French auto-giant Renault is working on a global project for a budget car for developing markets, which will be positioned under the Rs 4 lakh category in India.

Renault plans under Rs 4-lakh car

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With the Nano all set to hit the Bangladesh roads this February, the distributor of the Tata cars there, now plans to open talks with the Mumbai-based auto major to set up an assembly unit of the small car.

Nitol group keen on Nano assembly unit in Bangladesh

Kingfisher Airlines is suspending all operations at Kolkata and may shut its Hyderabad operations, too, after slipping further into the red, say sources.

Kingfisher suspends Kolkata flights

India might welcome one of the world's top selling highway-capable electric car in the coming years, as the Japanese carmaker Nissan is looking into the possiblity intoducing its electric vehicle, Leaf, into the Indian market.

Nissan mulls to launch its top-selling electric car in India

Indian Railways is mulling to run a Maitree (friendship) Express between Kolkata and Khulna, a city in the southwestern part of Bangladesh, after a proposal from the neighbour. Khulna is considered to be a major trade centre. The seaport of Mongla is on its outskirts.

Another friendship train likely

The first ever airport-city project in which Singapore&rsquo;s Changi airport holds a 26 per cent stake was expected to be the pride of West Bengal. Instead, a steady stream of pitfalls&mdash;from land acquisition problems to allegations of corruption amongst promoters&mdash;has taken the sheen off the project.

Pioneering airport-city project struggles to stay aloft

As Mamata Banerjee treads on her populist track, the West Bengal finance department under Amit Mitra has raised an alarm over a huge outgo on account of new jobs created by the government.

Bengal's job sops land it in soup

The worst fears of many of the state transport employees may come true, as the cash-strapped West Bengal government is likely to ask the transport corporations to rationalise its workforce to become self-reliant.

Probal Basak