Student Tution fees protest rally turned nasty as the authorities have to resort to water cannon in Santiago Los Heros in Chile today. Around 1000 students protested´peacefully to demonstrate against college fees.
Month: August 2017
A single Tweet from Trump wipes billions off Amazon’s value, after saying “ Doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the US are being hurt – many jobs being lost”. The online retail giant’s shares fell 1.2 per cent ahead of the opening bell after Trump’s comments. However, shares later…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating India’s 70th Indpendence Day, addressed the crowd from the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi and said “ only hugs could solve the problems of the territory which often sees clashes between protesters and Indian security forces”. and has appealed to the nation to stand together with families of…
Jason Wouhra, Director at East End Foods, employed a unique strategy to turna thriving family spice business into a £1 bn global corporate organisation, with a £ 200m-turnover. His fairy tale story from a small family corner shop business to UK’s leading supplier of spices. The success of their 40-year-old company, is soley due to…
Dozens of elephants and rafts have been deployed to rescue over 500 people trapped by floods, and forced out thousands of residents out of their houses. According to Red Cross 100, 000 people have been affected. Several hotels also affected in Sauraha, Chitwan district trapping tourists. Landslides and floods caused by torrential monsoon rains have…
Grenfell Tower will be covered to aid the criminal investigation and on going forensic recovery efforts inside the building. The tower block will be covered in a protective wrap after a fire gutted the 24-storey high-rise on 14th June 2017. Scaffolding will also be erected around the skyscraper to facilitate future demolition of the charred…
Robert Winder examines the historical introspection on the idiosyncrasies of the English, and the often general assumption that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas, as his new work examines the shooting of England’s last wolf by Shropshire knight Peter Corbet. However, one can never track down the moment a…
Laura Shapiro’s book reveals, language of food, using six famous women through the culinary prism eyes of food and cooking including what they ate and reveals their attitudes towards food. William Knight, Philosophy professor, was editing Dorothy Wordsworth’s diaries for publication in 1897, and got exasperated with several petty details that popped up in her…
James Damore, a Google engineer, who had been on a PhD programme in systems biology at Harvard University, wrote a memo arguing that women were less suited than men to engineering and leadership jobs in the tech industry have been sacked. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, sharply criticised the engineer, saying that he had breached…
The grand colonial era at Kolkata, the former capital of British Raj, still have many of its once-grand colonial-era structures. Indian born American writer Kushanava Choudhury explores India’s most industrialised city, and zooms in on Kolkata’s educated and wonders why many Bengali babus borne out of the British empire – including his own family, never…