The Docklands Light Railway, the sixth busiest railway in the UK, turns 30 today. TFL’s latest map of Docklands Light Railway (DLR) is aimed at making the rail link easier to navigate. The new multi-coloured design features several branches between Bank, Tower Gateway and Stratford International and Woolwich Arsenal, Beckton and Lewisham. The origins of…
Hungry elephant stops a truck and started eating potatoes loaded in the vehicle en route to West Bengal’s West Midnapore area.
Atlasglobal, a Turkish Airbus A320, flown by Ukranian captain Alexander Akopov was en route from Istanbul to Erkan, Cyprus, with 127 tourists on board, when it encountered severe violent storms and giant hailstones which smashed the windscreen, but the pilot kept his nerve and landed safely last week. Soon after take-off at 1,300 metres above…
Hungarian Grand Prix –Formula One World Championship Hungaroring -70 laps-191 miles 30th Jul 2017 Points Time Lag Avg mph 1 Sabestian Vettel Ferrari 25 1:39:46.713 184.386 2 Kimi Rikkonen Ferrari 18 0.908 Sec 184.358 3 Va;tteri Bottas Mercedes 15 12.462 Sec 184.003 4 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 12 12.885 Sec 183.99 5 Max…
North America will witness a solar eclipse for the first time in 99 years on August 21st, 2017, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across the bands of Earth’s surface, and all the three planets become perfectly aligned in once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle. The total Solar eclipse will last more…
Nigel Halleck, son of a Coventry-based lawyer, after serving over a decade as a clerk in the East India Company, he went turned his back on the imperial project, in 1840s India. His descendant Kief Hillsbery arms himself to find some answers. His grandmother’s tale of a long-lost cousin that sparked his interest around Patagonia.…
India to have 1bn broadband subscribers by 2022 and the internet penetration, under the first phase of the project several villages are to be connected by optical fibre cable. There are 422.19 million broadband subscribers at present. However according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman RS Sharma, “Low broad penetration in India will…
Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein, the men running two of Wall Street’s biggest banks saw the value of their shareholdings rise by a combined £242m ($314m) in 2016, as stock market prices rocketed in the aftermath of Donald Trump’ s election victory as US president. The value of their stock and options in JP Morgan…
Shelves of BingoBox outlet in Shanghai are lined with instant noodles, beer and bags of duck neck without any staff. As China’s labour costs are rising and higher than Latin America, the manufacturers are employing robots to production lines and retail China is being more automated. Chen Zilin, BingoBox’s founder, who plans to launch over…