First Nations leaders say mental health crisis worsening at emergency meeting – National

First Nations leaders say mental health crisis worsening at emergency meeting – National

First Nations leaders held an emergency meeting in Ottawa on Wednesday to discuss a mental health crisis they warn could get even worse without government help. Nishnawbe Aski Nation says there has been an alarming spate of suicides and suicide attempts in the northern Ontario First Nations it represents. That includes the suicides of a … Read more

Govt forms panel to examine demands for inclusion of more components in Auto PLI: Minister

Govt forms panel to examine demands for inclusion of more components in Auto PLI: Minister

The government has constituted a committee to examine the auto industry’s demand for including more components in the production-linked incentive scheme for automobile and auto components, Union Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey said. “A committee has been constituted to examine demands from stakeholders to include more (automotive) components in the scope of the PLI scheme as … Read more

Bond: Bond rally overlooking a soaring $2 trillion debt problem

Bond: Bond rally overlooking a soaring  trillion debt problem

New York: Right around the start of November, two words suddenly disappeared from the chatter in the bond market: debt supply. As bond prices surged across the developed world day after day, sending yields tumbling and handing investors some much-needed profits, the angst about soaring budget deficits melted away. But for how long? Over the … Read more

Michelle Obama “Terrified” Of 2024 Election, Worries Keep Her Up At Night

Michelle Obama “Terrified” Of 2024 Election, Worries Keep Her Up At Night

Michelle Obama is a lawyer, writer, and wife of the ex-US President, Barack Obama. Michelle Obama, the former First Lady of the United States, expressed deep fear about the upcoming 2024 election, stating it haunts her sleep. “What’s going to happen in this next election? I’m terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders … Read more

Two pollution tests must for vehicles with flex fuel option

Two pollution tests must for vehicles with flex fuel option

All bi-fuel vehicles with flex fuel option will have to undergo tests for both gaseous pollutants as well as particulate mass and number when seeking vehicle type approval under BS VI emission norms. However, hydrogen-run vehicles will have to undergo tests only for emissions of nitrogen oxide, the ministry of road transport and highways said … Read more

Apple’s Tight Grip on iMessage Spurs Fresh Calls for an Antitrust Probe

Apple’s Tight Grip on iMessage Spurs Fresh Calls for an Antitrust Probe

The US Department of Justice has got mail: A coalition of more than a dozen tech advocacy groups wrote to the agency today calling on it to launch an investigation into allegedly anticompetitive behavior by Apple. The letter says that Apple’s recent blocking of Beeper, which reverse engineered iMessage to allow compatibility with Android phones, … Read more

America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch

America’s Big AI Safety Plan Faces a Budget Crunch

The lawmakers’ letter also claims that NIST is being rushed to define standards even though research into testing AI systems is at an early stage. As a result there is “significant disagreement” among AI experts over how to work on or even measure and define safety issues with the technology, it states. “The current state … Read more