RECENT “SEEDY GOINGS ON” STILL GRABBING THE HEADLINES

“Coke and call girls Peer quits the Lords”!  “Oh Lord! Deputy speaker resigns over sex and drugs video.” “Cocaine shame Peer is suspended by Labour”, “Sewel faces calls to quit Lords over prostitute and drug claims”. Lord Sewel, 69,  in total disgrace,  has resigned from the Lords today feeling remorse at causing scandal and raised…

kodinhi: The Twin Town

Kodinhi  (The twin town) a village in  the Malappuram district in Kerala South West India, close to the town of  Tirurangadi, as of 2008,  has an unusual phenomenon, is home to around 2,000 families. Administered by the Nannambra panchayat, the village came to international spotlight for the unusually large number of multiple births in the region. The…

SURVEILLANCE IN THE UK AND ELSEWHERE – WHAT OF IT?

Wherever you are in the world, you should be able to be free from spies.  But if you are not and you are lucky or clever enough to discover this is not the case, then there is definitely a debateable situation  that spying should not be one-way.  Whether it is the internet, your neighbours, your…

Yusuffali buys old Scotland Yard of £110m

  Yusuffali Musaliam Veettil Abdul Kader  born 15th November 1955 at  Nattika, Thrissur district, Kerala,one of India’s richest , the Managing director of Abu Dhabi based EMKE Lulu group of companies, that own the Lulu Hypermarket chain in Middle East and Cochin with an annual turnover of  £2.9 billion $4.5 billion globally has bought  the…

Mother killed after falling into an escalator

A 30-year old woman Xiang Liujuan, was killed after falling into an escalator in a shopping centre in  Jinhxhou in Hubei province, central China, has sparked widespread anger at the  department store. However, she was able to push her child to safety but could not save herself. Surveillance footage from Sunday’s incident shows a metal…

Rotimatic start-ups seeking success

Rotimatic co-founders Rishi Israni and Pranoti Nagarkar have the  answer for 800million Asians in the sub-continent who in the past have painstakingly made rotis by hand, and it  will now revolutionise home cooking in South Asian households. You place flour and water in compartments – no measurements required ,  tell the machine how many rotis you…

JESSICA ENNIS IN HER FIRST SPORTS APPEARANCE SINCE BIRTH OF HER SON

The Olympic Park has re-opened for the Sainsbury’s Anniversary Games attended by huge crowds of adoring enthusiasts.  Jessica Ennis is now Jessica Ennis- Hill and a mother of a son.  It’s been three years since her gold medals in the Olympics and she won her race today where she is competing in 3 events before her…

OBAMA VISITS KENYA – AND FAMILY THERE

Today US President Barack Obama has arrived in Kenya for talks. This evening on his first night at his hotel, there has been a grand dinner surrounded by officials and many of his relatives as Obama is half Kenyan. On the agenda for talks as well as business relations on this visit – seen by…

Tailback of lorries in Ashford growing by the minute

The saga between the ferry companies and Eurostar and the asylum seekers in France and the lorries and Eurostar continues.  It is a battle with two forks.  Yet again, queues of lorries in Ashford – the UK , waiting to board to go in the tunnel to France are at epic proportions, whilst on the…

127 year old Financial Times sold to Nikkei for £844m in cash

The 127-year old Financial Times. one of famous and strongest brand, is being sold to Japanese media firm Nikkei for £844m in cash, according to Publishing group Pearson  There is advertisement used to be “No FT, No Comment” The sale however, does not include Pearson’s 50% stake in the Economist or the FT’s London office…