Nelson Mandela’s magical early years of presidency, the small towns like farming dorp called Koppies to Chronicle the dismantling of white rule, however apartheid was going to take longer to die in South Africa’s small towns than in big cities. For the first year of new South Africa a fledgling black middle class moved in…
Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam popularly known as SP Balu, a renowned Indian musician, playback singer , music director, actor, dubing artist and film produced who worked in worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam, languages hailed as “ Padum Nila “ (“singing moon”) and “music cloud” by his millions of fans died on Friday at…
Trust your team, be radically honest and never, ever try to please your boss. These are the ground rules if you work at Netflix. These trade secrets have revolutionised the entertainment and tech industries, and this was part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lighting speed from…
Chancellor Rishi Sunak announces a new six-month Job support scheme to replace furlough, help for self-employed and business loans which begins in November, will see the government pay part of workers’ wages who have lost hours because of the coronavirus pandemic. The worker must do at least one-third of normal hours, and the government will…
Parti Liyani, an Indonesian domestic helper who earned £345 ( S$600) a month working for an extremely wealthy Singaporean family was accused of stealing from them, after they reported her to police triggering what could become a high profile High Court case that would grip the country with its accusations of pilfered luxury bags, a…
Kaloti, a Dubai-based trader was buying gold from criminal networks who used him to launder drug money and have been allowed to sell gold into global supply chains used to make smartphones and cars. The US Treasury was urged by law enforcement six years ago to warn the world that I was a primary money…
179 people were arrested across Europe and the US, and 500 kg (1, 102 lb) of drugs including fentanyl, Oxycodone, methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, MDMA and 64 guns were confiscated with over £5m ($6.5m) in cash seized in a co-ordinated raid on dark web marketplaces signalling the end of “golden age” of these underground marketplaces…
Microsoft who owns Xbox has acquired Bethesda, the games company behind super hits game titles including Doom, Fallout, Skyrim, and Wolfenstein, for £5.85bn ( $7.5bn) by paying the parent company ZeniMax Media. Xbox has said that the publisher’s franchises would be added to its Game Pass subscription package for consoles and PCs which would help…
According to HMRC figures, more than £215, 756, 121 to the government in Furlough scheme payments they did not need or took in error covering 80, 433 employer’s worker’s salaries have returned cash they were given to help cover workers’ salaries. The money returned is a tiny part of the $35.4bn claimed under the scheme…
Britain’s biggest bank HSBC allowed fraudsters to transfer millions of dollars around the world despite learning their scam, leaked secret files reveal. HSBC moved the money through its US business to HSBC accounts in Hong Kong in 2013 and 2014. Its role in the $80m ( £62m) fraud is detailed in a leak…