Volkswagen plans to make India low-cost export hub

Tech News - Also, as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' initiative, the company will be investing Rs 1,500 crore for localisation and produce cost effective products, Volkswagen India chief representative Mahesh Kodumudi told media on the sidelines of the Hannover Fair.
  
"We are looking at making India a low-cost manufacturing hub catering to emerging and developed export markets. In 2014, we exported 65,000 cars which is 60 percent of our production from the Chakan plant," Kodumudi said.
  
"We are looking to export 70,000 cars this year," he said. The company will also increase production capacity at the Chakan and Aurangabad units in the next two years.
  
Volkswagen AG chief executive Martin Winterkorn said: "India is and will remain an important strategic growth market for the Volkswagen Group. We are convinced that VW will take on a key role in the Indian automobile market in the long-term. We are driving localisation forward with our new engine assembly plant in Pune."
  
VW plans to increase production to 200,000 units by 2018 and add more new models from the 130,000 units Chakan plant.

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OnePlus likely to launch OnePlus Two smartphone by June

Tech News - Now, the company has announced the successor of OnePlus One named 'OnePlus Two' priced at USD 538. The rumoured specifications of the yet -to-be-announced device are pretty impressive.

One Plus Two features a 5.5-inch full HD LTPS display with 2,560 X 1,440 pixels resolution. The device is fitted with Snapdragon 810 processor which is further coupled with 4GB RAM.

If speculations are to be believed, the smartphone runs on Google's Android 4.4 KitKat Operating System, while some are guessing that it will run on company's custom platform.

The next generation smartphone boasts of 16-megapixel camera on the rear surface, up from 13MP camera fixed in the OnePlus One along with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera clubbed with 64GB internal storage, the OnePlus Two curtain raiser is scheduled for sometime in the second half of the year. 

The OnePlus Two is packed with powerful and long lasting 3300mAh battery to run its operations efficiently. OnePlus One polycarbonate body might be replaced by revamped metal casing. 

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'NASA MESSENGER' spacecraft to crash into Mercury soon

Tech News - The "spacecraft will impact the planet at more than 8,750 miles per hour on the side of the planet facing away from Earth," NASA said in a statement on Thursday.

"Due to the expected location, engineers will be unable to view in real time the exact location of impact," a news agency reported.

Launched in August 2004, MESSENGER traveled 7.9 billion km on a journey that included 15 trips around the sun and flybys of Earth once, Venus twice and Mercury three times.

The spacecraft began orbiting Mercury in March 2011. The four- year mission was blessed with many scientific findings, including one in 2012 that provided compelling support for the hypothesis that Mercury harbors abundant frozen water and other volatile materials in its permanently shadowed polar craters.

It helped test many technological achievements, including the development of a vital heat-resistant and highly reflective ceramic cloth sunshade that isolated the spacecraft's instruments and electronics from direct solar radiation, vital to mission success given Mercury's proximity to the sun.

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Bollywood में फ‍िर लौटा विंटेज फैशन, जानें फ‍िल्‍मों में पुराने दौर की वापसी पर डिजायनर्स करते हैं क्‍या

विंटेज फैशन का दौर एक ऐसा दौर है जो कभी भी अपने पांव वापस किसी भी सदी में घुमा सकता है. वो भी हल्‍की-फुल्‍की आहट के साथ नहीं, बल्कि अपनी जबरदस्‍त धमक के साथ. अब इस विंटेज फैशन की बात बॉलीवुड से जुड़ी हो, फ‍िर तो इसकी गूंज और चमक के कहने ही क्‍या. गौर करिएगा कि एक बार फ‍िर ऐसा ही हुआ है बी-टाउन के गलियारे में. दरअसल बॉलीवुड का फैशन स्‍टेटमेंट इन दिनों फ‍िर ढल चला है विंटेज के खास साचे में. अब इसको लेकर चाहें तो बात कर लें फ‍िल्‍म 'लुटेरे' में अनुष्‍का के लुकर की, या फ‍िर 'Once Upon A Time in Mumbai' की. डिटेक्टिव ब्‍योमकेश बक्‍शी की, या फ‍िर 'बॉम्‍बे वेलवेट' की. बेहद खूबसूरती के साथ पूराने दशक के फैशन को 21 सेंचुरी में एक बार फ‍िर एंट्री मिली है. इसको लेकर खास और बड़ी बात ये है कि इस विंटेज फैशन के कमबैक करने का सारा श्रेय जाता है इनको मेनटेन करने वाले डिज़ायनर्स को. इसी का एक अंदाज विंटेज कपड़ों के जरिए रैम्‍प पर भी नजर आता है. आइए बॉलीवुड के डिजाइनर्स की जुबानी जानें कितना आसान या फ‍िर मुश्किल होता है पुराने दौर के कपड़ों को आज के दौर में डिजाइन करना. 

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9 Filmy Faces Of Byomkesh Bakshi

आपके मन में भी एक सवाल उठ रहा होगा कि आखिर ये ब्‍योमकेश बक्‍शी वास्‍तव में थ्‍ो कौन और इनका जन्‍म कैसे हुआ था. हम आपको बताते हैं कि ये ब्‍योमकेश बक्‍शी और कोई नहीं बल्कि बंगाली साहित्‍य के एक काल्‍पनिक जासूस थे. इनकी रचना एक लेखक शरदिम्‍बु बंद्योपद्ययाय ने की थी. अब इनसे जुड़ी एक और रोचक बात आपको बताएं, वह यह कि बंगाली साहित्‍य की उपज इस जासूस को हमारे रंगमंच ने काफी भुनाया. फ‍िर चाहें वो बात हिंदी रंगमंच या सिनेमा की हो या फ‍िर बंगाली फ‍िल्‍मों की. 1967 से अब तक इनको कई फ‍िल्‍मी रूपों में दर्शक देख चुके हैं. इसके बाद भी इनकी ख्‍याति लोगों के बीच इतनी है कि जब भी कभी किसी नए रूप में ढलकर ये लोगों के सामने आते हैं, लोग इनके कायल हो ही जाते हैं. आइये मिलाते हैं आपको इनके ऐसे ही खास नौ रूपों से.

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Hindu Cremation Ceremony Of Human Body At Manikarnika Ghat Varanasi

पौराणिक मान्यताओं के अनुसार 'मणिकर्णिका' में शिव की अर्धांगिनी सती के कर्णफूल गिरे थे. अपने पिता दक्ष के यज्ञ में तिरस्कृत होने पर सती खुद को यज्ञ की अग्नि में भस्म कर लेती हैं. शिव जी को यह बात पता चलती है और वे उद्विग्न हो उठते हैं. विक्षिप्त होकर वे उनका शरीर लेकर पूरे ब्रह्मांड में चक्कर लगाते हैं इसी दौरान उनकी कानों के फूल यहां गिरे थे. इसके अलावा मणिकार्णिका से जुडी एक और कथा है कि काशी प्रवास के दौरान शिव व पार्वती ने यहां स्थित कुंड में स्नान किया था. इस दौरान माता पार्वती के कानों का कुंडल यहां गिर गया था. इसी के बाद इसी स्थल का नाम मणिकर्णिका पड़ा. मान्यता है कि यहां पर जिसका अंतिम संस्कार होता है वो सीधे स्वर्ग पहुंचता है. कहीं कोई रुकावट या रोड़ा नहीं लगता. बार बार जन्म लेने से छुटकारा. मोक्ष यानि की टोटल डेथ.

काशी में दो श्मशान है. एक हरिश्चंद्र घाट पर तो दूसरा मणिकर्णिका. इन दोनों में श्मशानों को लेकर बहुत कथाएं प्रचलित हैं. इन्हीं कथाओं में मणिकर्णिका को लेकर कहा जाता है कि यहां चिताओं की आग कभी ठंडी नहीं होती. यहां की व्यवस्था डोम राजा परिवार के हाथों में. कोई भी शवदाह करने के लिए यहां आता है तो उसे डोम परिवार से मुक्ति की आग देते हैं. यहां की चिताओं के लिए माचिस से आग प्रज्ज्वलित नहीं की जाती. ऐसी मान्यता भी है कि यहां पर आने वाले शव के साथ स्वंय शिव रहते हैं और मरने वाले को तारक मंत्र देते हैं ताकि उसे मोक्ष की प्राप्ति हो. मान्यता यह भी है कि इस महाश्मशान पर अनादि काल से जल रही अग्नि न ठंडी हुई है और न कभी ठंडी होगी. इसी अनादि काल से जल रही अग्नि से ही चिताओं को अग्नि दी जाती है.

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ताज ही नहीं, गालिब का शहर भी है आगरा

पीपल मंडी इलाके में पैदा हुए गालिब
आगरा के पीपल मंडी इलाके में पैदा हुए गालिब वक्त के साथ दिल्ली के होकर रह गए. बल्लीामारां की गलियों से उन्हेंड कुछ ऐसा इश्कह हुआ कि मोहब्बयत की नगरी की यादें कहीं पीछे छूट गईं. शहर ने भी उनके यादों को संजोकर रखने की जहमत नहीं उठाई.

गालिब के नाम पर दो मोहल्‍ले
मिर्जा ग़ालिब का जन्म आगरा में 27 दिसम्बर, 1797 को हुआ था. जिस शहर में उनका बचपन गुजरा और पढ़ाई लिखाई हुई वहां अब उनकी याद के नाम पर उनके नाम पर दो मोहल्ले छोटा ग़ालिबपुरा और बड़ा ग़ालिबपुरा ही हैं. आइए चहलकदमी करते हैं आगरा की उन गलियों में जहां उस सुखनवर की यादें आज भी जिंदा हैं जिसके बारे में कहते हैं कि उसका अंदाज ए बयां कुछ और ही था.

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Driverless car completes 5,500km ride across US

Gadget Reviews India -  According to the British-based auto-firm Delphi, the feat marks the first and longest US coast-to-coast trip ever taken by an automated vehicle.
  
The trip spanned across the southern US with the car successfully travelling from San Francisco, California to New York City.
  
The Roadrunner car set of with a group of engineers from Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay on March 22.
  
The subsequent journey took it through 15 states and the District of Columbia.
  
The Roadrunner was faced with a wide variety of driving situations to navigate during the trip, including traffic circles, construction zones, bridges, tunnels, aggressive drivers and differing weather conditions.
  
Although an engineer was in the driving seat ready to take control if needed, the car undertook 99 percent of the drive in fully automated mode, Delphi said.
  
The vehicle is equipped with numerous technologies in order to drive autonomously.

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Maruti to rev up rural drive, targets 1.5 lakh villages

Gadget Reviews India - The company's rural sales had increased by 23 percent to 4,15,380 units in last fiscal, when it posted its highest ever total sales in a financial year. It had posted total sales of 12,92,415 units in 2014-15 beating previous best in 2010-11.
  
"In FY14-15 we established presence in 1.25 lakh villages. Target going forward will be to enhance presence in 1.5 lakh villages," Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Executive Director, Marketing & Sales, RS Kalsi said.
  
In 2013-14, the company had established its presence in 93,400 villages across the country.
   
"In FY14-15 our penetration in rural areas stood at 34.5 percent (of total sales) as compared to 32 percent in FY 13-14," Kalsi said.
   
The company's rural sales had stood at 3,36,463 units in 2013-14 financial year, he added.
   
"At the start of the year (FY14-15), we targeted to sell at least one vehicle in 1.25 lakh villages. We have been able to reach even the smallest of villages- today more than 7 percent of MSI's sales are coming from villages with less than 200 households," Kalsi said.
   
He added that sales in rural areas have been impacted due to delayed monsoon and recent unseasonal rains but evinced hope that things would improve in the coming days.
  
"Barring the current situation, the long term growth story of rural India looks good and promising..As infrastructural jobs reach rural India, the dependency on agriculture may come down," Kalsi said.

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WhatsApp to roll out its voice calling feature in Windows phone soon

Tech News -  In a reply to a question asked by a Windows Phone user, WhatsApp support team indicated that the feature for voice calling for them is in developmental stage.

"WhatsApp Calling for your platform [Windows Phone] is still in the works," it said.

However, the email hasn't specified any  time-frame for its roll out for Windows Phone users.

"We cannot comment on any future release timelines but we appreciate your interest in WhatsApp Calling," the mail further said.

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Facebook integrates WhatsApp into 'Facebook for Android'

Tech News -  The social networking site has added a 'Send' button with the familiar WhatsApp icon as a part of the status actions buttons that appear under each status update.

The new button appears on the right side (for left-to-right languages) for some users in the most recent version of the Facebook for Android app, media reported.

This move appears to be the first step towards connecting the two platforms in order to sustain growth and take control of the messaging market together.

According to reports, teams are already working on a deeper integration that will include the ability to send messages between Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.

WhatsApp, which last said it had 700 million monthly active users, and was acquired by Facebook for over USD 20 billion in February last year. 

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Now, an app will unlock your doors

Tech News - Your friends, family, or even the plumber could download the app, you could give them a code, and they get in, media reported.

You can even have that code expire, meaning they will only be able to access the door for a limited time.

The 'August' lock costs about USD 250 and another USD 250 to install it.

Inspiring as it may sound, security experts are not very enthusiastic about it. Because mobile phones are hackable and if your phone is hacked, you will lose access to your own house.

"The population in the planet can now get into your pocket and wallet, electronically from China or some other place. 

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Xiaomi smartphones to be available in Indian retail stores soon

Tech News - As of now, the company will sell its smartphones in around 300 outlets of 'The Mobile Store' in the country.

Moreover, Xiaomi has already stocked the 'Mobile Store' outlets with its Redmi Note 4G and Mi 4 (16GB/64GB) smartphones in New Delhi.

Also, the tech giant will not discontinue its exclusive partnership with e-commerce website Flipkart.

Till now,  Xiaomi has launched its every device through Flipkart flash sales and has witnessed a huge demand of its products. Also, its all smartphones get purchased within seconds.

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Smartphones to produce high-resolution 3D images

This feat may soon be possible because of a new tiny high-resolution 3D imager developed by researchers at California Institute of Technology.

Tech News - The cheap, compact yet highly accurate new device known as a nanophotonic coherent imager (NCI) uses inexpensive silicon chip less than a millimeter square in size.The NCI provides the highest depth-measurement accuracy of any such nanophotonic 3D imaging device.

"The small size and high quality of this new chip-based imager will result in significant cost reductions, which will enable thousands of new uses for such systems by incorporating them into personal devices such as smartphones," explained Ali Hajimiri, Thomas G. Myers professor of electrical engineering.

The new chip uses an established detection and ranging technology called LIDAR, in which a target object is illuminated with scanning laser beams.

The first proof of concept of the NCI has only 16 coherent pixels, meaning that the 3D images it produces can only be 16 pixels at any given instance.In the future, Hajimiri said, that the current array of 16 pixels could also be easily scaled up to hundreds of thousands.

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Hyundai Motor aims to have autonomous driving tech on market in 2020

Auto News - Car makers such as Mercedes and General Motors Co  as well as technology giants like Google Inc
and Apple Inc are already developing driverless vehicles which can complete whole journeys without human input.

But some analysts expect self-driving cars will not appear on global markets until the early- or mid-2020s, partly due to regulatory hurdles.

Hyundai Motor, like other automakers, already has autonomous features in premium vehicles like the Genesis, which can be programmed to hit the brakes when a pedestrian steps out.

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GM's Cadillac CT6 tests strategy for taking fat out of big cars

Tech News - The CT6, to be unveiled ahead of the April 3-12 New York auto show, is an expensive car aimed more at boosting Cadillac's brand image than sales volume. Among the promised features is a system that will enable partly autonomous highway cruising.
             
But the CT6 could have a broader impact on GM's future products because of the way it is built. The car is the largest scale application of the company's new approach to using a mix of steel, aluminum and other materials to build vehicles light enough to meet tougher fuel efficiency standards, but big enough for customers who want spacious cars.
             
GM engineers are studying variations on the CT6's multi-material construction for at least four other future vehicle architectures and other models could be derived from the CT6's "Omega" architecture, Travis Hester, CT6's chief engineer, said in an interview.
            
Automakers are under pressure in the United States and China to dramatically increase fuel efficiency over the next decade to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But as oil prices tumble,
consumers in the world's two richest auto markets are paying premiums for luxury sedans and sport utility vehicles, not small cars.

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Huawei's Honor 4X first flash sale in India ends in less than a minute

Tech News - The 'flash sale business module' that Motorola started for selling its Moto range smartphones is getting widely popular in India as more and more companies these days are adopting the online sale method.

The company didn't reveal that how many units of the handset they had made available for sale on Monday, but we are speculating that the company opened flash sale for limited number of the units as the Chinese multinational wanted to test if the flash sale method would prove successful for their smartphone, Honor 4X.

Although, the company previously hinted that over 1 lakh prospective buyers enrolled to participate in the first ever flash sale for the new Honor handset. Huawei has also kick-started the registrations for the next flash scheduled for April 6,  the registrations will continue till April 5.

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Micromax lists Bolt S300 online at Rs 3300 in India

Tech News - The device was initially spotted on the company's official Russian website and later the information was revealed in India by a Mumbai-based retailer along with its price on Twitter.

The Micromax Bolt S300 runs on the Android 4.4 KitKat OS out of the box, and we are still speculating if company would offer Lollipop update at this price.

The new Micromax phone features a 4-inch WVGA display with 480 x 800 pixels resolution. The device is clocked at 1GHz single core processor coupled with 512MB RAM module. It gets dual VGA camera fitted on both the surface.

The Bolt S300 sports 4GB worth of internal storage capacity which can be further expanded upto 32 GB through microSD card slot. The phone has been assembled with 1200mAh battery which is capable of delivering upto 4.5 hours of talktime and 155 hours of standby time.

Specifications:

• Display: 4-inch, 480 x 800 pixels
• OS: Android 4.4 KitKat
• Processor: 1GHz single core
• Memory: 512MB RAM, 4GB internal storage (expandable up to 32GB)
• Camera: VGA front, VGA rear
• Battery: 1200mAh

Micromax Bolt S300 is yet to make official entry in the Indian mobile market.

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he Yeti however failed to mark its presence Indian market, but Skoda has still decided to update the car.
The car is available in two variants in the international market - a standard 'City' version and a more beefy 'Outdoor' version. The 'Outdoor' version features bolder cues in its body cladding and scuff plates.

Skoda Yeti Outdoor was displayed at the 2014 Auto Expo and was seen testing in India, which paves its way to the Indian auto mart.

The front of the car comes with Skoda's new corporate look. It features wider grille, more angular headlights and a different front bumper. The new model comes with sharper looks than before, however it s distinctive glasshouse remains the same.

Skoda Yeti facelift adorns an electrically adjustable driver's seat, cruise control and even a rear view camera in some of its market. The interior of the car comes with a new three-spoke steering wheel and colour for the plastics.

Skoda Yeti facelift will be powered by a 2.0-litre turbo-diesel in two states of tune - a 108bhp, front-wheel drive and a 138bhp all-wheel-drive version.

There has been no official announcement on the pricing yet however, it is expected to cost 7-8 percent more than the current version of Yeti.

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Tata Motors bets on new sedan Zest to revive weak India sales

The car, called Zest, is a compact sedan built on a new platform and, in a departure from previous models, boasts user-friendly features such as touch-screen control panels.

Tata Motors' domestic business has posted losses in four of the last eight quarters and Ranjit Yadav, head of passenger vehicles, said the Zest was key to the automaker's revamped domestic strategy.

"The Zest is the first step and an important proof point of what we want to do with our passenger vehicle business," Yadav told Reuters. "We have taken some hard calls in the last 12 to 18 months to set right our fundamentals."

Tata Motors, India's biggest automaker by revenue, dominates the trucks and buses segment, but its passenger cars have failed to lure customers away from local rival Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and foreign competitors including Hyundai Motor Co and Honda Motor Co.

Tata's domestic car sales fell 39 per cent year-on-year in the year that ended on March 31 and its market share also dropped to 4.2 per cent at end-June from 10.2 per cent two years ago, industry data showed.

Lack of a product pipeline, an image that its cars are not cool because they are used as taxis and the legacy of its ultra-cheap Nano, perceived as a poor man's car, has put Tata Motors out of favour with buyers.

In the past, the automaker has relied on its trucks and buses, as well as on the strong sales at its luxury unit Jaguar Land Rover, to offset the weak performance at home.

But with trucks and buses sales declining as India's economy battles the longest spell of below 5 per cent growth in quarter of a century, Tata Motors has now shifted its focus to cars.

It also wants to capitalise on any improvement in the economy under the new government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, executives say. Car sales in India, expected to be the world's third-largest car market by 2018, are likely to rise this year after posting a decline for two consecutive years.

Investors, however, say it won't be easy for Tata Motors to convince buyers of the merits of its passenger cars after being largely absent from that market for so long.

"It will be more of a challenge for Tata because it is in very different segments," said Walter Rossini, a Milan-based portfolio manager for Gestielle India, which manages Indian stocks including Tata Motors shares. "For them it would help to focus more on their commercial vehicle business in India and luxury international business."

Some analysts said Tata has taken a well-calculated risk by launching a compact sedan because of the popularity of smaller, fuel-efficient vehicles. Deepesh Rathore, analyst at Emerging Markets Automotive Advisors, however, said the company still had to change its image, adding: "It will not happen in a hurry."

As part of its new strategy, Tata Motors plans to launch two new vehicles every year until 2020. The Zest will be followed by the Bolt hatchback later this year, said Yadav.

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