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Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab chief Elon Musk will visit India this month to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is expected to make an announcement on plans to invest and open a new factory in the country, two sources with direct knowledge said.The billionaire will meet Modi in the week of April 22 in New Delhi, and will separately make an announcement about his India plans, said the two sources, who declined to be named as the trip details are confidential.Reuters is first to report details of Musk's planned India visit. Modi's office and Tesla did not respond to...

The reports out of China arrived just before Thanksgiving. A surge in respiratory infections among children in the northern part of the country triggered a sense of foreboding -- and Deja-vu. Meetings between the World Health Organization and Chinese officials quickly followed.The WHO's conclusions brought some relief. The surge was caused by an "immunity gap" in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, wherein children had few defenses against influenza and other respiratory infections after years of quarantine.This episode should be a wake-up call for the U.S. national security establishment. We remain reliant on other nations, including countries of concern, like...

President Joe Biden’s unabashed reliance on pre-prepared notes to help him explain his own policies in response to questions he knows are coming is sparking concern about his age from party donors. An Axios report sets out even in closed-door fundraisers, where prescreened donors can ask questions of the octogenarian, he can be seen consulting his notes to provide detailed answers, according to people familiar with the routine. The staged Q&A sessions have left some donors wondering whether Biden can withstand the rigors of a 2024 presidential campaign let alone potential debates with former President Donald Trump, 77, according to...

"Academics, environmentalists and federal investigators have accused the administration since the April spill of downplaying scientific findings, misrepresenting data and most recently misconstruing the opinions of experts it solicited. "Meanwhile, the owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, Transocean Ltd., is renewing its argument that federal investigators are in danger of allowing the blowout preventer, a key piece of evidence, to corrode as it awaits forensic analysis. Testing had not begun as of last week, the company says, some two months after it was raised from the seafloor."

How many times do our thoughts to ourselves start with "I wish..." and of course, these wishes just don't come true? I'd say, if you're anywhere near human, rather than superhuman, that's a relatively common occurrance. But what DO you wish for?

Wisconsin Democrats are suffering a crisis of faith this summer. No, they haven’t suddenly learned how the economy works… or why criminals keep committing crimes after you’ve been nice enough to set them free again and again… or why when you over-tax and over-regulate employers out of existence, they cease to be around to employ people. No, this is something much less abstract, both more concrete and very close to home: Wisconsin Democrats are trying to figure out why the inexperienced, superficial, radical environmentalist president they worked so hard to elect is now commanding an administration whose main commitment is...

As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and based on the facts of God’s Word, I DECLARE myself to be FREE INDEED (John 8:36). My liberty is seen in three realms: First, concerning the god of this age, to whom I once belonged, I have been DELIVERED from the power of darkness and have been translated into the kingdom of God’s beloved Son (Col. 1:13), turned from the power of Satan unto God (Acts 26:18).

Sitting on the edge of the water in the Gulf of Kutch on India's western shore is one of America's dirty secrets. A mass of steel pipes and concrete boxes stretches across 13 square miles (33sq km) - a third of the area of Manhattan - which will eventually become the world's largest petrochemical refinery. The products from the Jamnagar complex are for foreign consumption. When complete, the facility will be able to refine 1.24m barrels of crude a day. Two-fifths of this gasoline will be sent 9,000 miles (15,000km) by sea to America. India's biggest private company, Reliance Industries,...

After seven months of a bitter tussle in India's first family of business, the two feuding brothers, Mukesh and Anil, finally cut a deal over the weekend to split the giant Reliance group that their father Dhirubhai Ambani had built from scratch. Reliance's US$23 billion in annual revenues - larger than Coca-Cola's - represents 3.5% of India's gross domestic product (GDP) and accounts for 17% of the total profits of the country's private sector. [. . .] A deeply religious person, Kokilaben is said to have been warned by an astrologer that if the issue was not settled before July,...

Industries Wednesday delivered eight consecutive quarters of record profit with earnings rising by a better-than-expected 62 percent in the January-March period on increased demand for fuel products. The company, one of the leading refiners and petrochemicals makers, said its profit in the quarter ended March 31 touched Rs.22.92 billion ($524 million), up from Rs.14.19 billion in the same period of the last fiscal.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: On the face of it, the Ambani brothers, scions of the founding family of India's largest private-sector conglomerate, Reliance, are as different as the various businesses that make up the group. Mukesh, 47, is soft-spoken and had kept a low profile until talk of a rift between the two brothers broke into the open this past week. Anil, 45, has largely been the face of the group and appears to be perfectly at ease being in the public eye. Founded in 1958 to trade in synthetic yarn, the company has expanded to include interests ranging from petrochemicals and...

Just as certain as death and taxes is the knowledge that we shall one day be forced to learn to live without oil. Exactly when that day will dawn nobody knows, but people in middle age today can probably expect to be here for it. Long before it arrives we shall have had to commit ourselves to one or more of several possible energy futures. And the momentous decisions we take in the next few years will determine whether our heirs thank or curse us for the energy choices we bequeath to them. Sunset industry? Oil production could soon peak...

Oil is making headlines again. Never far from newsworthy, such is its over-riding economic and political importance, the spotlight has returned as harsh as ever. The price of benchmark US light sweet crude recently reached its highest level for 13 years, and the cartel of petroleum exporting nations, OPEC, maintained its decision to cut production - potentially fuelling yet more rises. Add increasing violence in Iraq delaying its return to full oil production, and it is understandable that oil analysts have been getting the jitters. Not to forget President George W. Bush, who in an election year really does not...