Happy Holi 2019

Hindus celebrate Indian festival of colours Holi on the day of Purnima the full moon, in the month of Falgun over two consecutive days.   It’s seen as a opportunity for people to have a fresh start and a chance to meet people and repair old relationships. On Holika dahan people gather around an pyre…

Brazil-bound Italian container sinks in Atlantic Ocean

A Brazil bound Italian container sinks in Atlantic  ocean off the coast of France, carrying over 2000 cars including 37 Porsches  including 911, GT2, RS, 718, Cayman, Boxster and Cayenne  and some Audi modesl like A3, A5,RS4, RS5 and Q7 models which caught fire. Over 2000 cars sank but all 27 crew members aboard the…

Boeing Max 8 safety feature was an additional option

Standard  Boeing 737 Max 8 planes are not equipped with a angle of attack indicator or an angle of attack disagree light and cost extra. As the pilots of the doomed Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia fought to control their planes, in vain they lacked two essential safety features in their cockpits. Several airlines…

Fugitive Modi arrested in UK

Nirav Modi, the Indian celebrity jeweller, the central figure in an alleged $2bn fraud that rocked state-owned Punjab National Bank, has been held in London as New Delhi presses for his extradition. Modi, whose boutiques were found in some of the world’s most prestigious shopping districts, was denied bail by London’s Westminster Magistrate’s court despite…

Google launches Stadia -Cloud gaming service

Google is launching its Stadia cloud gaming service at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today. Sundar Pichai says he plays FIFA 19 qutie a hit introduced the Stadia service during a special keynote at GDC this morning describing it as a platform for everyone. Stadia will stream games from the cloud to the…

2+2=5

Charles Munger, Warren Buffet’s business partner once said, “ creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilisation. The euphemism of creative accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practices but deviate from the spirit of those rules, but deviate from what those standards intend to accomplish and capitalises…

1000 killed by cyclone Idai

Cyclone Idai triggers massive disaster in Mozambique, Zimabawe and Malawi killing over 1000 people. Cyclone Idai made landfall near the port city of Beira in Sofala province on Thursday with winds over 106mph (177km/h). 1.7 million people were in the direct path of the cyclone in Mozambique and 920000 have been affected in Malawi according…

World’s most expensive perfume

Shumukh has revealed the most expensive perfume in the world  in Dubai. The bottle of perfume is decorated with diamonds pearls  and gold setting up multiple records in Guinness Book of World Records. Shumukh was produced by Asghar Adam Ali the chairman and master perfumer at Nabeel Perfumes Group. He set two Guinness World Record…

Worldpay sold for $43bn

Worldpay, the Global payments giant, which accounts for 42 per cent of all UK payments, processing around 400 transactions per second, was sold for £32.5 bn ($43bn) to a US rival Fidelity National Information Services. The company employs 4000 people will come together with US-listed FIS in a cash and shares deal. Their customers include…