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Siemens has signed a 3 billion euro ($3.25 billion) contract to supply and service freight trains in India, the German engineering company said, the biggest locomotive deal in its history. Siemens will deliver 1,200 electric locomotives and provide servicing for 35 years under the agreement, also its biggest ever in India. The Siemens-designed, 1,200-horsepower trains, with a top speed of 120 km (75 miles)/hr, will be assembled in the Indian Railways Factory in Gujarat state over the next 11 years, with deliveries…

Balkan nation bids farewell to its kuna currency and becomes 20th member of the eurozone. "We will cry for our kuna, prices will soar," says Drazen Golemac, a 63-year-old pensioner from Zagreb. (AFP Archive)…

Shell, an international energy company, has accepted to pay €15 million in compensation to three Nigerian farmers and their villages in Niger Delta. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that farmers with the help of the Friends of the Earth, Netherlands, and two Nigerian lawyers, Chima Williams and Channa Samkalden, had in 2007 initiated legal proceedings in Hague, for oil pollution in Goi, Oruma and Ikot Ada Udo. A Dutch Court in 2021 ordered the international company to pay the claimants compensation over…

FP StaffDec 13, 2022 13:44:13 ISTThe top adviser to the French data protection authority CNIL’s sanction body recommended on Monday that Apple should be fined 6 million Euros. The CNIL is the Data Protection Authority for France. Apple has been accused of knowingly violating EU’s data privacy laws. While Apple allowed owners to stop other tech companies like Google and Meta to collect information from them, Apple monopolised this data by collecting and using it themselves. Image Credit: AFP CNIL’s sanction body is free to…

Apple should face a 6 million euro ($6.3 million) fine for breach of privacy rules. Apple should face a 6 million euro ($6.3 million) fine for breach of privacy rules, the top adviser to French data protection authority's sanction body recommended on Monday. CNIL's sanction body is free to ignore the rapporteur's recommendations, but these typically carry a lot of weight regarding the watchdog's final decision. The rapporteur, Francois Pellegrini, made his recommendation after an investigation by the authority,…

Apple should face a 6 million euro ($6.3 million) fine for breach of privacy rules, the top adviser to French data protection authority's sanction body recommended on Monday. CNIL's sanction body is free to ignore the rapporteur's recommendations, but these typically carry a lot of weight regarding the watchdog's final decision. The rapporteur, Francois Pellegrini, made his recommendation after an investigation by the authority, itself triggered by a complaint filed last year by lobby group France Digitale. In the…

From the atmospheric lighting that drips in primary colours to the spooky setting of a gothic castle in ruins, the retro aesthetics of Kevin Kopacka’s second feature pay tribute to the twisted pleasures of 1960s and 1970s European horror movies: giallo, fantastique, and the like. Ruled by emotional as well as physical dysfunction, this film opens with an ill-fated car trip taken by an overbearing husband and his reticent wife to an abandoned country estate which the latter has inherited.The dilapidated condition of the…

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Trade body says latest ‘Euro’ pollutant emission proposal from EU Commission risks slowing down transition to zero-emission transport The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) has said it has serious concerns about the European Commission’s proposal for new pollutant emission standards for cars and vans (Euro 7) and trucks and buses (Euro VII), which have just been published. ACEA says that with the…

Last Updated: October 15, 2022, 20:39 ISTBYD ATTO 3 Electric SUV (Photo: News18.com)European consumers pay attention to Euro NCAP's safety tests and carmakers aggressively market good ratingsBYD on Wednesday received a coveted five-star Euro NCAP safety rating for its electric ATTO 3 crossover SUV, the latest Chinese carmaker to receive top marks as it seeks to gain a foothold in Europe’s competitive car market. Two other Chinese-made cars – the eCitroënC5 X, built by a joint venture between Stellantis and Dongfeng, and…