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Mining raw materials, like nickel, for batteries harms the environment, and new mines are very difficult to get approved, so the search is on to recycle metals that have already come out of the earth

Some long-unaffordable pockets of Canada’s housing market could open up to first-time homebuyers this fall as interest rates decline but experts expect prices will hold relatively flat.

Kuno National Park, the National Tiger Conservation Authority in May 2023 called in experts from Reliance's wildlife facility in Gujarat to review health monitoring protocols, official records show. The National Tiger Conservation Authority's (NTCA) Assistant Inspector General of Forests Abhishek Kumar wrote to the CEO of Reliance Industries' Jamnagar-based Greens Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre (GZRRC) on May 11, 2023, requesting that a team of experts be sent to Kuno to «review health monitoring protocols» and provide advice to «ensure the welfare of the cheetahs» following the deaths of three cheetahs between March 27 and May 9. Kumar's letter said Project Cheetah was the first intercontinental reintroduction of a wild, large carnivore species with «no comparable historical precedent» and it was not surprising that a project of such a «magnitude and complexity would face many challenges».

₹3,500 over and above its regular fare, Air India Express tagged its business class seats at about ₹16,000 in the Delhi-Mumbai sector. That’s still lower than the ₹26,000 charged by its parent entity, the Tata Group-owned full service Air India, for a business class seat on the same route. “We would have replaced these business class seats earlier itself if these replacements were available earlier," a senior Air India Express executive said on condition of anonymity.

Amazon and Flipkart, are tipped to outdo brick-and-mortar shops in wooing smartphone buyers this festive season, offering discounts and deals even the most fastidious of shoppers can't seemingly refuse. Experts believe the big guns of e-commerce will corner nearly three-fifths of the smartphone market this festive season that begins with Ganesh Chaturthi. Discounts and deals, customised through smart and targeted marketing, are aimed at offsetting the sluggish start to the year for the category that remains among the biggest discretionary purchases in India. Better pricing deals from phone makers for the online channels are expected to tilt the scales in their favour. «Overall, the split is expected to be 50:50 for the second half of the year, but online is expected to grow faster than offline during the festive season because of the ongoing tiff with retailers over preferential pricing which is going to increase during the festive season sales,» said Upasana Joshi, research manager, IDC India.

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New Mexico said on Thursday it filed a lawsuit against Snapchat owner Snap Inc alleging that the messaging app's policies and design features facilitate the sharing of child sexual exploitation material. The lawsuit brought by New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez said a months-long investigation found that Snapchat was a primary platform for sextortion, in which a predator coerces a minor into sending explicit photos or videos and threatens to distribute the content unless more sexual content or money is paid. A Snap spokesperson said the company was reviewing the complaint and would respond in court.

ministry of road transport and highways has constituted an expert panel to technically review all long tunnel projects before the proposal is submitted for approval, the move aimed at avoiding a repeat of Silkyara tunnel like mishap. The notification, dated September 6, will apply to all tunnels with length more than 1.5 km. The enhanced scrutiny related provisions are being put in place as the ministry plans to build 74 new tunnels stretching 273 km at a cost of Rs 1 lakh crore over the next few years under its mega plan to strengthen India's highway network. As per the notification, the ministry has set up an advisory panel comprising experts from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited (RVNL) and THIDCL for tendering expert advice during the appraisal of long tunnel projects.

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₹80 lakh on Sebi, the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), and the BSE on August 26 for illegally freezing the demat accounts of two people erroneously classified as promoters. The powers of the exchanges stem from Sebi circulars dated 30 November 2015 and 26 October 2016, which prescribe the standard operating procedures for how to deal with non-compliance of norms by listed companies. Legal experts said the promoters of a company might not necessarily be the people making decisions.

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Fed Chief Jerome Powell unambiguously stated at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium that “the time has come for policy to adjust.” Clearly, barring unforeseen circumstances, the rate-cutting cycle in the US will start in September. Powell’s comment, “the upside risk to inflation has diminished and the downside risk to unemployment has increased,” is, without any doubt, a more dovish message than the markets had expected.

Shaitaan, Munjya and Stree 2—riding a mix of comedy, cultural nuances, strong visual effects and relatable content, have drawn in families and the young in droves, and firmly established the popularity of the genre in Indian cinema. At last count, Stree 2 had earned ₹515.05 crore in domestic box office collections, according to data from trade website Bollywood Hungama, making it one of the biggest Hindi language hits of all time.

Cybercriminals are turning their focus to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as large organisations bolster their cybersecurity infrastructure, maintain data redundancy, invest in cyber insurance, and refuse to pay ransom. Hacker groups like Lockbit, BlackCat and Akira are increasingly targeting SMEs in healthcare, retail and manufacturing, who sometimes remain unable to regain their IT systems even after paying ransom. Attacks on SMEs (with 100-5,000 employees) have significantly risen in India and accounted for nearly half of all such incidents in 2023. Among large organisations, only 10% of those attacked paid ransom, whereas with SMEs, 44% ended up paying amounts ranging between $25,000 and $100,000, according to data from cybersecurity firms.

technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI), cloud, internet of things (IOT), extended reality, 5G and Edge computing, after a lull during the Covid-19 pandemic, said industry executives and experts. They said the industrial metaverse--which refers to the digital world that mirrors the physical world, leveraging the technologies--has found the right price points to generate good returns on investment (RoI) with supporting technologies scaling up. “Industrial metaverse has gone through its waves,” said Sreenivasa Chakravarti, vice president, IOT and digital engineering, TCS. “As always (with any new technology), there is a hype when it peaks, and then it slows down and then again it picks up. Today, because the industrial metaverse is in some way a combination of computer vision, extended reality and digital twins, fortunately, all of these are maturing to a really good extent.”

Travis Kelce could be a blatant PR stunt for mutually enhancing their public image. The document also involves an announcing of their breakup, supposedly set for September 28, 2024, suggests a Telegraph UK report.

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Lawlessness prevails in Bangladesh as Jamaat-e-Islami and radicals run the show with minorities being lynched of blasphemy and Vice Chancellors, Pro-VCs and Supreme Court judges forced to resign. While Bangladesh Parliament has been dissolved illegally, all Supreme Court judges and many High Court judges including the Chief Justice and Attorney General were forcibly removed, according to Constitutional experts on Bangladesh. As many as 33 permanent secretaries and 11 Ambassadors posted in various countries have been arbitrarily removed, according to reports.

Brokerage firm Angel One has warned its users against a website and an instagram page which it found to be «falsely» representing themselves as affiliates of the company while soliciting investments by promising unrealistic returns. In its filing to the exchanges on Thursday, Angel One mentioned a website with a URL https://shahinvestment.com/ and an Instagram Page @shahs_investment_ which it said were unlawfully using the company's name to deceive the public.