The organisers of the hot air balloon cross-channel record attempt claim 82 balloons successfully cross the channel beating the previous record of 49.
Month: April 2017
Canadian YouTube Vlogger, Comedian Writer and actress, Lilly Singh 28, 75th most popular star and ranked 20th YouTube star, from Scarborough, Toronto of Indian heritage, nicknamed as “Superwoman” when speaking to her social media following of over 12 million people, appeared on Forbes “highest paid YouTube Star of 2015” list. She earned an estimated $2.5m…
A Vietnamese descent passenger of United Airlines was forcibly dragged, to make room for airline staff, from an overbooked flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky. and left with blood dripping from his face. The video of United Airlines passenger creates a furore in China as over 270 million viewers watched in Weibo Chinese equivalent of Twitter…
In 1928, when Mother Teresa was only eighteen, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. From 1931 to 1948, Mother Teresa taught in Calcutta, the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent made such deep impressions on her that in 1948 she received…
Global technology groups Tencent, eBay and Microsoft have injected $14bn into Indian e-commerce group Flipkart to face a battle with Amazon. The fundraising comes ahead of proposed deal for Flipkart to take over its biggest domestic rival Snapdeal, a plan backed by Japan’s Softbank, Snapdeal’s biggest investor. Forrester Research, which predicted that Indian e-commerce sales…
A 4.5 meter deep (15 ft), 5 meters long and 2 meters wide, a sinkhole at Chennai’s Anna Salai Road, near Church Park school, India, trapping a car and passenger bus, around 2 pm on Sunday. This could be natural sinkhole caused over hundreds of years from water forging a cavity in the chalk and then…
China HNA Group, headquartered in Haikou, Hainan, China, a large tourism and domestic airline operator chaired by Chen Feng, has struck £32.4bn ($40bn) of deals in the last two years announcing plans to buy Singapore logistics provider CWT for $1bn. CWT provides warehousing and logistics services to the commodities industry. With the acquisition of CWT,…
India’s two biggest e-commerce groups Snapdeal and Flipkart are attempting a merger engineered by Japan’s Softbank, in a bid to compete with Amazon, which is planning spend over £4.05bn ($5bn) to become India’s dominant internet retailer. SoftBank owns a 35 per cent stake in Jasper Infotech, Snapdeal’s parent company, is also in advanced talks with…
Jupiter is coming to its closet point to Earth today, and the point in its orbite where its directly opposite the Sun in our sky, just 416 million miles (670 million kilometres) away and as it is the furthest, it can be upwards of 620 million miles (1 billion kilometres) away. NASA’s Hubble telescope was…
Adam Roberts spent five years travelling from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, Bengal to Gujarat and encountered power brokers, multi-billionaires farmers, tech innovators, prime ministers, travelling salesmen, pilgrims from the world’s largest democracy and he asked them how India can become a truly great economic power, more influential abroad and stable at home. Through his book he…