Over hundreds are missing and 27 people are dead as Dam collapses in southern Laos south-east Asia, flooding six villages. The $1.2bn dam collapsed after heavy rainfall. Rescuers are racing to find survivors after part of XePian X3-Namnoy hydroelectric power project the auxiliary dam “ Saddle Dam D” collapsed releasing five trillion litres of water…
eBay launched in India on 2004 , failed to capitalise on India’s growing e-commerce market, last year made a cash investment of $500 million and sold its India unit to the local e-commerce giant Flipkart. On 14th August 2018, eBay India will stop taking orders and is now directing users to Flipkart to buy and sell.…
Seven people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed bridge in the northern Italian city of Genoa killing 30 and injuring 16 with further 10 missing. Thirty-five cars and three heavy vehicles plunged a significant distance into a river and an industrial area when a large section of the Morandi Bridge collapsed at…
Google’s artificial intelligence business “DeepMind” is planning clinical trials of technology that can help diagnose eye disease more accurately than human doctors. In February 2018, DeepMind had developed AI technology that could analyse 3D retinal scans for signs of serious glaucoma or diabetic retinopathy after striking a partnership with Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. …
The year was 1947, when the US was still struggling to find a solution to deal with both the post war devastation of Europe and its former ally the Soviet Union. In China the nationalist government still controlled the country, India and Pakistan were under British Imperial rule and the state of Israel did not…
Wildlife at risk https://www.facebook.com/savio.mendez/videos/10156737180094924/ Torrential rains, overflowing rivers, and landslides have resulted in deaths of 120 people in the Kerala state. Southern Railway and Kochi Metro have suspended their operations in flood-hit Kochi. The entire state of Kerala is on red alert with more rains expected till Saturday. Cochin Airport has been…
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, the Noble prize-winning author, has died at the age of 85, who was a master stylist story-teller with a clear vision for the ironies, tragedies, sufferings and was a great writer of the simple English sentence. His travel writing was honest, refusing to glamorise the developing world and his fiction was…
Archaeologists exploring the Puyil Cave, in Tabcotalpa municipality of Tabasco state in Southern Mexico, found three Maya skeletons belonging to a civilisation once dominant but mysteriously abandoned its cities around 900 AD. One of the skeletons dates back about 7000 years and the other two 4000 years. According to Albert Martos an archaeologist “ In…
A rogue planet bigger than Jupiter found drifting through space with a mysterious glow. The planet which is 12 times as large as Jupiter, sits around 20 light years away from Earth. This rogue planet is the first object of its kind to be spotted using a radio telescope, according to the National Radio Astronomy…
A Tanker truck collided with a lorry on a motorway bridge in Bologna, Northern Italy exploded killing two and injuring sixty. The blast which immediately engulfed the area into a fireball and black plumes of smoke caused the bridge to partially collapse. The fire spread to a car showroom below where several cars exploded at…