Negotiations for a Brexit trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the European Union essentially “over”, said Downing Street. Unless there was willingness on the part of the EU to to discuss the detailed legal text of a partnership, there was “no point” in discussions continuing next week, No 10 said. No. 10 is the…
Federal investigative agencies in India have been requested by Indian entrepreneur BR Shetty to investigate two former top executives of his companies and two Indian banks in relation to a financial scandal engulfing his group that could run into millions of dollars. Shetty filed a complaint with the agencies in relation to investigating a number…
A study conducted on millions of tweets have found that anti-vaccination content generated by bots are rarely retweeted by Twitter users which suggests that there are some serious limitations in the use of bots in spreading vaccine misinformation. The role of bots was apparently found to be ineffective with respect to efforts to influencing discourse…
More airlines are set to fail in the coming months despite some airlines have been helped not to go bankrupt by strong government support say aviation experts. Since January this year, 43 commercial airlines have failed, found Travel data company, Cirium. In comparison, 46 and 56 airlines had failed for the entire years of 2019…
Even though the Chinese owned short video sharing app TikTok is currently faced with a possible ban by in the United States after the government accused it of being a national security risk, many of the major advertisers including Procter & Gamble, Danone and Chipotle Mexican Grill have decided to stick around with spending on…
For those countries that has any intention of including telecom equipment manufactured by the Chinese firm Huawei in the creation of 5G networks, the Chinese company is willing and ready to be thoroughly examined so that it can be proved that none of its equipment that it could potentially supply poses no risk to any…
Even if the United Kingdom and the European Union manages to strike a deal on Brexit, the car industry of Britain runs the risk of losing out, claims a report published by the BBC based on documents seen by the media. Some experts see imposing higher tariffs for car parts imported from Japan and Turkey…
The death toll from the novel coronavirus pandemic crossed the one million mark on Tuesday which the World Health Organization (WHO) said was a “a very sad milestone”. The United Nations body said on Tuesday that the victims off Covi-19, the disease caused by the virus, suffered “a terribly difficult and lonely death” and their…
With Chinese tech companies increasingly coming under heightened scrutiny in the United States, the Chinese online media firm Sina Corp. has decided to exit Wall Street after being listed there for 20 years. Sina said in a statement that in a deal that values the company at $2.6 billion, the company, which is head quartered…
The impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic surpassed the grim milestone of a total death toll of a million on Tuesday, according to official data, as the pandemic that first emerged in China at the end of last year, had devastated the global economy, has completely strained the health systems and changed the way people…
