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Agriculture. The System of Rice Intensification ( SRI) is a farming methodology that aims to increase the yield of rice while using fewer resources and reducing environmental impacts. The method was developed by a French Jesuit Father Henri de Laulanié in Madagascar [1] and built upon decades of agricultural experimentation. SRI focuses on ...
Socially responsible investing ( SRI) [a] is any investment strategy which seeks to consider financial return alongside ethical, social or environmental goals. [1] The areas of concern recognized by SRI practitioners are often linked to environmental, social and governance (ESG) topics. Impact investing can be considered a subset of SRI that is ...
Alfredo Jiménez Mota (February 16, 1980 – disappeared April 2, 2005) was a 25-year-old Mexican journalist, working for El Imparcial (Hermosillo) in the northern city of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, [1] [2] who went missing while investigating government involvement with organized crime and drug traffickers in Sinaloa during the Mexican Drug War.
The La Línea corruption case began in Guatemala on April 16, 2015 when the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala ( Spanish: Comisión Internacional Contra la Impunidad en Guatemala, CICIG) and State prosecutors accused a number of politicians in the administration of President Otto Pérez Molina of setting up a customs ...
Nulla dies sine linea is a Latin phrase meaning "no day without a line". The idea was originated by Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, XXXV, 84), [1] where the idea applies to the Greek painter Apelles, who did not go a day without drawing at least one line. The phrase itself is attested for the first time in the Proverbiorum libellus by ...
La Línea (gang) La Línea ("The Line") is currently the leading faction of the Juárez Cartel originally designed to be one of the cartel's enforcer units set up by a number of former and active-duty policemen, heavily armed and extensively trained in urban warfare. [3] Their corrupt "line" of policemen were set up to protect drug traffickers ...
It's a Sin (2021) Jack London's Tales of the Klondike (Canada import; on C4 1983) Karaoke (co-production with BBC; 1996) Killer Net (1998) Kiri (2018) Kiss Me First (2018) Labyrinth (German/South Africa import; on C4 2012) L.A. Law (US import) The Last Dragon (2005) Last Rights (2005) Laurence Olivier Presents King Lear (1983)
Several international broadcasters operate radio stations aimed at Sri Lankan audiences but broadcasting from outside Sri Lanka: All India Radio. BBC World Service Sinhala Service (Sandeshaya) BBC World Service Tamil Service (Tamilosai) China Radio International Sinhala Service. China Radio International Tamil Service. Radio Veritas Asia.