Weetabix sold for £1.4bn

  Northamptonshire-based UK cereal firm which has a royal warrant, Weetabix, made in UK since 1932- was put up for sale in January by China’s Bright food, which bought a 60% stake in 2012, is to be bought by US firm Post Holdings for $1.8bn ( £1.4bn) according to its owner. Bright’s acquisition was the…

Theresa May seeks snap election on June 8

“The vote is the only way to guarantee certainty, stability and strong leadership following the EU referendum and security for years ahead” PM calling for mandate. Although the country is coming together but Westminster is not. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party wanted the election , calling it a chance to get a government…

Indian Tycoon arrested and granted bail

  Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya has been arrested in London, by the Metropolitan Police’s extradition unit on behalf of Indian authorities in relation to accusations of fraud. India has been pushing for the extradition of Mallya, who face charges of financial irregularities at his defunct Kingfisher Airlines. Mallya was later granted bail. Last month, the…

Easyjet also forced couple off overbooked flight

Airlines are flouting existing EU law and taking law into their own hands with no one to stop them. Two Easyjet Passengers were removed from an overbooked flight at Luton Airport flying to Catania in Scilly on Monday last week, the day after a United Airlines passenger was dragged off a plane in US. The…

Italian Super centenarian dies at 117

World’s oldest person Emma Martina Luigia Morano dies aged 117year and 137 days in Italy. Emma was born in Civiasco, Vercelli, Piedmont, Northern Italy, on November 29, 1899, four years before the Wright brother first took to the air and her life spanned two world wars and over 90 Italian governments. Her parents Giovanni Morano…

Vettel beat Hamilton to win Bahrain Grand Prix Thriller

Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel beat Lewis Hamilton to win the thrilling F1 Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix and gave him a seven-point lead over Hamilton, in the F1 Championships. Mercede’s Hamilton was penalized five seconds for driving slowly on pit entry to hold up Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo. Team-mate Valtteri Bottas was ordered to let Hamilton…

April Giraffe delivers her calf

The world’s most famous Giraffe April, has given birth her fourth calf, whose prolonged pregnancy has been watched by millions of zoologists online, April lives at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, 200 miles north-west of New York. The mother and baby are said to be fine.

Pope Francis Easter Vigil

Pope Francis held solemn Easter vigil in Vatican City at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican city. Saturday’s service came after Francis presided over the evocative torch-lit Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, where he repeatedly denounced the shame of the blood spilled by innocent children, women and migrants in the world’s conflicts, shipwrecks and other…

Our economy may have recovered from recession but not our economics

Whenever there is a financial crisis, Economists does a  forensics and post-mortem of past financial crises to discover the clues as to how the next one might occur and what you can learn from them. In the latest book by former Securities and Exchange Commission regulator and Treasury department advisor Richard Bookstabe, reveals how the…

Empire strikes back: British struggle for Imperial identity

Stuart Hall catalogues his experiences that shaped his intellectual, political and theoretical work in his new book said: “ Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial”. Stuart Hall an immigrant intellectual,  one of the most prominent and influential scholars, and public intellectual of his generation, who is well placed as outsiders insiders,…