Heat is on other councils to check cladding material used in other high rise tower blocks. Cladding should not contain any element of combustable materials. The number of tower blocks found to have combustible cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower rises to 11 across England. Already five tower blocks on the Chalcots Estates in…
Volvo, the Swedish carmaker’s Chinese owners Geely Automative, has split out its Polestar division into a separate brand. Polestar would use its close links with Volvo to “design, develop and build world-beating electrical high-performance cars” and take on Tesla. The brand will also continue to create high-performance models for Volvo and the new business will…
Indian Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said he favoured disinvestment of the loss-making state-owned airline Air India, to Private sector conglomerate Tata Group, who previously owned the airline 64 years back when it was nationalised. Tata Group’s new chairman N Chandrasekaran has held informal talk with the government for buying a 51 per cent equity majority…
Offshore assets held in the British Virgin Islands have risen to £ 1.19tn ($1.5tn), more than twice the sum estimated in 2010 in seven years. Offshore companies registered in the BVI are used for “corporate structuring” ad over 140 listed businesses in London, New York and Hong Kong have a unit in the BVI. These…
Forty flights have been cancelled in Phoenix, Arizona, as it is too hot for the planes to fly. The weather forecast for the US city is predicted at 49ᵒC on Tuesday, which is higher than the operating temperature of some planes. American Airlines announced it was cancelling dozens of flights scheduled to take off from…
The Grenfell Tower disaster in West London is the worst fire the UK has witnessed, as the investigators and working to find out how the blaze began and spread rapidly and also are looking into the construction, refurbishment and the management of the Tower block, as well as the existing building regulations, are adequate. The…
According to Commander Stuart Cundy of Metropolitan police 79 residents are dead and this figure may change, as there mat have been people inside the building that they did not know were there, but there also could be people who were reported missing and managed to escape. He said “ the police investigation will be…
ICC Champions Trophy, Final: India v Pakistan at Kennington Oval, Jun 18, 2017 Pakistan v India Pakistan 338/4 (50.0 ov) Azhar Ali 59 off 71, 6 fours, 1 six, Fakhar Zaman 114 off 106, 12 fours, 3 sixes, Babar Azam 46 off 52, 4 fours, Mohammad Hafeex 57 not out, 4 fours, 3 sixes, B…
ICC Champions Trophy, 2nd Semi-final: Bangladesh v India at Edgbaston, Birmingham, Jun 15, 2017 India v Bangladesh Bangladesh 264 for 7 Tamin 70 off 82, 7 fours, 1 six, Mishfiqur Rahim 61 off 85m 4 fours, Mashrafe Mortaza 30 off 25, 5 fours, KM Jadhav 22-2, JJ Bumrah 39-2, B Kumar 53-2, RA Jadeja 48-1…
The death toll rose to 12 after a fire which ripped through a 24-storey West London Residential building in North Kensington, West London. In the midst of this, a baby was dropped from the 10th floor to safety from the tower block as a man ran forward and managed to catch the baby. It is…