Publications globally have stories on Pope Francis’s calm observations that the people don’t like insults – whether its about their religions – or their relatives – most importantly their mothers! Wanting to sock a punch in the face of a person harbouring judgmental and nasty beliefs and remarks on your religion or mother is normal…
A lorry fire at the French end of the Tunnel and as the carbon dioxide alarm had gone off, Channel Tunnel cancels, all Eurostar trains for the rest of the day. Train operator Eurotunnel spokesman has offered apology and says that if the passengers have booked for cancelled or delayed trains they can get either a…
The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman scored nine nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, announced in Los Angeles on Thursday 15 January ahead of the February 22 ceremony. We think The Grand Budapest Hotel will lead Oscar awards as pack leader, with Birdman, Boyhood, and The Imitation Game hot on its heels. Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon…
Three mechanical engineering students from Government Engineering college at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, designed and developed a prototype vehicle which runs upto 125miles per litre of petrol. This will be one of the 12o entrants competing for fuel efficiency contest ” Shell Eco Marathon” to be held at Phillippines between 26th February and 1st March.…
Arguably one of the best loved “institutions” in Britain – the BBC was involved in constant battles with the Iron Lady and the Conservative Party. In Hilary Mantel’s book “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher”, she reports that other political leaders followed her lead and favoured undermining the licence fee by encouraging ITV to “create television…
Kite flying is one festival which has the potential to give far reaching effective social messages, awareness information marked on exclusive patterns and designs displaying amazing collections of simple and fancy kites in all shapes and sizes. It also involves a common platform where people from all walks of life can come and display kite flying…
The recent “Hope Not Hate” report intimates a general fall in the influence of The EDL, BNP and similar parties appropriated to “internal splits” and features on the growth of UKIP. Nick Griffin was “thrown out” of the British National party late in 2014. According to statistics, right wing groups (essentially far right ones) are…
Cristiano Ronaldo for the third time, won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for 2014 on Monday, earning the title of world’s best football player. ‘I want to become one of the greatest players of all time,’ Ronaldo said through a translator in his acceptance speech. ‘Of course, this requires a lot of effort and I hope…
All kinds of yoga poses have been adopted by Narendra Modi, and it hasn’t won him the praise of his people, who regard his behaviour as attention-seeking and not getting to the important points of his leadership. A brainstorming event for the banking sector for example, kicked off with a yoga workout. Hasmukh Adhia, India’s…
India’s Mars Orbiter launched on 5 Nov, 2013 that went into Mars Orbit on 24 Sep 2014 achieved no other country has ever done – an Indian Spacecraft orbited around Mars on maiden attempt and also transmitter full-disk colour imagery of Mars from its elliptical orbit using a high apoapsis a high resolution camera.…