Cadbury caught up in £62m Indian tax bill  

India has hit Cadbury confectionery giant with a £62m (Rs 5.7bn )  tax  claim over allegations that the Diary Milk chocolate producer fraudulently claimed excise benefits on  ghost non-existent factory in  Sandoli Village in Baddi , Himachal Pradesh relating to a period even before it came into existence by taking exemption for on it. The Directorate General…

Divorce by Facebook

“Facebook divorce” is being blamed for causing increasing number of marital breakdowns that have occurred as a direct result of information found or discovered on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. While social networking sites allow users to connect with old and new friends, they also create circumstances that may lead to a…

Solar powered Facebook drones to beam down internet for remote areas!

There would soon be huge solar-powered drones as large as the wingspan of a commercial airliner  greater than 29 meters but weights lot less – beaming down internet in the remotest of areas and provide connections to rural and internet-free zones. Facebook has been testing such drones in the skies over England, according to its…

Rats in the Plane!

A Chennai-Delhi Air India A319 flight AI143 with no passengers inside the plane was delayed by more than two hours after pilot Captain Manik Lal and aircraft engineer VT Kannan had a difference of opinion which ended up in a fight inside the cockpit on Saturday. The aircraft engineer was injured and was admitted to…

Chinese taxi drivers drinks poison in protest!

Beijing Police found on Saturday 4th April 2015, 39 disgruntled taxi drivers lying on the ground on Wangfujing Avenue, a prosperous commercial district just a few blocks from Tiananmen Square, with bottles of pesticide beside them. They were rushed to local hospitals where they are out of danger according to police. Apparently the Chinese taxi…

2.1m over 55s can cash in on their pension pot from today!

For the first time 2.1 million over 55s will have access to billions of pounds from today,   are able to cash in on their pensions and spend them as they wish. Prime Minister David Cameron, has blown his own trumpet, that nearly 2.1 million over 55s will able to cash in all or part of…

“Facebook for android” – integration of WhatsApp and Facebook

After one year of acquiring mobile messaging service WhatsApp, Facebook has begun testing a new feature in its ‘Facebook for Android’ app that includes the first major integration of WhatsApp by adding a “Send” button on he right hand side with the familiar Whatsapp icon as part of the status action buttons that appear when…

North Chile floods : 25 dead, 100 still missing and 2700 homeless

25 people have been killed, 100 still missing,  and over 2,700 people made homeless, by disastrous floods in Atacama Desert (world’s dirtiest desert), Antofagasta and Coquimbo, in the northern regions of Chile after thunderstorms brought the equivalent of 7 years of rain in just 12 hours on March 26.  Heavy rainfall and subsequent river breaking…