Mars one of the largest privately owned businesses in the US which had a global sale of £23.43bn ($33bn) last year, recalled chocolate products in 55 countries after pieces of plastic were found in a Snickers bar in Germany. After a customer in Germany found the bits of red plastic in a Snickers bar in 8th January…
Rather than live on the edge James Bond Style or through illegal toxic substances some brave adventurous and talented people choose to ‘cheat’ death or injury to give us one of the best shows that has ever toured the world – namely Cirque du Soleil – a Canadian company. ‘Amaluna’ marks their 20th year and…
A baby girl gorilla was delivered at Bristol Zoo Gardens weighing 2lb 10 oz (1Kg), after her mother Kera, showed symptoms of Pre-eclampsia – a life threatening condition, by caesarean section on 12th February 2016, by Dr Amina Ali, Gynaecologist Professor Cahil from local NHS maternity hospital and Nick Hayward of veterinary Diagnostic Imaging Ltd,…
Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer, who shot 80 films, including three Indiana Jones, Classic Ealing comedies like Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob, has died at the age of 103. Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg said “Solcombe won several Baftas for the Great Gatsby (1974), The Servant (1963) (B&W) and Julia (1977), and…
JAQ developed by Swedish developers the world’s smallest fuel cell, and can charge your mobile phone batteries when you’re on and off the grid. The new Fuel cell uses just water and salt to power the portable charger and can fit in your back pocket or purse. After each single-use PowerCard generates enough green electricity…
A German hairdresser Klaus Baruck, has offered a lock of John Lennon’s hair, claims he held onto the former Beatle’s tuft after giving him a trim in Hamburg in 1967, which was sold for £24,000 ($35,000). Heritage Auctions in Dallas declared Mr Baruck cut Lennon’s hair in preparation for his role in the dark…
Kozhikode girl Jyothy Karat, an ace photographer,who is one of the first women to venture into an unconventional filed of photography in Kerala and one of the 29 emerging photojournalists in Asia who has showcased her works in Europe, North America and India. Her projects included Gudalur tribes, which will be exhibited at the UN…
Thirty elephants took part in the Elephant race (Anayottam) which marked the opening of10-day annual festival at the Shree Krishna temple at Guruvayoor on 20th February 2016 Saturday. Gopikannan, the elephant of Guruvayoor Devasom won the race and did a hat-trick. Elephants Chentamarakshan and Kanan finished second and and third respectively.
Two professors Shaojin Chai, a senior research fellow at the Ministry of Culture in UAE and Prof Haiyun Ma, a professor at Frostburg State University, Maryland US, came to Northern Kerala on January 7-9, 2016, in search of relics and final burial place of seven-foot tall Zheng He, (Cheng Ho), 1371-1435, Chinese naval explorer,…
Sunil Khilnani’s Incarnations, journeys across India and explores modern India spanning two and half thousand years, through lives of 50 historical phenomenal idiosyncratic people, including Birsa Munda. a young charismatic healer who led his tribal community in revolt against the British, Jyotirao Phule, the life of the lower-caste boy who rose to become a…