Kerala Tourism Department has won “The Pacific Asia Travel Association Grand and Gold Award 2017” for its Muziris Heritage Project Film Tourism Brochure in the Marketing and Media-consumer travel brochure category. The awards were presented at the 32nd edition of the PATA Awards held at Macao, in recognition of its innovative and trending marketing initiatives,…
Sebastain Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari sandwiched Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, and all three collided in the rain before turn One, with the latter two coming together again. Sebastian Vettel was forced to withdraw which handed Mercedes driver the initiative. Fernando Alonso also was caught up in the chaos and the Spaniard was forced…
A new fully electric auto rickshaw Tuk tuk, has been launched at Periyar wild life sanctuary, in Thekkady, Kerala, South India, as the Tuk Tuk craze is spreading quickly all over the world. The tuk tuk running on battery was brought to Thekkady range in Thekkady east division of the wild life sanctuary a month…
Cassini’s grand finale. After 20 years study of Saturn by Cassini space probe is coming to an end by crashing in to the planet on Friday 15th September 2017. A joint venture between the European space agency and the US space agency, the Cassini Huygens mission which has been orbiting around Saturn since July 2004.…
India, Sujatha Gidla was influenced by tales of her uncle, the Dalit revolutionary, port and Naxalite leader KG Stayamurthy. Gilda who grew up in the untouchable slum of Elwin Peta in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, South India. “When you are surrounded by so much misery, you don’t see it as an extraordinary,” and according to her…
Six days in September gives numerous insights and paints a fascinating picture by highlighting the crash of sterling out of the exchange rate mechanism, and how the UK steadily distanced itself from European Monetary Union and EU with Brexit. Britain joined out of desperation at too high a rate and in secrecy without any regard…
A Japan Airlines ( JAL) Boeing 777 carrying 233 passengers and 15 crewmembers bound for New York was forced to make an emergency landing at Tokyo Haneda International airport after a jet engine burst into flames following a suspected bird strike on Tuesday 12th September 2017. Television footage showed red flame flickering from the left…
Paul McClean, 25, an Oxford University Graduate from Surrey and British journalist for the Financial Times was killed by a crocodile while washing his hands at a lagoon in Sri Lanka during a holiday with friends. He is understood to have to search away from his group of friends to find a toilet when he…
London born Sampha has won the 2017 Mercury Music Prize for his mournful album, Process, written and recorded by his mother Binty, who died of cancer. The song talks about piano in his childhood home, which his mother taught him to play as a child. Sampha dedicated his Mercury Prize to both his parents who…
Santa Clara-based Cyphort, an innovator in the software security space, had raised £ 22.5million ($30 million) in venture funding from investors including Sapphire Ventures, Trinity Ventures, and Matrix Partners. Sunnyvale-based Juniper Networks Inc. has agreed to buy Cyphort Inc., a security software startup run by Manoj Leelaniwas, one of Juniper’s former executives, who previously…