Three UK firms combined worth over £3m have been snapped up by overseas players in a buying frenzy. Clipper Logistics accepted a 920p-a-share bid from the US and GXO Logistics, a key provider of deliveries for M&S and John Lewis, JD Sports, and Asda disappear from the UK stock market. John Menzies the cargo group that…
The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the Rothschilds were bankers. Joseph Sassoon reveals the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal success, and how a handful of Jewish exiles from Ottoman Baghdad forged a mercantile juggernaut from their new home in colonial Bombay, the vast…
Health officials confirmed the first death from Lassa fever, an animal-borne, or zoonotic, acute viral illness in the UK, as three cases have been reported this week in the UK. Experts have said the Lassa virus is not transmitted via airborne infection but through contact with bodily fluids of an infected person. Lassa Haemorrhagic fever…
BBC at 100, grew bigger, with the expansion of the boundaries of good taste and sound judgement, pandering to the masses, sometimes out of touch. In 2022, when the BBC celebrates its centenary, its future lies in doubt. Media historian, David Hendy’s tale of creative endeavour and technological innovation, beset by a constant tension…
Lata Mangeshkar (92), “ Nightingale of Bollywood” and Indian national icon, one of India’s most venerated singers who singing era reigned for half a century during her lifetime sang thirty thousand songs has died. She had been admitted to Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai in January after testing positive for Covid-19 and died of multi-organ…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot of The New York Times investigates eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with mega imagination as the skyscrapers, near Brooklyn homeless shelter. Dasani’s ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north, grows up, moving with her tight-knit family shelter to shelter, is named for the…
During the Chief Minister of Kerala, India, Emirates visit, a tweet in Malayalam by Sheikh Mohamed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, soon after his meeting with the Kerala Chief Minister in the Emirates, has gone viral on social media. The ruler shared the picture of…
Postmen were apparently doped by munching on cannabis-laced brownies they had been unable to deliver, on their rounds in Clapham, south London, prompted a Royal Mail bosses to order an investigation. Innocent workers said to have mistaken the edibles in a “Pablo-Chocobar” box for innocent treats, were filmed walking unsteadily and needing help on…
Pictures R Nair Chancellor Rishi Sunak is in talks with Bank of England to head off the “cost of living cataclysm” as interest rates lift to 0.5%, from 0.1 per cent in December. Higher interest rates make borrowing more expensive, higher mortgage costs, higher gas bills and harder choices during grocery shopping. Some lenders raised…
Popular snacks from KP Snacks, a British company, which brings KP Nuts, McCoy’s crisps, Hula Hoops, Nik Naks and Skips to British grocery stores may be in question after a ransomware attack was discovered on Friday 28th January. The warning message sent out through groceries wholesaler Nisa, said KP Snacks was going to limit the…