New Delhi: At a time when India is poised to become a global manufacturing hub for mobile phones and components, Pankaj Mohindroo, National President, Indian Cellular Association (ICA), has asked Chinese companies to partner with Indian firms for setting up a manufacturing base in the country. “We are targeting 500 million mobile phones manufacturing by 2019, along with a robust Read More

Beijing: Chinese cellphone maker Xiaomi has sold a record one million smartphones in India in 18 days during the Diwali festive season, despite boycott calls of Chinese goods in the country, state media reported today. The Beijing-based company now aims at becoming largest smartphone vendor in India, the world’s fastest growing handset market, in the next three to five years, Read More

Renault launched the Kwid AMT in 1.0-litre top-end RXT (O) variant. Priced at Rs 4.25 lakh, the new variant does not get any major upgrade except for a new Easy-R gearbox. Renault has introduced the segment first Shift Control AMT Dial (Reverse-Neutral-Drive modes) instead of the conventional gearshift pattern. The Kwid AMT continues to be powered by a 1.0L SCe Read More

Reports state that Lexus is all set to follow Toyota into the hydrogen fuel cell car market, and is expected to come up with a new luxury model that should go on sale by the year 2020. Lexus’ anticipated model would follow the footsteps of the Toyota Mirai, the world’s first commercially available fuel cell car, but will showcase the Read More

Renault India has launched the automatic variant of their bestselling hatchback, the Kwid, at an introductory price of Rs 4.25 lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). Offered in the top-end RXT (O) variant only, the Kwid AMT is Rs 30,000 more compared to the 1.0-litre manual variant. We have driven the Kwid AMT, and you can read about it here. The Kwid automatic Read More

2017 Ford EcoSport test mules have been spotted on numerous occasions in the international markets. This time around, Ford has revealed that it will be globally unveiling the EcoSport facelift on November 14 in North America. Coincidentally, the occasion also marks the EcoSport’s debut in North American market.  The facelifted version is expected to be introduced in India sometime by Read More

German auto giant Volkswagen it seems is digitalising the most successful model in the brand’s history, the Golf, with a major update. The main focus of the 2017 model is a completely new generation of infotainment systems, besides new engines and a keener design. The major update of the 2017 Golf is visible inside thanks to the all-digital display and Read More

Mumbai: Following the data theft that impacted 32 lakh debit cards recently, insurers see surge in demand for cyber insurance and have warned of a spike in cyber risk cover premiums. In the biggest-ever security breach in the domestic banking sector, over 32 lakh debit cards of various banks were ‘compromised’ after a cyber malware attack in the ATM systems Read More

New Delhi: Just after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, over 3 lakh of his followers on micro-blogging site twitter unfollowed him. As per twitter counter, Modi’s handle lost 3,13,312 followers till now. However, he also gained around 4,30,128 followers a day later. It’s still to be seen if this was a Read More

New York: Yahoo provided more details on Wednesday about an epic hack of its services, including that the culprits may have planted software “cookies” for ongoing access to users` accounts. In revelations that could jeopardize the company`s pending $4.8 billion acquisition by US telecom giant Verizon, the internet pioneer said it was trying to pin down when it first knew Read More