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China for solar energy equipment. With nearly 90% of it being imported from China, India has been in a hurry to build up domestic manufacturing capacity under Make-in-India programme and with the ambitious scheme of Production-linked Incentives (PLI). Now, India's solar economy seems to be slipping out of China's grip.

Apple said on Friday it would issue a software update for iPhone 12 users in France to potentially end a row with French regulators that ordered the suspension of the phone's sale due to breaches of radiation exposure limits. «We will issue a software update for users in France to accommodate the protocol used by French regulators. We look forward to iPhone 12 continuing to be available in France,» Apple said in a statement. «This is related to a specific testing protocol used by French regulators and not a safety concern,» it said. The French government welcomed the move. «The ANFR (French regulator) is preparing to quickly test this update,» French Digital Affairs Minister Jean Noel Barrot's ministry said in a statement, adding this should bring the model into compliance with European standards and allow France to lift the sale suspension. Apple has contested the French radiation findings, saying the iPhone 12 — now a relatively old model launched in 2020 — was certified by multiple international bodies as compliant with global standards. Belgium said on Thursday it would review potential health risks linked to Apple's iPhone 12 in the wake of France's sale suspension, while others, like Germany, said they would wait to see how the situation in French developed. Apple's revenues totalled about $95 billion in Europe last year, making the region its second biggest behind the Americas.

climate activists around the world are set to march, chant and protest Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat. The strike — driven by several mostly youth-led, local and global climate groups and organizations, including Greta Thunberg's Fridays for Future movement — will take place in dozens of countries and in hundreds of cities worldwide and continue through the weekend. A week before the planned protest, the United Nations warned that countries are way off track to curb warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, as agreed in Paris in 2015.

Sachin Pilot on Friday hailed the reconstituted CWC as «very balanced» and having a «good mix» of youth and experience, while asserting that the Hyderabad meeting of the party's highest decision-making body was crucial in view of the upcoming state polls. Pilot, who along with other new faces such as Shashi Tharoor found a place in the reconstituted Congress Working Committee (CWC) last month, said he has always fulfilled with utmost sincerity any role that has been assigned to him by the party but his «heart lies in Rajasthan» and that is where he «can add most value». In an exclusive interview with PTI, Pilot said the Congress has to play a «leading role» in the INDIA bloc because it is the largest party of the alliance but asserted that everyone was being given mutual respect in the bloc. It is not about who occupies which position of power or post, all those issues would be taken up at the appropriate time perhaps even after the Lok Sabha polls, Pilot said of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). Asked whether the Congress would play the role of the fulcrum of the opposition alliance as it did in the UPA, the former Union minister said everyone in the alliance has a role to play but the Congress is the largest party in Parliament among the bloc and in a democracy, numbers matter. «Every constituent of INDIA is an important player and has a role to contribute.

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Narendra Modi will be inaugurating the largest housing project for economically weaker sections at Solapur, in Maharashtra, next month, a senior government official said on Friday. The project at Raynagar in Solapur is spread over 100 acres and comprises 30,000 homes, of which 15,000 have already been built, Maharashtra's additional chief secretary Valsa Nair Singh said. «The biggest economically weaker section housing scheme is now in the final stages of being built at a place called Raynagar in Solapur.

reducing anaemia have failed to substantially reduce the massive burden of anaemia globally over the last few decades. People become anemic when their blood lacks enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body. This decreased oxygen delivery causes many of the most common symptoms of anaemia, including fatigue, shortness of breath, lightheadedness, difficulty concentrating and challenges with work and daily life tasks. In addition to its direct health effects, anaemia can inhibit brain development and fine motor skills in children and heighten the risk of stroke, cardiovascular disease, dementia and other chronic illnesses in older adults. Anaemia during pregnancy can lead to increased rates of anxiety and depression, early labour, postpartum hemorrhage, stillbirth and low birth weight. Infections for both mother and baby are also more likely when the mother is anemic. We are global health researchers with expertise in epidemiological modeling of anaemia alongside other maternal, neonatal and nutritional disorders. Our work is part of the Global Burden of Disease Study, a large research study comprehensively estimating health loss due to hundreds of diseases, injuries and risk factors around the globe. Through our analysis, we have produced annual estimates of anaemia prevalence by underlying cause for 204 countries and territories, by age and sex, from 1990 to the present. We have collected thousands of data points across hundreds of sources to produce the most comprehensive picture of anaemia burden.

Amazon, the e-commerce giant, recently issued a statement that it will stop accepting Rs 2000 notes for ‘Cash-on-delivery’ orders from September 19. It is in response to the recent RBI update of discontinuation of Rs 2000 notes in the Indian market as a legal tender.

Investing.com-- Gold prices rose in Asian trade on Friday as markets bet that the Federal Reserve will keep rates on hold despite recent increases in inflation, while copper prices surged on more stimulus measures from major importer China.

K Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday virtually inaugurated nine new government medical colleges across the state.

Nipah virus (NiV) in its Kozhikode district, prompting authorities to issue a high alert. The virus has already claimed two lives in the state, with two adults and a child currently under quarantine in a local hospital. This marks the fourth occurrence of the Nipah virus in Kerala since 2018 when it first struck, tragically claiming the lives of 21 out of 23 infected individuals.

Nikolai Patrushev, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, wrote in Russia's foreign intelligence agency's house magazine: «In recent years, hundreds of employees of foreign intelligence services, as well as other persons involved in organising intelligence and subversive activities against our country and our strategic partners, have been identified and neutralised». Patrushev, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is a former director of the Federal Security Service (FSB) and is seen as a key advocate of hardline, hawkish policies within the Kremlin.

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the scheme’s official name in English, as a gift to the world that has created huge economic benefits. China claims that 420,000 jobs have been created in BRI countries and 40m people lifted out of poverty thanks to BRI-generated growth. America, and many of its allies, see the BRI as far less benign: a political tool aimed at stifling foreign criticism of Mr Xi’s iron-fisted rule and providing a leg-up for his country’s firms that has saddled countries with crippling debt.

Netflix India, said in a statement. Akshaye Widhani, CEO, Yash Raj Films said the company’s mission is to create entertaining stories from India for the world.

AP, the demand for food is continuously increasing while humanitarian funding is diminishing. According to WFP estimates from 79 countries where the Rome-based agency operates, up to 783 million people — one in 10 of the world’s population — still go to bed hungry every night.

The price of uranium surged to its highest price in 12 years amid fears of a supply crunch instigated by a coup in Niger, and Canadian miner Cameco’s decision to curtail production, just as demand for the commodity is poised to increase.

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi while playing for the country, Rohan Bopanna often gets baffled to find the love of playing Davis Cup diminishing with passage of time. Bopanna does not find the current lot as passionate about playing the David Cup compared to players from past generations. «It has become too mechanical to just come, play and leave,» says Bopanna who is set to quit Davis Cup this coming Sunday. A bit agitated, he feels Davis Cup has become just another tournament for the current generation of players. On the other side, Davis Cup is one tournament where it is believed across the globe that rankings won't matter every time.

New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy rainfall in Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and East Rajasthan on Friday, and thunderstorm and lightning over Uttar Pradesh. Thunderstorm with light to moderate rain and gusty winds with speed of 30-50 kmph is likely across Delhi, and in the national capital region (NCR) such as Noida and Faridabad for the next one hour.

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Also Read: India prioritising longer-range nuclear weapons that can reach China; Pakistan remains primary focus: Report Due to the lack of dependable data from sources within Pakistan, the Nuclear Notebook employed a methodology that relied on a blend of open-source materials for their estimates and analytical work, PTI reported. Their information sources encompassed both state-originating data, such as government pronouncements, declassified documents, budgetary details, military demonstrations, and treaty disclosure data, as well as non-state-originating data, including media reports, think tank assessments, and industry publications.

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