Kerala Tourism’s efforts towards heritage conservation have won it the top Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Award for its Muziris Heritage Project. PATA had earlier honoured Kerala Tourism for its Responsible Tourism initiative in Kumarakom and Kerala tourism’s popular e-Newsletter in 2014. This time the award came for the state’s trendsetting efforts in reinventing the…
Viber helped us in unseating Rajapaksa: Kumaratunga On her first visit to India since the defeat of her successor Mahinda Rajapaksa, the former president of Sri Lanka, Ms. Chandrika Bandarnaike Kumaratunga revealed to Indian journalists last week that it was Viber the popular instant messaging (IM) app that helped her and her political allies unseat…
The Mad Max formula is well explored and ridden…and this new film is an absolute treat for fans. The cast is formidable with Tom Hardy taking over from Mel Gibson as Max, together with Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Zoe Kravitz, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, and Abbey Lee Kershaw. The story begins with a tyrannical…
The three-time FIFA World Cup Winner ( 1958,62 and 70), Brazilian legend and the finest exponent of foot ball, Pele will visit India after a gap of 38 years after accepting an invitation to attend the final of the 56th edition of the Subroto Cup as its chief guest, the tournament organisers. He will be…
New Zealand has banned an award-winning teen novel that includes sex and bullying, making it the first book to be removed from shelves in over two decades, with fines unto NZ$10,000 for those ignoring the order. The Film and Literature Board of Review has placed an interim restriction order on ‘Into The River’ by Auckland author Ted…
During these troubled times when the Indian news media is awash with rape incidents across the country and a particularly insecure environment for working women in Delhi during late night hours, three working women from Chennai who like to call themselves ‘The Travelling Divas’ chose to take the initiative to instill confidence in women…
Air India flight AI 405 Airbus 320, flight from Varanasi to Delhi, India, with 150 passengers and crew, after a hydraulic failure due to which Airbus 320 had to land in emergency situation at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, as smoke was seen from under carriage and pilot opted for evacuation. Reports said that some passengers…
A vital metro link from Delhi, India, to the industrial hub in Haryana, Faridabad will cater to 20,000 commuters per day. This elevated, 8.7 miles, 14 k,m,9 stations, safe affordable, hassle-free commuting will cut the journey times considerably. The project costs £24.7billion Rs2,494crore . Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels by Delhi Metro at the Violet…
Six people died when a car that participated in a the Rally of Coruna on Saturday 5th September 2015, around 20:00 (local time) 18:00 GMT, in south west Spain, close to the village of Carral in the province of Galicia, veered off the the road and hit spectators in a cloud of dust. The dead includes one pregnant woman, three other…
SPD Smith 70 off 87, 7 fours, MR Marsh 64 off 31, 7 fours and 3 sixes, GJ Maxwell 49 off 38, 4 fours and 3 sixes, Ben Stokes 60-3, ST Finn 55-2 England 245 all out 42.5 overs Eoin Morgan 85 off 87, 4 fours and 4 sixes , JWA Taylor 43 off 57,…