HEALING SPICE – TURMERIC HAILED AS WARDING OFF CANCER

According to new studies of this fairly versatile spice (for example you can use it instead of saffron in paellas) turmeric may help to ward off cancer.  A controlled experiment was carried out where turmeric was put in a whole range of foods and had changes to a gene associated with depression, cancer and allergies…

Snake boat race of Aranmula

Aranmula Uthrittathi Vallamkali, Snake boat regatta of Kerala, took place  during the Onam festival. Palliyodams (snake boats) 103 feet long,  with 4 helmsmen 100 rowers and moved in pairs with singing voice Vanchyppattu from the 25 oarsmen singers wearing white mundu and turban, with crowd cheering their favourite team from the banks of the river. Palliyodams…

Mobile e-marketing – new trends

Over 50 per cent of Google search queries worldwide were done using mobile devices. In the US, consumers spent more time on apps than they did on watching Television and over 80 per cent of Facebook’s third-quarter revenues come from mobile ads. Recently Google’s app MobileGeddon is a must have for all two billion mobile users…

Google agrees to buy Apigee for £482m

  Google’s purchase of Software developer Apigee is certainly a boom for B2b marketers. The search engine giant has agreed to pay £482m ($625m) for Apigee Corp, a provider of cloud-based software tools that companies use to develop and manage application programming and interfaces, or APIs to transfer data between applications like e- commerce sites…

Baby products with formaldehyde

Johnson and Johnson confirmed  they will remove hidden formaldehyde specially quaternium-15, from their baby products like baby shampoo and baby washes. Formaldehyde  released from quaternium-15 is hidden ingredient like “DMDM hydantoin”, and “1, 4 dioxane” which is hidden in the listed ingredients like fragrance. They have been under constant pressure from public and groups like EWG.…

Police officer in Camden smashing motorist’s windows with baton

Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation after a video emerged showing a police officer smashing his way into a motorist’s car after the driver refused to exit the vehicle in a “disgraceful” incident on Friday 16th September 2016, in Camden, London. The video clip went viral on Saturday after being shared on several social media…

Bahman Iranian para-cyclist dies after a crash

Bahman Golbamezhad 48, an Iranian Para-cyclist has died after a crash during the men’s C4-5 road race at the Rio Olympics. He suffered a cardiac arrest after the incident on a “mountainous stretch” of the circuit. According to a statement “ The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he…