Ashneer Grover’s investment in Beyond Snacks in Kerala’s banana chips manufacturing firm makes a 3-fold profit. Grover, the co-founder of Bharat Pe, hailing the achievements of entrepreneur Manas Madhu said “It was heartening to see a threefold rise in profit growth of Beyond Snacks in six months”. Beyond snacks manufactures banana chips in different flavours.…
Modernism celebrates the century and its consequences are all around us, built into our everyday lived environments. Its place in Britain’s history is fiercely contested and its role in our future is the subject of ongoing controversy, although modernist buildings have changed our cities, politics, and identity forever. Own Hatherley applauds the ambition and explores…
The China Eastern Airlines flight six-year-old Boeing 737-89P, crashed on Monday afternoon, after plunging 20, 000 ft ( 6,000m), with an enormous force disintegrating on impact. The Black box recovered was badly damaged. The second black box, which records flight data, has not yet been found. Sun Shiying chairman of the airline’s Yunnan branch, told…
Wheat that travelled along the rivers, between ports, and across seas show how cheap American grain toppled the world’s largest empires. In Oceans of Grain, University of Georgia academic Scott Reynolds Nelson reveals how the struggle to dominate these routes transformed the balance of world power. Imperial Russia in the early nineteenth century fed much of…
McDonald’s said it was temporarily closing all its 847 restaurants in Russia and 100 restaurants in Ukraine but continued to pay its staff, which contributed an annual revenue of $2 billion. Burger King’s President and CEO Chris Kempczinski also confirmed it would continue to pay its 62, 000 Russian workers but said “ Our values…
The International Women’s Day on 8th March, join UN women and the world in coming together under the theme Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow”. We now understand the vital link between gender, social equity, and climate change and recognize that without gender equality today, a sustainable future, an equal future, remains out of…
McDonald’s and Coca Cola are very complicated multinational businesses, that have been criticised on social media for failing to speak out about the attacks and invasion of Ukraine, and continuing to operate in the country. Coca-Cola even has bottling plants in Russia and is not easy to pull out of Russia. Netflix and Levi’s have…
Many old and elderly although they are mentally alert but suffer agonies coping with vagaries of online banking are ill-served online by British banks. Some instructions are ambiguous or contain the usual jargon, and carrying out a simple task often requires multiple attempts, and gets more frustrated. To ask for help on the telephone could…
China revealed a growth target of 5.5 per cent, its lowest in three decades. Beijing seeks to boost its economy after a sharp loss of momentum in 2021 and fallout from the Ukraine war. However, Beijing maintains its strict Covid measures, enforces its common prosperity policy to reduce inequality while boosting party control over the…
“Londongrad” is a phenomenon brought to the fore by Vladimir Putin’s savage attack on Ukraine, with Britain’s Liz Truss slamming the Oligarchs and their associates on the floor of the House of Commons. The British establishment and its financial system provide for dirty money from the post-Soviet era and elsewhere may be seen as an…