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    IMF’s unstated rate: Sri Lanka’s $695m loan costs about 5.33% per annum

    Gita Gopinath, who served as the IMF’s First Deputy Managing Director from 2022 to 2025 and is now a professor of economics at Harvard University, said something at a Bloomberg podcast interview on May 29 that every Sri Lankan policymaker and citizen should hear. She said: “I do think there has...
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    How Does Google Maps Actually Work?

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    Gene test helps many breast cancer patients avoid chemotherapy

    Many people with breast cancer can safely avoid chemotherapy with the use of a gene test, potentially sparing them unnecessary side effects without increasing the risk of the cancer returning, a large international clinical trial led by UCL has found. The OPTIMA trial (Optimal Personalised...
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    His Discovery Was Rejected Twice — Now It's Inside Every Single Hospital on Earth.

    The story of Richard R. Ernst - Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1991. He passed away 4 June 2021.
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    Sri Lanka’s Exchange Rate Dilemma: Don’t Blame Toothless Central Bank

    By Dr W A Wijewardena.... Free fall of rupee in international transactions The Sri Lankan rupee against the US dollar, the currency to which the rupee has been pegged, is falling and, given the global and local circumstances, it has been unavoidable. As at the end of business on 22 May 2026...
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    The Seven Beauties of the "Shing Valley" - Panjakent _ Tajikistan

    This refers to a group of seven lakes located in the beautiful Shing Valley in the Fann Mountains, nearest large town is Panjakent in Tajikistan. The lakes are at different elevations. They are said to be naturally interconected (underground) Also named Haft-Kul in local language (The Seven...
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    Darvaza Crater - The Gateway to Hell

    A few shots taken just a couple of days ago in Darvaza. It's located in Turkmenistan, Karakum Desert. It's about 4 hours drive from Ashbagat which is the capital city, also refereed to as the White Marble city. Every building in the city is white marble and also all cars are white. Only the...
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    Guess where?

    Can you guess where?
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    Now in Bishkek - Kyrgyzstan

    Landed yesterday around 5 PM in Bishkek. I mentioned here that booked travel through Emirates but they cancelled and fully refunded. Then I booked via Delhi, Air Astana, Delhi - Almaty - Bishkek. Started a 22 night trip in all Five Stans. Bishkek is a quite nice place. Visited the Al Archa...
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    NDB - 13.2 Billion - what happened?

    Just copying as received on WhatsApp. - Note: UNVERIFIED. The National Development Bank (NDB) is riding high — record profits, gleaming new headquarters, and a state-of-the-art digital core-banking system that the board proudly calls “unbreakable.” Arjun Wickramasinghe, 38, is the quiet genius...
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    Ali Khamenei Arrives in Hell.

    Brutal Interview with Demon Admissions Officer.. :unsure:
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    They Mocked His Mathematics for 40 Years. Then He Won!

    Joachim Frank (born September 12, 1940) is a German-American biophysicist at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate. He is regarded as the founder of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 with Jacques Dubochet and Richard...
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    Interesting Analysis on current situation.

    Copied as received. Purportedly from an original translated from Arabic..... Everyone is talking about Iran. They're talking about Khamenei. They're talking about Israel! I see something else. The real war is elsewhere. I'm going to show you two events. They seem unrelated. But they are...
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    Any EK members in Central Asia?

    If anyone residing in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan , Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan or Tajikistan please send me a pm. Thanks.
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    Merck's new pill cuts "Bad" Cholesterol by 60%

    A new experimental medication called Enlicitide has shown powerful cholesterol-lowering effects in a large clinical study. In a phase three trial reported in The NEJM, the once-daily pill reduced levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, often called “bad” cholesterol, by as much as...

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