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A joint venture between Stellantis and Samsung plans to build an electric vehicle battery factory in Indiana that will employ up to 1,400 workers and become the company’s second such factory in North America. The venture announced Tuesday plans to spend more than $2.5 billion (roughly Rs. 19,400 crore) on the plant in Kokomo that [...]

Swedish power company Vattenfall is testing a technology that stores energy in salt, with a goal of proving whether the process would be useful for storage of renewable energy such as from wind and solar farms. The pilot project, commissioned April 11 at the Reuter thermal power plant in Berlin (Figure 1), is being conducted [...]

Hyundai Motor Co said its China plant halted operation due to a supply disruption on Tuesday, its second shutdown in China in less than a month as diplomatic tensions between China and South Korea over a US missile defence system took toll on its business. One of the five China plants operated by its joint [...]

Sweden’s Saab has offered to build the world’s most modern fighter aircraft factory in India, it said on Friday, as it goes head-to-head with U.S. rival Lockheed Martin to supply hundreds of locally produced planes to India’s military. Saab’s pitch for its Gripen E aircraft comes a day after Lockheed said it is pushing ahead [...]

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju Tuesday rejected allegations of corruption levelled against him and said those ‘who plant such news’ will get beaten up with slippers if they come to Arunachal Pradesh, his home state. “Who has planted this news? To help your own people is corruption? Those who are planting [...]

Opponents have lodged a long list of complaints against the chicken-processing operation Costco wants to build in Fremont, pushing back with concerns about pollution, illegal immigrant workers and whether farmers will get a fair shake. But there has been little talk about the welfare of the birds or of the people who will slaughter them, [...]

Studies have been showing for some time that eating too much meat — especially red meat — is bad for health, with researchers now reporting that replacing a small amount of animal protein with proteins from plants can reduce the risk of death from all causes. Replacing 3 percent of dietary protein from animal products [...]

Soil health is deteriorating around the globe. A combination of commercial agricultural practices, global warming and pollution are draining nutrients and encouraging the accumulation of contaminants. The solution, scientists say, is biodiversity. New research highlights the importance of soil structure for soil health. As a new paper in the journal Ecology Letters explains, the best [...]

Soil health is deteriorating around the globe. A combination of commercial agricultural practices, global warming and pollution are draining nutrients and encouraging the accumulation of contaminants. The solution, scientists say, is biodiversity. New research highlights the importance of soil structure for soil health. As a new paper in the journal Ecology Letters explains, the best [...]

Pakistan’s leading cement producer, Lucky Cement Limited, is investing Rs. 20 billion for establishing a new, fully integrated green field cement manufacturing plant. Lucky Cement is already operating two plants in the country, one at Pezu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one in Nooriabad, Karachi. In these areas, Lucky Cement is not just running very successful plants, [...]

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TOKYO – Electronics giant Sony Corp on Sunday said production at its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, southern Japan, remained suspended as it assessed damage from a powerful earthquake. Operations at its image sensor plants in Nagasaki and Oita, also on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, fully resumed, the company said. The Kumamoto plant has [...]