Turkish lira caps historic week with big lift from Erdogan govt on December 24, 2021 ANKARA: Turkey’s lira was on track for its strongest week on record on Friday, having spiked more than 50% with the support of billions of dollars of state-backed market interventions and a promise that the government would cover FX losses on certain deposits. Turks did not sell dollars on Monday and Tuesday, according […]
Chris Silverwood rested for Sri Lanka, Pakistan ODI series on May 15, 2021Chris Silverwood will miss the ODI series against Sri Lanka and Pakistan as part of England’s rest-and-rotation policy. Silverwood, the England coach, was one of few ever-presents on England’s tours of Sri Lanka and India and accepts he will find it hard to switch off. But he also acknowledged the need for fallow periods amid […]
Invisible ink “tattoos” could be used to ID vaccinated kids on February 17, 2020Vaccines have been saving over 2 million lives a year, immunization proves to be challenging in developing communities. The lack of resources and consolidated record keeping makes it difficult for understaffed facilities to keep track of individual cases, playing a part in an estimate of 1.5 lives lost due to under-vaccination. But researchers from MIT […]