A Chennai-Delhi Air India A319 flight AI143 with no passengers inside the plane was delayed by more than two hours after pilot Captain Manik Lal and aircraft engineer VT Kannan had a difference of opinion which ended up in a fight inside the cockpit on Saturday. The aircraft engineer was injured and was admitted to…
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For the first time 2.1 million over 55s will have access to billions of pounds from today, are able to cash in on their pensions and spend them as they wish. Prime Minister David Cameron, has blown his own trumpet, that nearly 2.1 million over 55s will able to cash in all or part of…
After one year of acquiring mobile messaging service WhatsApp, Facebook has begun testing a new feature in its ‘Facebook for Android’ app that includes the first major integration of WhatsApp by adding a “Send” button on he right hand side with the familiar Whatsapp icon as part of the status action buttons that appear when…
An easyJet flight made an emergency landing in Rome after an angry passenger punched a stewardess as he was ‘waiting too long for a sandwich’. The frustrated hungry passenger yelled : ‘I’ve been waiting for hours, I’m hungry’, before assaulting the young cabin crew member repeatedly injuring her and broke her glasses. Hunger makes people…
Kingifisher, the owner of DIY chains B&Q and Screwfix, announced 15.2 per cent fall in pre-tax profit to £644m for 2014. They also are to close about 60 B&Q stores in the UK and Ireland over the next two years, and open 60 new Screwfix outlets this year, as their CEO for B&Q and UK &…
Air Canada flight crash landed amid heavy snow in the East Coast city of Halifax 23 passengers and crew suffered minor injuries. According to airlines the incident happened shortly after midnight , on their A320 flight carrying 133 passengers and 5 crews, from Toronto to Halifax . Sunday, March 29, 2015
Private equity Group Blackstone bought 20 per cent stake in Versace luxury brand, rose by 16.9 percent to €548.7m in which private equity group. Blackstone investment enabled Versace to open 40 stores in 2014 and accelerated their expansion program, as they plan to open a further 30 stores in 2015 including stores in Vancouver Madrid,…
Technology entrepreneur with a computer science degree from Cambridge, Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable and Ozymandias productions, whose passion lies in changing the way people play games by bringing together and working with the very best computer science and artistic talent to solve hard and overlooked problems. The son of Harpinder Singh Narula, the Indian construction…
The company behind Burger King and Heinz buys Kraft in a deal that could value the US food giant at more than $40bn (£27bn). Heinz, the US food giant Heinz is to merge with Kraft Foods Group, creating the third largest food and beverage company in the US, as shares in Kraft jumped more than…
The low-cost Germanwings owned by Lufthansa, Airbus A320 – flight 4U 9525 crashed, between Digne and Barcelonnette in the French Alps on its way from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. According to officials there are no survivors. Germanwings has been operating since 2002 as part of traditional Lufthansa’s response from rising European budget carriers serving mainly European destinations. The area…