A pilot was caught after a flight with a large bag of marijuana in his pocket and also failing a drugs test who worked in one of the companies associated with the Kazakstan Airlines company. The Air Astana captain had recently touched down in the A320 from Moscow to Almaty – the former soviet republic’s biggest…
Maharaja’s Express is one of the five luxury trains with 19 carriages, operating in India, providing unrivalled view of some of the historical known sights in the north and west India. The train moves on each night, and everything in the train is kept looking immaculate by an army of meticulous staff. In 1844, the…
Indian Billionaire tycoon Sunil Mittal warned India’s battered telecoms market must embrace itself for new price wars, as his Bharti Airtel group prepares for the return of Mukesh Ambani the country’s richest man, to the sector this year. Mittal founder and chairman of Bharti Airtel, invested more than £2.8bn ($4bn) in anticipation of Mr Ambani’s…
At Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, southern India, an Indian rocket blasted off successfully with India’s sixth navigation Satellite –IRNSS-1F weighing 1425kg with a 12 year life span, on Thursday 10th March 2016. The Polar Satellite Launch vehicle (PSLV)-SL standing 44.4m tall and weighing 320 tonnes zoomed into the evening sky at 4 pm away from earth’s…
A Spitfire flew over Southampton Water and the site of the Super marine factory in Woolston, where thousands of The World War Two fighters were manufactured. A flypast to mark the 80th anniversary of the Spitfire’s first flight has taken place over the Hampshire coast. The plane took off from the airport shortly before…
Emirates Airbus A380 jet has made history, the world’s longest non-stop scheduled commercial fight from Dubai to Auckland, covering 14,200km (8, 824miles) on March 2, 2016. The return flight to Dubai let at about 19:30 local time 8:30 GMT, reducing the travel time by 3 hours. Both flights were around 17 hours and 15 minutes.…
source Forbes Bill Gates (60), Microsoft head although 4.2 billion poorer than 2015, his net worth of $75bn, is the world’s richest billionaire for the 17th time in 22 years, beating Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu, who came fourth, behind Zara’s Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffet, according to Forbes’ annual ranking of billionaires. Other top ten include…
London City Airport sold to Kuwait Investment Authority, a state-owned Sovereign fund, Borealis Infrastructure, Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan fund, AIMCo, an American investment management company, Wren House, an infrastructure investment vehicle owned by Sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait. Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the American private equity company who owned 75 per cent stake, and Oaktree…
The Flying Scotsman, one of the world’s most famous locomotives, painted in its traditional British Rail colours, is making the journey from London King’s Cross to York where it will go on display at the National Railway Museum (NRM). It departed King’s Cross as scheduled at 07:40 GMT and is heading up the East Coast…
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…