Twitter has revealed that hackers viewed 36 accounts and its private direct messages and one of the accounts affected was according to local Dutch report is far-right politician Geert Wilders. His profile image was replaced with that of a cartoon of a black man, and his account’s background image was changed to that of a…
Mukesh Ambani (63) chairs a £70 billion ($88 billion) oil and gas giant Reliance Industries among India’s most valuable companies, a company founded by his father Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer. In 2016, Reliance sparked a price war in India’s hyper-competitive telecom market with the launch of 4G…
The Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine released two photographs of Prince George Alexander Louis, the future king born on 22 July 2013. Prince William and Catherine were “delighted” to share the photos. Prince George – known as His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge is the great-grandchild of the Queen and will be the 43rd…
TikTok with strong links to China is the latest company to come under attack as tensions between President Xi’s China and President Donald Trump’s US escalate. India has already taken it off app stores as Australia and the US are considering banning the app. TikTok a free app like a short-form version of YouTube where…
Swapna Suresh involved in a gold scam has the potential to derail Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. In Kerala, a 2013 case of sexual exploitation involving politicians in which inevitably it was the Sarita Nair who became the focal point of the solar scam scandal labelled “ice-cream Parlour case”. Swapna Suresh hit the headlines on…
Britain has a window of opportunity to eradicate the virus in the summer months, if 50, 000 people take part in the COVID Vaccine trials. Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist, director of TwinsUK and science writer from King’s College London, who created one of the leading smartphone apps for tracking symptoms of the virus said “the…
The UK government borrowed £127.9bn between April and June for tackling the coronavirus pandemic, taking the total government debt to £1.98 trillion. The difference between spending and tax income was more than double the £55.4bn borrowed in the whole of the previous year. The borrowing in June was lower in May at £35.5bn, as…
Doses of Vaccine called AZD1222 were given to 1077 healthy adults between 18 and 55 in five UK hospitals in April and May as part of the phase one clinical trial for the vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and Scientists at the University of Oxford. The results published in the Lancet Journal on Monday showed…
Southhampton-based biotech Synairgen uses a protein called interferon beta which the body produces when it gets a viral infection, primary results of a clinical trial suggest a new treatment for Covid-19 dramatically reduces the number of patients needing intensive e care and also indicated “very significant” reductions in breathlessness among patients who received the treatment.…
Western governments and their scientific advisors made assumptions about Covid-19 and its lethality that turned out to be mistaken as valuable time was lost while the virus spread unchecked, leaving health systems overwhelmed for the avalanche of infections that followed. Covid-19 revealed the fragility of our societies and the speed with which our systems can…