China fastest growing global superpower

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…

Extra ordinary rise and precipitous fall of Adam Elliot Neumann

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…

snare trapped baby elephant dies

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…

Longest Partial Lunar eclipse of the century

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…

Inflation rises to 4.2 per cent

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…

Muksesh Ambani acquires 40 per cent stake in Manish Malhotra

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…

Connection between Colonial Exploitation and Climate Change

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…