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Pakistan will witness a huge rise in electric vehicles adoption

Electric Vehicles India

Pakistan will witness a huge rise in electric vehicles adoption. The government of Pakistan is preparing for a new shift in the local automotive industry. After the introduction of the EV policy for two-wheelers and three-wheelers, electric bikes, rickshaws, and small commercial vehicles are becoming a norm in Pakistan.

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Is It Safe to Travel to the Bahamas? Here’s What You Need to Know.

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Many parts of the world are under Level 2 advisory, for reasons ranging from street crime to concerns over terrorism. Level 3, by contrast, advises Americans to “reconsider” or “avoid” travel (countries such as Egypt, Nigeria and Pakistan are now at Level 3). government may have very limited ability to provide assistance.”

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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On a visit to Pakistan with his parents, 7-year-old Aadeel Akhtar met a girl his age who was missing her right leg. In 2014 he and another graduate student, Mary Nguyen, partnered with the Range of Motion Project , a nonprofit that provides prosthetic devices to people around the world who can't afford them.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti, who has won this year’s Marconi Prize , says he believes part of the solution is to decentralize the cloud—which would help bring about a more open Internet and eventually allow consumers to choose what data of theirs they want to sell. There he helped build Wi-Fi access points with a 2-kilometer range. Wireless innovator.

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MIT and IEA reports take different views of the future of natural gas in transportation

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More than 70% of all NGVs and one-half of all fuelling stations can be found in just five countries: Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil and India. These include short-range, heavy-duty vehicles (e.g., MIT: leaning toward conversion for light-duty vehicles. Total natural gas penetration in these segments would represent consumption of 2.5

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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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Fallout ranges from reputational damage to shutdown or relocation of facilities. Drought is expected to become more common in many of these areas, as well as higher surface temperatures, which dry out soils, evaporate snowmelt, and require accelerated water inflows.

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Munich Re: 2011 already the highest-ever loss year on record from natural catastrophes; led by Japan earthquake

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We were not surprised by any of the events when seen as single events, since they were within the range of what our risk models led us to expect. However, the major cities of Cairns and Townsville for the most part escaped significant damage. The agricultural sector was badly hit, this being a region with large banana plantations.

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