Month: March 2015
Holi, Indian spring festival, celebrated at the vernal equinox full moon, also known as the festival of colours, which signifies victory of good over evil, an ancient Hindu religious festival which has become popular with non-Hindus in many parts of India and Nepal, as well as people of other communities outside Asia. Holika burned, Prahlada survived.…
Californian Bio-tech company AbbVie announced that it had agreed to buy Cancer drug maker Pharmacyclics, for $21bn maker of a cancer drug that some analysts predict will eventually become one of the best-selling treatments for the disease, for nearly half a Trillion dollars about £ 14bn ($21 billion). AbbVie won three way fight over Pharmacyclics, in the…
A huge top segment of a 40-meter-tall tree toppled and blown over on to the Ciampinoi cable cars, at Val Gardena resort, used by about 200 stranded holiday skiers as a result of 81mph (130km/h) winds. Firefighters and expert mountain rescue, were lowered on to the cabins from helicopters who evacuated the horrified skiers from over…
US Hollywood actor Harrison Ford 72, has been injured in a small vintage plane crash in Los Angeles. Patrick Butler of the LAFD said a 911 emergency call at 14:20 (22:20 GMT) was attended a plane crash at Penmar Golf course in Venice, near the Santa Monica Airport, although most of the plane and its…
A Turkish Airlines from Istanbul flight TK 726 carrying 224 passengers, skidded after overshooting a runway amid dense fog in Nepal, forcing staff to evacuate the plane. Kathmandu’s Tribhuwan International Airport in Nepal remained closed on 4th march morning after the accident, as the front landing gear collapsed, causing it to nosedive on the slippery…
A passenger airliner Delta MD-88 from Atlanta, has skidded off the runway and run past the airport perimeter fence at LaGuardia airport in New York City due to snow. Emergency officials were called to the airport at about 11:00 local time (16:00 GMT) but no major injuries have been reported. According to Delta Air Lines,…
Cartographer, mathematician, Philosopher and grandfather of maps, Gerardus Mercator, celebrates his 503rd birthday, who in 1569 discovered how to create the world map based on a new projection which represented sailing courses of constant bearing as straight lines that includes the curvatures of the earth. Mercator, born on March 5, 1512, in Rupelmonde in Flanders…
After spin bowling out several batsmen on the field, looks like Harbhajan is clean bowled by his lady love Geeta Basra. Geeta Basra 31, Indian Bollywood actress born to Punjabi Indian parents in Portsmouth Southern England now settled down in Mumbai. Her acting was moulded at Kishore Namit Kapoor’s Acting School. Her popular Bollywood movies include Dil Diya Hai in…
The bronze statue by leading British sculptor Philip Jackson, renowned for statues of the Queen Mother and Bomber Command. Jackson started work on the statue in July, will be the focal point for the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Gandhi’s return to India from South Africa to kick-start India’s independence movement to start the…