Search for the relics of Chinese legend Zheng He, at Calicut, Kerala

  Two professors Shaojin Chai, a senior research fellow at the Ministry of Culture in UAE and Prof Haiyun Ma, a professor at Frostburg State University, Maryland US, came to Northern Kerala on January 7-9, 2016, in search of relics and final burial place of seven-foot tall Zheng He, (Cheng Ho), 1371-1435, Chinese naval explorer,…

Incarnations: India in 50 lives

  Sunil Khilnani’s Incarnations, journeys across India and explores modern India spanning two and half thousand years, through lives of 50 historical phenomenal idiosyncratic people, including Birsa Munda. a young charismatic healer who led his tribal community in revolt against the British, Jyotirao Phule, the life of the lower-caste boy who rose to become a…

Freedom 251 Cheapest mobile phone in the world

Ringing bells an Indian mobile company has launched a smartphone that cost Just  Rs250.00 £2.50, saying its mission is to give citizens in rural and semi-urban areas access to digital technology, targeting a potential customer of half a billion people. India also produced the Tata Nano, the cheapest car in the world £1000. The Freedom…

Virgin Galactic: World’ s first commercial spaceline set for relaunch

Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic moves to return to space race,  following a fatal accident 18 months ago, which killed the test pilot  Michael Alsbury and after months of  preparation in the Mojave desert in California.  The plan was to take tourists into space on a “sub-orbital” flights with longer orbital flight in the future.…

Haxby Gas explosion kills 63-year old and destroys the house

A 63-year old man died in a huge gas explosion, about 07:30 GMT that destroyed a house in  Springwood, Haxby, North Yorkshire, leaving only a pile of smoking rubble where the house once stood, and also damaging several nearby homes. Inspector Steve Breen of North Yorkshire Police confirmed one fatality, a 63-year-old man found dead…

3D technology used in the making of the Oscar Statuettes

The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood Los Angeles, where the statuettes will look different with the new manufacturer for the first time in 34 years. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced that Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry based…

“Dogs welcome, bankers banned”

Alexandre Callet 30,  a Paris restaurant owner has banned all bankers from his gourmet eaterie, after he was unjustly turned down for a loan for £55,000. He pleaded with his bank to lend him money to open a second restaurant, but it fell on deaf ears. The refusal by banks to help him explains why…

Eagles of Death Metal make statement about gun issues in Paris

Last evening Eagles of Death Metal played a concert in Paris. At their previous Bataclan concert there before Christmas, 89 people were shot dead and dozens injured in a terrorist incident. A member of the band has told his audience yesterday that everyone should be armed.  Jesse Hughes said if the audience carried weapons some of…

The “Human Zoo” mark 2 pulls plenty of punches

Zoolander 2 is so full of quirky jokes, satire and sarcastic humour it takes a few days after watching it to digest it all but it is definitely the full shilling if one wants a visit to the cinema to give you an “outside the box” experience with plenty of laughs and eye-popping fashion and locations…

Grammy for Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Lamar

Music’s biggest night of the year the 58th Grammy Awards 2016, were held Monday night 15th February 2016, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Taylor Swift’s 1989 has won coveted album of the year award at this year’s Grammy in Los Angeles. She is the first woman to win the award twice, also…