Dhaka: A group of at least 1,151 people in Bangladesh have taken a selfie together with their Nokia Lumia 730 smartphone – making it one of the gigantic selfies fit to become the world’s largest selfie. The five megapixel mid-range Windows Phone found a smart way to advertise its front-facing camera and asked…
Hyderabad in South Eastern India, is the second best place in the world that one should see in 2015, according to an international travel publication. The Presidio of San Francisco in the US ranked first on the ‘Best of the World – 20 Places You Should See in 2015’ list, published in the annual…
Austin: The University of Texas at Austin is missing about 100 brains. That’s about half of the specimens the university had in a collection of brains preserved in jars of Formaldehyde. One of the missing brains preserved is believed to have belonged to clock tower sniper Charles Whitman. The co-curator of the collection is psychology…
Seoul: Korean Air apologised as it faced a media backlash over the daughter of the airline’s CEO, who had a chief purser ejected from a plane in a furious reaction to being incorrectly served some macadamia nuts. While insisting it was ‘reasonable’ for its executive vice-president Cho Hyun-Ah to have raised a problem with the…
The US Senate confirmation of 37-year-old Vivek Murthy as the youngest ever Surgeon General, more than a year after his nomination, US President Barack Obama has said the Indian-American physician would hit the ground running as the country’s top doctor. ‘I applaud the Senate for confirming Vivek Murthy to be our country’s…
Bigger and better than ever before, the 10th British Curry Awards honoured the nation’s finest restaurants in spectacular style, with stars of stage and screen gathering at Battersea Evolution to see the industry’s finest chefs rewarded for their hard work in continuing to innovate and perfect the nation’s favourite dish. In a special video…
The total UK coffee shop market is estimated at over 19,000 outlets and continues to outperform the UK retail sector with significant sales growth of 10.7% on last year with £7.2 billion total turnover. The total UK coffee shop market is predicted to exceed 27,000 outlets and £16.5 billion turnover by 2020, driven by branded coffee…
Jessie J, the famous British singer and song writer has admitted most of her earning are from songs she writes for other artists around the world. Jessie: “You’ve got to write songs and make money as an artist”. “Party In The USA paid my rent for, like, three years, after she was the architect in…
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni retired in December 2014 from Tests citing the strain of playing all three formats of cricket after India drew the third Test against Australia in Melbourne. Virat Kohli will captain the side in the fourth and final Test in Sydney. Dhoni’s announcement in Melbourne came following the third Test, which…
McLaren Formula One driver Jenson Button 34 entered the New Year as a married man after marrying his long-term girlfriend Jessica Michibata in Hawaii after announcing their engagement last year.. ‘Happy New Year from Mr & Mrs Button,’ the 2009 world champion told his 1.9 million followers on Twitter. ‘We’re excited to see in the…