According to Forbes’ annual Rich List, Rihanna is the richest female musician in the world with an estimated fortune of $600, ( £471m) with the majority of that coming from her Fenty Beauty range. She’s overtaken Madonna and Beyonce, who previously topped the list. The 31- year-old has been putting her efforts into her beauty,…
Kerala Superstar actor Mammooty introduced the new Pappu Zebra, the mascot of Kerala Police’s road safety awareness campaign in 3D animation through his Facebook page. The mascot created by Nandan Pillai was initially launched on June 3, 2009, and was so successful it won the International Media Safety Award for the best Road Safety awareness…
Rihanna, one of the best-selling music artist worldwide, has teamed up with LVMH to create luxury clothing and footwear brand, making the largest luxury group by revenues. Luxury brands like Christian Dior, Dom Perignon Champagne and Sephora owner said the new brand of ready-to-wear shoes and accessories would be named Fenty ready for spring…
The Way We Eat Now is an essential reading for all, as this books scans through climate change, shrinking biodiversity, the global rise of agro-industrial food complex and our nutrition and eating habits evolving around diet. The French invented lean cuisine. But now a push for quantity over quality in our food systems and the…
Whistle blower Hemanth Kappanna, an Indian engineer whose research helped to expose Volkswagen’s conspiracy to lie about its diesel cars’ emissions, was fired by US “General Motors” as part of a strategic transformation. His severance package consisted of two months’ salary and a one-way ticket to India. Kappanna returned to Bengaluru as he could not…
Seventh century’s traditional and famous Murano glass from the Venetian island is world beater located off the shore of Venice, Italy, the lagoon city’s historic and artistic glass factory connecting the historic buildings. Italian artisans are keen to avoid mass-produced generic but produce premium handmade, painstakingly rendered, authentic to get a sense of real…
In England and Wales, 30 per cent, around 10 million adults, 16 to 64 have tried the drug at least once, according to the annual crime survey. Cannabis is classified as a Class B or middle risk substance, as around the world or “420” – Cannabis users will be lighting up to celebrate “weed culture”…
Men with beards harbour more germs in their whiskers than dogs carry on their fur according to Professor Andreas Gutzeit of Switzerland’s Hirslanden Clinic. In the study scientist wanted to discover if there was a risk that humans might pick up a dog-borne disease from an MRI scanner that was alsao used for examinations by…
Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company which won four prizes, was among the big winners at Sunday night’s Oliver Awards, the most prestigious awards event in UK theatre at Royal Albert Hall. A gender-swapping West End Revival of the 1970 musical saw lead character Robert re-imagined as a woman, Bobbie. Patti LuPone who won the best supporting…
Mitsui to invest £23m ($30m) in Grota do Cirilo, to tap into Brazil’s lithium Brazil could emerge as a major supplier for high-quality lithium – a raw material used in electric-car batteries- after Mitsui & Co, one of the world’s biggest commodity traders agreed to invest £23m ($30m) in Grota do Cirilo, a hard rock…