India’s largest vertically integrated power company in the private sector has thrown its weight behind renewable energy. The Chairman of Tata Power has announced that his company will add 15 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity over the next few years. The company currently has 1.8 gigawatts of solar and wind energy capacity operational and another
Month: July 2021
Pension watchdogs are scrutinising the collapse of Ralph & Russo, the upmarket British-based fashion brand which is now at the centre of a legal fight. Sky News understands that The Pensions Regulator is examining the treatment of the company’s retirement scheme in the period before administrators were called in in March. The status of the
Tesla has applied for a new patent that is revealing the lithium extraction process that Elon Musk vaguely described as “using table salt to basically extract lithium from ore” during Tesla’s Battery Day last year. It could cut costs by more than 30%, according to the automaker. During Tesla’s Battery Day last year, the automaker
Climate change reporting isn’t normally like this. When you write about rising sea levels and intensifying cyclones, you don’t expect to end up in a brothel, talking about human trafficking. You don’t think you’d hear a story about a graveyard for sex workers getting washed away. Image: The strip of land that Banishanta is built
8:51 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN The biggest heavyweight bout of the summer has been postponed. Tyson Fury has tested positive for COVID-19 and his bout against Deontay Wilder will be rescheduled for later this year, sources confirmed to ESPN. The fight was originally scheduled for July 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, with the
10:45 AM ET The XFL announced on Wednesday that it is planning to relaunch in 2023 after talks with the Canadian Football League about collaboration between the two leagues were tabled. The XFL and CFL both said in separate statements that the decision was jointly reached between the leagues. “Our talks with the XFL, exploring
US President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 8, 2021. Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images The White House on Friday will announce a new executive order aimed at cracking down on competitive practices in Big Tech, CNBC’s Ylan Mui
Decades after burnishing his reputation as a wealthy daredevil mogul in a series of boating and hot-air balloon expeditions, Richard Branson is poised to promote his burgeoning astro-tourism venture by launching himself to the final frontier. Branson’s Virgin Galactic is due on Sunday to send the company’s passenger rocket plane, the VSS Unity, on its first
There’s a small town in Texas that has taken a stance against solar panels in a weird way. That stance was actually taken back in 2012 via a city ordinance. Tyler, Texas, is what I’ve always considered the midpoint between Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dallas, Texas. Stop at the truck stop to get some rocks, fudge,
Business leaders say employers should be willing to be flexible on working hours on Monday, to enable football fans to celebrate England’s Euro 2020 victory… or recover from defeat. England face Italy in the tournament on Sunday night in their biggest game for men’s football since the 1966 World Cup final. The match will be
Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens has pleaded guilty to the murder of Sarah Everard. Ms Everard, 33, went missing while walking home from a friend’s house in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. Last month, Couzens, 48, from Deal in Kent, accepted responsibility for killing Ms Everard and pleaded guilty to her kidnap and rape.
There was a time, in the wake of the first wave of COVID-19, that politicians and economists yearned for a V-shaped recovery – an immediate bounce-back from the financial devastation of lockdowns. The second wave put paid to that, and as we tiptoe out of the most recent restrictions, the line drawn by GDP is
NASA on a regular basis shares pictures on its social media handles of missions currently underway. But occasionally, it takes us down the memory lane too. On Thursday, July 8, the American space agency shared images of a mission from a decade ago on its Twitter and Instagram handles. It was on this day back
Britney Spears’s father has said he opposes paying for the extra security costs of the singer’s carer, after claims she had received death threats. Lawyers for Jodi Montgomery, who has looked after Spears‘s healthcare as part of the star’s controversial conservatorship arrangement since 2019, said that she had been sent death threats after the performer
A 14-year-old girl has made history by becoming the first African American to win the 96-year-old US Scripps National Spelling Bee. Zaila Avant-garde, a sporting prodigy with several Guinness World Records to her name for dribbling multiple basketballs at a time, won the event by correctly spelling Murraya – a genus of tropical Asiatic and
Details of a plan to allow vaccinated expats into the UK without having to quarantine could be revealed in the “next couple of weeks”, the transport secretary has said. Grant Shapps told Sky News that ministers are “actively working” on proposals to allow those who received their jabs outside of the UK to be exempt
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