Paul Green (38) a drug courier was caught by police on 13th January carrying heroin and crack cocaine worth £60, 000 after officers spotted him without a face covering as he left a train in Wigan and stopped him for not wearing a facemask on a train. Police said after he became evasive a routine…
Philip Morris International, one of world’s biggest tobacco companies who sells 50 billion cigarettes a year under Marlboro, Chesterfield and L&H, lodged a bid for Vectira, a UK inhaler maker, whose 200-strong scientists based in Cambridge and Chippenham devise inhalers for respiratory drugs. Vectra’s board led by chairman Bruno Angelici, a former international president of…
Funny memoir about sex, dating, and relationships in the digital age, intertwined with investigation into the challenges to love and intimacy wrought by dating apps by 49-yar-old famed Vanity Fair writer and New York Times-bestselling author Nancy Jo Sales asks who to blame for the modern dating malaise:tech companies. Jo Sales award-winning journalist and single…
A Philippine military transport plane a C130 Hercules, carrying 92 troops from Cagayan de Oro, northern Island of Mindanao , has crashed in the northern Philippines. Jolo Island at 11:30 local time (03:30GMT). Flames and smoke emerged from the wreckage as forty five died but 40 people survived and were taken to a nearby military…
In the Twentieth century the Avon Lady acquired iconic status in American culture, in the1890s David McConnell, a young travelling book salesman working door-to-door in the eastern US tried out a new method of direct sales. After branching out into perfumes, began recruiting women to market the products in their own communities and cultivate a…
US fashion giant Gap plans to close all its 81 retail stores in the UK and Ireland including 19 stores that were already scheduled to close in July as their losses were expanding and go online-only. Gap is also looking to offload its stores in France and Italy. Gap opened in UK in 1987, famous…
Maye Musk, the mother of Tesla CEO and the world’s second-richest person Elon Musk, posted in social media on Monday to share a picture showing Musk as a baby to celebrate her son’s 50th birthday. “Happy Birthday Elon Musk. Thank you for this wonderful day 50 years ago.You’ve brought me great joy , Lots of…
Even before the advent of Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck, as it had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly , the environment crisis. Taking inspirations from the “Moonshot” programmes which successfully co-ordinated public and private sectors on a massive scale, influential thinker…
Growth stagnant, inequality rising , Crisis seems to follow crisis, the environment is suffering and Covid-19 pandemic has exposed every crack in the system. The answer is to create a better capitalism by understanding and harnessing the power of creative destruction innovation that disrupts, but that over the past two hundred years has also lifted…
Bitcoin fell below $30, 000 for the first time in five months on Tuesday, nearly wiping of world’s largest crypto currency’s entire 2021 gain. Bitcoin fell in recent weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s flagged energy usage fro crypto mining and China ‘s crop down of Bitcoin mining operations. Bitcoin has dropped 50 per cent…