KC Sivasankar cartoonist who brought Chandamama dies aged 97

Legendary cartoonist KC Sivasankar who beought Chandamama characters to life  illustrating for children’s magazine Chandamama also known as  Ambulimama has died aged 97 at Chennai, south India on September 29.  The Chandamama or the Ambilimama magazine was one source which helped kids  before the advent of internet  and smartphones to recreate a story in their minds.…

Kuwaiti ruler Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Sabah dies aged 91

  , the ruler of Kuwait  has died aged 91 on Tuesday. He pushed for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf  War and peaceful solutions to other regional crises which  resolved a bitter dispute between Qatar and other Arab nations. He came to power in Kuwait as a strong US ally since the…

Armenian jet shot down by Turkish F-16

Armenia says one of its Soviet-made S|U-25 fighter jet was shot down by a Turkish F-16 in Armenian air space, escalating  the conflict over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Turkey, which is baking the Azerbaijan in the conflict has denied the claim. Over 100 people including civilians, have died in three days of fighting over the disputed…

Uber secures licence to continue operating in London

  Good News for millions of Londoners and visitors who rely on Uber to get around the capital. Uber, the ride-hailing giant has finally secured its right to continue operating in London after a judge upheld its appeal against Transport for London (TfL) at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. The Court said Uber was now a “fit…

Coronavirus death toll surpass one million worldwide

The world’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed one million with the US, Brazil, and India making nearly half of the total, according to Johns Hopkins University, within 10 months after new began to emerge about mysterious cases of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China. As the testing rates in many countries remain low with the virus-related…

26 people killed in a military plane crash

Antonov-26, a military aircraft came down near the eastern city of Kharkiv, killing 20 cadets and six officers from Kharkiv Air Force University while on a training flight. Only one person survived. The crash is being investigated and according to officials  captain and not cadets was flying the plane  when it crashed. The plane came…

An Innocent Woman

AN INNOCENT WOMAN – A Saturn Herald Short Story by Penny Nair Price Would anyone ever discover his deep secret?  It seemed  he had committed the perfect crime and  he had got away with it – his most hated enemy was now ten feet under – and all because she was a cheating swine.  He…

Gripping tale of crime, punishmebt and redemption.

Nelson Mandela’s magical early years of presidency, the small towns like farming dorp called Koppies to Chronicle the dismantling of white rule, however apartheid was going to take longer to die in South Africa’s small towns than in big cities. For the first year of new South Africa a fledgling  black middle class moved in…

SP Balasubramaniyam dies after testing positive for Corona

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam  popularly known as SP Balu, a renowned Indian musician, playback singer , music director, actor, dubing artist and film produced  who worked in worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi and Malayalam, languages hailed as  “ Padum Nila “ (“singing moon”) and “music cloud” by his millions of fans died on Friday at…