A short story by Penny Nair Price Anastasia was a blonde; a vampish young bimboesque girl with curves in all the right places. Henry smoked the largest fat Cuban cigars and possessing a sizeable paunch, partially concealed by divinely expensive pressed shirts, and hugely exotic silk ties which were housed when not worn in a…
Cambridge headquartered ARM UK-based chip designer has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei according to an internal memo. ARM instructed employees to halt ” all active contracts, support entitlements and any pending engagements with Huawei and its subsidiaries to comply with a recent US trade clampdown, as its design contained US origin technology.…
Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover has reported a 55 per cent year-on-year fall in its fourth-quarter profit at £119 million, the company’s first profit in four quarters. This news comes despite the British carmaker’s China sales dropped by 46 per cent in April 2019. According to PB Balaji , CFO, the Chinese sales should return…
Former Formula One driver Niki Lauda passed away at the age of 70 on Monday, after receiving a lung transplant last year. Lauda who had suffered serious burns in a near-fatal crash at German Grand Prix in 1976, won three championships in 1975, 1977 and 1974. The Austrian won 25 races out of total of…
According to a global research team an insulating layer of gas hydrates could be protecting an ocean on Pluto. A Texas-sized white-coloured basin with an icy surface named Sputnik Planitia, was revealed in Pluto’s first ever close-up images. Scientists said the gas layer could exist beneath the icy surface, backing their claim with computer…
British Steel goes into compulsory liquidation endangering 5, 000 jobs, 3000 at Scunthorpe and another 800 in Teeside, north-eastern England, and rest in France, Netherlands and sales offices around the world, at risk in UK and endangering over 20, 000 in the supply chain. The move follows a breakdown in rescue talks between the government…
Jamie Oliver, Celebrity chef’s chain restaurant group which includes ten Italian chain Barbecoa and fifteen others have appointed KPMG as administrators with a loss of 1000 jobs. Twenty two of the 25 restaurants have now closed but two of Jamie’s Italian restaurants and Jamie Oliver’s Diner at Gatwick airport would continue to trade in the…
Google revoked Huawei’s Android licence and barred from some updates to the Android operating system and set to lose access to some Google apps. Google said it was “ complying with the order and reviewing the implications”. Huawei said “ We will continue to build a safe and sustainable ecosystem in order to provide…
178- year-old Thomas Cook shares were branded worthless yesterday, which triggered a collapse in the value of UK’s oldest travel business and alarming customers scheduled to go on holiday this summer to its ,holiday resorts around the world. The iconic groups shares fell 40 per cent after Citigroup said it was at risk of vicious…
Alki David 50-year-old Coca Cola has been arrested with his fellow billionaire business associate Chase Ergen (66) after landing in St Kitts on a private jet allegedly carrying £900, 000 $1.3 million worth of cannabis. They were transporting 5, 000 cannabis plants with The Tudors’ actor pal Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (41) and his family. David…