The work of seven contemporary photographers Evgenia Arbugaeva, Miho Kajioka, Paul Cupido, Pentti Sammallahti, Raul Canibano, Tamas Dezso, and Vasantha Yogananthan, whose images evokes mysteriousness of everyday life, capturing different realities. The photographers explore the strangeness and incongruousness of existence. Their works are exhibited at the Photographer Gallery Extra Ordinary between 27 Jan-13 Feb 2022. Evgenia…
Lata Mangeshkar (92), “ Nightingale of Bollywood” and Indian national icon, one of India’s most venerated singers who singing era reigned for half a century during her lifetime sang thirty thousand songs has died. She had been admitted to Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai in January after testing positive for Covid-19 and died of multi-organ…
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrea Elliot of The New York Times investigates eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with mega imagination as the skyscrapers, near Brooklyn homeless shelter. Dasani’s ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north, grows up, moving with her tight-knit family shelter to shelter, is named for the…
2022 is the Year of the Tiger, which is known to be king of all beasts in China and comes third in the Chinese zodiac. Chinese New Year heralds weeks of celebrations being planned by several families beginning with Chinese New Year’s Eve and ending with the Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year’s Eve traditions offer…
Excited and optimistic, Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor announced £73 million Guinness Microbrewery event space, store and restaurant in Covent Garden, and urged people “ to support the capital’s bounce back and make the most of what it has to offer”. The 50, 000 sq ft Guinness Microbrewery complex at old Brewer’s Yard – just over…
Police in Macau have arrested two men including Chan Weng Lin, CEO of Macau Legend Development which runs Landmark Macau, Babylon Casino and Legend Palace Casino in Macau, over alleged money laundering and illegal gambling. The move comes after the arrest in November of high-profile Macau gambling executive Alvin Chau, chairman of Macau’s biggest junket…
Battersea Power Station, a decommissioned. Coal-fire power station, built by the London Power Company to the design of Leonard Pearce, Engineer-in-Chief to the LPC and CS Allott & Son Engineers, with the chimneys lit up in purple to take part in the Light The Darkness National moment. On Holocaust Memorial Day, the iconic Battersea Power…
Country Satellie Rocket Location Date Soviet Union Sputnik 1 Sputnik PS Baikonur/ Kazakhstan 04-Oct-57 United States Explorer 1 Juno 1 Cape Canaveral US 01-Feb-58 France Asterix Diamant A CIEES/ Hammaguir Algleria 28-Nov-65 Japan Ohsumi Lambda 4S Uchinoura, Japan 11-Feb-70 China Dong Fang Hong 1 Long March1 Jiuquan, China 24-Apr-70 United Kingdom Prospero Black Arrow Woomera,…
Czech-born professor and Canadian scientist Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, a world-leading expert on energy and an astonishing polymath, in a thought provoking book “How the World Works”, encounters the influential thinking, crushes complex data, with fundamental importance of energy in human affairs. We never had so much information or disinformation at our…
An insight into the most secretive art world, its list of crimes, including money laundering, tax evasion, smuggling, looting of cultural sites , forgery, theft and Nazi plunder, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks and billionaires in largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud…