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Tamil Nadu govt & Ford go way back. How carmaker’s return is new chapter in story that began in 1995

High value of 350-acre Ford plant property drove TN to encourage Ford to return over nearly a yr of negotiations. It's expected to reinforce state's resurgence as global manufacturing hub.

3 yrs after exiting India, Ford to revive Chennai manufacturing plant. How Stalin govt wooed US carmaker

Ford will be manufacturing cars in India for export. The Ford Business Solutions team in Chennai employs 12,000 people.

Automakers plan to build 54 million EVs in 2030, double spending to $1.2 trillion

Tesla has outlined a plan to build 20 million EVs in 2030. Toyota expects to sell at least 3.5 million battery electric models (BEVs) during the same period.

Ford India rolls off production line. But the beginning of its end started a decade ago

Those who blamed the Narendra Modi government for Ford’s untimely demise as a manufacturer in India should look at Kia and Hyundai's success over the past three years.

Facing shutdown, Ford Chennai plant employees ‘hold cars hostage’, stage sit-in for severance

Ford says it continues to remain engaged with employees and union representatives on all outstanding matters including compensation.

Dear Rahul Gandhi, Ford, Fiat quit India due to market conditions, not Modi’s politics

Rahul Gandhi’s reasoning on foreign automakers’ exit from India is an extreme stretch of imagination.

On Camera

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.