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Premium car maker Audi, which is a unit of the Volkswagen group of Germany, is set to acquire motorcycle maker Ducati Motor Holding from Investindustrial in a deal valued at US $1.1 billion or 860 million euros.

According to a person closer to the matter, the deal value takes into consideration the debt owned by the company. Audi has entered into an agreement with Investindustrial to acquire Ducati, which is a luxury motorbikes maker based in Bologna, Italy.

A doctor, who worked at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough, is being accused in a trial of inappropriately touching three female patients.

It was herd in the trial that the consultant anaesthetist touched three patients' breasts while joking about to nurses about "Wonderbras". It was alleged that Dr Stephen Graham cupped the breasts of one of the patients, who was sedated at the time, with his hands during surgery ad said that it was his Wonderbra technique while making a `cleavage gesture'.

Researchers are testing a new treatment for prostate cancer that may have lesser side-effects than existing treatments.

The study involving 41 patients showed that the technique involving targeted ultrasound treatment could reduce the risk of impotence and incontinence. The researchers have said that the technique could change the future treatments if the results are repeated in other studies.

Global telecom giant, Vodafone ahs served a Notice of Dispute to the government of India for the proposed changes recommended in the Indian Finance Bill 2012 for the Income Tax Act.

Tata Motors ' Jaguar and Land Rover unit has recorded strong growth during April-March 2012 period even as the company's domestic Indian business faced difficult year in the country.

The sales of Jaguar and Land Rover models increased significantly specially after the launch of Range Rover Evoque crossover. The global sales of the entire group increased 26 per cent year-on-year to 1,39,655 units in March.

The industry leaders in India have welcomed the decision by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reduce its key interest rate in order to boost slowing economic growth.

RBI) has reduced its key interest rates for the first time in three years in order to boost the slowing economic growth on Tuesday. Experts said that the interest rate might soon fall in housing, automobile and commercial loans.