Adam Brace’s Incredible play – They Drink It in the Congo – Catch it before October 1st! The Almeida theatre in Islington is an intimate venue which is ideal for this type of play. You will need to hold onto your seats as its pulls a few punches and embraces the depth of corruption of…
Byjus, India’s leading education technology provider, has raised $50m from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Sequoia, Sofina, Lightspeed and Times Internet venture capital partners to fund its expansion plans. Byjus founder and CEO Byju Raveendran hails from Azhikode in Kannur, Kerala, said “ We will deploy the fund to fuel international expansion and inspire additional funding…
Inventors of radical imaging solutions including femto-photography- an ultra-fast imaging system can see around corners –low-cost eye-care solutions for developing world, and a camera that allows users to read pages of a book without opening the cover, Nasik-born Ramesh Rashkar (46) won the prestigious awards of $500, 000 Lemelson –MIT Prize 2016 and Dinesh Bharadia…
Dame Sarah Storey, Hannah Cockroft Hannah Russell, Alex Zanardi all win gold GB won nine golds on Wednesday to take their medals tally to 43 at the Rio Paralympics 2016. Hannah Cockroft won the T34 400m in a world-record time of 58.78secs, her 15-year-old team-mate Kare Adenegan finished thied for her second medal of Paralympics…
WLT announces Big Match Fortnight appeal 31 August, 2016 – 16:34 — World Land Trust Elephant project in South India – Big Match Fortnight appeal – Worldland Trust This year’s Big Match Fortnight will be raising funds to protect a wildlife corridor between two tiger reserves in southern India to enable the safe passage of…
Described by Sothebys as “the greatest cubist painting to come to the market in decades”, the 1909 Femme Assise has been in a private collection since 1973. It was bought then for £340,000. Experts say it depicts Picasso’s lover, – model Fernande Olivier. It sold for £43 million in June this year at Sothebys. Impressionist…
RT has been described by Vladimir Putin saying”The channel is funded by the Government so it cannot help but reflect the Russian government’s official position on the events in our country and in the rest of the world one way or another”. They have now offered Nigel Farage his own television show as part…
. More Chinese parents are now choosing English names for their new babies to give them a foothold in the West. Beau Jessup, 16, after visiting China with her parents and meeting Chinese who asked her advice about naming their children has now earned more than £48,000. The website Specialname was set up by her…
Sprinter Libby Clegg, 26 won gold in the T11 200m, Stephanie Milward won the S8 100m backstroke and Matt Wylie took gold in the men’s S9 50m freestyle. Earlier Georgie Hermitage, in T37, 400m, gold with a new world record of 1:43sec, Holli Arnold, 22 won gold in the F46 javelin with another world record…
Day 5 GB swimmers Sascha Kindred 38 clocked 2:38.47 seconds and Ellie Simmonds 21 clocked 2:59.81,swam a powerful final 50 meters to break world records in their respective SM6 200m medley races. Will Bayley and Aled Davies earlier took gold for ParalympicsGB in the class 7 table tennis and F42 shot put respectively. Susie Rodgers…