Archive for ‘ Cycles ’

BY Manisha Sharma Bangalore took an initiative to increase connectivity and create an environmentally friendly mode of public transport in the city. Namma Cycle, a public bicycling initiative was launched yesterday at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). At the launch, Professor P. Balaram, Director, IISc, and Shankar Linge Gowde, (IAS), Commissioner, BBMP, were present as chief...

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BY Manisha Sharma ‘Pedalling to work’ campaign started in Mysore has gathered momentum everyday. Deputy director of public instruction T Basavaraju said that the city had more than 600 schools in both north and south blocks and had asked them to cycle to work one day a week and shun motorized vehicles at least on Mondays. Basavaraju...

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BY Manisha Sharma Due to labour crisis in Punjab, the bicycle industry looking for newer ways to rope as many workers as possible. The bicycle industry has requested the Center to link the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) with the Industrial Training Institutes (ITI) so that the trained workforce could be directly absorbed the...

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BY Manisha Sharma The Athi’s Bicycle Club (ABC) have taken initiative to re-launch the ABC in Thiruvananthapuram, by mayor K Chandrika at a function which will take place at the Museum premises on August 6. This initiative will help the city residents to save their fuel budget and will have less traffic jams and low pollution caused...

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BY Manisha Sharma A city-based manufacturing company has come up with battery equipped electric cycles which will be sold both at home and abroad. M M Technologies proprietor M M Ananth claims that battery equipped electric cycles can cover a distance of 30 km, if the battery is charged for eight hours. The electric cycle can climbing slopes and has a...

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BY Manisha Sharma The effort made by the district administration in Mysore to make city a bicycle-friendly have motivated many women and others to set the wheels rolling. Second division clerk J Latha, found pedaling to work once in a week an interesting and healthy option. The initiative taken by her to ride a bicycle to office...

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BY Manisha Sharma Deputy commissioner P S Vastrad pedalls bicycle to work once in a week, as result, other employees of Qwinix Technologies Inc, an IT solution company in Mysore, Raghavendra Joshi G and Divya Pushparaj, along with other co-workers were motivated by his initiative. The company was established by Darshan Puttannaiah, who is based in US,...

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BY Manisha Sharma India’s leading leisure and premium bicycle company, Firefox Bikes, expects its sales to increase by 25% to 50,000 units in Financial Year 2012-13. The company have sold 40,000 units in the last fiscal, in terms of value and is aiming a turnover of Rs 50 crore in FY’13, corresponding to Rs 38 crore this...

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BY Manisha Sharma TI Cycles has launched its first exclusive kids store, BSA Champ in Chennai. The store will offer bicycles, tricycles, swing cars and walkers for toddlers. the store’s targets on children up to eight years.   Mr Rajesh Mani, General Manager (Marketing and Retail) of TI Cycles, said, “With a growing kids market in India...

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BY Manisha Sharma India’s leading leisure biking company, Firefox Bikes and MTV, India’s youth brand, today announced the launch of their latest range of co-branded adventure bikes. The unveiling of the latest range of bikes took place in New Delhi’s Royal Plaza by Shiv Inder Singh, Managing Director, Firefox Bikes Pvt. Ltd, and Sandeep Dahiya, Sr. Vice...

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