Steering clear of the taxi aggregation business model, Jugnoo, a start-up venture has chosen to aim at the auto-rickshaw market. It has thus engineered an auto-rickshaw aggregation business model. According to Samar Singla, Co-founder and CEO, Jugnoo, “For a common man in India, the auto-rickshaw serves the same purpose as a taxi. It is cheaper and convenient, and most people[Read More…]

Mesfin Gebremariam Shawo, Consul General of the Ethiopian Consulate, Mumbai, flagged off the Alma Mammoth front-engine inter-city luxury coach built by Alma Motors, an MG Group enterprise, for export to Ethiopia in late December 2015. The Consul General flagged off the first five units of Left Hand Drive Mammoths out of the 32 units that will be exported to Ethiopia[Read More…]

German major Continental has commissioned its first concept store for truck and bus tyres at Faridabad. The store, Sat Kartar Tyres, a franchisee, is located at Faridabad’s Transport Nagar. Set to offer commercial vehicle tyres, and cater to the needs of truck and bus operators, the store is situated over an area of 108 sq. m. Strategically located off the[Read More…]

At an inter-ministerial meeting chaired by the road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari, and attended by oil minister Dharmendra Pradhan, heavy industries minister Anant Geete and environment minister Prakash Javadekar, a decision to leapfrog to BS VI emission standard was taken if the industry sources are to be believed. Sources claimed that the decision to jump to BS VI[Read More…]