Portugal scrapes through to semi-final

Portugal     beat   Poland                 1-1 FT Luz Sanches 33’   Lewandowski 2’ Portugal win 5-3 on penalties       Portugal reach Euro 2016 semi-finals   for the fifth time and face Belgium or Wales, as Biaszczykowski misses decisive penalty in shootout in Marseille. Ricardo Quaresma, scoring the winning spot-kick after Jakub Blaszczykowski‘s effort was saved. Robert Lewandowski…

Royals: Yaduveer weds Trishika

Yaduveer krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar was solemnized at 9:35am at the iconic Amba Vilas Palace in Mysuru which was specially decorated for the Royal wedding of Wodeyar family Scion witnessed by over 1000 invited guests and several priests. 24-year-old Yaduveer, educated in Boston, cald in pink-gold Sherwani and Mysuru peta, tied the mangalasutra on 22-year-old Trishika…

England and Spain knocked out, Italy and Iceland cruise to quarter-finals

Mon 27th June 2016 European Championship –Round of 16 Iceland                                             beat England 2-1 Sigurdsson 6’, Sigthorsson 18’         Rooney 4’ pen Italy                                                   beat Spain   2-0 Chiellini 33’, Pelle 90’+1’ England suffered a shocking defeat and…

France, Germany and Belgium cruise into quarter-finals

Sun 26th June 2016 European Championship –Round of 16 France                             beat Republic of Ireland   2-1 Griezmann 57’, 61               Brady 2’   Germany                                                           beat Slovakia 3-0 Boateng 8’, Gomez 43’, Draxter 63’   Belgium               …

Poland, Wales and Portugal in quarter-finals

  Sat 25 Jun2016 European Championship –Round of 16 Poland win 5-4 on penalties beating Switzerland FT 1-1 Shaqiri 82’                                                    Blaszczykowski 39’ Wales        beat Northern Ireland 1-0…

Pinpoint: The neuroscience of cognitive maps

  Global Positioning Systems has conquered the world, and become an essential global utility free at the point of use, as our reliance on GPS extends in the past couple of decades, goes way beyond the satellite navigation, as it made paper maps obsolete. GPS helps land planes, route mobile calls, anticipate earthquakes, predicts the weather,…

Brexit:FTSE100 spared the worst

£1.5tn ($2tn) wiped out of Global markets after Brexit, largest single day drop since 2007. US banks began to act and shift operations out of UK as the world’s most convoluted and complex divorce begins. However, hedge funds make big wins from Brexit bets.FTSE100 was spared the worst of pain by the time it closed…

The UK had voted to Leave the EU, Cameron resigns

This morning David Cameron made a speech in Downing Street voicing his decision to resign as Prime Minister and leave office probably in October of this year.  Narrowly winning the vote to leave the UK,  Brexit campaigners have now got what they wanted.  This has already lead to German Chancellor Angela Merkel announcing “great regret”…