Pavel Valeryevich Durov, the Russian-born billionaire and founder of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested on landing in Paris on Saturday evening, But why did French police detain him? Sources close the investigation about the offences Pavel Durov may be charged with allegedly from complicity in drug-trafficking to fraud. Telegram put on statement saying Mr Durov had “nothing to hide On Monday evening, the Paris prosecutor said in a statement that Mr Durov was being held in custody as part of a cyber-criminality investigation.  The statement mentioned 12 different offences under investigation that it said were linked to organised crime, … Continue reading Telegram founder arrested in Paris

Former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has died at the age of 76 Eriksson, the first non-British manager of the England team, led the Three Lions to the quarter-finals at three major tournaments during his five-year tenure in charge between2001 and 2006. In January 2024, Eriksson was diagnosed with cancer. His children Line and Johan, said, on Monday “Our father Sven-Goran Eriksson fell asleep peacefully in his home at Bjorkefors outside Sunne this morning”. He has for a long time fought bravely with his illness , but now it came to an end. Dad told us at the beginning of … Continue reading Eriksson has died aged 76

Fifty-two-year-old, Karen Gordon,  Countess Spencer,  reveals that she is separating from Earl Spencer, the brother of Prince Diana, after 13 years of marriage, and leaving Princes Diana’s childhood home, Continue reading Countess Spencer is separating from Earl Spencer

Nancy, a London-based narrator, has just discovered that she has a half-brother from New Zealand and a half-sister, inherited from her father’s previous relationship. Her other has died recently  and never fully explained to the reader. Nancy finds to her surprise that she is pregnant by a distant partner. The discovery of Oliver , her half-brother, ruptures Nancy’s relationship with Rita her half-sister. Rita struggles to accept a stranger as part of a family that is complicated enough especially when doing so tarnishes the image of her late father. Nancy’s world is punched inside out at the above discoveries. As … Continue reading Siblings lost and found

Capitalist elite runs corporation as a business  that uses its accumulated wealth to own the means of production and exercise economic power. In the twenty-first century, our most desired goods and services aren’t stacked in warehouses or on container ships, they appear on your screen, fit in your pocket or occupy your head. Although, we consume more than ever before, big business faces now faces a crisis of legitimacy. The pharmaceutical industry creates life-saving vaccines but has lost the trust of the public. The widening pay gap between executives and employees is destabilising our societies. Facebook and google have more … Continue reading Global businesses lost trust of the public

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher was elected to Downing Street with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. Her grocery experience and monetarist orthodoxy held the control of money supply by rejecting the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists’ policy based on the doctrine of monetarism. Tim Lancaster, was the private secretary for economic affairs to Thatcher during the early  years of her government, and gives an insider’s account  explains her attitudes and decisions and those of the other main players in this deeply damaging experiment in economic policy making, which promised much but … Continue reading Policy blunder led to recession in Thatcher era

A rough 2, 492-carat diamond, believed to be the second-largest has been unearthed in Botswana at Karowne mine ( 300 miles north Botswana’s capital, Gaborone) worth about £31million, owned by Canadian firm Lucara Diamond. The previous biggest discovery in Botswana was a 1, 758-caraat diamond found at the same mine in 2019. Botswana is one of the world’s biggest producer of diamonds about 20 per cent of global production. Lucara’s head William Lamb, in a statement said “one of the largest rough diamonds ever unearthed”. The biggest diamond in the world is 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, found in south Africa in … Continue reading Second largest 2, 492-carat diamond discovered in Botswana’s mine

Raddison Red Heathrow hotel boast about plunging into culture, their hotels are different as they put a twist on the normal to make it unforgettable. The Night team left reception desk empty, call for help were ignored. Inadequate safety at the hotel enabled a miscreant knocking on their guest room doors and windows of the cabin crew of Air India leading to a sexual assualt last week. On Thursday at Raddison Red Heathrow hotel an assailant entered a woman cabin crew’s room with the help of a card key when she was sleeping and sexually assualted her at 1:30am. Her … Continue reading Air India cabincrew sexually assaulted by intruder in London Hotel room

UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, co-founder of Autonomy, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley’s international chair Jonathan Bloomer, Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, are among the six unaccounted for after superyacht was hit by a tornado and sank within sixty seconds. Chamberlin, the former vice-president of finance at Autonomy, Lynch’s co-defendant in a US trial related to the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard had died after being hit by a car while out running in Cambridgeshire. The 59-year-old Lynch was acquitted by a jury in San Francisco in June, after he spent more then a … Continue reading Sicily Tornado hit Superyacht sinking with millionaires

Acclaimed BBC newsreader and journalist Mishal Husain, reveals the transformation of her grandparents’ lives amidst empire, political upheaval and partition, as we;; as a chronicle of one of the most cataclysmic events in South Asia. “I witnessed the dwindling glow of the British Empire. I saw small men entrusted with great jobs, playing with destiny of millions’. Mary Quinn, a student nurse and devout Catholic married for love & Mumtaz Husain was he only son of extremely conservative Muslims. In early 1942 they quietly arranged consecutive weddings : one performed by an Imam in Lahore, who reasoned that even the … Continue reading Dealing with destiny of millions