Ringing bells an Indian mobile company has launched a smartphone that cost Just Rs250.00 £2.50, saying its mission is to give citizens in rural and semi-urban areas access to digital technology, targeting a potential customer of half a billion people. India also produced the Tata Nano, the cheapest car in the world £1000. The Freedom…
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic moves to return to space race, following a fatal accident 18 months ago, which killed the test pilot Michael Alsbury and after months of preparation in the Mojave desert in California. The plan was to take tourists into space on a “sub-orbital” flights with longer orbital flight in the future.…
A 63-year old man died in a huge gas explosion, about 07:30 GMT that destroyed a house in Springwood, Haxby, North Yorkshire, leaving only a pile of smoking rubble where the house once stood, and also damaging several nearby homes. Inspector Steve Breen of North Yorkshire Police confirmed one fatality, a 63-year-old man found dead…
The 88th Oscars will be held on Sunday, February 28 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood Los Angeles, where the statuettes will look different with the new manufacturer for the first time in 34 years. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, President Cheryl Boone Isaacs announced that Polich Tallix Fine Art Foundry based…
Alexandre Callet 30, a Paris restaurant owner has banned all bankers from his gourmet eaterie, after he was unjustly turned down for a loan for £55,000. He pleaded with his bank to lend him money to open a second restaurant, but it fell on deaf ears. The refusal by banks to help him explains why…
Last evening Eagles of Death Metal played a concert in Paris. At their previous Bataclan concert there before Christmas, 89 people were shot dead and dozens injured in a terrorist incident. A member of the band has told his audience yesterday that everyone should be armed. Jesse Hughes said if the audience carried weapons some of…
Zoolander 2 is so full of quirky jokes, satire and sarcastic humour it takes a few days after watching it to digest it all but it is definitely the full shilling if one wants a visit to the cinema to give you an “outside the box” experience with plenty of laughs and eye-popping fashion and locations…
Music’s biggest night of the year the 58th Grammy Awards 2016, were held Monday night 15th February 2016, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Taylor Swift’s 1989 has won coveted album of the year award at this year’s Grammy in Los Angeles. She is the first woman to win the award twice, also…
Three mahouts and one woman were killed in elephant attacks during festival parades in Kerala, India in the last three weeks. The woman was killed by an elephant at Sabarimala Sannidhanam. Elsewhere elephants also killed mahouts at three different festivals – Ayyappan Vilakku at Narayanankulangara, near Tripunithura, a festival of Shiva temple at Thrithala and…
Dr Rose Polge, a junior doctor who works at Torbay Hospital, vanished in Devon, was last seen on Friday, February 12, 2016. Her car was found in a car park near Ansteys Cove, near Torquay. Police said it was “totally out of character” for the young doctor and are concerned for her welfare. More than…