Amit Agrawal of Amazon India plans to invest in an Indian online food delivery startup Swiggy after several discussions with the Bengaluru-based firm over the past three months. Swiggy also attracted Alibaba-backed Chinese food delivery venture Ele.me. Siggy, valued at $200m, founded by Sriharsha Majety, CEO, along with Rahul Jaimini and Nandan Reddy. It competes with…
Bayer’s takeover bid with a $56bn offer to create World’s biggest seed and crop spray supplier met with some resistance with the shareholders of Monsanto who wanted a further improved offer.Bayer Aktiengesellschaft or its subsidiaries (“Bayer AG”), to purchase all of the outstanding shares of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of Monsanto Company, a…
Why would someone give up his job as a rugby journalist for Sky Sport? Well in this case Ben Hampshire 24 has become a campus pastor in a South Yorkshire church. Legacy Church has a network providing services in Edlington, Skellow and Swansea as well as in Barnsley Rotherham and Doncaster. Having started this month,…
State of Kerala in Southern India, snake boat races long traditional canoe style boat used by the local residents to wade to back waters of kerala. It’s a traditional war boat of kerala 120 feet long snake boat with over 80 rowers. Each of the villages in the region has its own snakeboat…
When Elizabeth Flynn found life as an actress didn’t quite float her boat she moved into a career as a mortuary assistant. Through a friend she found this job paid the bills and gave her leeway to re-write her first novel and to write some more. They all have a theme of murder with Angela…
Michael Douglas’s celebrated actress wife Catherine Zeta-Jones spent three years in Drury Lane when she started as an understudy then took over a lead role in 42nd Street. Douglas would love to work in the same theatre or another London theatre and says “One of the things about getting older and a cancer survivor is…
This year is the 25th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death. Freddie was originally named Farrokh Bulsara, and was the lead singer of the fabulous inimitable group “Queen”. The family came to Essex from Zanzibar to 22 Gladstone Avenue, Feltham, Middlesex in 1964 when Freddie was just 17. He met Brian May – guitarist and Drummer Taylor…
Top US Actor Robert de Niro has said the mostly positive reaction to his proposed new hotel in London “makes perfect sense”. He already owns a hotel in New York. Some misgivings have been aired about interference with noise to productions such as The Lion King at The Lyceum but generally optimism prevails. The new…
200 near naked runners jogged in a ‘streak’ -which is the same name appertaining to a group of tigers to raise money to protect the big cats. They raised £25,000 for the Zoological Society of London’s conservation work with tigers. They ran through the animal sanctuary of Regents Park . In its fourth year, the…
Flights are resuming at London City Airport hours after black rights activists stormed the runway. MTF more to follow