On 6th August 10:30 am, five people are reported missing after a passenger bus ferrying 30 pilgrims fell into the swollen Shivnath river near Bhatapara-Baloda Bazar District, Balsipur in Chattisgarh in northern India. 20 people rescued were traumatised and are being treated in local district hospitals. The bus was going towards Bilaspur from Bhatapara when…
The largest Latin American country with 191-million population, Brazil dominated by Roman Catholic Church, where abortion is illegal, and no official government policy has ever promoted birth control, the family size has sharply dropped in the last five decades. Their demographic phenomenon, the fertility rate of 2.36 children per family has crashed to the national…
Like all good inventions the first traffic signal was invented by JP Knight, a railway signalling engineer and installed outside houses of Parliament in 1868 the first ever gas-operated non-electric traffic Red-green lights. Police officers had to work the lights by hand in an effort to control vehicles crossing the nearby Bridge Street, Great George…
Due to heavy rains near the town of Harda, two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madya Pradesh, have derailed on 4th August 2015, 11:30pm, within minutes on a partially flooded bridge over the Machack river between Khirkiya and Bhirangi stations, as the tracks caved in killing 30 people, 50 injured and over 300…
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation – the 5th M I Movie! Question:- What do people go to M I films for? Answer:- To see action, good looking people, drama, corruption and – of course, car and bike chases. I can guarantee there are plenty of all those things in Mission Impossible Rogue Nation but it does…
Super Typhoon Soudelor is heading towards Taiwan, Japan and China after leaving a trail of destruction in the Northern Marianas islands. The cyclone has developed into the world’s most powerful storm of the year with wind gusts up to 220mph (354kph) that have ripped down telegraph poles and flipped over cars. A state of emergency…
Investigators of food and drug administration have seized 5,300 bottles of alcohol and packets of a white powder called Sildenafi, better known as Viagra the anti-impotence drug in the southern city of Liuzhou. According to food safety officials, distillers in China added Viagra to thousands of bottles of spirits and told customers it had “health-preserving…
The discovery of the two new species was published in July issue of Asian Journal of Conservation Biology. Indian scientists claim to have discovered two new Cycads species of plants in Odisha northern Eastern Ghats of India Cycas nayagarhensis, C. orixensis and Orixenses subsect.nov, which were dominant some 201 million to 145 million years ago,…
The Ashes Third Test Day-3 Australia tour of England and Ireland, 3rd Investec Test: England v Australia at Edgbaston, Birmingham. Australia 136 all out 36.4 overs CJL Rogers 52 off 89, 9 fours, AC Voges 15 off 34, 3 fours, James M Anderson 47-6, ST Finn 38-2, SCJ Broad 44-2, 265 all out, 79.1 overs, David Warner 77…