Murad Ali Baig

Shift gears... now

Early EVs had been expensive, heavy and had limited driving range but new technologies are making them affordable and popular

India's endangered bulls

Farmers suffer great economic loss wherever India's legislators ban or restrict the slaughter and sale of meat or beef products

Driverless cars: Can you trust a robot to drive you home?

The idea of a driverless car is, however, rather scary

Wheels of the year

Cars with automatic gears are safer

Safer and smoother - the benefits of automatic cars trump those of manual drives

Those Japanese bikes

Brijmohan Lall Munjal, who died last week, changed the dynamics of the motorcycle industry by introducing fuel-efficient, low-maintenance Japanese bikes in the early 1980s

Maruti shifts gears with the new Baleno

The new Maruti Suzuki Baleno, much like its crossover counterpart, the S-Cross, is an alluring mix of style and efficiency

Deflated by a chip

Volkswagen built itself on technology, but now that's what has come back to haunt it. The author chronicles the car maker's journey

Murad Ali Baig: The dangers of banning cow slaughter

State-wise data show that cattle slaughter is widespread and that economic compulsions far outweigh religious sentiment

Mountains Al Fresco!

Kumaun Over !