In a significant development first reported by Canada’s Electric Autonomy, US electric vehicle maker Tesla has acquired Hibar Systems, a Canada-based battery manufacturing company.
Toronto, April 30 : Researchers have issued a call for meteorite-hunters and interested locals to start searching for a meteorite that landed on rural land north of Newmarket, Ontario, in Canada.
The space rock fell to Earth at 8:37 p. m. on March 15 and its blazing trail was picked up by five cameras used by the University of Western Ontario's Physics and Astronomy Department to scour the Southern Ontario sky for fireballs.
Researchers have since been calculating the most likely place the meteorite fell.
Toronto, Apr 30 : The protest by Tamil people living in Canada, who want the West to broker a ceasefire between the Sri Lankan Army and the separatist Tigers, entered its fourth day on Wednesday with police refusing to break up the protest as long as it remains peaceful.
Hours later demonstrators tried to push their way north of University Avenue. The police arrested 15 people and drove the crowd back.
Vienna - The search for a successor to International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head Mohamed ElBaradei officially entered its second round Wednesday as the nuclear watchdog confirmed its list of five candidates. The Japanese and South African candidates, Yukiya Amano and Abdul Samad Minty, re-entered the race after a deadlock in a first round of voting.
The three new candidates are the nuclear industry executive Jean-Pol Poncelet from Belgium, the Slovenian constitutional judge Ernest Petric, and Luis Echavarri of Spain, who heads the nuclear branch of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).