Tuesday, September 29
India is considering relaxing fuel efficiency norms for small cars after lobbying by Maruti Suzuki, which has seen sales of such cars drop amid an SUV boom, industry and government sources told Reuters. Small cars have been key to Maruti's success in India and account for most of its sales there. However, declining demand for small models, such as Alto or Wagon-R, has driven their share in the carmaker's sales to less than 50% of the 1.7 million cars it sold last fiscal year from nearly two-thirds two years ago. India is also concerned about falling sales of small, affordable cars, according to a senior government official, and the country's top carmaker recently made the case for more favourable fuel emission norms arguing slumping sales will hurt overall growth of the passenger vehicle m
Underlying the demonstrations and street clashes of recent weeks is a dysfunctional system of immigration enforcement that needs to be fixed. With a bit of goodwill — from both the president and his opponents — that shouldn’t be too much to ask. To much public outcry, federal immigration authorities have been detaining unauthorized migrants at job sites, courthouses and other public places in recent weeks. They’re doing so both to meet the administration’s steep deportation quotas and because too many state and local officials are refusing to cooperate.Although this strategy hasn’t resulted in a notable rise in deportations, it has created significant disorder. Anxiety has rippled through immigrant communities as job-site raids have picked up. Protests have spread and at times
