LOOKING BACK AT THATCHER’S FIGHT WITH “AUNTY”: – OUR BBC

Arguably one of the best loved “institutions” in Britain  – the BBC was involved in constant battles with the Iron Lady and the Conservative Party.  In Hilary Mantel’s book “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher”,  she reports that other political leaders followed her lead and favoured undermining the licence fee by encouraging ITV to “create television…

28th International Kite festival In Ahmedabad, India

Kite flying is one festival which has the potential to give far reaching effective  social messages, awareness information marked on exclusive patterns and designs displaying amazing collections of simple and fancy kites in all shapes and sizes. It also involves a common platform where people from all walks of life can come and display kite flying…

61 goals Ronaldo wins World’s Best Footballer!

  Cristiano Ronaldo for the third time, won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for 2014 on Monday, earning the title of world’s best football player. ‘I want to become one of the greatest players of all time,’ Ronaldo  said through a translator in his acceptance speech. ‘Of course, this requires a lot of effort and I hope…

India’s ISRO Mars orbiter programme team wins Space Pioneer Award

  India’s Mars Orbiter  launched on  5 Nov, 2013 that went into Mars Orbit on 24 Sep 2014 achieved no other country has ever done – an Indian Spacecraft orbited around Mars on maiden attempt and also transmitter full-disk colour imagery of Mars from its elliptical orbit using  a high apoapsis  a high resolution camera.…

Hailed a Hero – the Muslim shop assistant who helped save lives…..

Life saver Lassana Bathily The siege in the Hyper Cacher supermarket near the Porte de Vincennes in Paris involved a life-saver – Lassana Bathily,  who saved at least 15 Jewish customers’ lives, including those of  two children.  He herded them into a basement cold store and hid them from the gunman.  The Mali-born man’s actions…

Public welcome for Chinese President Xi Jinping after six decades

  Chinese President Xi Jinping is on a three-day visit to India after six decades gets public welcome. His visit will focus on significantly ramping up trade and investment between the World’s largest exporter and emerging  economy. The visit will also focus on the lingering historic bordering issues between the two countries. Since the late 1970s…

Higher starting salaries for graduates in 2015

The UK’s leading employers expect to recruit significantly more graduates in 2015, and are offering 9% more entry-level vacancies than last year – the biggest annual rise in graduate recruitment for four years. According to AGR Graduate recruitment  research out , at Unilever, their future leaders programmes which includes  Research and development – a graduate could start…