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China’s biggest state-owned steelmaker, Baowu, has taken a big step towards exiting the Queensland coking coal sector, shelling out close to $300 million to settle a disastrous deal that forced it to pay for port and rail capacity it has never used.

Alibaba announced that its proprietary large language model, an artificial intelligence system called Tongyi Qianwen, will be available for public and enterprise access throughout China starting Sept. 13. 

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday said food security, reform of the multilateral trade watchdog, development agenda, moratorium on ecommerce transactions, and fisheries subsidies agreements are the deliverables for the ministerial conference (MC) next year. She also said that work is on to introduce «deliberative sessions» at the MC13 for ministers to discuss issues related to carbon taxes, climate, MSMES, women, industrial subsidies and trade. «For MC13, we're trying to get a breakthrough in food security and agriculture but the issues are tough. Some members want to look at trade distorting subsidies and others want to work on stockholding (issues) like India,» she said. Public stockholding is a policy tool used by governments to purchase, stockpile and distribute food when needed.

NEW DELHI : Electric vehicle maker Tesla is looking to source components worth around $1.9 billion from India this year, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. The minister said that going forward, demand for electric vehicles will increase and help the sector grow. “Tesla already last year bought $1 billion of components from I think all of you sitting here," he told members of the Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA).

NEW DELHI : Medical technology giant GE HealthCare plans to scale up manufacturing in India and has chosen the country as part of its strategy to diversify beyond China, a top executive said. An official announcement on the manufacturing boost is expected soon. “India for India makes sense.

₹79,900, maintaining the same price point as the iPhone 12, launched in October 2020. However, this year, the iPhone 15 Pro models are dearer by ₹5,000, while iPhone 15 Pro Max prices have surged by ₹10,000 across all storage variants. Following the launch, Indian handles on social media platform X highlighted the price disparity of the new iPhone models versus global markets, despite the Made-in-India tag.

Mint explains: While iPhones were first made in India in May 2017, this is the first time that India’s assembly lines made the latest iPhone ahead of its launch. Brands such as Apple typically get finished products at mass scale weeks ahead of launch, which is why manufacturers in China start making upcoming iPhones before launch. India’s plants were so far making new phones behind schedule.

Indian tourists annually before the pandemic, South African Tourism anticipates a large resurgence in Indian travellers due to a new e-visa pilot programme. Neliswa Nkani, hub head for the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Australasia (MEISA) for the tourism board, said the introduction of a direct flight by Air India could boost tourism, potentially transforming how Indians travel to South Africa. Nearly 100,000 Indians travelled to South Africa every year before the pandemic began in 2019.

NEW DELHI : India will introduce an import management system to permit the import of laptops, servers and other IT hardware products from trusted jurisdictions, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of electronics and IT, said. Imports from non-trusted jurisdictions—read China—will be limited to a certain number of units. The framework, expected to be put in place this month, aims to exit the ‘non-sustainable’ model of relying on imports, the minister said in an interview.

By Dhara Ranasinghe and Chiara Elisei

Apple won’t be jacking up the price on its faithful iPhone buyers. That could cost it. The world’s largest company by market value updated the key product line of its largest business on Tuesday.

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₹4,915 per tonne. The last price revision by the company was in mid-August, which was a cut in lump ore and fines price by 6-7% to ₹4,650 per tonne and ₹3,910 per tonne, respectively. For iron ore prices to see a meaningful upside movement, the demand for steel needs to rise adequately.

The government of Guyana has opened bids for 14 offshore oil blocks available for exploration and development as the South American country seeks to ramp up oil production

The European Union is launching an investigation into subsidies that China provides to electric vehicle makers

A record of more than one in five young Chinese are out of work, their career ambitions derailed by a depressed job market as the economy struggles to regain momentum after its long bout with COVID-19

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has taken a test ride on Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative

Mykhailo Podolyak has kicked up a controversy by saying India and China have “weak intellectual potential” and that they “do not analyse the consequences” of their actions. The comments, coming days after the G20 summit hosted by India, may dent bilateral ties which are currently are limited in nature. «What’s wrong with India, China, and so forth. The problem is that they are not analysing the consequences of their steps, these countries have weak intellectual potential, unfortunately,” Podolyak said in an interview to Ukrainian media on Tuesday. “Yes, they invest in science.

Vladimir Putin has welcomed the India-Middle East-Europe connectivity initiative, emphasising its logistical advantages. Putin said the project would complement the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), which would, in turn, benefit Moscow. “I believe that this will only benefit us. I believe that this will only help us develop logistics,” Putin said in his address to the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Tuesday. The Russian president said the India-Middle East-Europe connectivity project would help his country develop logistics and added that the project had been under discussion for several years. Putin, however, chided the US over its participation.

BERLIN (Reuters) -Volkswagen is looking at reducing staff at its plant in the eastern German city of Zwickau due to low demand for electric cars, the dpa news agency reported on Wednesday. .

GREAT Scholarship is given to individuals who want to pursue higher studies in the UK. More than 200 scholarships are awarded every year. A minimum amount of £10,000 is given to candidates chosen. Individuals who come from India, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Turkey are eligible for this scholarship. The chosen postgraduate program should begin in September. Indians are given the most number of scholarships. The scholarship covers the full tuition fees for one-year postgraduate programs or the tuition fee for the first year of master’s degree programs with a duration of two years.Eligibility