Forty eight elephants were fed with healthy and delicious food which were lined in front of the Thrissur Vadakkunnathan Temple on Sunday as part of a ritual being held at the temple for the past 37 years. Heavy rain did not prevent thousands of devotees attracted to the temple to witness the aanayoottu which is…
Boris Johnson beat Jeremy Hunt in a ballot of Conservative party members and will enter 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. Dame Cheryl Gillan, a returning officer for the election, announced the result of the Conservative Party leadership election. Mr Johnson beat Hunt by winning 92, 153 votes to his rival’s 46, 656. Almost 160, 000…
The unmanned Chandrayaan 2 rocket blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on the east coast on Monday 22nd Jul 2019. The £113m ($140m) mission if successful, would place India alongside the US, Russia and China. The mission launched 50 years after the US astronauts first walked on the moon showed India’s determination to…
Credit score group Equifax will be liable for £644m ( 800m) as part of a record US settlement following a 2017 hack that exposed the data of 150m people whose information the agency tracks. The settlement with several federal and state authorities and claimants in a class action lawsuit draws a line under on the…
Jingye Group, a Chinese company had pulled out of the running to buy British Steel, thawing efforts to rescue the stricken manufacturer and safeguard thousand of UK jobs. Earlier Jingye Group submitted an offer for the entire British Steel Uk’s second largest steelmaker, which collapsed into insolvency two months ago after it s request for…
OYO, a fast-growing Indian hotel chain backed by Softbank, is investing £1.6bn ($2bn) to triple 25-year-old Ritesh Agrawal, the founder’s stake to 30 percent from 10 per cent in the company while light speed and Sequoia, its US backers partly cash out. The share buyback pushes OYO , the World’s third-largest hotel chain behind InterContinental…
The takeover of the Ei Group will add 4000 new publs to Stonegate Pub company’s ( owner of Slug & Lettuce) 765 existing locations . Simon Longbottom, CEO of Stonegate is owned by the Cayman Island registered private equity group TDR Capital said that although the deal ” slightly dwarfs what we’ve done before the…
Surveillance cameras made by Hikvision, 42 per cent owned by the Chinese Government have continued to watch over US military bases just weeks ahead of a federal ban on such equipments according to a review of defence contracts Cameras made by Hikvision, remain in place at Peterson air force base in Colorado, the home of…
Rajnish Wellness, listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange, which sell sexual wellness products has been busted by the Mumbai Police and arrested Rajnish Singh who allegedly ran a sex racket under the name of sap and body massage parlours. The Crime Branch of Mumbai Police rescued three women, allegedly involved in flesh…