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• Rs 1 lakh car a threat to environment
• Chinese Company Takes Google to Court

Rs 1 lakh car a threat to environment

Even as big conglomerates like the Tata Group gear up to launch cars priced as low as Rs 100,000, R K Pachauri, who received the Nobel Peace prize this week as chief of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said these will be a major threat to environment.

"In India roads are not well planned and not made in a proper way. They do not support public transport that much and we are increasingly becoming dependant on cars," Pachauri said in a felicitation event organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

"With the coming in of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 100,000) car, I am having nightmares, I don't know what will happen then," the IPCC chief told a gathering of industry leaders.
Urging Indian industry to come forward in a big way and start being pro-active in saving the world against the dangers of global warming, Pachauri said: "Future of human race is going to be a low carbon future and the Indian industry has to take the lead and be part of the solution."

Pachauri asked it to strategies its business plans in such as way that it gradually moves towards a low carbon economy. He said with each passing day heat waves, dry monsoons, cyclones would be a common phenomenon. India's coastal regions would be severely affected by the rising sea levels.

"Extreme precipitation is on an increase and will continue to increase. Floods, droughts, glacier melting are increasing. Sea-level rise will become a major threat for deltaic cities," Pachauri said.

"Impact of climate change on agriculture will be humongous. There will be a significant decline in the production of wheat. This would all be accentuated due to scarcity of water," he said.
"Water management is something I urge the industry to look at very seriously and in the coming years water will emerge as a major cause of conflict within countries."

"Financial planning also has a major role to play in this. How we subsidize water, power and all will have an effect on the environment. We will have to start exploring immediately as to how we develop and adopt new technology," Pachauri emphasised.

Chinese Company Takes Google to Court

Chinese company has taken Google's China operations to court over what it says is an infringement of the Chinese translation of its name, "Guge," according to court documents.

Beijing Guge Sci-Tech Co. was officially registered at the Beijing Municipal Industrial and Commercial Bureau on April 19, 2006, but Google didn't register the name "Guge" in China until Nov. 24 of that year, according to court arguments that began in Beijing this week,

Beijing Guge Sci-Tech says the name has led to confusion and hurt its business.

Guge Sci-Tech wants Google change its Chinese name and pay legal costs, according to court documents. No specific sum was mentioned.

Google said that when Beijing Guge Sci-Tech registered its name there were already reports on the Internet that Google was going to use the Chinese name "Guge," according to court documents.

Google says the name "Guge," which is not a Chinese word, was created by the Beijing-based company. The Chinese characters mean "valley" and "song."