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High temperatures linked to fewer male births in Africa and India, but for very different reasons

Pregnant woman outdoors in heat

A sweeping new study analysing nearly five million births across sub-Saharan Africa and India has found that high temperatures during pregnancy are linked to fewer male births — and the reasons differ dramatically between the two regions. Researchers from the

CIBC shares fall further as Canadians abandon bank

By Amy Chen CIBC’s shares fell by more than a percentage point again today as more angry customers ditched the bank in protest over its decision to fire 130 Canadian workers and force them to train their replacements from India.

Indian outsourcers lobbying Canada to ease TFW restrictions

By Devdas Gupta, writing from Thane, Maharashtra, India The industry body representing business process outsourcing (BPO) companies in India is lobbying[1]https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/clntAddr?cid=319065&lang=eng the Canadian government to to ease short-term temporary foreign worker restrictions with the aim of expanding the four billion-dollar