VG Siddhartha the founder and owner of India’s largest coffee chain, Café Coffee Day, allegedly committed suicide and his body has been found by fisher men near a river on the outskirts of the southern city of Mangalore according to police. VG Siddhartha went missing on Monday after apparently walking away from his car and…
Swaledale Mountain Rescue Team posted a picture of a collapsed bridge in Grinton on Facebook appealing to motorist not to travel as many routes are impassable due to flooding. The damaged bridge near Reeth, was due to be on the route of the cycling World Championships held in Yorkshire in September. The Environment Agency has…
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in advanced talks to invest £1bn in UK’s Babylon Health, a digital health start-up used by the National Health Service. The investment is part of a new funding round for the start-up that will give Babylon “unicorn” status. London-based Babylon founded in 2013 by Ali Parsa, a British-Iranian entrepreneur…
Grant Thornton has told regulators that it intends to quite as Sport Direct’s auditor following concerns over the disclosure of a €674m tax bill, a move that would attract more scrutiny on to the corporate governance of Mike Ashley’s business. The company which has audited Sports Direct since it floated on the London Stock Exchange …
Pfizer is expected to announce today that it will combine its off-patent drug business with Mylan, the generics drugmaker with a market value of $9.5bn. The US drugmaker is expected to create a new unit with larger seller of off-patent and generic medicines including Lipitor and Viagra. Mylan shareholders will hold just over 40 per…
Russi Taylor famous for the voice of Minnie Mouse for more than 30 years has died aged 75. Russi provided the shrill, simpering tones of the Disney character in several TV series and in films including Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers which entertained millions of children and adults worldwide.…
The US Supreme Court on Friday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to redirect $2.5bn in money approved by Congress for the Pentagon to help build his promised wall along the US-Mexico border. The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow the funds to be used. “Big win for border security and the rule of the law”…
Cow is the only animal that exhales oxygen according to Uttarakand Chief Minister, Trivendra Singh Rawat. The video which has gone viral, asserts that breathing problems can be cured by massaging a cow.
US Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard has sued Google for at least $50m over a six-hour suspension of her campaign’s ad account after the first Democratic debate. Gabbard, the first-ever Hindu elected to US Congress, was briefly the most-searched for candidate on Google after the debate, as per the New York Times.She accused Google of…
Elon Musk led aerospace startup SpaceX has successfully launched its 18th mission for NASA to deliver equipment, research and supply material to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission was launched using twice-flown dragon capsule and marked SpaceX’s 44th successful recovery of a Falcon 9 rocket booster. SpaceX had used the booster two months ago…