Antonio Costa, a Portuguese lawyer and politican born in Lisbon in 1961, with Goan descent (once a Portuguese colony in India) through his father and writer Orlando da Costa could become next Prime Minister of Portugal, after the right wing government headed by Pedro Passos Coelho was brought down within 11 days of assuming power…
At the age of 86 , Bollywood and British film star Saeed Jaffrey has died. He was one of the few actors who found fame and success in both Bollywood and Hollywood. He starred in “A Passage to India” and “Gandhi”, Henna, Massom and Dil, as well as many other programmes and films. …
The terrorist actions of the so-called Islamic State in France and the Syrian conflict have dominated the agenda of the world leaders who are meeting in Antalya, Turkey at the G20 summit. The G20 developed during the financial crisis as the forum to deal with economic and trade issues, replaced The G7 world’s rich nation’s…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was urging the international community to stand together in the war against terrorism, condemned Paris attacks in which Islamic State militants killed 129 people and injuring 352, 99 critically. “We stand united in strongly condemning the dreadful attack in Paris. The entire humanity must stand together and be one against…
The story of Lata Mangeshkar, by Yatindra Mishra, Bolloywood’s super-mega musical star is due to be released in January 2016, according to the publishers. The book in Hindi will be translated by Ira Pande, a Sahitya Akademi award winner according Penguin Random House statement. The book “Lata Mangeshkar: A musical journey” reveals little known facts intertwined…
Kamala Laxman, a well-known Indian author of children’s book and widow of legendary cartoonist R.K. Laxman, died at Aundh, her residence in Pune on Saturday 14th November 2015, 4:00pm. She was suffering from pneumonia, lung infection and high blood pressure for the last 20 days at the Ruby Hall Clinic and later at the Aditya…
A picture of a school group in a Jamaican class. As the number of British born teachers who want to work in the UK continues to decline, Jamaica has become a location to trawl for new staff. Geoff Brown went to an Hourglass Education recruitment event in the Courtleigh Hotel in Kingston Jamaica’s capital on a mass…
The world tour of PM Narendra Modi has been termed one to rival Madonna, The Rolling Stones and U2 – but they don’t do the things he does, that is for sure. Yesterday he appeared to over 60,000 Indian people living in the UK in Wembley. Unfortunately for him, the terrorist incident in Paris has…
There may have been 100 hostages killed in the Bataclan Concert Hall in Paris tonight and reports are that police have killed some of the attackers. Early this evening there were two explosions near the Stade de France football stadium where France and Germany were playing a match. President Hollande has now called for military reinforcements…
The Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo is the world’s highest paid athlete today , and his taste for luxury and sports cars collection adds up to 19 cars, which includes super speed cars like Bugatti Veyron, Bentley Continental GTX, Lamborghini Aventador, Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano, Porsche 911 Carrera 2s Cabriolet, Maserati GranCabrio, Aston Martin DB9,…