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East Coast, creating delays and raising costs in the latest disruption to global supply chains. After the container ship Dali hit the bridge and brought it down early Tuesday, ship traffic entering and leaving the Port of Baltimore was suspended indefinitely. That will require rerouting vessels or their cargo to other ports, potentially causing congestion and delays for importers, said Judah Levine, head of research for the global freight booking platform Freightos.

India’s policy focus on making the country a hub for EV-making will have a side effect. As electric vehicles (EVs) roll off assembly lines, our dependence on Chinese imports will rise, even though we’ve been trying to reduce it. That’s because China, with a head-start of a decade or so, is the global leader of clean-tech in general and this segment of the auto industry in particular.

Elon Musk's X shows support to paediatrician Kulvinder Kaur Gill's against 'Canada govt-supported efforts to cancel her Notably, OpenAI and its flagship offering, ChatGPT, have been in Musk's firing line since the lawsuit, going so far as to call the San Francisco-based startup "closed AI". Recently, Musk's xAI had also decided to join the ranks of Meta and Mistral by open sourcing Grok AI under the Apace 2.0 licence. Musk had launched Grok AI in November last year as an alternative to popular chatbots on the market, including ChatGPT and Gemini (formerly Bard).

In 2024, Bitgert’s price is forecasted to follow an upward trajectory. The 80% increase in price in the last month is a good indicator of the impending bull run Bitgert is being set up for.

petroleum and natural gas ministry is drawing up plans to offer free piped natural gas (PNG) connections and consumption subsidies to poor households to help its wider adoption on the lines of the Ujjwala scheme, which popularised liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) among the poor, said people familiar with the matter. The plan is likely to be part of the ministry's proposal for the first 100-day agenda of the government which will be sworn in after the general election, they said. The Modi government has asked all ministries to propose new ideas and plans that could be launched or implemented in the first 100 days of the next regime. Officials are busy preparing the plans, which are likely to be discussed with the cabinet secretary in early May in the middle of the election, according to people in the know.

There’s a comforting but erroneous explanation for why solar panels, home batteries and electric vehicles (EVs) are increasingly likely to be made in China. With an economy awash in easy money, its renewable manufacturers are undercutting rivals across the world; ergo, China’s comparative advantage isn’t scale, cost efficiency or innovative prowess, but cheap government subsidies. In the EV industry “everybody has an endless supply of loans and support from the local government," the Financial Times quoted Jörg Wuttke, former president of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, as saying in a recent article.

Arvind Kejriwal shared his second order from jail. Part of the Francis Scott Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after being hit by a cargo ship — sending cars and people plummeting into the river. Meanwhile, a suicide bomber killed six people in Pakistan after ramming his explosive-laden car into a vehicle.

₹10 lakh for a 50-acre plot. It has spurred crop diversification via a rice-fallow management approach, wherein farmers cultivate short-duration pulses or nitrogen-fixing crops after their rice harvest. This approach has proven both eco-friendly and economically viable.

Baltimore has been suspended until further notice and we'll need to clear that channel before the ship traffic can resume," he told reporters at White House. "It's my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge...The people of Baltimore can count on us." The US President also said that the federal agencies are assisting with search and rescue efforts around the Francis Scott Key Bridge. "Officials at the scene estimate eight people were unaccounted for.

In these tough economic times, the ranks of Canadians taking on a side hustle to make ends meet is rising.

In 2022, I wrote a column asking why Canada couldn’t be as smart and successful as Australia. Two years later, by almost any metric, Australia continues to outperform us economically, while maintaining its social democracy and generous welfare programs.

Inflation is continuing to bite Canada’s restaurant industry, as sales have dipped across the country and consumers are facing higher menu prices.

Canada Goose Holdings Inc. says it is laying off 17 per cent of its global corporate workforce.

Port of Baltimore. Here's what we know about the collision: BRIDGE HISTORY

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) on Tuesday said that it has launched a pilot called Project Vruddhi which is using Artificial Intelligence (AI) for demand forecasting. Managing Director and CEO, Satyakam Arya underscored the disruptive and transformative role that AI is expected to play on operations going forward while addressing the media at the company's facility in Oragadam, which is on the outskirts of Chennai. «The commercial vehicle industry is a very complex business,» he explained. «We have BSIII to BSVI parts and different generations of vehicles that we have rolled out in 10 years. Forecasting demand for parts for those vehicles is absolutely essential. AI is helping to do that.»

mandi prices in view of extension of onion export ban, the government on Tuesday assured farmers that it will start procurement of 5 lakh tonnes of rabi onion in next 2-3 days to protect their interest. Last week, the commerce ministry extended the ban on onion export till further orders. The ban on onion shipment was valid till March 31. «We want to assure farmers that their concern will be taken care of. ...We will begin procurement of 5 lakh tonne of rabi (winter) crop in the next 2-3 days for maintaining a buffer stock,» Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh told reporters. The onion export ban is affecting traders and not farmers as average mandi (wholesale) prices are ruling currently at around Rs 13-15/kg in Maharasthra, which is almost double from the previous year level, he said.

The world’s governments have agreed they want to triple renewable energy by 2030, a goal laid out at the U.N. climate summit in December

Egg prices are at near-historic highs in many parts of the world as Easter and Passover approach

Gov. Andy Beshear says an aluminum company has singled out northeastern Kentucky as its preferred site for a new aluminum smelter

Chinese electric vehicle makers are showcasing their latest models, including a flying car, as they take on global rivals at the Bangkok International Motor Show

By Abigail Summerville