A part-time Brazilian referee Gabriel Murta pulls a gun, at Brumadinho near Belo Horizonte, Brazil’s sixth largest city and capital of the state of Minais Gerais, during an apparent red card dispute including an assault, and he is facing disciplinary action. He was due to undergo a psychological assessment and could face a suspension or…
During the last week, while browsing through my Newspaper Daily, the one particular advertisement that caught my attention repeatedly was a certain Danish Film festival that was taking place in Chennai. Strictly speaking, my knowledge about Nordic cinema was limited to Lars von Trier of the brilliant and moving ‘Dancer in the dark’ and Sweden’s…
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative has been much publicised and promoted within the country as well as abroad and has managed to attract commitments worth billions of dollars from Corporate technological giants across the globe, the ground realities present and the major roadblocks and hurdles lying in the path need to be…
First UK patient receives stem cell treatment to cure loss of vision,at the London’s Moorfields Eye Hospital last month. If this experimental transplant uses eye cells , called retinal pigment epithelium derived from stem cells, grown in a lab to form a patch that can be placed behind the retina during surgery, is successful could…
According to scientists there is liquid water that runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months in Mars. Water on Mars exists today as water trapped in the polar ice caps and small quantities as vapour in the atmosphere and low volume of liquid. A massive ancient ocean once covered nearly half of…
Lewis Hamilton dominated the Japanese Grand Prix, in his Mercedes to put a stranglehold on the Formula 1 title. Hamilton’s eighth victory in 14 races extends hi championship lead to 48 points with 125 still available in the remaining five grand prix. After victory Hamilton said it felt “unreal” a he moved level with his…
The eclipse made the Moon appear red in colour and 8 per cent larger in the sky, was be visible in North America, South America, West Africa and western Europe. NASA claims a supermoon last coincided with a lunar eclipse in 1982 and is not expected to again until 2033. A supermoon occurs when…
Justin Bieber tops the official singles chart in UK by seeing off all his rivals to spend a third non-consecutive week. The star’s latest track What Do You Mean is back at Number 1 after being dethroned by the Jackson 5- sampling track actually knocked Justin off Number 1 for one week before Bieber returned…
Google celebrates the internet giant’s 17th birthday on September 27, 2015 in almost every country in the world, with a naïve, sentimental and a commemorative Doodle harking back to web of the 90s. A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepage to celebrate holiday events, achievements and people. The…
One officer each day is arrested by their own in Great Britain, according to data released under the Freedom of Information Laws. This story was originally in the English Sunday Times on September 13 2015. Over the past five years there has been at least one arrest every 27 hours – totalling over 1,629…