The CEO of an Indian drug company due to supply the UK with AstraZeneca vaccines is said to have agreed to pay £50,000 a week for a Mayfair home. Adar Poonawalla, the flashy billionaire head of the Serum Institute in India, will reportedly lease the 25,000 sq ft mansion from Polish billionaire Dominika Kulczyk. According to … Read more
The CEO of an Indian drug company due to supply the UK with AstraZeneca vaccines is said to have agreed to pay £50,000 a week for a Mayfair home. Adar Poonawalla, the flashy billionaire head of the Serum Institute in India, will reportedly lease the 25,000 sq ft mansion from Polish billionaire Dominika Kulczyk. According to … Read more
The Indian factory churning out AstraZeneca‘s Covid vaccine has reportedly asked the country’s government for permission to ‘immediately’ ship millions of doses to the UK. Indian media reports that the Serum Institute has written to ministers for consent to export a batch of 5million jabs. New Delhi has temporarily blocked all major exports of vaccines. … Read more
The first Indian female president of Oxford University’s students’ union has said she was subjected to a racist ‘cyber lynching’ before she was forced to resign. Rashmi Samant, 22, stepped down within days of her election in February after old social media posts were unearthed. In one post, she had captioned a photo of herself … Read more
Moment bystander grabs man’s foot and saves him as he falls backwards off a first-floor balcony in India The man, known locally as Binu, was collecting his pension from a bank in India Bystander spotted Binu was swaying and grabbed him as he tipped backwards The man grabbed Binu’s foot to stop him from plunging … Read more
The delay in vaccine shipments to Britain from an Indian pharma giant run by a father and son with a fleet of luxury cars comes amid a resurgence of Covid-19 infections which is causing fears of a second wave in the country of 1.4billion. Billionaire Adar Poonawalla and his father Cyrus linked up their Serum … Read more
The Indian manufacturer blamed for the Covid vaccine hold-up in the UK has denied it went back on plans to supply five million doses of the AstraZeneca jab in April and said there was never a concrete timescale. A change of plans meaning Britain would get five million fewer jabs than expected from the Serum … Read more
You may not know how to say it, but bakuchiol is the hottest thing in skincare. Pronounced ba-koo-chee-ol, this hard-working ingredient tackles the biggest beauty bugbears including wrinkles, brown spots, breakouts and inflammation. Made from the seeds of the Indian babchi plant, it has been used to treat skin diseases for centuries — and now … Read more
Fowl play! Cute moment an Indian runner duck jumps aboard an Australian shepherd dog Australian shepherd dog, Teak, was taken for a walk in Bedford New Hampshire He lay on the ground after its friend Pancake the Indian runner duck approached Teak’s owner said the dog often lies on the ground to play with the … Read more
Zaharie Ahmad Shah (pictured) was the pilot of the doomed flight DID THE PILOT HIJACK HIS OWN PLANE? Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah planned mass murder because of personal problems, locking his co-pilot out of the cockpit, closing down all communications, depressurising the main cabin and then disabling the aircraft so that it continued flying on … Read more