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If it’s built by Canadian workers on Canadian docks, it should be made with Canadian steel and aluminum.

United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs have sparked fears of a recession in Canada, but this country’s largest bank is confident it can overcome any near-term hurdles and continue to post healthy growth during the next few years.

American Idol winner Scotty McCreery’s latest album, Rise & Fall, took on an unexpected new meaning when the country singer took a tumble mid-performance. Social media audiences witnessed the 31-year-old country singer during his Kane Brown High Road Tour appearance as he posted the incident, demonstrating his ability to convert a stumble into jovial humor.

In India, the Himalayas are most prone to earthquakes. Experts have highlighted the possibility of a 'Great Himalayan Earthquake'. Any major seismic activity in the region always brings to fore this vulnerability. The impact of such a large earthquake of magnitude of 8 or above can also impact the National Capital Region of Delhi. A matter of 'when' not 'if' American geophysicist Roger Bilham has warned that the Himalayas are the only place in the world where a large quake can occur on land. «India slides 2m beneath the southern edge of Tibet every century. Unfortunately, its northern edge does not slide smoothly but is hung-up (by friction) for hundreds of years and catches up in minutes when this friction is overcome. The slip events, which we call earthquakes, are the inevitable and unavoidable consequence of this motion,» Bilham had told TOI in an interview in 2020. Bilham has explained why the Great Himalayan Earthquake is inevitable even though experts can't say exactly when it can happen. «Great earthquakes with magnitudes exceeding 8 on the Richter scale have been occurring in the Himalayas every few hundred years. We have geological evidence that earthquakes as large as M=8.7 have occurred many times in the past 2,000 years. However, no magnitude 8 earthquakes have occurred in the past 70 years to release the pressure in the Himalayan arc. Two or more regions of the Himalayas must soon rupture in a great earthquake. It is not a matter of “possibly”. They must occur. Unfortunately, scientists are unable to offer any insight into their precise timing,» Bilham had told TOI.

Emerging economies such as India, Brazil and Vietnam, which impose tariff on American imports higher than what the US levies on them, face a high risk of reciprocal tariffs, global ratings agency Fitch said. “Brazil, India, Thailand, Malaysia, South Africa, Turkey and, on a simple average tariff basis, Vietnam and Indonesia, impose notably higher tariffs on exports from the US relative to tariffs imposed by the US on imports from these countries,” it said. US President Donald Trump has threatened with his reciprocal tariffs announcement on April 2 against trading partners he says have been “ripping off” the country by imposing high levies. As per the Fitch report, the tariffs in these economies were higher, both on a simple and trade-weighted average basis. “On a simple average basis, the highest differentials are in Brazil, India and Turkey,” Fitch said.

Elliott took out the 0.5% short on Tuesday (25 March), according to Financial Conduct Authority disclosures, the same day Shell had its 2025 capital markets day where CEO Sinead Gorman outlined his firm's future strategy for the next five years. The US hedge fund, which is well know for its activism in UK listed companies over the years, is currently the only firm that has amassed a short position in Shell large enough to be disclosed by the FCA. BP's share price rallies 6% after US activist hedge fund Elliott builds stake Elliott built up a stake in Shell's competitor, BP, of an u...

The move comes after SEC acting chair Mark Uyeda indicated last month that the regulator would be rolling back on its policy and yesterday (28 March), the SEC sent a letter to the US courts stating that the Commission withdraws its defence of the rules.  The letter also noted that the Commission counsel are no longer authorised to advance the arguments in the brief the regulator had filed. How financial firms' ESG backlash could soon backfire In a statement Uyeda said, «the goal of today's Commission action and notification to the court is to cease the Commission's involvement in t...

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a part of a sweeping restructuring. Going by the White House estimates, the move — along with voluntary resignations — will shrink the department's workforce of 80,000 to about 60,000. Moreover, the HHS is also consolidating its 28 agency divisions into 15 new sections, including a new Administration for a Healthy America, to help carry out Kennedy's Make America Healthy Again agenda. «We aren't just reducing bureaucratic sprawl,» said Kennedy. «We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic.» ALSO READ: US health department to cut 10,000 jobs as Robert F. Kennedy Jr announces overhaul in latest DOGE push

A team of US officials, headed by Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch, is here for negotiations on the proposed agreement. «Early stage of discussions are going on,» one of the sources said, adding that nothing has been finalised so far. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said the ongoing talks between India and the US for the proposed pact are progressing «well» and will be for the «good» of both nations while protecting India's interests. The official level deliberations assume significance as US President Donald Trump has announced imposing reciprocal tariffs on April 2 on America's key trading partners, including India.

The downturn follows Trump’s announcement of a 25 per cent tariff on foreign vehicles, set to take effect April 2. Critics argue these policies risk inflating consumer prices and destabilizing global markets. Multiple polls, including CNN and Economist/YouGov, echo Gallup’s findings, with disapproval rates outpacing approval by double digits.

capital on Friday amid rise in precious metal rates in the overseas markets, according to the All India Sarafa Association. The precious metal of 99.9 per cent purity had finished at Rs 91,050 per 10 grams on Thursday. In FY25, gold prices have increased by Rs 23,730 or 35 per cent from Rs 68,420 per 10 grams on April 1 last year.

NCAA men’s basketball tournament is witnessing four Sweet 16 games on Friday, March 28, as fans gear up to see their favourite side making it to the Elite Eight matchups. With Final Four for March Madness just around the corner, the live coverage on Friday will begin in Atlanta in the evening, followed by the tip offs in Indianapolis. Set to be in action are the top four seeds, including the 2024’s national runner-up, USA Today reported. Here's all you need to know about the four matches today:

Music Festival have announced that The Killers will be headlining the event on July 29. The Las Vegas rock band are known for anthems like Mr Brightside and Somebody Told Me. They will be joined by The Beaches and Matt Mays for an unforgettable night. The four-piece band, as per the reports, was formed in 2002. It features singer/keyboardist Brandon Flowers, drummer Ronnie Vannucci, guitarist Dave Keuning, and bassist Mark Stoermer. As per an NTV report, the band has received multiple Grammy nominations, American Music Award nominations, MTV Video Music Awards, NME Awards and more. Tickets for The Killers’ show go on general sale from April 2 at noon, and will be available online at ChurchillParkMusicFestival.com.

Maxine Waters suggested that US President Donald Trump consider deporting his wife, Melania Trump, while criticizing his administration's immigration policies. Waters went after the First Lady of the United States at a Los Angeles rally protesting DOGE cuts, where she referenced Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship, which confers citizenship status on people born here. Trump has vowed to remove millions of migrants without legal status from the United States as part of his mass deportation program. «If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania,' she said, personalizing the political attack. When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he's going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America,» she said at the rally. ALSO READ: 'I am almost done...': Elon Musk to step down from DOGE and quit Washington DC after $1 trillion in US govt cuts «We don't know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look,» said Waters, who was among the first House Democrats calling to impeach Trump during his first term.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Market sentiment seems to have turned bearish, as the rollover for Nifty futures in March has fallen below its three-month average. The rollover for the Nifty 50 in March fell to 76.09%, a drop from last month's 83.57% and below the three-month average of 80.14%.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is set to have his first phone conversation with United States President Donald Trump in the coming days, and Trump’s commerce secretary said Canada may get some reprieve from automobile tariffs.

President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on softwood lumber risk disrupting the supply chain for something nobody wants to be caught without: toilet paper.

Former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says we are “seriously outgunned” by the Americans in a trade war, arguing Canada will still need the United States down the road.

Canadian energy executives are pretty much all in on building a west-to-east pipeline, suggests a new survey.

Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board chief executive Jo Taylor and his investing team usually rely on a lot of real-world data when determining where to allocate billions of dollars of investment money on behalf of retirees. But United States President Donald Trump’s flurry of edicts that threaten to upend global trade and geopolitical alliances makes it hard to know what data points they should even be looking at.