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☆ StanChart backed Mox Bank is on track for sustainable profitability from 2024, says CEO
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailStanChart backed Mox Bank is on track for sustainable profitability from 2024, says CEOMox Bank's CEO Barbaros Uygun says the StanChart-backed virtual bank's clients are feeling the impact of higher interest rates this year, but expects it to neutralize into 2024.

Persons: Mox, Barbaros Uygun Organizations: Mox

☆ Chandrayaan-3 captures images of moon ahead of landing
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is swooping toward the moon’s surface ahead of its historic landing attempt, and it’s capturing some stunning visuals on the way. India’s space agency will livestream the landing attempt starting at 5:20 p.m. IST (7:50 a.m. The spacecraft has been making a slow, methodical approach toward the lunar surface. The mission marks India’s second attempt to complete a soft landing on the moon. The first attempt, in 2019 with Chandrayaan-2, crashed into the lunar surface because of software issues and difficulties braking on its descent.

Persons: CNN — India’s, ISTRAC, Satish, Space Organizations: CNN, Indian Space Research Organization, Soviet, ISRO, Mare, Operations, isro Locations: India, United States, China, Soviet Union, MOX, Sriharikota, India’s, Andhra Pradesh, Chandrayaan

☆ Prayers, parties, student shows planned in India for moon landing
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/3] Arun Haryani, an enthusiast with his body painted in tri-colours reacts as he holds up a model of LVM3 M4 which was used in launching of Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft on the eve of its moon landing, in Ahmedabad, India. REUTERS/Amit Dave Acquire Licensing RightsNEW DELHI, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Excitement rose in India on Tuesday on the eve of a much-anticipated moon landing, with prayers held for its success, schools marshalling students to watch a live telecast of the event and space enthusiasts organising parties to celebrate. India's second attempt to land on the moon after a failure in 2019 is being seen as a display of the tenacity of its scientific institutions. Authorities and educators also hope it will encourage scientific inquiry among millions of students in the world's most populous country. Students have sent scores of messages wishing ISRO luck for a successful landing, the agency said.

Persons: Arun Haryani, Amit Dave, Narendra Modi, Narottam Sahoo, Srikant, Nivedita, Saurabh Sharma, Nag Choudhury, Sumit Khanna, Sunil Kataria, Krishn Kaushik, YP Rajesh, Raju Gopalakrishnan Organizations: REUTERS, DELHI, Indian Space Research, ISRO, Reuters, Operations, YP, Thomson Locations: Ahmedabad, India, Russian, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Kolkata, Mumbai, Varanasi, Bengaluru, Lucknow, New Delhi

☆ France seeks strategy as nuclear waste site risks saturation point
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-03 | by ( Benjamin Mallet | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

[1/5] Used nuclear fuel is seen in a storage pool at the Orano nuclear waste reprocessing plant in La Hague, near Cherbourg, France, January 17, 2023. "We can't have a responsible nuclear policy without taking into account the handling of used fuel and waste. La Hague is the country's sole site able to process and partially recycle used nuclear fuel. Meanwhile, France's national agency for managing nuclear waste last month requested approval for a project to store permanently high-level radioactive waste. The facility at La Hague, with its 1980s-era buildings and Star Wars-style control rooms, has its limitations.

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