Uber receives £138m funding

  “LetterOne”, owned by Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman and German Khan, has invested £ 138m $200m in Uber, the minicab company, making it one of the most high-profile investments in a technology start-up. Uber,  the most highly valued tech start -up company in the world, who launched its operations in Moscow in 2013, operating in…

Calcutta Street Restaurant in Brick Lane

Shrimoyee Chakraborty, 26, single girl from Jodhpur Park, North Calcutta, plans to create a tea bar at her London restaurant in Brick Lane and aspires to bring Calcutta flavours to London. She persuaded four investors to fund her Calcutta Street , Restaurant at 118 Brick Lane, London E1 6RL. “I was scared at first and…

Facebook launches Reactions button

Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Reactions are new addition too Facebook. This is an extenstion of the like button, if you share a sad piece of content or something that makes you angry, people can react and express themselves with the Reactions tool. The new Emoticons tool labeled love, haha, wow, sad and angry. For more than…

Proving of the relativity theory

  Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein a century ago. Yesterday it was revealed that they have finally detected from two massive black holes colliding 1.3 billion light years away. The advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory ( LIGO) is a large scale Physics experiment to detect gravitational waves, is an example of extreme engineering…

Zuckerberg slams Facebook Director Marc Andreeson’s offensive Tweet

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday disowned his colleagues’s controversial statement that Free Basics was same as colonialism, saying it was deeply upsetting. Facebook board member Marc Andreesen’s offensive tweet that created an uproar on the social media, after India’s telecom watchdog the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India ( TRAI) said no to discriminatory pricing…

Wild jumbo on rampage flattens 100 houses in Siliguri

One hundred houses crushed in Siliguri,  Dabgram, West Bengal, eastern India  as a wild elephant on  a rampage mission flattened several houses. This is the effect of global warming on wildlife raw shocking moment. Panic stricken people started running helter-skelter and Forest personnel rushed to the spot to drive away the Pachyderm to the  forest.…

Ikea -recalls glass lampshades due safety concerns

Ikea the Swedish retailer has recalled two popular glass ceiling lampshades due to safety concerns. The company said 11 customers worldwide had been injured after the glass shades from some of their 2012 models of lock and Hyby lamps had fallen. In a statement the company said: “In a few cases medical treatment was required…

Elephant gores mahout to death

An elephant in South India killed its handler before being tranqulised in the early hours of today. An elephant trampled and gored a mahout Krishnankutty to death after a bystander provoked and hurt the elephant and turned violent at Athanikkal near Thritala, Kerala, south India. The elephant had not taken well to his provoker and…