BA Passengers restrained trying to open an exit door in mid air

A 30-year old female passenger obviously drunk on a  Boeing 777, British Airways flight 213 which departed London at 11:57am GMT, to Boston has to be restrained after she tried to open an exit door at tens of thousands of feet in the air, mid-journey, according to Massachusetts State Police. The incident was not related…

Lentil prices shoot up in India

Canadian deluges damaged the lentil crops in Canada, as stockpiles in Canada, the world’s biggest exporter, are down by half from year earlier. Shipments to India, are all time high as a dry spell reduced the domestic output. Record rainfall last year in Saskatchewan reduced the lentils output by more than 15 per cent according…

China and Argentina sign £10bn deal to construct two nuclear reactors

China is fund and help to build two nuclear plants in Argentina in $15bn deal. The agreement signed on 15th November 2015, by the President of Nucleoelectrica Argentina SA (NASA), Jose Luis Antunez Argentina’s minister of federal planning Julio de Vido and China’s Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Xu Shaoshik, on the…

England beat France 2-0 in the friendly match at Wembley

  England 2 France 0   Friendly game played at Wembley. Dele Alli 39, Rooney 47 England scored twice via Dele Alli’s first half goal and Via Rooney in the second half, although France gave their all, but were emotionally spent after events of the last four days. Roy Hodgson hugs Didier Deschamps warmly and the…

Costa aspiring to be PM of Portugal

Antonio Costa, a Portuguese lawyer and politican born in Lisbon in 1961, with Goan descent (once a Portuguese colony in India) through his father and writer Orlando da Costa could become next Prime Minister of Portugal, after the right wing government headed by Pedro Passos Coelho was brought down within 11 days of assuming power…

“Water Man of India” Nobel Prize for water winner

Delivering the 7th Annual Lecture on its Foundation day, at NIIT University, an Indian Congress MP Karan Singh said “ Green Technologies like earth-air tunnels, rain water harvesting facilities and water recycling systems would help the educational institutions to become self-sufficient.” The university felicitated “Water Man of India” Rajendra Singh, recipient of the “ Nobel…

Booking.com website fraud

The  vital link between Booking.com, Planet Earth’s number One accommodation site and the connection to the hotels has been compromised as hackers stole personal data and used them to con thousands of harmless customers on one of the world’s biggest hotel booking websites. It all started when Booking.com developed a new app for the mobile…

Plans to replace Bond’s current box office draw? Watch this space?

On Sat 14th November Daniel Craig and his wife Rachel Weisz “graced” the seventh annual Grovernors Awards in Hollywood in a gala celebration of legendary Spike Lee – Director born 1957. There are hopes from some corners that Craig will appear in another “JB” movie – but everyone is being tight lipped and cloak and…

British Asian Popular Indian Star Dies

    At the age of 86 , Bollywood and British film star Saeed Jaffrey has died.   He was one of the few actors who found fame and success in both Bollywood and Hollywood. He starred in “A Passage to India” and “Gandhi”, Henna, Massom and  Dil, as well as many other programmes and films. …

G20 leaders condemn Paris terror attack

The terrorist actions of the so-called Islamic State in France and the Syrian conflict have dominated the agenda of the world leaders who are meeting in Antalya, Turkey at the G20 summit. The G20 developed during the financial crisis as the forum to deal with economic and trade issues, replaced The G7 world’s rich nation’s…