anuary 1, 2013 saw a price hike for all BMW
and MINI range of vehicles. BMW Group India has announced this marginal
price hike following higher input costs and a depreciating Rupee though
they continue to maintain a premium position in the Indian luxury car
sector. 2012 saw BMW India stay atop the luxury auto market here having
sold 9375 vehicles with Audi trailing with 9,003 cars sold. Mercedes Bemz India sold 7,138 cars for the year. 
The price hike will range between 5% and 6%. Post hike, BMW range
is now priced between Rs.25.50 lakhs to Rs.1.42 crores while the MINI
brand will cost between Rs.26.60 lakhs to Rs.37.50 lakhs. The company is
also on the brink of launching new products in the Indian auto market.
New BMW 7 Series, new BMW X1 and BMW 1 Series hatchback are scheduled
for launch in India during the current ye
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Washington, Jan 11: The USA has stressed that India and Pakistan
should engage with each other more, instead of looking for a third party
to mediate. Washington said this while Islamabad sought a third-party
intervention in the ongoing border skirmish issue and India ruling out
any such possibility.
State department spokesperson Victoria Nuland said both the Asian
neighbours were making good progress in recent times by working through
various difficult issues, including trade. She said if the two countries
could reach an agreement on the border issue as well, it would be the
best outcome. Washington was clearly trying to avoid Pakistan's bait to
get involved in the problem.
It can be mentioned here that the US and Pakistan are going through
perhaps the worst phase in bilateral relations. New Delhi, on the other
hand, is enjoying a
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Chicago, Jan 9: The mortal remains of an Indian-American
businessman who died here within hours of receiving a cheque for the
million-dollar jackpot that he had won could be exhumed soon in order to
clear the mystery over how he was poisoned.
In Jun 2012, Urooj Khan bought two Illinois lottery scratchcards from a
store that he used to frequent. The 46-year-old scratched one of the
cards at the 7-Eleven store itself and jumped up in joy on discovering
that he had won the first prize of $1 million.
Khan had two options - collect just $600,000 immediately or receive the
entire sum in installments. The owner of a dry cleaning chain in North
Side here preferred the former. On Jul 19, Khan received a cheque for
about $425,000, the amount he was entitled to get after taxes.
The next day, the immigrant from Hyderabad screamed suddenly in the
m
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Islamabad, Jan 10: Ninety people were killed and over 270 more
injured in six bomb attacks in the restive Pakistani provinces of
Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Thursday, marking a sharp spurt in
terrorist violence ahead of the country's next general election.
Terrorists targeted a security forces vehicle and a Shia-majority
neighbourhood in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, and a religious
congregation in the Swat Valley of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, an erstwhile
stronghold of the Taliban.
Fifty-six people were killed and over 160 injured in the worst attacks
that occurred late in the evening at Alamdar Road and Airport Road in
Quetta, the capital of Balochistan. A suicide bomber blew himself up
inside a snooker club on Alamdar Road, which has two Shia prayer halls
and a sizeable population of Shia Hazaras. As media teams and security forces gathered in the area, three m
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Kharjan is mourning. Pall of gloom hangs over the village in
Assam's Tinsukia district after three children were killed when a
grenade-like object they were playing with exploded on Wednesday, Jan 9.
Assam Home Secretary GD Tripathy said, a schoolboy was killed on the
spot and two children who were injured died while being taken to
hospital.
"The blast took place near a lower primary school at Kharjan near Digboi
today (Wednesday). A schoolboy, who received critical injuries in the
blast, is being treated at a local hospital,"
Tripathy said. A detailed
report on the incident was awaited, he added.
About 550 km from Assam's capital Guwahati, Digboi is known as the
state's oil township where crude oil was first discovered. The deceased
children have been id
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