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Sunshine Protection Act aims to establish daylight saving time as the permanent standard time. As of now, the Sunshine Protection Act, which proposes to establish daylight saving time as a permanent standard, has not passed a vote in the House. Consequently, clocks will still advance by one hour at 2 am on March 10, as per the report.

MILAN is an India-hosted biennial multi-national naval exercise that originated in 1995. The exercise aims to enhance cooperation and interoperability among the navies of diverse participating countries.

Sony will cut about 900 jobs in its PlayStation division, or about 8% of its global workforce, becoming the latest company in the technology and gaming sector to announce layoffs

Goldman Sachs and Mubadala Investment Company have signed a $1-billion separately managed account in which Mubadala and Goldman Sachs will co-invest in private credit opportunities throughout the Asia Pacific region, said a joint statement. The Partnership will be managed by Private Credit at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with a dedicated on-the-ground team across multiple Asia Pacific markets. The global Private Credit team consists of 165 credit investment professionals overseeing more than $110 billion in assets under management (AUM).

The Biden administration, leaders of four Columbia River Basin tribes and the governors of Oregon and Washington have signed papers formally launching a $1 billion plan to help recover depleted salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest

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When the world’s most valuable lithium company last year announced plans for a $1.3 billion plant in South Carolina, local officials hailed it as transformative for the Palmetto State. The high-tech project from Charlotte, N.C.-based Albemarle was designed to process different sources of lithium, including from recycled batteries, and serve as a supplier of the critical mineral for South Carolina’s burgeoning electric-vehicle industry. Less than a year later, those plans have been hobbled by a crash in battery metal prices, undercut by a slowdown in electric-vehicle sales growth in the U.S.

Infosys: Recovering from the loss of a billion-dollar deal in December, Infosys has kicked off 2024 with momentum, securing two significant contracts. The most recent is a $300 million contract with Singapore-based Pacific International Lines running until 2027, according to industry executives. The Singapore deal marks Infosys's second significant multi-year contract announcement within a month, following a seven-year agreement with Irish food retailer Musgrave on 31 January to automate its IT functions using AI and cloud solutions.

JD.com was the firm’s second biggest holding as it increased its investment from 125,000 to 200,00 shares at $5.8m.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is in the Pacific Northwest visiting a major bridge that's slated for a multibillion-dollar replacement

carbon capture approaches. The technology? Sunlight and seawater. The company, Banyu Carbon, says it has developed an ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) system that relies on a synthetic molecule that, when exposed to light, changes shape and becomes acidic. When it interacts with seawater, the resulting process scrubs CO2. Though the company is currently working at the gram scale, its technology holds the promise of a low-cost way to limit global warming. “The main problem we're trying to solve is that carbon removal takes a ton of energy,” says Banyu co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Alex Gagnon, a chemical oceanography professor who spun the startup out of the University of Washington in 2022 with colleague Julian Sachs. (A marine organic chemist and Banyu’s chief technology officer, Sachs previously conducted fieldwork in the Pacific, and “Banyu” is an Indonesian word for “seawater.”)

earthquake-vulnerable structure that's set to be replaced as part of a multibillion-dollar project supported by federal funding. The bridge carries more than 130,000 vehicles a day across the Columbia River between Portland and Vancouver, Washington, according to regional transportation agencies. It's a key component of I-5, which runs the length of the West Coast.

Coca-Cola Company on Tuesday said its beverage volume growth in 2023 in the developing and emerging market was led by India and Brazil. The India business «experienced a robust growth in 2023», said James Quincey, Chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Company during the earnings call on Tuesday. The company's net revenue for the December quarter grew 7% to USD 10.8 billion, and organic revenues (non-GAAP) grew 12%. For 2023, net revenues grew 6% to USD 45.8 billion.

BHEL), GMR Airports Infrastructure, NMDC, Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Union Bank of India. There will be no deletions, according to an MSCI release issued late Monday. PNB and Union Bank will be among the three largest additions to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index measured by full company market capitalisation. The third one is Midea Group Co from China.

Stifel Financial Corp’s independent contractor broker-dealer subsidiary – Stifel Independent Advisors – has welcomed a $335 million advisor practice, it’s second so far this year.

In February, while the typical maximum temperature averages at 30.9 degrees Celsius, Bengaluru has experienced temperatures exceeding this norm. Meteorologists attribute this temperature surge to the absence of wind and rainfall in the area. Normally, Bengaluru should have received 7.1 mm of rainfall by February, but as of now, there has been no precipitation. A Prasad, a scientist at the IMD Bengaluru observatory, told Times of India that a counter-clockwise movement of cold air from the southeast, traversing over the Bay of Bengal, is expected to introduce cooler conditions to the city. This drop in maximum temperature is anticipated to persist for about a week before rising again towards the end of the month. Already, this forecasted change has had a moderating effect on the city's climate. On Friday-Saturday, the maximum temperature recorded was 31.2 degrees Celsius, while the minimum was 18.0 degrees Celsius.

PepsiCo got a bump to fourth quarter profits thanks in part to lower charges and continued price hikes, but higher prices have hit sales

Boeing executives extended an olive branch to the company's strained supply chain this week to help them deal with the fallout of the latest 737 MAX crisis, but those firms are taking a wait-and-see attitude after years of dealing with the planemaker's hard-line approach. The aerospace giant's shift in tone was underlined by a speech on Wednesday by Ihssane Mounir, Boeing's vice president of supply chain and fabrication, at an aerospace conference outside Seattle. «We build the airplane together. There's no you and us. It's just us,» he said.

India, France to strengthen defence ties On the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and France, Chinese President Xi offered to "break new ground" to give a fillip to bilateral ties between the two countries. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said they have offered to step up French imports to the country.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece, is planning an India trip next month, a little over six months since PM Narendra Modi visited Athens to elevate ties to strategic partnership.

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