The US Supreme Court has paved the way for legalised sports gambling across the US after it struck down a Federal law that banned gambling in all American states. This decision could open up US to betting companies who are involved in $150 bn in illegal and offshore betting. Justice Samuel Alito, wrote that a…
Ex-Labour cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in May last year, has died aged 70 on Saturday. Ex-PM Tony Blair said she left an “enormous” legacy as “everything she touched turned into gold in some way, whether it was advancing equal pay for women, starting Sure Start, which is an…
According to Sunday Times UK’s super-rich see the combined fortune of the wealthiest 1000 rise to £724bn in “ The 30th Annual Sunday Times Rich List 2018”, Britain transformed into a land of opportunities where the self-made can succeed as 1000 richest people built their own fortunes. When the Rich List was first published in…
Lord Geoffrey Howe’s London’s Docklands in 1978, how dereliction created an opportunity, after his speech to Bow Group of Conservatives, and went on as Chancellor to produce an economic development zone which gave birth to the Canary Wharf financial centre. Forty years after Lord Howe’s speech derelict east London including Poplar, Bow, Lime House, Stratford…
Do you know how the latest technological advances in gene editing, social media, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing our lives and societies, when we are more obsessed about immortality, divinity and bliss. The technology will give us the capacity to edit and direct our lives and our futures. Nigel Shadbolt, a computer science professor…
A 13 Indian bank consortium have won a high court battle against Kingfisher Airlines founder Vijay Mallya, on Tuesday, when a UK high court judge ruled that an Indian Judgement which states that Mallya owes the banks more than Rs 9,000 crore, against him can legally be enforced against his assets in England and Wales.…
Uber has unveiled its first four-passenger electric “flying car” concept aircraft with rotors which can reposition to help it fly after a vertical take-off and can travel 2,00o feet above the traffic at 150-200mph (241-321kmph). The Flying taxi will be initially flown by pilots but the company has plans to make them autonomous in the near…
The Arkansas-based Walmart is pounce on Flipkart, India’s biggest online retailer, setting up a global fight with Amazon for the fastest growing Indian e-commerce sector in a deal worth $16bn to take a 77 per cent stake. Doug McMillon, Walmart’s CEO will fly to India this week to announce the largest e-commerce deal. The acquisition comes…
Associated Independent Recording (AIR) Studios, set up by Beatles producer George Martin located in Lyndhurst Hall, a Grade II- listed church building in Hampstead, North West London, designed by Alfred Waterhouse who also designed the Natural History Museum, has been put for sale following the resolution of a dispute with neighbours. AIR Studios, with exceptional…
How three Indian mathematicians gave the world Algebra One thousand five hundred years ago three Indian mathematicians developed Algebra to give meaning to the meaningless. Bhaskara, originated the radical signs, Brahmagupta created the symbols and Aryabhata, worked out the first equations. As original thinkers, they expanded man’s horizon in his unending search for knowledge.…