This workshop focused on how to comply with international regulations on conflict-free gold supply chains and how to make the most of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.

This report is the first of a series of assessments on Colombian gold supply chains and aims to develop an initial approach and analysis for how risks outlined in Annex II of the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas are relevant in the Colombian context.

This report is part of a series of assessments on Colombian gold supply chains and the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas. It analyses conditions of mineral extraction and related risks.

India is a natural, magical and beautiful country. Here you can explore the various kinds of natural and man made places such as forts, palaces, lakes, hills, backwater, beaches, mountains, temples etc. This country is rich in tradition,...

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The singer, 41, admitted she didn't expect to give out the coveted honour during that day of the auditions, as she branded Nabil's performance a 'breath of fresh air.'

Buy a good Honda S2000 now for under £10,000 it should hold its value and reward you with many miles of high-revving fun, says Tony Middlehurst in our Cash Cars column.

MARTHA KELNER IN BEIJING: Jessica Ennis-Hill fell to the ground after winning the final event of two gruelling days of competition and briefly allowed the emotion to spill out..

Jessica Ennis-Hill has not given up hope of becoming a three-time world champion as she waits for the gold medal she was denied in 2011 by a drugs cheat.

Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill showed on Thursday that she has one or two extra bows to her sporting string other than the seven disciplines she competes in during the heptathlon.

Jessica Ennis-Hill took the top award at the Sportswomen of the Year ceremony on Friday. The Olympic champion returned from giving birth to her first child to land World Championship gold.

Jessica Ennis-Hill remains confident she will be in good shape to defend her Olympic title despite only just returning to training after an achilles injury ruled her out of the indoor season.

Golden girl Ennis-Hill was not at her best in the throwing event in Rio but was able to jump up one place from third after registering a 13.86m throw.

Day eight saw Mo Farah win gold in the 10,000m, as Jess Ennis-Hill took silver in the heptathlon and Greg Rutherford claimed a bronze medal in the men's long jump competition.

Andy Hill, who married the athlete in 2013, shared a photograph of the '#supermum' moments after she crossed the finish line in the 800m, the final round of the event.

MARTHA KELNER: Jessica Ennis-Hill won the most stunning of silver medals on Sunday, coming within two seconds of defending her title as Belgium’s Nafissatou Thiam clinched gold.

MARTHA KELNER: Jessica Ennis-Hill bowed out in her usual, understated fashion — posting a picture collage online showing the finest moments of what was a glittering career.

Jessica Ennis-Hill is set to be awarded her second World Championship heptathlon gold medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced Russian athlete Tatyana Chernova will be stripped of her title.

It was Reggie's bath time when Ennis-Hill found out she would finally be awarded the 2011 world championship heptathlon title which was stolen from her by a Russian drugs cheat.

INVESTIGATION BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: When does a culture of winning become a culture of fear and bullying? Are athletes really like diamonds - best formed under pressure?

The 2012 Olympic champion was robbed of gold by drugs cheat Tatyana Chernova six years ago and learned on Wednesday that she will get her medal upgrade a week on Sunday.

Ana de Armas was a vision of spring on Saturday when she stepped out in a marigold colored singlet for a walk around her Venice neighborhood with her dog.

The singer, 41, admitted she didn't expect to give out the coveted honour during that day of the auditions, as she branded Nabil's performance a 'breath of fresh air.'

The idea of recycling is not new, but setting up a distribution network to enable scale and reach the poor, is. Goonj, a New Delhi-based NGO, works through partners in 14 states through 100 agencies. Other, smaller efforts are thriving as well. Chitra Balasubramaniam reports.

Business honchos are descending on the rural markets, expecting to make a killing from whatever is left in the pockets of India's poor, led by an NCAER forecast of robust sales growth here, writes Devinder Sharma.

नई दिल्ली। कोरोना महामारी के चलते दुनियाभर में सरकारों ने लॉकडाउन कर रखा है। ऐसे में निवेश का कोई भी तरीका काम नहीं कर रहा है। इसी के चलते फिर से सभी तरपु गोल्ड में निवेश किया जा रहा है। ऐसे

Akshaya Tritiya is an auspicious day in the Hindu Calendar that is believed to bring good fortune and prosperity with the purchase of gold. In 2020, this day falls on 26 April, amid the nationwide lockdown. Apart from the tradition, gold

While we are already facing an unprecedented situation with the outbreak of Covid 19 and to overcome it lockdown has been in place for quite a while now, the auspicious occasion of Akshaya Tritiya that falls on April 26, 2020 can

On Friday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) released a notification on the issue price of the latest tranche of the SGB scheme that will open on 11 May. It will be Series II of the Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2020-21

નવી દિલ્હીઃ કોરોના વાયરસના કારણે દેશશમા ચાલી રહેલા લૉકડાઉનને કારણે દેશની અર્થવ્યવસ્થા ઘૂંટણીયે છે. લોકોને પોતાના ભવિષ્યને લઈ ચિંતા થઈ રહી છે. લૉકડાઉનમાં ક્રૂડ પેટ્રોલિયમના ભાવ શૂન્ય સુધી પહોંચી ચૂક્યા છે અને શેર માર્કેટમાં પણ અસ્થિરતા જોવા મળી રહી છે, તેવામાં

Golden Star Ganesh recently completed 14 years as a hero in the Kannada film industry. The actor in a recent interview with the New Indian Express opened up about his big-screen journey whilst adding that the lockdown has helped him reassess

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Good design in any discipline usually carries a structure of order and harmony. Since the Renaissance, artists and architects have used a strong understanding of proportions to create aesthetically pleasing architecture. Many of these classical design principles have followed us into modern times and can be found today in effective web design.

Take an A4 piece of paper for example. If you take it and halve it, the resulting size is A5 with the same exact proportions. No other proportion has the same properties. 16th century architect, Andrea Palladio knew this well. It is believed that because, fundamentally, most architects—like Palladio—use a similar system of proportions to plan and design spaces, buildings can look very different while remaining similar at their cores.

Structure and Beauty

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