Theresa May resigns: UK set for new PM

  Theresa May the prime minister said the failure to deliver Brexit was a matter of “deep regret”. “Ever since I first stepped through the door behind me as prime minister, I have striven to make the United Kingdom a country that works not just for a privileged few, but for everyone. In 2016 we…

Modi wave storms Indian election

Narendra Modi and his ruling BJP have swept back to power with the party winning 303 seats, with the opposition winning only 52,  UPA 33, others 108, in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of India’s parliament, bettering the 282 seats they won in 2014. A arty needed 272 seats for a majority in parliament.…

Modi’s BJP in historic landslide victory in India

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP has won India’s election in another landslide victory. Results announce so far Bharathiya Janata Party is set to win 300 of 543 seats in parliament despite some anti-incumbent feeling joblessness has risen to record high, farm income plummeted and industrial production slumped and several Indian were hit hard by the…

THE KNICKER BOCKER STORY

A short story by Penny Nair Price Anastasia was a blonde; a vampish young bimboesque girl with curves in all the right places. Henry smoked the largest fat Cuban cigars and possessing a sizeable paunch, partially concealed by divinely expensive pressed shirts, and  hugely exotic silk ties which were housed when not worn  in  a…

Superfast 5G Digital Internet behind the Iron curtain

  Google revoked Huawei’s Android licence and barred from some updates to the Android operating system and set to lose access to some Google apps. Google said it was “ complying with the order and reviewing the implications”. Huawei said “ We will continue to build a safe and sustainable ecosystem in order to provide…

City infrastructure to be finance by City authority borrowing

The City of London Corporation  which runs London’s Square Mile  is take on debt  for the first time in three decades to avoid crash crunch caused by expensive construction projects. The Corporation could borrow £1bn over the next three years  through its local government arm  and its £2.6bn endowment fund, has protected its local authority…

Metro Bank plans to sell over £1bn worth of loans

Metro Bank plans to sell over £1bn worth of loans amid misreporting scandal that caused its share price to plummet and force it into a rights issue. At the start of the year, regulators discovered  that Metro had misclassified the risk of hundreds of millions of pounds of commercial property and buy-to-let  loans. Reclassifying  the…

Bafta 2019 TV Awards:Killing Eve takes 3 awards

BBC thriller Killing Eve scooped three Bafta TV Awards including best actress for Jodie Comer and best drama series at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday.   Benedict Cumberbatch won best actor for his drama Patrick Melrose. In Killing Eve, Comer played offbeat assassin Villanelle, who was pursued by intelligence agent Eve, played…

41 killed after Aeroflot burst into flames in Moscow

Forty-one people died after a Russian Aeroflot Sukhoi Super jet 100-95, SU1492 carrying 73 people and 5 crew made an emergency landing burst into flames after take off from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport at 18:02 local time (15:02 GMT) bound for Murmansk. The crew sent a distress SOS signal when “malfunctions” occurred in bad weather. After…