CA Krishna, a student from Mala, a town in Thrissur district, had to ride on a horse Ranakrish to attend the SSLC 10th standard exam. Krishna said she rode the horse to the Holy Grace School on the last day of her examination. She used to travel 2.17 miles daily to school on horseback. Her…
Cambridge men win boat race for second successive year beating Oxford, holding off a late Oxford push, the Light Blues crossed the line in 16 minutes 57 seconds – just two seconds ahead of their opponents. Earlier Cambridge won the women’s race by five lengths to seal their victory in a row. James Cracknell (46),…
Microsoft will close its personal health records service HealthVault launched in 2009, on November 20 , 2019, as per an email sent to users and accessed of by ZDNet . Any data within the service will be deleted on the shutdown date, Microsoft said. It allows businesses and consumers to store personal health records…
Banine describes Caucasus as a region caught between empires and epochs between Christian West and the Muslim East, between Tsarist autocracy, Bolshevik revolution, between tradition, superstition and clan. Banine writes about her childhood, her grandfather was one of Baku’s overnight millionaires, a farmer who had the fortune to find oil in his land, and her…
Ruchir Sharma talks to farmers, shopkeepers and CEOs from Rajasthan to Tamil Nadu and interview both Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi offering intimate view inside the lives and minds of India’s people. Sharma also explains how the complex forces of family, caste and community, economics and development, money and corruption Bollywood and Godmen, have conspired…
John Ruskin was an intellectual force behind late 19-century aesthetics and the Victorian age’s early environmentalist, with his interest spanning art and geology to social criticism and ecology. His two career halves as art critic and social commentator even though it collided both radiated an intense aestheticism describing jeremiads against mid-19th century capitalism. In…
Mitsui to invest £23m ($30m) in Grota do Cirilo, to tap into Brazil’s lithium Brazil could emerge as a major supplier for high-quality lithium – a raw material used in electric-car batteries- after Mitsui & Co, one of the world’s biggest commodity traders agreed to invest £23m ($30m) in Grota do Cirilo, a hard rock…
Simone Burns (50), a human rights lawyer who spat at a flight attendant and was filmed shouting at Air India cabin crew in a racist and foul mouthed tirade during a nine-hour flight from Mumbai to London Heathrow last November was initially served with 3, 25cl bottles of wine on the flight then refused to…
Snapchat is following the mobile gaming lead of WeChat and Facebook Messenger by adding games to Snapchat as it tries to puts failures of 2018 behind it. Snap is hoping to tap the £54bn ($70bn) mobile gaming market, when Apple, Google, Tencent and Microsoft are all making new bids for developers’ and players attentions. The…
Justin Bieber has apologised for his insensitive April Fool’s Day prank and admitted his wife is not really pregnant. The singer had shared an image with his 107 million Instagram followers of an ultrasound as well as pictures of his partner Hailey Baldwin undergoing a medical exam, after confirming it was a hoax. He was…