Honda Siel Cars India on Tuesday launched a new version of the CR-V, its premium SUV offering, that is Rs 2.5 lakhs dearer than its earlier version.

The company did not give any details for its small car in the offing, stating they are "working on it". The new CR-V, comes in two variants. One is a six-speed manual transmission and and the other one is an automatic transmission variant. They are priced at Rs 17.7 lakhs and Rs 18.4 lakhs (ex-showroom Delhi) respectively.

"The third generation CR-V, which is being introduced in India within a few months of its global launch, signifies the importance of the Indian market to Honda’s plans," HSCI president and CEO, Masahiro Takedagawa said.

On the small car, he said that nothing has been finalised and the company was studying various options. He said that the increasing input cost and unfavourable foreign exchange rate is putting pressure and therefore the company was looking at hiking prices of all its cars. HSCI said that it is working out the quantum of the price hike but added that care will be taken not to burden customers.

Western Railway Division has revised the train timings for all up and down trains dealt via Vadodara division while it has also converted the Ahmedabad-Puri-Ahmedabad into a superfast train with effect from December 1, with new a train no 2844/2843.

WRD has also stated that the frequency and the days of trains are the same as was effective from July 1, 2006, except that the Pune-Ahmedabad-Pune Express, instead of running on Thursday and Saturday, will now operate on Thursday and Friday.

Moreover, it has also changed the timings of the Kathana Passenger. UNder Its revised timings, train number 104 will arrive at Vadodara at 3.15 pm and depart from Kathana at 12.45 pm.

It has also decided to provide aditional pair of DEMU service apart from existing six pairs running between Anand and Khambhat stations.

Source : Expressindia.com