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Topic: Volkswagen

Toyota beats Volkswagen to become world’s top-selling automaker first time in 5 years

Toyota outperformed Volkswagen AG in 2020, a painful year for automakers that saw industry-wide factory and showroom shutdowns, dragging sales down 14% from 2019.

SC dismisses Skoda Volkswagen’s plea challenging FIR for ‘use of cheat device’ in car

The FIR was lodged in UP after a customer accused the carmaker of allegedly using a 'cheat' or 'defeat device', which is installed to manipulate pollution emission tests in vehicles.

Suicide bombing ‘ad’ not made by Volkswagen, it’s actually a 15-year-old spoof

The 32-second video going viral on Twitter features a man detonating a bomb while parked in a car on a busy street. However, the explosion is confined to the vehicle.

The electric cars are here. Now how about selling them

Customers don’t like paying up for new technology they’re unsure about, and they’re worried they won’t reliably get to where they want to go.

Small cars are being driven out of existence in the West, like the Volkswagen Beetle

Small cars are becoming an endangered species in the West. Consumers have voted with their wallets by buying SUVs & carmakers have been happy to oblige.

Volkswagen fined Rs 500 crore by NGT for damage to environment

The NGT said that Volkswagen's use of a 'cheat device' in diesel cars caused the damage, and directed it to deposit the money in two months.

Volkswagen was injurious to health: How NGT caught auto major cheating

In its report, a panel set up by the National Green Tribunal stated that Volkswagen cars released around 48.678 tonnes of nitrogen oxide in 2016.

NGT slams Volkswagen for not depositing Rs 100 crore as per its 2018 order

NGT had directed Volkswagen to deposit the amount with the CPCB over its alleged use of a ‘cheat device’ in diesel cars to beat environmental norms.

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Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.