The Central government has introduced a 50% tax exemption for contributions made by companies towards road safety causes and projects. This is expected to encourage increased contributions from firms towards road safety projects and events as a part of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) drive.

Faced with a rising demand of energy for its operations, Indian Railways is planning to set up captive nuclear plants. The states of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu are being considered at present as likely locations for the plants. The Railways has initiated discussions with the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) for the purpose. The Railways operates trains on a ...

HTS Hi-Tech Solutions Ltd has introduced VRS – a new vehicle recognition system. VRS quickly recognises vehicles of interest, and helps experts come to quick decisions by analysing licence plate data, vehicle characteristics, and factors such as movement, time, speed and location. It has a patented recognition system and SeeControl management software ? a smart vehicle management platform. The system ...

German automotive supplier, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, has opened a new production facility for automatic car transmissions in South Carolina, USA. The 90,000 square meter facility, with an investment of nearly ?450million, is the largest single investment in the company?s history. The company plans to produce about 1.2 million 8 and 9-speed automatic passenger car transmissions at the facility. The new ...

The Central Government will provide a one-time seed capital for Road Safety to each state in the country depending upon vehicle population of a State/UT during the 12th Plan. 50% of the amount collected by way of activities under Motor Vehicles (MV) Act will be credited to this non-lapsable road safety fund, to be used for such area-specific road safety ...

Sernis, the Portugese company has developed a solar powered system SRL-SM30 that detects vehicles’ speeds and informs drivers about it, the idea being that once drivers become aware they are over speeding, they will change their driving behaviour. The system has a CW (Continuous Wave) Doppler Radar that detects vehicles at speeds ranging from 16km/hr to 199km/hr. It has a ...

The Uttar Pradesh Transport Department has introduced online payment of taxes for vehicles registered in other states and entering the state for commercial trips on temporary permits. The vehicle owners in fact can pay the tax from their home states, even before making the trip by logging onto the department’s website vahan.up.nic.in/upcheckpost. This avoids unnecessary, time-consuming trips of government offices. ...

The Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) has proposed a plan to redevelop six bus terminuses in Maharashtra – Aurangabad, Karad, Nashik, Panvel, Akola and Ratnagiri. The redeveloped bus terminuses will have passenger waiting lounges, toilets and parking spaces for auto rickshaws & private vehicles on the ground floor and commercial establishments on the upper floors. The corporation will provide ...

SU Toll Road Pvt Ltd, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) of Reliance Infrastructure has begun operations and collection of toll on the Salem-Ulundurept road in Tamil Nadu. The seventh road project of Reliance Infrastructure, the Salem-Ulundurept road widening project (from two lanes to four lanes) has been executed on a Build-Operate-Transfer basis. The road links 79 villages with Chennai, Bengaluru ...

Karl Slym has been appointed as Managing Director, Tata Motors. He will lead company operations in India as well as international markets such as South Korea, Thailand, Spain, Indonesia and South Africa. Before taking up this assignment Slym was President and Managing Director of General Motors (GM), India. He also has been the Executive Vice President and Board Member, SGMW ...