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DURBAN, South Africa - April 16, 2022: Massive debris at the Durban harbor following heavy rains, mudslides, rain and winds in Durban. The harbour serves as a bulwark for the economy of the city of Durban.RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty ImagesSouth Africa's economy picked up momentum in the first quarter of the year, but historic flooding in a key province and the threat of unprecedented power cuts are putting the brakes on its recovery.The port city of Durban and the wider KwaZulu-Natal province in eastern South Africa…

Sales of imported light passenger vehicles in South Korea dropped by a further 10% to 23,070 units in April 2022 from 25,578 a year earlier, according to registration data released by the Korea Automobile Importers & Distributors Association (KAIDA). This followed a 14% decline in the first quarter of the year, as the ongoing shortage of semiconductors continued to affect vehicle production worldwide. Sales by domestic manufacturers…

Researchers have taken advantage of a rare opportunity to study identical (aka monozygotic) twins who were separated early in life, before being raised in different countries by different families – and there are some surprising results to report.  Whereas IQ has been shown to be up to 80 percent heritable – with twins usually scoring roughly the same on cognitive tests – in this case there was a substantial 16-point difference between the siblings.There were, of course, lots of similarities between the pair, but the…

India has initiated an anti-dumping probe against imports of a certain type of optical fibre from China, Indonesia and South Korea following a complaint by a domestic player. The duty is aimed at protecting domestic industry from cheap imports.The commerce ministry's investigation arm Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) is probing the alleged dumping of 'Dispersion Unshifted Single-mode Optical Fibre' originating in or exported from these three nations.The product is used for the manufacture of different kinds of…

Author Amitabha Bagchi won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 for his fiction novel, Half The Night Is Gone on Monday. The literary award, which also gives the winner prize money worth $25,000 was instituted in 2010 and is one of the most prestigious international literary awards specifically focused on South Asian writing.  Bagchi received the award during a ceremony at the IME Nepal Literature Festival on Monday in Pokhara, Nepal. Minister for Foreign Affairs of Nepal Pradeep Gyawali, along with the…

Candidates willing to apply for this SECR recruitment drive can apply through the official website i.e. secr.indianrailways.gov.in. Know how to. The South East Central Railway (SECR) has invited applications from 10th pass candidates to fill various posts of trade apprentices under the Apprentices Act 1961. Interested candidates can submit their application on the official website of SECR at secr.indianrailways.gov.in. The recruitment is being conducted for a…

Last month, I set out on a road trip in a Ford Mustang Mach-E in the south of the US from Asheville, North Carolina to Jackson, Mississippi, and back to see if the traditionally more conservative region is ready for the electric revolution. Here’s my account of the experience. My girlfriend is from Jackson, Mississippi, but she lives in Asheville, North Carolina right now. I flew into Asheville where Ford kindly delivered a Mustang Mach-E Extended Range press vehicle. I already drove this version of the Mustang…

Cattle of the Dinka people in Juba, South Sudan. Credit: Ranjit Bhaskar/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 In March 2022, violent clashes between farming communities and cattle herders broke out in Eastern Equatoria State, South Sudan. It was the latest incident in months of cattle-related violence in the area, which is in the country's southern region.…

Straddling the border between Brazil and Paraguay, Itaipu commenced electricity production in 1984. The technological upgrades being planned for the site are set to take 14 years.Tifonimages | Istock | Getty ImagesGE Renewable Energy has signed a deal that will see it carry out upgrades to the 14 gigawatt Itaipu hydropower plant, a vast facility straddling the border between Brazil and Paraguay.In a statement earlier this week, GE Renewable Energy said its Hydro and Grid Solutions businesses had signed a contract related…

Paleontologists have discovered the largest raptor dinosaur ever found. The new species, known as Maip macrothorax, was a super predator of the megaraptor family that stalked the forests of Argentina some 70 million years ago.Raptors have become one of the most iconic dinosaurs, thanks largely to the Jurassic Park movies. Megaraptors, as you might expect, were much bigger, with most species ranging between 6 and 8 m (20 and 26 ft) long and standing a few feet taller than an adult human.They may not have been as large and…