The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine by the British regulator, the MHRA, who says the jab, which offers 95 per cent protection against Covide-19 illness I safe for rollout. The UK has already ordered 40 million doses enough to vaccinate 20m people with two shots each.…
243-year-old Debenhams is set to close 124 stores after it failed to agree on a rescue package. IN 1950 it became the largest department store group in the UK, with 110 stores and in 2006 it joined the stock market for the third time with a worth of £1.7bn a price tag it has never…
Sir Philip Green’s retail empire Arcadia owner of Topshop, Burton, Dorothy Perkins has gone into administration risking 13, 000 jobs, after failing to secure extra funding to pay debts after sales slumped during the second pandemic lockdown. The group which runs 444 stores in the UK and 22 overseas, said 9,294 employees are currently on…
On Sunday a tribal girl Pasula Nirmala, was in a field in Mannewada hamlet when a tiger fatally attacked her in Kondapalli in Kumaran Bheem Asifabad district, just three days after the big cat was sighted near {eddavagu in Penchikalpet Mandal in the district. The girl’s two brothers had gone to fetch water from a…
Australia has 42, 000 tonnes of lithium and its extraction from hard-rock mining of spodumene- an ore that contains high levels of lithium and aluminium, followed by Chile 18, 000 tonnes, China 7, 500 Tonnes, Argentina 6, 400 tonnes. Zimbabwe 1, 600 tonnes, Portugal 1, 200 tonnes. In 2019. The global lithium production according to…
Thousands of people have fled Indonesia’s Ile Lewotolok volcano area after it erupted and spewed smoke and poisonous gas into the atmosphere. Authorities have warned people to avoid lava streams and poisonous gases. Indonesia has the world’s most active volcanos. Lewotolo volcano in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia erupted at 9:45 local time this morning…
Romain Grosjean escaped from Formula 1 accident six years with burns to the back of his hands, after he hit the barrier at 137mph with an impact force of 53G, as the car broke in two, caught fire, and split the barrier. He was struck in the inferno for nearly 30 seconds before extracting himself…
Kaavan, the world’s loneliest elephant has entertained crowds for decades from his tiny half-acre enclosure barren patch of land in Marghazar zoo in Pakistan, is finally Free, transport five-and-a-half tonne Kaavan on an eight-hour flight to to Cambodia, thanks to the determination of coalition of determined volunteers including the American pop icon Cher. Kaavan may…
Dave Prowse a former bodybuilder representing England at the Commonwealth Games in 1960s, and who was also given an MBE for his long-running role as the Green Cross Code Man in 1975 and his portrayal in the original Star Wars trilogy has died aged 85. Although brought up in Bristol, he spent his later years…
Marina Wheeler, an Anglo-Indian with roots in what is now Pakistan, distills the fraility of human condition and reveals her mother’s story of loss and new beginnings, personal and political freedom in an inspiring portrayal of how a woman made her own world as nations and empire were made and dismantled. The historical drama centred…