19th March 2013 New Delhi, India
Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreessen were announced as the inaugural winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (a £1m global engineering prize) this week. They were selected for their ground breaking work which led to the internet and world wide web. We’re pretty sure we can’t add much to […]
2nd September 2011
A dozen TV cameras zoom in on a pen and an inch-thick contract. Signatures are completed; contracts swapped; and more signatures added. Eventually the process is complete and there are handshakes and a round of applause. I am at the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy to witness the signing of an important Joint Activity Agreement between […]
20th April 2011
I made two visits recently to the State of Gujarat in Western India, both of which underline the enormous potential for UK companies in India, and the scale of developments here. At the end of March a team from our trade and investment operation in Mumbai travelled to Surat, the second largest city in Gujarat, […]
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4th April 2011
Sounds like a great deal in these days of expensive fuel! But this is the challenge to schools and colleges competing in the XXVIIth Shell Eco Marathon in May – to build vehicles able to achieve this goal and win the race. 5 Hungarian teams are participating this year. And on Friday one of the […]