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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For the world’s carmakers, the inexorable rise of Chinese electric vehicle-maker BYD and its local rivals in recent years has been a brutal lesson in disruptive innovation. China, a market that was once core to their global growth plans, has become a wasteland for their petrol-powered lineups as electric vehicles (EVs) grew from 6.2% of sales in 2020 to 45% last year.

S Jaishankar during a discussion at Chatham House in London. The shift, largely driven by US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, is helping reshape global alliances. “If I were to look at the big priorities of this president, many of them work for us,” Jaishankar stated. “He seems to be committed to keeping energy prices reasonably affordable and stable—we welcome that. He is putting a lot of emphasis on tech and on the use of tech as a game changer in global politics. That offers a lot of possibilities for us.” Jaishankar noted that the US administration under Trump is actively moving towards multipolarity, a shift that aligns with India’s vision for the future. “We see a president and an administration moving towards multipolarity, and that is something which suits India.”

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A recent news story in a prominent US daily reported that a number of non-profits in Washington DC are distributing robotic pets to residents aged 60 and older in some areas of the city to ease their loneliness and isolation. While in the US, about 28% of people aged 65 and older live by themselves, the number in that age group is projected to increase to 82 million by 2050, which will be 23% of the total population.

The incident occurred in February 2022, when the woman allegedly ordered her 49-year-old partner, who was her common-law husband, to go outside while naked. She then confined him to the balcony, where he remained exposed to the cold temperatures overnight.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 6 March, Indian stock indices, the Sensex and the Nifty 50, lost their initial upward momentum and closed in negative territory, dragged down by declines in major stocks like HDFC Bank, Airtel, ITC, and Infosys. Meanwhile, the White House revealed that US President Donald Trump is open to evaluating additional products for possible tariff exemptions, which came into effect on 4 March.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday stated that the world's leading economies are grappling with a population crisis. Speaking at a book launch, Naidu emphasised that while these countries possess advanced resources such as Artificial Intelligence and cutting-edge technologies, they lack a sufficient workforce to operate them. «All top countries in the world are struggling. There is no population. AI and technology exist, but there are no people to operate them,» he said.

Sensex and Nifty, opened higher for the second consecutive session on Thursday, driven by gains in auto, financial, and metal stocks. The rally followed US President Donald Trump's temporary tariff reprieve on automobile imports from Mexico and Canada. The BSE Sensex climbed 299 points (0.41%) to 74,032, while the Nifty50 advanced 99 points (0.44%) to 22,436 around 9:20 am.

The agency estimated Indian steel may see a price correction of about 3,000 rupees ($34.52) per ton. Local steelmakers have been battling a rising influx of discounted steel, with intake from China, South Korea and Japan hitting a record high in first 10 months of the current fiscal.

Trump said in an address to the U.S. Congress that the pipeline would be one of the largest in the world. «Japan, South Korea and other nations want to be our partner, with investments of trillions of dollars each,» he said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. High-school physics textbooks tell us that the gravitational pull between two objects is determined by three factors—the weight of the two objects, the distance between them and a universal gravitational constant. The gravitational force is directly proportional to the mass of each object, while it is inversely proportional to the distance between them.

The three fund managers – Lisa Lim, Tim Love and Joaquim Nogueira – will be based in London and report to Tom Carroll, chief executive of Rathbones AM. Lim joins Rathbones AM as head of Asia ex-Japan equities and a fund manager. Prior to her move to Rathbones, she worked at Prusik Investment Management as a partner and portfolio manager, where she played a significant role in setting up and leading its sustainable investing capabilities. Rathbones profits surge 73% while outflows rise following IW&I integration Before that, she was a fund manager at Columbia Threadneedle for o...

In its annual results released today (3 March), the board said its holdings in quoted equities contributed 6.9% to the trust's NAV and returned 15.8% the 12 months ended 31 December 2024. Last year, the strategy increased its portfolio allocation to quoted equities to 46.2%, up from 38.4% in 2023. According to Maggie Fanari, chief executive of the trust's manager, J Rothschild Capital Management, RCP's quoted equities pillar «benefited from our selection of quality and small-to-mid cap stocks, along with a strong performance from managers investing in China and Japan». RIT Capital ...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last week’s Trump-Vance-Zelensky train wreck proved that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is on increasingly shaky ground. Starting with Donald Trump’s Feb.

U.S. nuclear deterrence is crucial to the country's security and that its participation would send the «wrong message.» Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Japan's national security is the primary reason it will not participate as an observer at the conference, which starts Monday in New York. «Under the severe security environment, nuclear deterrence is indispensable to defend the people's lives and assets, as well as Japan's sovereignty and peace,» Hayashi told reporters. Japan's participation as an observer at the conference would «send a wrong message about the Japanese policy (supporting) nuclear deterrence and interfere with our effort in security, peace and safety.»

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. On 25 February, the Avishkar Hyperloop student team from IIT-Madras and the railway ministry along with ArcelorMittal, Hindalco and Larsen & Toubro unveiled the Hyperloop test track. Once commissioned, it could cut Delhi-Jaipur travel (250km) to 30 minutes compared with 1 hour by air and 4–5 hours by road.

Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said that Indians must work hard to reach the ambitious goal of making India a USD 30 trillion economy by 2047. Speaking on the ongoing debate about work hours, he pointed out that countries like Japan, South Korea, and China achieved economic success through a strong work ethic. He suggested that India must adopt a similar mindset to build a world-class economy. “I strongly believe in hard work. Indians must work hard, whether it’s 80 hours or 90 hours a week. If your ambition is to move from a USD 4 trillion to a USD 30 trillion economy, you can’t do it through entertainment or by following the views of some film stars,” Kant said at Business Standard’s Manthan summit. Currently, India’s economy stands at around USD 4 trillion. Kant also said that India must focus on delivering projects ahead of time, maintaining world-class standards, and avoiding time and cost overruns.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost Mission 1 is targeting landing no sooner than 3:34 am US Eastern time (0834 GMT) on Sunday, aiming for a site near Mons Latreille, a volcanic feature in Mare Crisium on the Moon's northeastern near side. «Blue Ghost is ready to take the wheel!» the company posted on X on Saturday evening, adding flight controllers had just initiated a key maneuver that lowers a spacecraft's orbit.

Around 2,000 people fled areas around the northern Japan city of Ofunato to stay with friends or relatives, while more than 1,200 evacuated to shelters, according to officials. «We're still examining the size of the affected area, but it is the biggest since the 1992 wildfire» in Kushiro, Hokkaido, a disaster management agency spokesman told AFP Saturday.

Buddha, tears pouring down his cheeks. He takes out his phone and captures the massive sculpture, the Bodhisattvas flanking it and the small cells carved into the cave where his religious forbears must have lived. This is sanctum and sanctuary for him. About 100 km away, a group of Japanese tourists are gingerly making their way through a narrow, semi-circular path that is cut into the middle of a rocky cliff in Aurangabad, Maharashtra. They gaze—in the light of a torch and the night settings of their phone—at the eloquent arch of Bodhisattva Padmapani’s torso and his halfclosed eyes painted on Cave No. 1 of Ajanta. People who follow the Buddha’s Middle Path, or those who are enamoured of this apostle of compassion, or are simply enchanted by the historical spots, some of them dating back to before the Common Era, travel to the places that dot what is called the Buddhist circuit. It stretches from Bodh Gaya in Bihar to Nagarjunakonda in Andhra Pradesh.

Alastair Newton, CEO, Alavan Business Advisory Ltd, we can park Asia largely because Donald Trump has not really turned his attention to Asia, other than he had quite a warm meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister and as I mentioned a moment ago, had a very warm meeting with Narendra Modi. But for the moment, Donald Trump's attention seems to be largely, largely on Western Hemisphere, Panama, Mexico, Canada. He had that spat with Columbia right at the beginning of his current term of office, and in particular on Europe. ET Now: What really happens now, what do you anticipate will be the next set of steps because Donald Trump has stated that this was something that we had a very fruitful meeting in the White House. Much was learned that could have never been understood without conversation under such fire and pressure. Do you think that there will be a resumption of peace talks anytime soon between Ukraine and the United States?

Japan Airlines flight traveling from Hokkaido in northern Japan arrived at Haneda Airport just as a Japanese Coast Guard plane, en route to assist with earthquake relief in western Japan, was about to land on the same runway. Shortly after, the two aircraft collided and caught fire. Thanks to the crew's expertise and some luck, all 367 passengers and 12 crew members on the Japan Airlines flight managed to evacuate safely. ALSO READ: Have travel anxiety? These seats on an aircraft have the highest fatality rate As per aviation experts, this successful evacuation was a combination of advanced aviation technology, a resilient aircraft build and hands-on implementation of textbook evacuation protocol that drove hundreds of passengers to safety off the tarmac in under 20 minutes after the first lick of flame.