The gold price has hit a new high in the international market, making the sixth consecutive day on the rise. The US-China tension and the fall in the value of the US dollar have caused an increase in gold prices in the international market. The Spot gold has reached £1, 505 (1, 928 US dollars)…
On Saturday evening the UK government removed Spain from the list of travel destinations where you can come back from without self-isolating for 14 days, from Sunday, after a spike in the number of cases in Spain. In the UK, there have been calls for support for people returning from Spain to quarantine where there…
After the Covid-19 Pandemic lockdown, the reopening of the hotel’s sanitization plays a pivotal role in protecting the health of its guests and residents. A self-sanitizing copper tape wrapped around door handles and knobs serves that purpose. The largest global supplier of intelligent lock and global leader in security door opening solutions, Assa Abloy’s self-sanitizing…
Wildlife photographer Mithun H, whose shot of black panther leopardess went viral, revealed he had to wait for six days and night in the same spot to get the shot. ” It is a fruitful though. Sayya the Black Panther and Cleopatra the Leopardess, have been courting for four years”. The Bengaluru-based wildlife photographer during…
Tata Group patriarch Ratan Tata commented on the layoffs by Indian companies amid the Covid-19 pandemic was a knee-jerk reaction and showed a lack of empathy among the top leadership. “These employees have worked for you and have served you all their careers. You send them out to live in the rain. Is that your…
Free-spirited young British writer’s The Liar’s Dictionary, gives a lexicographical insight, with rich language and her characters rounded enough to be sympathetic but clever and funny, intoxicated with joy and as vivid as Dickens. Eley Williams explores themes of trust and creativity. The novel also interleaves two stories, set in 1899 and the present day…
True crime story of corruption, greed, fraud, celebrity, and justice in a cheating scandal of Meritocracy. Bribes are not necessarily the phenomenon of third world countries where the elite can buy into almost anything, but US universities are open to accepting bribes for elite college admissions. For most Americans, admission to Yale is as unlikely…
Fearsome ocean predators number of sharks around the world has fallen. Research published in the latest science journal Nature, found fishing was responsible for fewer sharks across many of the world’s coral reefs. Using a network of underwater cameras, researchers found sharks were “functionally extinct” at 20 per cent of the coral reefs they surveyed.…
From Friday 24 July, face coverings are mandatory in England in confined public places. New guidance on face masks and coverings issued for England Complete guidance on wearing face coverings in shops in England has been released less than 12 hours before the new rules come into force. Coverings will be mandatory in enclosed public…
Deforestation in India has surged to such an extent that wild elephants are hitting back by bulldozing houses and human habitat and coolly go back to the forest. In Kerala Palakkad, a wild elephant nicknamed bulldozer destroys at least one house and disappears into the forest. Within the last three months, the…