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India’s automobile sales surge 11.6 pc to record 2.5 crore units in 2024
Passenger vehicles (PV) grew by 4.2 per cent in 2024 as compared to...
Vision-2047: India targets 100-pc severe weather detection, zero deaths
IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said the Vision-2047...
Govt to take action against defaulting EV firms in e-scooter fire accidents: Gadkari
“We have constituted an expert committee to enquire into these incidents and make recommendations on remedial steps. Based on the reports, we will issue necessary orders on the defaulting companies,” the road transport and highways minister Ntin Gadkari said New...
Eight hour blackouts hit India; hottest March points to ‘looming power crisis’
Although outages aren’t uncommon in India, the situation this year particularly points to a “looming power crisis,” said Shailendra Dubey, chairman of All India Power Engineers Federation, an advocacy group. An already sweltering summer and acute coal shortages are...
U.K. sets gender, ethnicity targets for executives, boards
“As investors pay increasing attention to diversity at the top of the companies they invest in, enhancing transparency at board and executive management level will help hold companies to account and drive further progress,” said Sarah Pritchard, executive director of...
Bosses don’t follow their own advice in returning to the Office
The gap points to a double standard in return-to-office messaging — executives from Bank of America Corp. to Alphabet Inc.’s Google are prodding their workers to return in part to boost in-person collaboration, but bosses themselves are somewhat exempt. Companies are...
No more man-days lost in Bengal due to strikes: Mamata tells industry tycoons
“We lost 75 lakh man-days every year during the Left Front rule, but now no man-days are lost'' West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Banerjee also revealed the state planned to set up a Rs 72,000-crore industrial zone in the densely forested and backward...
UK updates Highway Code to prepare for self-driving cars
"This is a major milestone in our safe introduction of self-driving vehicles, which will revolutionise the way we travel, making our future journeys greener, safer and more reliable," said Transport Minister Trudy Harrison "The technology could be available in the UK...
India-1.06 cr domestic passengers travelled by air in March; around 38 pc more than Feb: DGCA
The passenger load factors, which means occupancy rates, were above 80 per cent for all Indian private carriers in March, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) stated in its monthly statement. New Delhi: Around 1.06 crore domestic passengers travelled by...
India’s R value increases above 1 for first time in 3 months, says researcher
“This increase in R-value is not just because of Delhi but also Haryana and Uttar Pradesh,” the mathematician, who has been tracking R for India since the beginning of the pandemic, told PTI India’s effective reproduction number (R) for Covid, an indicator of how...
Give ‘warning’ label, not health star rating on junk food packages: experts tell to FSSAI
If the government is serious about the "epidemic" of obesity and non-communicable diseases, the consumer needs to be cautioned about junk foods through 'warning' labels, public health experts gathered at the 'National Conclave on Sustainable Food Systems', organized...
34 per cent of Pakistan’s population lives on just Rs 588 a day income: World Bank
The poor spend around 50 per cent of their total consumption on food items, the World Bank said in the report released on Tuesday, the day Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif appointed Isamil as the finance minister. Around 34 per cent of Pakistan's population lives on just...