A set of rare four ten-rupee stamps of 1948 featuring the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for £500, 000 ( $598, 000) by British dealer Stanley Gibbons. The unique strip of four ten-rupee stamps is considered the most important and desirable item of post-Indian independence philately, Jersey, according to UK –based dealer Stanley…
An overcrowded private bus travelling in the morning hours, down a steep, narrow and windy mountain road ravine, veered off and plunged into Tons river in remote Nerwa in Shimla District, North India along the border of Sirmaur district in Himachal Pradesh killing 45. There was a drop over 15 meters from the road…
“The vote is the only way to guarantee certainty, stability and strong leadership following the EU referendum and security for years ahead” PM calling for mandate. Although the country is coming together but Westminster is not. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his party wanted the election , calling it a chance to get a government…
Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya has been arrested in London, by the Metropolitan Police’s extradition unit on behalf of Indian authorities in relation to accusations of fraud. India has been pushing for the extradition of Mallya, who face charges of financial irregularities at his defunct Kingfisher Airlines. Mallya was later granted bail. Last month, the…
Pope Francis held solemn Easter vigil in Vatican City at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican city. Saturday’s service came after Francis presided over the evocative torch-lit Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, where he repeatedly denounced the shame of the blood spilled by innocent children, women and migrants in the world’s conflicts, shipwrecks and other…
The organisers of the hot air balloon cross-channel record attempt claim 82 balloons successfully cross the channel beating the previous record of 49.
A 4.5 meter deep (15 ft), 5 meters long and 2 meters wide, a sinkhole at Chennai’s Anna Salai Road, near Church Park school, India, trapping a car and passenger bus, around 2 pm on Sunday. This could be natural sinkhole caused over hundreds of years from water forging a cavity in the chalk and then…
Britain triggered Article 50, “an historic moment from which there can be no turning back” Theresa May has aid about departure from the EU. “ I choose to believe in Britain and that our best days lie ahead” Prime Minister Theresa May said speaking after Britain’s EU ambassador formally triggered the two year exit process…
In Chongqing, China, home to 8.5m people, a light railway track has been designed to run directly through a hole in a 19-storey block of flats, between floors six and eight. The building has been acoustically insulated which does not allow any sound louder than a working dishwasher, as the train only generates 60 decibels.…
Five people were killed and 40 injured in London on 22nd March 2017, Wednesday afternoon, as a car Huyndai ploughed into pedestrians and the crashed into the barriers of Houses of Parliament. The attacker drove on the pavement on Westminster Bridge, as a woman fell into the River Thames.The driver wielding a knife fatally stabbed…