ET PRESENTATIONJagmohan Parmar

Toyota launched Etios, the

entry-level sedan, at an aggressive entry price

of around Rs 5.25 lakh.

It will be launched by

Toyota’s global

president Akio Toyoda.

The company

currently has low single-

digit share of the Indian car market and said it

wants a 10% share.

Rs. 19 to change mobile operatorCommunications minister Kapil Sibal launched

the mobile number

portability scheme in Haryana.

On Jan 20 next year, mobile

number portability will be available nationwide.

The customers will have to pay a maximum of Rs.19 to the new operator for porting his

number.

The minimum stay period for a customer to retain the new operator will be three months.The user will have to send an SMS from their phone to 1900. Based on this, they will get a unique porting code from the existing provider.

Ratan Tata has described the media

frenzy over the leakage of tapes

featuring conversations

between Niira Radia and prominent politicians, as a

“smokescreen” which was deflecting

attention from bigger scandals.

Mr Tata suggests that the real scandal was out-of-turn allocation of spectrum and what he described as the

“hoarding” of spectrum by some

telecom companies.

Buoyed by the success of phase one of Marunouchi Indian Economic Zone in Tokyo, Japan's Mitsubishi Estate has

announced the opening phase two of the project.

Pharma giant Johnson & Johnson is facing a multi-million-pound legal claim after more than 10,000 patients in Britain were told their hip replacement operations needed to be reversed.

Over 10,000 patients have been recalled to hospital to have their operations reviewed because components used to cushion and fix the artificial joint were causing tumors and depositing toxic metal in the blood.