Daylight saving shapes how we spend, socialise and travel, NSW data reveals

Exclusive: As the shortest day of the year draws near, government study shows how earlier sunsets curb economic activity and public transport trips

Daylight saving and its delayed sunsets encourages people to stay out later and spend more money, New South Wales government data shows. The data also found more evening light attracts people to public transport and out of their cars.

Conversely, that uptick in mobility almost entirely vanishes in the days after clocks are wound back an hour, as earlier sunsets cut post-work social and economic activity, the data showed.

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News that one man survived the Air India plane crash weighs on some other sole survivors – AP News

  1. News that one man survived the Air India plane crash weighs on some other sole survivors  AP News
  2. How the Passenger in Seat 11A Became the Only Survivor of the Air India Plane Crash  The New York Times
  3. What could have caused the Air India crash? Aviation experts offer their theories  The Seattle Times
  4. The sound of jet engines was deafening - then it was chaos  BBC
  5. One of the Dreamliners That Gave a Boeing Manager Nightmares Just Crashed  The American Prospect
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Canada and India to share terrorism intelligence despite 2023 murder plot, says report

Accord comes as Mark Carney seeks shift in Ottawa’s relationship with New Delhi after long diplomatic spat

Canada and India plan to share intelligence in an effort to combat the rising threat of international crime and extremism, according to a new report from Bloomberg, days before a meeting between the two countries’ leaders.

Canadian officials declined to comment on the report, which, if confirmed, would represent a dramatic shift in relations between the two countries which for nearly two years have been locked in a bitter diplomatic spat after Canada’s federal police agency concluded that India planned and ordered the murder a prominent Sikh activist on Canadian soil.

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