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School education is key to Bharats future Sanjay Kumar at Education conclave

Candlelight vigil for girl murdered in Landskrona, salaries rising more slowly, Swedish Transport Agency fighting to use company with Russian links, and other news from Sweden on Tuesday.

Adopt precaution Updated advisory for Indian SMEs trading with Chinese firms

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2024 - Lithium, often referred to as the "white gold" of clean energy, is an essential component in batteries of all sizes, from mobile devices to large-scale energy storage systems. Despite its abundance, the demand for lithium is growing rapidly due to the surge in electric vehicle (EV) usage, ambitious net-zero targets, and complex geopolitical issues. The global lithium-ion battery (LIB) market, valued at over $65 billion in 2023, is projected to expand by over 23% in the next eight years... Читать дальше...

Beijing (AFP) July 26, 2024 - The world's leading maker of electric vehicle batteries, China's CATL, on Friday reported a 13.4 percent jump in second quarter profits despite a battery price war weighing on sales.

Founded in 2011 in the eastern coastal Chinese city of Ningde, CATL produces more than a third of the electric vehicle batteries sold worldwide.

The teenager was sailing with friends on the Buiten-IJ on Sunday afternoon when he fell in the water
(Picture: Politie)

A 14-year-old British boy has drowned after falling off a boat in Amsterdam.

Tatjana Smith timed her push to perfection in the 100m breaststroke at the Paris Olympics on Monday night, coming home in 1:05.28 to win Team South Africa its first gold medal of the 2024 Games.

Varun Beverages, PepsiCo's franchise partner, declared a stock split in the ratio of 2:5 and announced an interim dividend of Rs 1.25 per share. The company's June quarter results showed a 26% year-over-year increase in profit, amounting to Rs 1,261.83 crore, with revenue growing by 28%.

Former BBC TV news presenter Huw Edwards, a household name in Britain, has been charged with three counts of making indecent pictures of children.

(Telecompaper) Openreach announced it has completed the FTTP roll-out to more than 43,000 homes and businesses in Reading...

1. ‘Anarchy’ as a second base stormed over arrests of Israeli soldiers  The Telegraph
2. Israeli protesters enter army base after soldiers held over Gaza detainee abuse  BBC
3. Israeli inquest into alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees sparks far-right fury  The Guardian
4. Far-right minister says ‘zero legitimacy’ for mob overrunning IDF bases  The Times of Israel
5. Israeli protesters storm military base after soldiers held over Palestinian prisoner abuse  The Independent

Pooja Khedkar has been given seven days to provide her explanation either in person at the DoPT or in writing.

UN Tourism partners with Zambia and Zimbabwe to launch tourism and culinary arts academies, enhancing skills development to support Africa's growing tourism sector.

TEHRAN, Jul. 30 (MNA) – The foreign ministers of different countries, who have traveled to Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, met and held talks with Iranian Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani.

TEHRAN, Jul. 30 (MNA) – Foreign dignitaries have arrived in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran's new President, Masoud Pezeshkian, which is set to occur on Tuesday afternoon at the Iranian parliament.

Sir Andrew Dilnot, whose government-backed commission proposed a cap on social care costs, described the cancellation of planned reforms as a ‘a tragedy’

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te said Tuesday "a threat from China to any country is a threat to the world", emphasizing to lawmakers of more than 20 countries that global democracies must unite against "authoritarian expansion".

La derrota de España contra Egipto ha provocado que los de Santi Denia se enfrenten con el primer clasificado del grupo D, que ha sido Japón  Leer

Death toll rises to 49 in landslides in southern India with the full scope of disaster still unknown.

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 25, 2024 - Scientists have announced a never-before-seen energy peak that resulted from the largest gamma ray burst in history, NASA announced Thursday.

The brightest-of-all-time gamma ray burst, which was quickly dubbed the BOAT, was discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in October 2022 and was heralded and heavily studied by scientists. Its data, scientists say, shows the evidence of the energy peak, or "jet."

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2024 - In the underground tunnel of the world's largest particle collider, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), beams of protons collide at nearly the speed of light, creating conditions reminiscent of the Big Bang. These collisions, occurring 350 feet beneath the France-Switzerland border, produce subatomic debris that could hold clues to the universe's "missing matter."

Duke University physicist Ashutosh Kotwal is on the hunt for dark matter, an elusive substance five... Читать дальше...

Washington DC (UPI) Jul 24, 2024 - Nearly five years after it launched, NASA's Ionospheric Connection Explorer -- or ICON -- mission has officially come to an end, the space agency announced Wednesday.

NASA's ICON mission gathered valuable data as it orbited the outermost layer of Earth's atmosphere, about 55 miles to 360 miles into space in the ionosphere, and provided critical breakthroughs on how space weather affects Earth's weather.

Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 30, 2024 - In a new study published in the The Astrophysical Journal, a researcher from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, explores critical aspects of a phenomenon called kinetic Alfven waves (KAWs) to provide fresh insights into an age-old heliophysics mystery. Syed Ayaz, a graduate research assistant at the UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (CSPAR), examined the potentially pivotal role of KAWs in heating the solar corona... Читать дальше...

San Francisco (AFP) July 26, 2024 - The White House on Friday said that Apple has joined more than a dozen tech firms committed to following safeguards intended to curb the risks of artificial intelligence.

Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI were among the AI sector rivals who joined US officials in unveiling the voluntary pact a year ago.