Meet Alexander Zanders: The founder revolutionising Africa’s ‘unbankable’ farmers into a $100 billion opportunity with just a credit assessment

Africa is currently abuzz globally due to a race for its rare earth minerals. But within the nation there lies another opportunity worth approximately $100 billion, that one man is benefiting from. Smallholder farmers on the continent produce food and support rural economies across the land, yet millions of them remain excluded from finance because…

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Flagstar’s 2021 data breaches affected nearly 2.2 million people; eligible Americans have until August 11 to claim documented losses up to $25,000 from a proposed $31.5 million settlement

Flagstar Bank has agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over two cyberattacks in 2021. Millions of Flagstar Bank customers who were affected by two cyberattacks in 2021 could be eligible for compensation under a class action settlement. The American bank has agreed to pay $31.5 million to settle claims linked…

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Stock Market Live Updates: Markets end slightly higher; Sensex gains 166 points, Nifty closes above 24,380

Markets open higher; Nifty tops 24,360, Sensex nears 78,000 Indian benchmark indices opened higher, tracking positive global cues and continued foreign investor buying. The Nifty 50 rose 44.30 points (0.18%) to 24,361.50, while the Sensex gained 70.51 points to 77,998.70. Broader markets also remained firm, with the Nifty Midcap 100 advancing 175.25 points (0.28%) to…

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The new public life of bats | India News

Rohit Chakravarty led a bat walk at Sunder Nursery on April 17 to mark International Bat Appreciation Day and launch Delhi-NCR’s first bat field guide Nobody grows up wanting to be a bat person. Unless your parents fell in love over dead ones. For Aditya Srinivasulu, bats were never mysterious creatures of the night. They…

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Europa may hold more water than Earth, but a new study suggests its hidden ocean is almost impossible to reach |

Representative Image of Europa’s hidden ocean beneath its icy surface (AI-generated image) Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons, may hold more liquid water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, sealed beneath a thick shell of ice. For years, one of the most promising ideas for studying that hidden ocean was that water rising through cracks…

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‘Samudra Manthan’: Cabinet approves Rs 84,084 cr scheme for oil & gas exploration – top things to know

Samudra Manthan is projected to help add more than 600 million metric tons of oil Equivalent (MMTOE) to India’s reserves. Samudra Manthan scheme: Amid the ongoing Middle East crisis, India has announced a Rs 84,084 crore scheme for oil and gas exploration. PM Narendra Modi-led Union Cabinet approved the ‘Samudra Manthan’ National Offshore Exploration Scheme…

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‘Stands in solidarity’: AFC joins UEFA, CONCACAF in opposing FIFA’s World Cup investment plan | Football News

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has joined UEFA and CONCACAF in opposing FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s proposal to allow private investors to acquire minority stakes in the commercial rights of the FIFA World Cup and other global tournaments, significantly escalating resistance to one of the governing body’s most ambitious commercial plans.In a strongly worded statement…

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Meet Lucas Tadao: 14-year-old Brazilian student who turned cassava peels into biodegradable trays that could help replace Styrofoam and reduce plastic pollution |

As concerns over plastic pollution continue to grow, a 14-year-old student in Brazil has developed a sustainable alternative using materials that would otherwise be discarded. Lucas Tadao Sugahara Wernick, a student from Curitiba in the southern state of Paraná, created biodegradable food trays made from cassava peels and araucaria tree residues. Designed as a substitute…

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