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The South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Sacci)’s Business Confidence Index (BCI), which is a composite index of economic and financial market indicators rated by business as critical indicators of the business climate, has decreased by 12.1 index points month-on-month in April This is the lowest level since its inception in 1985 and the second sharpest month-on-month decline in the index's history.

(Telecompaper) Telefonica Brasil, owner of the Vivo brand in Brazil, has announced it will advance BRL 1 billion in payments for the months of April, May and June...

A LUCKY stargazer was fortunate enough to capture the exact moment a fireball entered the skies, leaving a stunning glowing aura.

“Lies,” “ransom,” “class action,” and “refund” were some of the more polite words being tossed around in the Wink subreddit on Thursday, following the company’s bombshell announcement that starting next week, users would have to start paying $4.95 a month to keep their Wink hubs from going dark.

Sales decline 7.68% to Rs 1073.60 crore

The Delhi High Court has refused to quash an FIR against two men accused of assaulting a policeman on being stopped for loitering without masks during the lockdown, saying the breach of restrictions to contain the coronavirus pandemic might result in loss of millions of lives. The court said the charges against the two men are unquestionably serious and their acts, if found true, are inherently inimical to public and societal interest as a whole. Breach of the lockdown restrictions, imposed by the Government... Читать дальше...

Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) — Colorado's GOP party chair — has gotten himself into an election scandal that has nothing to do with his own election.

Windows Plus is manufacturing and installing infection control screens at Warwick Hospital

The Indian Railways on Thursday said it has no plans to shift century-old IRIMEE from Jamalpur in Munger district to Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, and any such assertions are "incorrect and misleading". The statement comes after senior Bihar minister Sanjay Kumar Jha urged Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to rescind the "outrageous order" of shifting the institution. Jha, a close confidante of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, had said the "intriguing" move to shift the institution out of Jamalpur has hurt the emotions of the state's people. Читать дальше...

If you look out on the sky on a nice clear dark night, you'll see thousands of intense points of light. Those stars are incredibly far away, but bright enough to be seen with the naked eye from that great distance—a considerable feat. But what you don't see are all the small stars, the red dwarfs, too small and dim to be seen at those same distances.

They say the rules "are designed to save lives"

President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has held a telephone conversation with the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

The head of the DPR accused Zelensky of the deaths of civilians in the Donbass. The head of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the DPR Denis Vladimirovich Pushilin made a statement on his telegram channel in connection with the increased shelling of the republic’s territory from the side […]

According to a long-term study in a nature reserve in the State of Hesse, environmental changes attributable to global warming have resulted in an 80% drop in the sizes of freshwater insect populations over the past 40 years.

A Libyan official says five civilians were killed and dozens were wounded by artillery shelling in Tripoli

Delaware fire crews say new dispatch towers are flawed Oneonta Daily Star

Amid concerns about whether the players will stick to the strict hygiene guidelines implemented to ensure the campaign is completed.

We take a look at the design concepts that seek to purify our domestic (and office) spaces, with a new urgency post-coronavirus.

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has revolutionized the ability to characterize cell types and their gene expression programs in organisms and tissues. Although great improvements in cellular throughput have been made, methods generally suffer from low sensitivity and quantification that is limited to short RNA pieces. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet have released Smart-seq3 that greatly improves the quality in scRNA-seq. The study is published in Nature Biotechnology.

Hodges and Jordan played together in Chicago from 1988 to 1992

More than 250 people being cared for at the city's hospitals have died

Extend the arms embargo on Iran

E-Conclave: Govt to provide liquidity support in stimulus 2.0, says CEA Subramanian