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France's Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin Monday said it will invest 40 billion rupees ($868 million) to set up a new factory in India's southern Chennai city.

Coming as yet another big ticket investment attracted by Tamil Nadu in the auto sector — the global tyre giant, Michelin Group, Francesigned an MoU with Tamil Nadu government on Monday for setting up its tyre manufacturing plant near Chennai.

Austral Coke, leading metallurgical coke manufacturer, has decided to build Lam coke production plant with capacity of 6 lakh tonnes per annum (LTPA) in Vishakhapatnam. The sources said that for the proposed plant, the company has acquired 1.82 lakh square metres of land.

A proposal to build a methane biogas plant at Cors Goch near Benllech on Anglesey from animal waste has caused huge controversy on the island.

The French company dumped from running Melbourne's trains has also missed out on the contract to build Australia's largest desalination plant.

BOC India, the company from Linde Group, the second largest industrial gases player in the world, will invest Rs 600 crore in building and commissioning a 2,550 tonne per day (tpd) air separation unit (ASU) at Tata Steel's Jamshedpur plant.

Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Anil Kakodkar here said that India would build four 700-megawatt nuclear power units shortly.

Toyota declared on Monday that it is considering to set up an engine and transmission plant in India as it looks to use more vehicle-parts made here in its cars than import them.

Story is from Marion, Ala., and the riot, which took place outside city hall, involved "only" 150 people, revised down from the initial estimate of 300. The police chief got smacked with a tire iron, but was otherwise OK.