps (Category: Business)
- Recession risk unless oil prices fall further (Category: Business)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa will inaugurate tomorrow the three-day Rotary South Asia Conference for Development and Cooperation hosted by Sri Lanka. The President will address the ceremonial inauguration on Sunday at 9 a.m. at Galadari Hotel whilst the conference will be held at Cinnamon Grand. Around 300 delegates and speakers of repute from the corporate and ...
- The Hindu Editor Ram in town for next week’s top Rotary conference (Category: Business)
- Rotary group study exchange programme to Osaka (Category: Business)
Highly respected Managing Director and Editor in Chief of The Hindu N. Ram will be in town over the weekend to actively participate at the Rotary South Asia Conference on Development and Cooperation in Colombo from 4-6 September. Ram will moderate the first plenary session titled “Reaching within – Bonding South” on the inaugural day ...
- President to inaugurate Rotary South Asia Conference in Colombo tomorrow (Category: Business)
- Smile of South Asia! (Category: Business)
- Rotary International Chief calls for renewed cooperation in South Asia (Category: Business)
DETROIT (Reuters): Toyota Motor Co showed off its all-new Camry on Tuesday, aiming to recover lost sales momentum with price cuts and a high-powered ad campaign for its flagship sedan that remains America’s best-selling car. Sales of the Camry are down 8 percent this year but it is still No. 1 in the United States ...
- Toyota bets on hybrid for Camry (Category: Business)
- Honda begins production of new Accord in Ohio (Category: Business)
- Honda needs new Accord to be a hit in US (Category: Business)
- Nissan Note aims to beat Japan laggard tag (Category: Business)
Exponential 575% rise in comparison to FY2010’s figure of Rs. 155 m; Posts Rs. 829 m net profit attributable to equity holders; Turnover more than doubles to Rs. 10.6 b FY2012 1Q revenue up 162% to Rs. 4.4 b; after tax profit up 257% to Rs. 368 m Assets worth Rs. 34.3 b, up from ...
- 2Q results add further value to Softlogic story: Ashok (Category: Business)
- Softlogic’s 9 month revenue, post-tax profit up, bottom line down (Category: Business)
- Distilleries toasts FY12 start with 1Q net profit up 50% to Rs. 1.2 b (Category: Business)
- RPC posts strong results for 9 months (Category: Business)
Several big names in business, medicine and civil society spheres are coming to Sri Lanka to attend the Rotary South Asia Conference on Development and Cooperation in Colombo from 4-6 September. Overall around 300 delegates and speakers of repute from the corporate and state sectors from the South Asia region, comprising countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, ...
- President to inaugurate Rotary South Asia Conference in Colombo tomorrow (Category: Business)
- The Hindu Editor Ram in town for next week’s top Rotary conference (Category: Business)
- Building vibrant communities and nations in South Asia (Category: Business)
WASHINGTON: Ford and Toyota announced on Monday plans to jointly develop a new hybrid system for light trucks and sport utility vehicles. The two companies, both leaders in the hybrid gasoline-electric car sector, said they aimed at bringing hybrid technology to pickups and SUVs “without compromising” what drivers expect from the more powerful, rear-wheel drive ...
- Hybrid Motors Lanka launches ‘recall’ service (Category: Business)
- Local professor encourages adoption of hybrid vehicles (Category: Business)
- Toyota prices plug-in Prius at Y3.2 m upwards (Category: Business)
- Fifty new vehicle launches at India’s Auto Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
Reuters: Emerging markets will not save the world if the West slides back into recession. In an interconnected global economy, decoupling is a beguiling myth. As fears mount that the developed world is shifting from slow growth to no growth, emerging markets seem to many economists better placed to weather the storm than they were ...
- Islamic markets seen leading global trade volumes (Category: Business)
- WB cuts China growth forecast to 8.2% (Category: Business)
- Asia, not North America, now has most millionaires (Category: Business)
- Divergent trends as Sept. passenger traffic rises freight declines — IATA (Category: Business)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters): A popular boy wizard, comic-book heroes and some foul-mouthed women are leading Hollywood toward a record-breaking summer despite the sour economy and high unemployment resulting in tightened consumer spending. Underscoring the notion that movies are recession-proof, U.S. and Canadian ticket sales are expected to finish nearly 5 per cent higher than a ...
- The movies that never came out in 2020 (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- The movies that never came out in 2020 (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- The movies that never came out in 2020 (Category: USA, Iowa)
- The movies that never came out in 2020 (Category: USA, Maine)
By an Independent Analyst The State Assembly of Tamil Nadu (TN) passed a resolution on 8 June 2011, requesting the Indian Central Government to push the international community against Sri Lanka towards imposition of ‘economic sanctions’. The resolution at the TN assembly moved by Jayalalitha as the Chief Minister passed unanimously with the ruling party ...
- TN moves resolution to implead itself in Katchatheevu case (Category: Breaking News)
- TN seeks economic sanctions (Category: Breaking News)
- Coast Guard stand on TN fisherman ‘outrageous’: Jayalalitha (Category: Breaking News)
- TN group violently opposes Lions Flag (Category: Breaking News)
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