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Thursday, September 4, 2025
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Topic: Motorbike

Banned in Delhi, full throttle in Bengaluru—RD350s, Shoguns, Yezdis ride on

Two-stroke bikes have long ridden into the sunset in cities like Delhi, but in Bengaluru, they power a well-oiled subculture. ‘Passionate people get into this.’

Indian women bikers are revving up Royal Enfields, Hondas. Bankers, beauticians & bahus

Biking offers freedom, self-expression, and sisterhood for a growing number of women taking it up in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond. There are plenty of riding academies and clubs to pick from.

20 lives lost in road accidents every hour in 2023. Half the victims bike riders, Delhi deadliest city

With an average of 55 crashes per hour, India recorded 4,80,583 road accidents in 2023, a 4.2% increase from 2022, according to data shared by states with the ministry.

Rs 4,800 cr IPO bids are now making Delhi bike dealer nervous. Mountain of paperwork is next

Sawhney Automobiles, registered under Resourceful Automobile, went in for a modest IPO of Rs 12 crore, but instead received bids 400 times that amount, totalling Rs 4800 crore by the time the issue closed.

No arrests yet after bike-borne men loot Ola passengers at gunpoint in Delhi, CM slams Centre

Closed-circuit TV footage has shown four men accosting the taxi in the Pragati Maidan tunnel, threatening the two passengers inside with a gun and making away with a bag of cash.

Delhi to bring back bike taxis, policy envisaging ‘100% EV cabs’ by 2030 open for public feedback

Delhi government's ‘Draft Delhi Motor Vehicle Aggregator and Delivery Service Provider Scheme, 2023' proposes that all bikes taken on board by cab aggregators are EVs. 

Benefits of using Bike EMI calculator

A bike loan EMI calculator is a simple online calculator that can be used by everybody, even if you do not have any prior...

Before Bollywood entry, Salman Khan did a Hero Honda ad. But CD100 bike was its star

Launched in 1985, Hero Honda CD100 took India’s two-wheeler market by storm & ruled the roads for at least 2 decades, because of its affordability & mileage. Many remember it as their first bike.

Indian Army wanted Royal Enfield Bullets — Nehru ensured they were ‘made in India’ first

In ‘Indian Icon’, Amrit Raj traces the journey of Royal Enfield setting up an Indian company with Madras Motors because the Army wanted hardy bikes.

More and more Indians are buying used cars & bikes to avoid public transport, shared cabs

Apart from Covid fear, job losses and pay cuts across industries has increased risk aversion among customers leading to a sharp fall in discretionary spending.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.