A Christmas tree formed by 4030 people at Chengannur, Kerala, India, made to the Guinness Book. The Chengannur tree broke the record set by Tegucigalpa, capital of Honduras on December 1, 2014, with 2945 person. After Scrutiny, Guinness World Record adjudicator Pravin Patel announced that the Chengannur had set new world record. The Chengannur mission…
Tian Zeming, a 19-year-old man, migrant worker from Chongqing in south-western China, buried in the rubble after the Shenzhen landslide, has been pulled out alive around 4:00pm local time on Wednesday (20:00 hours GMT Tuesday) after 67 hours. The landslide which stuck on Sunday 20th December 2015 morning after heavy rains, collapsed 30 buildings in…
India’s telecoms regulator has asked Reliance Communications, the mobile network that partnered with Facebook to put their Free Basics offer on hold. In India, the data fees are unbelievably expensive and the initiative aims to prevent this being a deterrent. Facebook’s efforts to provide the common man in India with free access to a limited…
A Royal oval astronomical watch with an engraved portrait of King James I made by David Ramsay around 1618, fetched £ 989,000, almost four times the pre –sale estimates at the Sothbey’s auction in London, but the buyer and seller remained anonymous. The cover is engraved with scenes from poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The celebration of…
Ryanair passenger, Ronald Furlong 33, from Esmonde Road Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, has won a payout after claiming his genitals were scorched when an air hostess spilled a boiling cup of tea on his crotch. He was suing Ryanair for £28, 000 after he was badly injured on a flight from Dublin to London in August…
Singer Zayn Javadd Malik (22) from Bradford, English singer and songwriter and a former member of boy band One Direction band has topped the “50 Sexiest Asian Men” list complied by Eastern Eye newspaper, followed by last year’s winner Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan and Pakistani signer and actor Ali Zafar. Malik auditioned as a solo…
Ravi Subramanian, an Air India technician, got sucked into the engine of Air India AI619 Hyderabad bound A 319 aircraft, was being pushed back from the parkjng bay 28 before take-off at the Mumbai Chatrapati Shivaji domestic airport on Wednesday 16th December 2015 at around 15:15 GMT 20:40pm local time. The mishap occurred when the…
Tim Peake is the first “official” British astronaut to leave earth for a six-month stay on the space station, and do some 265 experiments known as Principia after the celebrated text by Sir Isaac Newton. According to the UK space agency, the programme of science will certainly help to increase the country’s competiveness in areas…
This is a quote from the current Mayor Boris Johnson about the Silvertown tunnel plans, “The overall daily fraffic flows are expected to show little change if the Silvertown tunnel scheme is implemented – at around 48,000 vehicles in each direction.” The plans for the new tunnel will cost £1 billion and many regard it…