JUST IN: India decides: Voting under way for first phase
NEW DELHI. – Voting is underway in India, the world’s largest democracy. Indians are voting in the first phase of mammoth general elections, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second…
UK pledges not to send Assange to country with death penalty: Ecuador
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is seen on the balcony of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Britain, May 19, 2017. – Reuters. LONDON. – Britain has guaranteed to Ecuador that WikiLeaks…
JUST IN: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested, as Ecuador withdraws asylum
LONDON. – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been dragged out of the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he has spent the last six years after Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno withdrew…
admin
- businessweekly
- April 11, 2019
- 90 views
Vast disposes of Pickstone Peerless
BH24 Reporter HARARE – AIM-listed mining group Vast Resources Plc has exited gold mining in Zimbabwe through the disposal of its 25 percent stake in the Pickstone Peerless gold mine.…
- businessweekly
- April 11, 2019
- 70 views
Renewable energy is cheaper and faster
An important point in the ongoing debate about electric vehicles is that they’re only as clean as the electricity they use. A widespread adoption of electric vehicles means the electricity…
- businessweekly
- April 11, 2019
- 71 views
Conventional cars are inefficient
Electric vehicles convert about 60% of their energy to propulsion. Conventional cars, on the other hand, are very inefficient. For every litre of fuel burned, only about 17 to 21%…
- businessweekly
- April 11, 2019
- 89 views
Health risks
Potential geopolitical imbalances affecting the national supply are important, but the health costs associated with fossil fuels are in the scale of billions of dollars in Australia. This includes premature…
- businessweekly
- April 11, 2019
- 65 views
Unsteady fuel reserves
Policies minimising Australia’s reliance on oil imports could bring significant benefits to businesses and families, and even to public sector agencies with fleet operations. Around 90% of the oil Australia…
- businessweekly
- April 11, 2019
- 67 views
A matter of money
In just one year (2017-18), Australia’s imports of refined petroleum cost A$21.7 billion. Crude petroleum cost us a further A$11.7 billion – that’s more than A$33 billion going to overseas…
JUST IN: Nyagura application thrown out
Suspended University of Zimbabwe (UZ) vice chancellor Levi Nyagura will now stand trial on May 16 after his application for exception was today thrown out by a Harare magistrate.