India is always a wonderful place to spend a holiday and there is so much culture to take in when you get there – the beautiful temples, forts, lush vegetation, sparkling waters and the friendliness and colourful dress of its inhabitants not to mention the unbeatable food. Why not try South India on your first…
Day: March 15, 2016
Easter is a time when emotions rise up in the Christian heart and it is therefore heartening to know that fresh and imaginative almost but not quite satirical takes on part of the Easter story are showing to sell-out audiences including at Sadlers Wells. Golgotha signifies the hill on which Jesus Christ was crucified and…
The Indian government imposed a ban on codeine-based Corex cough syrups, as they posed a health risk, and soon after shares in the Indian unit of US based drugmaker Pfizer tumbled by 9 per cent. Pfizer’s India unit said in a statement it had stopped selling its Corex cough syrup that contains codeine, a…
This is included on the front page of a bestselling newspaper in UK yesterday. This paper has a sister daily paper which also sells a lot of copies. The Saturn Herald will leave you guessing. Hope they don’t get sued though I am sure the “headline” is meant as a fun-poke and will not be…
Vijay Mallya, 60 year old Indian businessman and politician who owned India’s biggest liquor company and a private jet, an Airbus, and launched Kingfisher an airline to match his style and flamboyance. Kingfisher went from boom to bust. Lalit Modi, their ownership of IPL teams and jet setting lifestyles. Mallya made his escape to London…