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Exide and Leclanché launch Li-ion battery JV in India

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With seven international standard factories spread across India for producing batteries, the company offers one of the widest ranges of batteries for every conceivable application in automotive as well as industrial segments. Exide Industries is India’s largest manufacturer of lead acid storage batteries and power storage solutions provider.

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Hero Cycles delivers first batch of made in India electric bicycles to Germany 

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. “We expect to make high-quality e-bikes fusing HNF’s engineering and design expertise with Hero’s manufacturing capability, especially with the 100-acre Cycle Valley in Ludhiana,” said Jeff Weiss, the London-based CEO of Hero International. Hero Supply Chain (HSC).

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Satellite altimeter data study finds global ship traffic up 4x over past 20 years

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International trade and the sizes of merchant fleets have both enlarged rapidly over the past two decades, explaining the steep rise in ship traffic, the study reports. The new analysis has been accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters , a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

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Axial Vector and Kirloskar Oil Engines Forming JV for Mass Production of Axial-Type Engines

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The marketing rights of the joint venture company will extend to all South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries: India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

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Study Finds Indian Ocean Sea-Level Rise Threatens Coastal Areas; Climate Change Partly Responsible

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Sea-level rise is particularly high along the coastlines of the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, as well as the islands of Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java, the authors found. The study, led by scientists at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo.,

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Ford 2017 trends report: disruption the status quo, “never more difficult” to find objective information

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Oxford Dictionaries recently selected “post-truth” as 2016’s international word of the year, defining it as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less in influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”. Sri Lanka, São Paulo and the US were devastated by floods this year.

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Urban transport | Two wheels good | The Economist

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Green.view New on Economist.com An altered political landscape in South Africa (EIU ViewsWire) Apr 28th 2009 Sri Lankas war is close to an end Apr 27th 2009 Does a new virus from Mexico threaten a global pandemic? View all comments (23) Add your comment Comment (23) Recommend (20) E-mail Share Del.icio.us