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NEW DELHI: India is accelerating economy-wide electrification at a pace that analysts say now exceeds China’s at comparable income levels, a shift powered by large, complex and capital-intensive investments in power generation, grids, transport and manufacturing. A recent assessment comparing

MENA Newswire, TOKYO: Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. began shutting down the No. 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant on Thursday, a day after restarting the unit for the first time since Japan’s 2011 Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

MENA Newswire, NEW DELHI: India placed 16th out of 154 countries in the Responsible Nations Index 2026, a new global ranking that assesses how countries use national power in relation to citizens, the environment and the wider international community. The

MENA Newswire, DAVOS: The European Union and India are nearing completion of a wide-ranging free trade agreement that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said would create a combined market of about 2 billion people and nearly a quarter

MENA Newswire, KARACHI: Rescue teams searched through debris at Karachi’s Gul Plaza shopping complex on Tuesday after a large fire swept through the commercial building over the weekend, killing at least 21 people and leaving 63 others missing, according to

MENA Newswire, EDINBURGH: Researchers have produced the most detailed map yet of the landscape buried beneath Antarctica’s ice sheet, revealing a rugged terrain of mountains, valleys, canyons and plains that shapes how the continent’s ice moves. The map, described in

MENA Newswire, BEIJING: China’s attempt to place the Shijian-32 satellite into orbit ended in failure after a Long March-3B carrier rocket suffered malfunctions during flight, resulting in the loss of the payload, according to a statement issued by the Xichang

EuroWire, LONDON: United Nations Secretary General António Guterres is in London this weekend to mark the 80th anniversary of the first meeting of the UN General Assembly, an event that opened in the British capital in January 1946 as the

MENA Newswire, OTTAWA: Canada granted permanent resident status to about 393,500 people in 2025, according to federal immigration data, bringing admissions close to the government’s planned level for the year. The total covers people approved across Canada’s main permanent immigration

WASHINGTON: The United States has imposed a 25% tariff on a narrow range of advanced computing chips, including Nvidia’s H200 artificial intelligence processor, under a presidential proclamation that cites national security concerns tied to semiconductor supply chains. The measure, signed