Sridevi cause of death accidental

Police in Dubai has closed the case into the death of Bollywood actress Sridevi Kapoor who died on Saturday due to accidental drowning following loss of consciousness as she was found in a hotel bathtub. Her body had been embalmed and is being flown to India for her funeral.

Four killed in Leicester explosion

  Four people have died and four injured on seriously, in an explosion at a shop at 19:00 GMT on Sunday, in Leicester, according to Supt Shane O’Neill of the police. Police believe there may be more people unaccounted for and rescue efforts were continuing on Monday. The building consists of a shop premises a…

Bollywood superstar Sridevi dies aged 54

Bollywood superstar Sridevi has died of a heart attack at around 11:00 pm on 24th February 2018, aged 54 in Dubai, attending her nephew’s wedding. Sridevi Kapoor featured over five decades in 300 films in five languages including Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Hindi. She was one of the few Indian female superstars capable of…

US blocks Chinese takeover deal

    Cfius, Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an inter-agency committee which scrutinises deals for potential national security concerns, chaired by the US Treasury secretary, US Regulator have blocked the $580m acquisition of Massachusetts-based Xcerra Corp, a semiconductor testing company by Hubei Xinyan, Sino IC Fund, a Chinese state-backed fund established in…

Influential shades

Pulitzer Prize winner Hilton Als in his first book reveals a provocative collection of race, class, sexuality and identity in America. His “ white girls” features the like of Michael Jackson,  Eminem, Louise Brooks, Malcolm X, Truman Capote, Richard Pryor and Flannery O’Connor. Using his subjects to analyse literature, photography, films, music, television, performance, race,…

Gender inequality lurking in our society

  Laura Bates considers herself lucky not have been sexually assaulted although she had met harassers, masturbators and gropers. She recounts the time when a stranger in a crowd in Covent Garden was pressing into her only to find he had ejaculated down her back. This is timely book after the stories of abuse which…

Risk taking elites never pays

Taleb, a financial options trader turned author and flaneur who delights in blitzing the many intellectuals he disrespects. He Devotes one section of Skin in the Game to criticising the practice of “those who can do; those who can’t, teach” complaint. In Taleb’s earlier bestselling book of Fooled by Randomness (2001), a groundbreaking and farsighted…

KFC struggled to overcome logistics of chicken distribution

The fast-food chain continued to fail in selling fried chicken, as their distribution deal with DHL went horribly wrong after branches around the UK started closing last weekend, the 180, 000 square foot of warehouse in Warwickshire had logistics problems caused by a switch from its longstanding distribution Bidvest to DHL. KFC Tweeted, “ We…

Toys R Us’s 3,200 jobs at risk

Toys R Us, directors have told the Pension Protection Fund (pensions lifeboat) that their impending plan to appoint administrators early next week. Their US arm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year but claimed at the time that this would have no impact on its UK operations. Toys R Us is preparing to close 25…

French nationals convert to Hinduism

French national Maria Emmanuel and her sons Amos, Mark-Paul and Janklin, who planned for 10 years, converted to Hinduism and changed her name as Sai Radha and her son Arnos name as Sai Krishna in order for their maiden visit to Guruvayur temple in Kerala, India, as only Hindus are allowed to enter there. Dedicating…