Will discuss various issues, including credit off-take

HDFC Bank says “minuscule” number of employees told to leave as part of annual appraisal process

Would China’s withdrawal from the US bond market and/or a runaway expansion of the Fed balance sheet weaken the dollar?

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SAN DIEGO – Hoy, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de Estados Unidos (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés), en coordinación con el Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (BDAN), emitió una Solicitud de Propuestas (RFP, por sus siglas en inglés) a través del Programa Frontera 2020.

Die einen befürworten Schutzmaßnahmen, die anderen protestieren vehement: Rhetoriker Olaf Kramer erklärt, warum die Coronakrise für heftige gesellschaftliche Spannungen sorgt - und wie wir miteinander reden sollten.

A Welsh MP claims cases include workers with the NHS and in care homes.

Research Event

Event participants

Dr Katherine Morton, Senior Fellow, Department of International Relations, Australian National University
Chair: Professor Shaun Breslin, Associate Fellow, Asia Programme, Chatham House

β-1,3-d-Glucan is a ubiquitous glucose polymer produced by plants, bacteria, and most fungi. It has been used as a diagnostic tool in patients with invasive mycoses via a highly-sensitive reagent consisting of the blood coagulation system of horseshoe crab. However, no method is currently available for measuring β-1,6-glucan, another primary β-glucan structure of fungal polysaccharides. Herein, we describe the development of an economical and highly-sensitive and specific assay for β-1,6-glucan using a modified recombinant endo-β-1,6-glucanase having diminished glucan hydrolase activity. The purified β-1,6-glucanase derivative bound to the β-1,6-glucan pustulan with a KD of 16.4 nm. We validated the specificity of this β-1,6-glucan probe by demonstrating its ability to detect cell wall β-1,6-glucan from both yeast and hyphal forms of the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans, without any detectable binding to glucan lacking the long β-1,6-glucan branch. We developed a sandwich ELISA-like assay with a low limit of quantification for pustulan (1.5 pg/ml), and we successfully employed this assay in the quantification of extracellular β-1,6-glucan released by >250 patient-derived strains of different Candida species (including Candida auris) in culture supernatant in vitro. We also used this assay to measure β-1,6-glucan in vivo in the serum and in several organs in a mouse model of systemic candidiasis. Our work describes a reliable method for β-1,6-glucan detection, which may prove useful for the diagnosis of invasive fungal infections.

Immigrants have been disproportionately hit by the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and now confront a number of challenges. The report, which has a particular focus on Germany, Ireland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and United States finds that the unemployment gap between immigrant and native workers has widened in many places.

State-of-the-art electron microscopy reveals the large-scale organization of the proteins that regulate neurotransmitter release

This spectacular image – which took the best part of a year to create – shows the fine structure of a nerve terminal at high resolution, revealing, for the very first time, an intricate network of fine filaments that controls the movements of synaptic vesicles.

The brain is soft and wet, with the consistency of a lump of jelly. Yet, it is the most complex and highly organized structure that we know of, containing hundreds of billions of neurons and glial cells, and something on the order of one quadrillion synaptic connections, all of which are arranged in a very specific manner.

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As interest in the application of plasma medicine -- the use of low-temperature plasma created by an electrical discharge to address medical problems -- continues to grow, so does the need for research advancements proving its capabilities and potential impacts on the health care industry.

(May 7, 2020) On February 18, 2020, Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benítez signed Law No. 6501/2020, amending Law No. 4743/2012 Regulating Political Financing. Law No. 6501 creates a unit within the Superior Court of Electoral Justice (Tribunal Superior de Justicia Electoral, TSJE) to be in charge of arranging, coordinating, and supervising policies and procedures to prevent […]

MSPS were really quite excited last week to be taking part in a largely symbolic vote with an entirely predictable outcome.

This electric Honda Activa has a claimed 90km range and the modification costs less than Rs 50,000 with a two-year warranty.

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices Highlights: As many as 19 stocks out of 30 Sensex stocks ended in negative territory with SBI (State Bank of India) as top Sensex loser, down 4.64 per cent.

Share Market News Today | Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: As many as 21 stocks out 30 Sensex scrips finished trade in positive territory with M&M as the top gainer, up 5.27 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank.

The rally in Sensex and Nifty was supported by buying in financial counters with HDFC Bank, HDFC, ICICI Bank and Bajaj Finance as top index contributors

If history is any guide, adversity offers maximum value. The global financial crisis in 2008 culminated in the index being up nearly 100% in 2009.

A solid security and appreciating asset prices will augur well for Muthoot Finance’s stable asset quality performance during a period when most NBFCs have negligible visibility on their recoveries.

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) on Monday placed Shriram Transport Finance Company’s long-term issuer rating of ‘IND AA+’ on Rating Watch Negative (RWN).

A report by Jefferies shows that the benchmark Nifty in the last week of April had outperformed other global benchmarks such as Japan’s Nikkei 225, US’ S&P 500 and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng.

This startup has launched a fund to support service partners affected by Covid-19.

Bharat Road Network, a road and highways BOT company, has priced its initial public offering (IPO), aimed at raising Rs 600 crore, in a price band of Rs 195-205.

Banana accounts for as much as 60-65% of the green exports from Kerala and the rest are vegetables. Of the banana varieties, nenthran plantain leads the food preferences of Kerala’s 20 lakh diaspora families fanning out in the GCC countries.

When the game returns, the struggling cricket boards will be dependent on three superpowers—India, England, Australia—for bailouts

It is high time to scale up the fiscal relief measures, with a special emphasis on “Basic Income”.

The study said that the increase in frequency of this strain is happening at an alarming rate, which indicates that this strain has an advantage over the original strain from Wuhan in terms of fitness.

This Mother’s Day, you can do certain things for your mother to make this day special for her from financial perspective.

Every parent wants the best for their baby and therefore, it is imperative to take the right steps to ensure a safe an healthy delivery.

A single mother should make sure that her earnings are divided into spending, emergency funds, and investments so that sufficient wealth is generated for the realization of future financial goals. If you are also on the same boat, here is how you should go about it.

Yield-cos have been grabbing headlines lately. Typically, large utilities spin off their high-yield alternative energy operations into separate smaller companies called yield-cos. These new companies are then taken public to attract individual and institutional investors.

Developers, manufacturers, investors and other renewable energy industry stakeholders need updates on the latest and greatest finance mechanisms available today. Since 2003, global consultancy Ernst & Young has released its Country Attractiveness Indices, which ranks global renewable energy markets by analyzing investment strategies and resource availability.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that the insulation plastic used in high-voltage cables can withstand a 26 per cent higher voltage if nanometer-sized carbon balls are added. This could result in enormous efficiency gains in the power grids of the future, which are needed to achieve a sustainable energy system.

Following the conclusion of the United Nations climate negotiations in Lima, Peru, last December, a busy schedule of breakout sessions has begun for Latin American business and political leaders in early 2015.

Jim Keffer is Republican state lawmaker in Texas with a permit to carry a concealed weapon and doubts about whether human activity is causing global warming.

Jim Keffer is Republican state lawmaker in Texas with a permit to carry a concealed weapon and doubts about whether human activity is causing global warming.

Lending a financial hand to Ukraine is a safeguard that will ensure stability on the European continent, a European monetary official said Wednesday.

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In an important decision for landlords, Scottish & Newcastle plc v Raguz, the House of Lords has restored common sense and commercial reality to the procedures that a landlord has to follow before it can recover arrears of rent from a former t...

A landlord is able to hold a tenant to an informal agreement to renew its short-term leases. Recent cases have brought to people's attention that leases for short periods - up to three years - do not need to be executed under seal. In fact, they do...