The Californian group, Porteus Digital health has developed the first “digital pill” that tell doctors when their patients have taken them – had its drug application accepted by US regulators. This chip in the pill will ensure patients stick to their prescriptions and reduce the wasteful spending on drugs that are not taken properly. This…
Paddy Power and Betfair merger agreed on £6bn tie up, which will create an online gambling giant that can generate £50m a year in cost savings and will enter FSTE 100 index. It comes as Ladbrokes and Coral work on a merger and Sportingbet and GVC buys rival BWin. Party for £1bn. The companies will…
Kerala Tourism’s efforts towards heritage conservation have won it the top Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Award for its Muziris Heritage Project. PATA had earlier honoured Kerala Tourism for its Responsible Tourism initiative in Kumarakom and Kerala tourism’s popular e-Newsletter in 2014. This time the award came for the state’s trendsetting efforts in reinventing the…
During these troubled times when the Indian news media is awash with rape incidents across the country and a particularly insecure environment for working women in Delhi during late night hours, three working women from Chennai who like to call themselves ‘The Travelling Divas’ chose to take the initiative to instill confidence in women…
Air India flight AI 405 Airbus 320, flight from Varanasi to Delhi, India, with 150 passengers and crew, after a hydraulic failure due to which Airbus 320 had to land in emergency situation at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, as smoke was seen from under carriage and pilot opted for evacuation. Reports said that some passengers…
The pilot of a private Cessna plane has made an emergency landing on a highway 27, near Boras in southwestern Sweden, according to Johan Ljung police duty officer. No one was injured. The Pilot Philip Woods of Boras aviation club said quoting Shakespeare “It’s much ado about nothing, I had run out of fuel even…
Zhang, a Chinese farmer set up a fake branch of one of the world’s largest banks was caught when he stopped customers withdrawing money. He created the China Construction Bank in Shandong a fake branch with card readers, passbooks and three teenage girls as bank tellers and ran for over a month and swindled thousands of…
Padayani is a traditional folk dance and weeklong ritual art dance carnival Kolam Thullal celebrated annually in the Bhadrakali temples on the banks of the Pamba river in two districts Pathanamthitta and Alappuzha, in Central Tranvancore, Kerala in Kumbham ( April). The ancient Dravidian concept of god and mode of worship, offering Rathi (lust), Raktham…
An Easy Jet Stewardess on EZY 8845 on its way from Gatwick, Britain to Dalaman, Turkey, was opening the bottle of champagne when the cork misfired and hit the ceiling of the plane which smashed the ceiling tiles and brought down the oxygen masks. After four hours into the journey the flight has to be…
India’s largest airline by market share, IndiGo on their 9th year, has finalised the purchase of 250 narrow bodied A320neo Family aircraft, signed on on the 69th Independence Day of India on the 15th August 2015. This historical aircraft purchase agreement was European Aerospace giant’s largest-ever order by number of planes in deal worth £17billion …