London has Fallen – and how the crowds come…..

Regardless of who stars in a disaster movie, the explosions, car chases and shoot-outs are always the dominant features as to whether it is an award winner or not. London has Fallen has been made by a truly slick Hollywood team with more than a touch of taste for injecting humour into the fray. I…

168 year old royal railways the Luxurious Maharaja Express

Maharaja’s Express is one of the five luxury trains with 19 carriages, operating in India, providing unrivalled view of some of the historical known sights in the north and west India. The train moves on each night, and everything in the train is kept looking immaculate by an army of meticulous staff. In 1844, the…

Competition hots up for 4G in India

Indian Billionaire tycoon Sunil Mittal warned India’s battered telecoms market must embrace itself for new price wars, as his Bharti Airtel group prepares for the return of Mukesh Ambani the country’s richest man, to the sector this year. Mittal founder and chairman of Bharti Airtel, invested more than £2.8bn ($4bn) in anticipation of Mr Ambani’s…

India successfully blasts off Rocket with Sixth communication satellite

At Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, southern India, an Indian rocket blasted off successfully with India’s sixth navigation Satellite –IRNSS-1F weighing 1425kg with a 12 year life span, on Thursday 10th March 2016. The Polar Satellite Launch vehicle (PSLV)-SL standing 44.4m tall and weighing 320 tonnes zoomed into the evening sky at 4 pm away from earth’s…

Shock headline in yesterday’s UK Times – re NHS

In The Times on the front page yesterday (09 March 2016) appeared the headline “Blundering doctors get protection from blame”.  It went on to explain in the article that Doctors who make mistakes, causing ill health, fatalities, depression and confusion are likely to get protection from people who launch a complaint and investigation and are…

Costliest tea bag in the world

  Boodles  Britain’ s leading family owned reatiler of fine diamonds and Jewellery since 1798, decorated PG tips tea bag with 280 diamonds, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the PG Tips with a cost of £9,800 ($14000). What a birthday present if it tickles you luxury taste for afternoon tea, but the question is do…

Eating Broccoli five times a day reduces risk of cancer

Scientists showed that eating Broccoli steamed or freshly chopped five times per week could lower the risk of several types of cancer including liver, breast prostrate and colon cancers. The Vegetable could reduce he size and number of cancer nodules among those who have a high fat and sugar diet. Broccoli rich in vitamins C,…

Getting Old? A writer of Poetry comments.

It comes to us all – but when will we fall? ‘Til death closes in on us we must walk tall The papers try to make us scared of dying And the terrorism gives us fear of flying Then we get news from the National Health That we may not have our brains even if…

New Species of burrowing snake discovered in Western Ghats, India

The Natural History Museum in London in collaboration with Indian Researchers scientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Bangalore, and the Indian Herpetological Society (IHS), have found a new species of burrowing non-venomous snake which has a smooth, shiny scales, which remained hidden for 145 years in the dense forests of the Western…

Fable Legends cancelled and proposals for closure of Lionhead

Microsoft is planning to shut the British video game studio behind the classic Fable series, and the final instalment of Fable Legends, had been in development at Lionhead Studios for more than two years and was to be released in the spring, and work will now cease immediately, along with Press Play studios in Denmark…