From fields to global tech hub
Getty Images In 2010, Delhi’s metro train system linked up with Gurgaon, but the city still lacks transport infrastructure. (Copyright: Getty Images) Two decades ago, Gurgaon, near Delhi, was just farmland. Now it is the centre of India’s outsourcing goldrush. And it’s thinking even bigger. The farmers’ children in dusty Darbaripur no longer want to […]
Small factory behind big TV shows closes down
Calum Thomson The Rycote microphone windshields are used to film in extreme environments A small factory in Gloucestershire that pioneered sound recording technology for the film and TV industry has been closed, with the loss of 22 jobs. For over 50 years, Rycote in Stroud made windshields for microphones used all over the world. But […]
Four Danske Bank branches to close in October
BBC Danske Bank is one of the largest banks in Northern Ireland Danske Bank has announced that four of its Northern Ireland branches will close on 22 October. They are in Ballygawley, Hillsborough, Mallusk and at University Road in Belfast. It means the bank’s branch network will reduce to 32, but it said there will […]
Business trip: Seoul
Bridges span the Han River which flows through Seoul. (Korea Tourism Organization) The South Korean capital city, awash in economic exuberance, is developing as a design, fashion and technology centre, and breaking out as a key business hub. Just like a Korean-built Samsung or LG appliance, Seoul gets faster, brighter and more user-friendly with every […]
Bet365 boss Denise Coates donates £10m to NHS trust
PA Media/Bet365 The Denise Foundation donated £10m to University Hospitals of North Midlands The chief executive of Bet365 has donated £10m to an NHS trust to support staff fighting coronavirus. Billionaire businesswoman Denise Coates donated to University Hospitals of North Midlands (UHNM) – the trust which covers Stoke-on-Trent, her home town. She said her charity […]
President Joe Biden commutes 37 out of 40 federal death sentences
US President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates, switching their penalty to life in prison without parole. Among those are nine people convicted of murdering fellow prisoners, four for murders committed during bank robberies and one who killed a prison guard. In a statement, Biden said […]
Texas love bats
Bats fly out from under Austin’s Congress Avenue Bridge. (Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau) These nocturnal cave dwellers are cherished in the Lone Star state, which is home to the world’s largest bat colony and more bat-viewing sites than anywhere else in the country. Texas has a close relationship with the bat. In 1995, the […]
Crocodile Dundee croc Burt dies in Australia
Shutterstock For safety reasons, a fake version of Burt (pictured with Hogan) was used for some of the promotional photographs The crocodile who starred in 1980s hit film Crocodile Dundee has died in Australia. Burt, who was thought to be over 90 years old, appeared alongside Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski in the 1986 movie. […]
Cocktailing in the Argentine capital
RÃo Café in Buenos Airesâ Soho district is winning fame for its simple, zingy cocktails. (Declan McGarvey) Buenos Aires’ has a fabulous new cocktail scene, one whose dizzying energy is wowing bar-goers in the South American city. You need a secret code to enter Frank’s. Punch the numbers into a telephone dial pad in a […]
The little lights now packing a deadly punch
Chris Zollner Christian Zollner has been trying to find new uses for LEDs “The tech we are working on could transform water sanitisation techniques and offer access to clean drinking water to even remote developing regions via portable systems,” says Christian Zollner from the University of California in Santa Barbara. Mr Zollner has been working […]