The DfT data demonstrates the surge in cycling – when Covid restrictions affected travel patterns – peaked in March 2021. The amount of cycling on main roads fell by 24.1 per cent from that time up to the end of 2022. The decline has sparked concern that the government will…
Snowy Hydro, the Australian government-owned company behind the country's largest pumped hydro project, has deferred the facility's opening to December 2028. The Snowy 2.0 pumped storage hydro project in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales is expected to generate 2GW of renewable energy, and provide about 350,000MWh of large-scale…
Everyday the internet plays a vital role in the lives of millions of Australians - from finding answers to big questions, to running businesses, or just navigating to th…
Xerox is donating its legendary research lab PARC to the non-profit research institute SRI International. The subsidiary’s pioneering research in the 1970s helped give birth to the era of personal computing, but Xerox says the move will allow it to focus on its core business. The Palo Alto Research Center…
BP announced that it made just under $5bn ($4.96bn; £4bn) in underlying replacement cost profit between January and March of this year, citing a strong performance in its oil trading business. The profit is actually a reduction from last year's gargantuan take, when BP's business benefitted from extremely high energy…
Prime Minister (PM) Modi addresses the citizens of the country through 'Mann Ki Baat', a monthly radio programme aired on All India Radio (AIR). During his first term as PM, Modi launched the nation’s talk show on 3 October 2014, the festival of Vijaya Dashami, which is the festival of…