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The former Bank governor and now the UN special envoy for climate finance, Mark Carney focuses on the global financial system and corporate governance, along with climate change. Carney’s detailed account of money and finance, where we get tantalising glimpses of life as a central banker – gilt chairs at a G20 summit in Riyadh…
London based British-Indian entrepreneur, and pioneer in promoting Kerala cuisine Thekkummuri Haridas aged 70, died at Tooting on Monday. He was also the cultural Ambassador and a former Indian high commission employee and specialist Kerala restauranteur, Born in Guruvayoor, Kerala, south India, Haridas served the Indian High Commission in London for over two decades…
St Patrick’s Day is celebrated around the world on Wednesday with online events replacing traditional parades. Both Belfast and Dublin have cancelled traditional parades for the second year in a row in honour of Ireland’s patron saint. The Queen has extended her best wishes to the people of Ireland for St Patrick’s Day, 10 years…
Kate MacLeod 24-year-old from Uig, Lewis is often swimming in seas and lochs around the West coast of Lewis during gale-force conditions complete with her own Ariel style tail fin, in summer and winter at the Outer Hebrides. She started her interest in wild swimming when she was a girl and for the last 10…
Police officers handcuffed women and removed them from the gathering on Clapham Common, south London on Saturday. Boris Johnson is deeply concerned by the footage showing police officer detaining women at Saturday’s vigil to remember Sarah Everard who went missing while walking home from a friend’s house on 3 March., and will chair a meeting…
I fail to remember how Harry and Meghan met but it definitely wasn’t “When Harry met Sally” referring to the comedy film. Could it have been that Harry might have seen Meghan in the law series “Suits” and found himself deeply attracted to her? Sometime later with an expensive wedding behind them, and a lovely…
Daimler, BMW sells jointly-owned PARK NOW App Daimler and BMW sell jointly-owned App PARK NOW to Swedish rival EasyPark. The App is part of a 2019 joint venture and has five parts including smartphone-based route management and booking service, among others. The sale will allow the unit to grow even further in the US…
India, the world’s largest producer of consumer and exporter of spices, produces 75 of the 109 varieties of spices listed in the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) exported £2.64bn worth of spices in 2020 alone. Orco (organic condiments), New-Delhi-based claims to produce hand-round organic and natural spices, founded by Pragya and marketed by her daughter…
March 8th is an International Women’s day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and focus on upholding women’s achievements, recognize challenges, and greater attention on women’s rights and gender equality, and also celebrate acts of courage by ordinary women, who played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and…