Erawan Shrine blast kills 20 and injures 125 in Bangkok

A deadly blast kills 20 people, and injured more than 125 in a bomb explosion close to the crowded Erawan Shrine dedicated to Lord Brahma Temple in the downtown Chidlom district, Centre of Thailand’s capital, Bangkok. The temple is located on a main road through Bangkok’s commercial hub and is surrounded by three major shopping…

Christmas arrives 143 days early at Selfridges, Oxford Street

Christmas has arrived 143 days earlier, at the Selfridges store on Oxford Street. The 3000 square feet of floor space at the fourth floor of Selfridges has been transformed into Christmas Winter Wonderland. The store has more than 60, 000 baubles, 120 cracker options, 1250 Christmas cards and wrapper options.  At Selfridges, Christmas shoppers flock from…

Lambeth Council bans laughing gas

Lambeth Council in London has become the first council in UK to ban nitrous oxide commonly known as laughing gas due to its misuse as a “legal high” and recreational drug. Nirtous Oxide is chemical compound with a formula.Anybody caught with possession of the laughing gas will be fined unto £1000. N2O an oxide of Nitrogen.…

Diabetes in England and Wales have risen by 60 per cent in a decade

Dramatic rise in Type 2 Diabetes sufferers in England and Wales have risen by 60% in a decade as 3.33million people are diagnosed  with an increase of 1.2 million suffers and could reach 5m suffers by 2025, according NHS/Diabetes UK. Diabetes UK  a charity say obesity which causes type2 diabetes, as poorly managed diabetes can…

Indonesian passenger plane crashes with 54 on board

An Indonesian Trigana Air passenger plane ATR42 with 54 people on board, on route to Oksibil crashed at camp3, Ok Bape district in the Bintang Mountains Regency, in the east Papua, according to Airport Transportation Director-General Suprasetyo. The flight took off from the regional capital Jayapura for Oksibil in the south at 14:21 local time…

Rio Olympics 2016: Velodrome and Gymnasium

Less than a year before the Rio de Janeiro Olympics 2016, the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca is busy, with the making of Velodrome and gymnasium even as the last hold out in the neighbouring favela resisting police attempts to forcibly remove them. The budget of Reais 38.2 bn £7.9bn is slightly lower than…

Tianjin explosion toll rises to 112

The Tianjin toll in the explosions has risen to 112 of which 24 have been identified and 88 still to be identified, 95 people, including 85 fire-fighters, still missing, authorities said on Sunday 16th August 2015. Ten more bodies were found on Saturday night after the announcement of 104 deaths, but four mutilated remains were later…

School of high achievers

The state sponsored  “ Friend of the Coconut Tree” is a school for higher achievers – over 30meters high that is – has recently been founded in India’s southern state of Kerala , where over 1400 youngsters have graduated and have become part of the dial-a-coconut-tree-climber service across the province.Spread across 10 districts and backed…

Sundar Pichai, the man from Chennai is the new CEO of Google

Sundar Pichai 43,  one the alumni of the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) in Kharagpur ( India), a passionate nerd and previous head of product at Google, has been promoted to chief executive. His name is not known to everybody, but chances are you know some of the products Google’s new CEO, Sundar Pichai, has…

Ophir Chasma the largest canyon in the solar system

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission Mangalyaan  celebrated its 69th Independence Day of India by sending home three-dimensional images of the  Solar system’s largest Valles Marineris canyon on Mars. The picture captured with special Mars colour camera, at an attitude of  1154miles 1857km from the surface of the red planet Mars. The Valles Marineris canyon system is…