Growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year, which starts on April 1 in India, is mainly attributed to a low base performance in the previous quarter due to the coronavirus pandemic. The report also projects that the gross value added (GVA) will be 15% in the indicated …
Read More »Russia’s industrial production surges over 7% in April
Output during the first four months of the year increased by 1.1% in annual terms. Statistics show that production in the mining sector last month decreased by 1.8% compared to last year, down 1.4% from the previous month. Mining production between January and April was down 5.7% in annual terms. …
Read More »Cryptocurrency market has lost nearly $1 TRILLION in value since April peak
At its lowest point, the price of the world’s most popular digital asset tumbled $12,000, or nearly 30%, to trade just above $30,000. Ether, the second-biggest cryptocurrency, shed around 40% of its value, while joke token dogecoin lost as much as 50%. As of 13:58 GMT, bitcoin was down more …
Read More »North Carolina cops’ shooting of unarmed black man on drug warrant in April was justified, DA rules
Brown’s movements on the scene left the cops concerned for their lives, Womble noted in his ruling, adding that the slain man had ignored deputies’ commands to stop his car, which instead allegedly posed a danger to the cops. The officers were at Brown’s home to serve a warrant on …
Read More »Google once again takes an axe to humor on April Fool’s Day, in its ongoing bid to Make Intelligence Artificial Again
Last year, Google nixed April Fool’s Day, citing the Covid-19 pandemic and reassuring customers there would be as few as possible interruptions to users’ misery. Apparently thrilled by the success of 2020’s sense of humor shutdown, the megacorporation has once again called on employees to “find appropriate ways to bring …
Read More »I can’t believe it’s not April Fools’! 5 times the media’s BS went beyond parody this year
Google may have canceled its usual April Fools’ pranks this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that hasn’t stopped the fest of the world trying to pull the wool over the public’s eyes. From Volkswagen rebranding itself as ‘Voltswagen’ to promote electric cars, to an Australian police department announcing …
Read More »Matt Hancock’s UK Health Security Agency would be the worst April Fool’s ever – except he isn’t joking
Back in 1957, the BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Panorama (well, it was then) showed a short three-minute film of a family in Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a family ‘spaghetti tree.’ People rang up the BBC switchboard afterwards for advice on growing their own spaghetti. They should have paid closer …
Read More »Covid-19 vaccine deliveries slow in April but will speed up in May, says UK minister, despite drug company rebuttal
“We have less supply than we might have hoped for the coming weeks, but we expect it to increase again later through the course of April,” British housing Robert Jenrick told the BBC on Thursday. “We have every reason to believe that supply will increase in the months of May, …
Read More »US put on ‘heightened terrorist threat’ alert through APRIL, DHS cites concerns over politically ‘frustrated’ Americans
The National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin issued Wednesday warns that “some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.” The DHS claims that …
Read More »All-Russia population census was proposed to hold in April 2021
National population census is proposed to hold in April 2021, said “Interfax” a source in the financial-economic bloc of the government familiar with the draft resolution on the postponement of the census. Now the project is at the interagency agreement. According to him, in accordance with the draft regulation, which …
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