In The Long Game, Rush Doshi, advisor on China in the Biden White House, draws from a rich base of Chinese primary sources, including decades worth of party documents, leaked materials, and memoirs by party leaders, to demonstrate that China is in fact playing a long, methodical game to replace America as a regional and…
Month: November 2021
Wall Street reporters, Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell, probes into the saga of ambition by aspiring entrepreneur to hit big time and the reasons why some of the biggest names in banking and venture capital buy the hype? What does the future hold for Silicon Valley “unicorns”? “The Cult of We” explores these questions with…
A baby, one-year-old, Sumatran elephant has died after losing half its trunk to a snare trap set by poachers in Indonesia. The villagers in the town of Aceh Jaya found the calf and brought to conservation agency to be treated. The conservation officials said they tried to save its life by amputating its trunk, but…
The Longest partial lunar eclipse of the century when the Earth lies directly between the Sun and the Moon and the Moon lies in the shadow of the Earth. People in the UK are not able to see every part of the eclipse but will still be able to see lunar eclipse at totality when the…
The pilot ejected from a British F35 Stealth jet which crashed shortly after takeoff from HMS Queen Elizabeth carrier, at 10:00 GMT over international waters, during a routine flying operations according to the Ministry of Defence. An investigation will focus on potential technical o human error.
UK inflation rate rises at highest in a decade at 4.2 per cent in October, amid fears over Covid recovery. Th jump, driven largely by rising fuel and energy costs, which puts further pressure on households across the UK. Demand for gas is pushing up energy prices worldwide, recovering from Covid pandemic. The shortages of…
Reliance Brands Ltd, part of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd, acquired 40 per cent stake in famous fashion designers Manish Malhotra’s MM Styles Pvt Ltd, a 16-year-old luxury brand. The deal is intended to boost the brand’s positioning and drive international growth. Manish Malhotra, a self-taught designer who got hi start as a stylist and…
Royal Dutch Shell plc commonly known as Shell, an Anglo-Dutch multinational oil and gas company proposes to tilt the FTSE 100 oil giants centre of gravity from Netherlands to London and cross the North Sea. Shell is one of the oil and gas “supermajors” and measured by 2020 revenues, ranked by Forbes Global 2000, as…
Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. The Nutmeg’s Curse, traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. He argues that the dynamics of climate change today…
ICC T20 Men’s World Cup Dubai New Zealand Vs Australia New Zealand 172-4, 20 ov, Williamson 85 off 48, 10 fours, 3 sixes, Guptill 28 off 35, 3 fours, Hazelwood 3-16, Zampa 1-26 Australia 173-2, 18.5 ov, Warner 53 off 38, 4 fours, 3 sixes, M Marsh 77 not out off 50, 6…