Read more about Nifty slips below 14,200 mark; European shares open in green on Business Standard. The equity benchmarks extended losses and hit fresh intraday low in afternoon trade. At 13:20 IST, the barometer index, the S&P BSE Sensex, dropped 125.38 points or 0.26% at 48,312.40. The Nifty 50 index slipped 15.60 points or 0.11% at 14,183.90.
The World Bank revised upward its forecast for Ukraine's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2021 to 3%, while early October it estimated the prospects for recovery to be twice as modest – at 1.5%.
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.
Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends.
So, oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz.
Janis Joplin, 1970
James Dean accident.
STOCKHOLM / ROME, Jan 6 2021 (IPS) – COVID-19 has made several of us aware of the frailty of our bodies, the certainty of death and how valuable health, companionship and compassion are. Such insights are not uncommon in poor societies where a person’s main and perhaps only asset is her/his body and what s/he is able to do with her/his hands.
However, wealthy and privileged people are surrounded by, dependent on, and even integrated with an ever more sophisticated technology, which increasingly, for better or worse, is separating us from what human existence has been for thousands of years.