Tata Motors, Toyota Kirloskar and Honda Cars were no better.Also, the corporate tax rate for all companies should be brought down to 25 per cent, as promised in earlier budget speeches. Consumer expectations on revised GST rate on cars and limited liquidity availability kept them from firming their buying decision,” said Sibendra Barman, Vice President, Sales- Marketing at Passenger Vehicles, Tata Motors. PUNE: The Indian auto industry, the world’s fourth largest and Asia’s third biggest, with two-wheelers segment dominating the market, continues to move in reverse gear.The tractor, heavy commercial vehicle and passenger vehicle sales continued their downward trend, indicating a slowing economy across sectors, with automakers now banking on badly needed stimulus in the Budge on Friday to spur growth. Customer sentiments remained low due to the overall slowdown in economic growth."

The GST rate on all categories of vehicles should be brought down to 18 per cent from current 28 per cent to kick-start growth again in the Indian auto industry,” Vishnu Mathur, Director General at the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, told Financial Chronicle.Auto industry has been de-growing for the past 4 quarters.."Auto industry has been de-growing for the past 4 quarters. The Indian auto industry, the world’s fourth largest and Asia’s third biggest, with two-wheelers segment dominating the market, continues to move in reverse gear. Auto honchos said it was facing the most challenging times ever

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The film is beautifully painted  and does bring to life nostalgia in a charming way.Films watched: 10Films loved: 0Jet-lag: Fxull-onWeight put-onAt least 2 kilos, and all of it during Saturday’s 8.Tara, meanwhile, is being tutored by one Miss D’Sousa who speaks proper English, and insists that Tara does so too. It takes off when the next bull escapes, just as the butcher’s cleaver was about to sever its head. As a cat stretches and purrs about, and the movie harks back to those earlier, happier days when all was nice, decent and oh-so-lovely, Bombay Rose is happiest.I dashed out to get a cup of black coffee and, without thinking, bought, and then consumed, a packet of Snickers. Hareesh’s short story Maoist, is set in Kerala and begins when one bull is killed, chopped into bite-size pieces and sold in small, black plastic bags to be cooked with tapioca or coconut.. This mostly begins as thigh-slapping bravado, but as egos and the fear of losing take over, the men lose their bearings.And then there was Gitanjali Rao’s Bombay Rose, a story so simple and old that about 20 minutes into the film I was wondering why it had been made at all.2 films, 1 nationIn China wheel unit bearings Manufacturers a very strange way, the two Indian movies that played at Tiff on Saturday kind of represented the state of our nation and the state of India’s liberal, genteel intelligentsia in more ways than one. Jordan and Jamie Foxx’s death row drama based on a real life incident..Indian movies represent state of India’s liberal, genteel intelligentsia in more ways than one. Stills from animation film Bombay Rose It’s Day 3 at the Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), and my score-card is making me very nervous.In that one link — of a man waiting to petition the government to stop the mayhem, while the entire male citizenry of the town is hurtling about trying to kill the bull that wants to escape death — lies a clever commentary and a vivisection of the mob lynchings we have become almost criminally immune to over the last five years.Bombay Rose reclines in calm comfort when it is in Miss D’Sousa’s house.The film, based on S. It runs amok through the town, horn-butting all that’s in its path — people, plants, property, shops — before heading to the safety of the forest. The background score provides a catchy, almost ritualistic beat and roar to this communal march to lynch. Big celebrity spottingJust 2 — Robert Pattinson, the star of The Lighthouse; and Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director whose film, Parasite, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year.But the destruction, and challenge presented by a bull gone rogue, summons different, often warring groups of men who take it upon themselves to capture and kill it. How cute!FOMOAfter watching 10 films over three days at Tiff, I’m beginning to get that strange feeling, the one that often hits journalists when they are chasing a loosely defined story.A girl, Kamala, and a Kashmiri boy, Salim, fall in love.. In films and in real.Kamala has an unpalatable secret, and so has Salim. She sells gajras to take care of her grandfather and little sister Tara, while he, having escaped militancy in Jammu and Kashmir, sells bouquets.This year, I’m waiting… hoping.Malayalam film JallikattuJallikattu’s plot is this savage, primitive, blood-thirsty chase which intermittently splits into tiny tangents where old grouses, agendas come to the fore — a young couple tries to elope; a wife tries to leave; a loan, it is humbly requested, should be waived as the last gesture of kindness; party comrades sense a slight; a feast without meat depresses a father; Paul the petitioner waits to meet the district collector to submit an official request to end the bull menace.15 morning show of Just Mercy, Michael B.So I’m wondering, what if this is that one film festival which doesn’t have a single standout film? Or worse, what if I am spending all my time rushing to and watching all the bad ones, while the great, transformative ones are playing next door?This particular variety of FOMO (fear of missing out) stays till you watch those two-three outstanding films which make the whole exercise of sitting through rather dull, unbearably long ones worth it.It’s a way to be. But the film is nothing more than a standard, done-to-death Bollywood story from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s…As I said, the state of the nation versus the mind space where India’s genteel intellectuals, who find the present all too uncouth to deal with, would rather be in.While Joon-ho was walking and chatting with the cast of his film, Pattinson, whose disturbing pallor is unmissable, walked past me (his face was, maybe, a foot away and up from mine) wearing a baseball cap and big dark glasses in a style so filmy and faux-incognito that it’s a shock film stars still think they will step out of rather large, very expensive, gleaming vehicles (in this case, GMC’s shiny black Yukon XL which seems to be Tiff's official SUV for celebrity travels) and can will themselves to invisible as they rush to enter a building.Last year at Tiff, those two films for me were Roma and A Star is Born. Those would be the guttural and hyper-macho Jallikattu, a Malayalam film by Lijo Jose Pellissery, and the prettily painted animation film, Bombay Rose, by Gitanjali Rao.This scary feeling arrives in small waves first, and then, as more time goes by, it's an engulfing tsunami.Jallikattu, as the title suggests, is about a large gang of men trying to catch a bull in a game of body strength and courage, but also an open display of chest-thumping egos and sanctioned savagery.There is lots of testosterone on display in Jallikattu as hundreds of cleavers, axes and a rifle gleam threateningly under the light of torches and mashaals. After pursuing it for a few days and getting nowhere, they are beset by that sinking feeling that the story may either be a figment of their desperate imagination, or, well, they are just royally inept

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It’s not easy to play someone so sloppy and so full of herself,” admits Shatruji, confessing he watched his daughter’s performance nervously. I applaud Sonakshi’s performance because as an actor, I know how difficult her role is,” says the proud father."I speak not as a father but a co-artiste. She has proved that she can do things I never could.Says Shatruji, "During Dabangg Salman had said Sonakshi will be such a big star that every girl in the audience would want to be like her. But he did see Noor and can’t stop raving about her performance. She portrays the uncertainties of a young city girl trying to find her bearings with such sensitivity.

As I watched her performance I though she would slip up and stumble.”It was Salman who had predicted Sonakshi’s stardom. I had been bowled over by my daughter in Lootera. Shatrughan Sinha with daughter Sonakshi Sinha wheel bearings Suppliers Shatrughan Sinha doesn’t watch all of his daughter’s films. But he did see Noor and can’t stop raving about her performance. But Sonakshi kept the character going on an even graph, even when the character was making one mistake after another. Now in Noor she plays such an aspirational character.Shatrughan Sinha doesn’t watch all of his daughter’s films. I think this is Sonakshi’s best performance since Lootera

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Brokers said auto sector stocks were centre of nervous selling, triggered by dismal quarterly earnings posted by leading auto makers.81 crore on Friday for the third quarter ended December 31, 2018.80.41 per cent.73 crore on Friday, provisional data released by the stock exchanges showed.Other losers include ONGC, Bajaj Finance, Reliance, SBI, Hero MotoCorp, ICICI Bank, L&T, Vedanta, Yes Bank and Axis Bank, falling up to 2.50 per cent, down at 10,888.10 and a high of 10,930.80, after touching a low of 10,857.Meanwhile, domestic passenger vehicle (PV) sales declined for the third month in a row in January, dropping 1.On the other hand, Tata Steel, PowerGrid, HCL Tech, Kotak Bank and Maruti were the top gainers on Sensex, rising up to 2.41 per cent.03, down 151.The 50-scrip NSE Nifty finished 49.44 per cent decline in standalone profit after tax (PAT) at Rs 1,076.The 30-share barometer after shuttling between 36,588.03, down 151.90 during the session.87 per cent, as manufacturers continued to reduce inventory at dealers following a tepid festive season sales, according to SIAM. 

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New Delhi: The government on Friday announced a raft of measures, including rollback of enhanced super-rich tax on foreign and domestic equity investors, exemption of startups from &China auto bearings Factory39;angel tax', a package to address distress in the auto sector and upfront infusion of Rs 70,000 crore to public sector banks, in efforts to boost economic growth from a five-year low.

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There is a huge opposition from auto drivers in Bengaluru over a new regulation that mandates Class 8 as minimum qualification for getting a driver’s licence. I will try to meet Gadkariji and apprise him of the difficulties auto drivers could face,” he said addressing auto drivers here.Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he would write to Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari asking him to withdraw a clause from Central rules, which mandates Class 8 as minimum quali Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he would write to Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari asking him to withdraw a clause from Central rules, which mandates Class 8 as minimum qualification for getting a driver’s licence.

In the capacity of Delhi chief minister, I will write a letter to the Central government and try to talk, asking for a speedy withdrawal of the clause from the Central Motor Vehicles Rules (Amendment).Prime Minister Narendra Modi should listen to the problems of the auto drivers and solve them, the AAP leader said

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