A single Tweet from Trump wipes billions off Amazon’s value, after saying “ Doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the US are being hurt – many jobs being lost”. The online retail giant’s shares fell 1.2 per cent ahead of the opening bell after Trump’s comments. However, shares later…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi celebrating India’s 70th Indpendence Day, addressed the crowd from the ramparts of Red Fort in Delhi and said “ only hugs could solve the problems of the territory which often sees clashes between protesters and Indian security forces”. and has appealed to the nation to stand together with families of…
Jason Wouhra, Director at East End Foods, employed a unique strategy to turna thriving family spice business into a £1 bn global corporate organisation, with a £ 200m-turnover. His fairy tale story from a small family corner shop business to UK’s leading supplier of spices. The success of their 40-year-old company, is soley due to…
Dozens of elephants and rafts have been deployed to rescue over 500 people trapped by floods, and forced out thousands of residents out of their houses. According to Red Cross 100, 000 people have been affected. Several hotels also affected in Sauraha, Chitwan district trapping tourists. Landslides and floods caused by torrential monsoon rains have…
Grenfell Tower will be covered to aid the criminal investigation and on going forensic recovery efforts inside the building. The tower block will be covered in a protective wrap after a fire gutted the 24-storey high-rise on 14th June 2017. Scaffolding will also be erected around the skyscraper to facilitate future demolition of the charred…
Robert Winder examines the historical introspection on the idiosyncrasies of the English, and the often general assumption that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas, as his new work examines the shooting of England’s last wolf by Shropshire knight Peter Corbet. However, one can never track down the moment a…
The grand colonial era at Kolkata, the former capital of British Raj, still have many of its once-grand colonial-era structures. Indian born American writer Kushanava Choudhury explores India’s most industrialised city, and zooms in on Kolkata’s educated and wonders why many Bengali babus borne out of the British empire – including his own family, never…
The eminent late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, a looming intellectual, often paroxysmal, who saw and analysed the great socio-political changes right up to his death in early 2017. His analysis called “Liquid modernity”, included poverty, inequality to migration, fear of the other and decline of nation state, the outcast generation, on building fortresses under siege, o…
A fire broke out just after 1 a.m. at the 87-storey Torch Tower, morer than 1 100 foot tall ( 335 meters), the World’s tallest residential skyscraper located in an upscale waterfront district in Dubai’s Marina, heavily populated by expatriates from around the world. Firefighters successfully put out a blaze that erupted the high-rise, forcing…
North America will witness a solar eclipse for the first time in 99 years on August 21st, 2017, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across the bands of Earth’s surface, and all the three planets become perfectly aligned in once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle. The total Solar eclipse will last more…