HSBC has reported a 35 per cent fall in pre-tax profits for the three months to the end of September and wants to start charging for current accounts. Europe’s largest bank by assets is finding it difficult to charge more for loans than it pays out to depositors as the interest rates are the…
South Korea’s Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun-hee died on Sunday aged 78. He helped to grow his father Lee Byung-chull’s noodle trading business into South Korea’s biggest conglomerate. Mr. Lee who was Samsung’s big thinker, the provider of grand strategic direction was convicted and pardoned twice for white collar crimes. Lee Kun-hee, who had been…
Privacy is gravely endangered in the digital age granting immense power to the government and corporations. Data harvesting and digital Surveillance are a major concern, as we are dreading about what is being done with our data. Frimin DeBrabander a professor of Philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art asks how we can ensure…
Rolls-Royce shares were on a roll as investors bet on the takeover and the engineering giant’s continued recovery from the coronavirus pandemic induce share slump. Roll’s share price has risen more than 100 per cent in just two weeks after it revealed plans to shore up its balance sheet by £6 billion at the end…
Former president Jospeh R Biden Jr has been called the luckiest man and the unluckiest – a fifty-year political career that reached the White House also marked by deep personal losses that he suffered. AS Biden’s life has been shaped by drama, powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to…
In the recent US presidential Television debate, Donald Trump’s oneliner was ” China ate your lunch Joe” against challenger Joe Biden. According to Trump’s view, China is a global villain that has visited a “Plague” upon the world while stealing US jobs and intellectual properties, Biden for his part has called XI Jinping, China’s leader, a…
The octopuses are soft-bodied eight-limbed mollusc of the order of Octopoda with over 300 recognised species and grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. The global species from the Western Atlantic, eastern Atlantic extends from the Mediterranean Sea and the Southern coast of England to Senegal in Africa, including the Azores, Canary…
A wild 15-year-old elephant was fed with firecracker-filled pineapple by an unknown assailant, as it entered a nearby village to forage for food last month in a remote valley in the Attappadi forest in South India. Indian wildlife officials are mourning the death of a pregnant wild elephant after the pineapple exploded in her mouth.…
Facebook-owned WhatsApp messaging platform has rolled out a new feature to allow its users from today to mute both individual and group chats forever. Previously WhatsApp offered three options under the Mute tab – 8 hours, 1 week, or 1 year. The app has now replaced the 1-year option with “Always”.
