The toll from a ship The Eastern Star, that capsized on China’s Yangtze river has risen to 65, authorities said on Thursday. The ferry sank after about 9 pm when it began raining extremely hard, and the tornado hit and the wind was atrocious, on the evening of 1st June 2015. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang…
Five people were killed after a small plane crashed on a highway in Mexico. The aircraft crashed onto a highway connecting the country’s capital Mexico City with the central state of Queretaro, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday 2nd June 2015 Gerardo Quirarte Perez, head of the State Civil Protection Agency, told reporters that the…
Intense heat wave in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Southern India, on Sunday as 45 more deaths were reported from the two Telugu states, taking the toll to over 2,300. While 25 people died in Andhra Pradesh, 20 succumbed to sunstroke in Telangana. The officials till Saturday night had confirmed 2,177 deaths in the two states.…
3 of 5 New Zealand in England Test Series – 2nd Investec Test Played at Headingley, Leeds, 29,30,31 May, 1,2 June 2015 (5-day match) New Zealand 350 (72.1 ov) TWM Latham 84 of 180, 13 fours, L Ronchi 88 of 70, 13 fours and 3 sixes, MD Craig 41 not out off 63, 5 fours and 1 six,…
Above Bill and Hillary as they are today (left) and at “College” (right) Portraying herself as a “champion of ordinary Americans” is not easy for the super rich Hillary Clinton who is tipped as a possible leader of the USA for the Democrats. Apparently they were “dead broke” as a couple when they left the…
One Hundred Londoners rushed to the aid of a 55 year old unicyclist who was hit by a London route 212 double decker bus in Hoe Street, Walthamstow, London E17, 5.50pm on 28th May 2015. Screaming on lookers lifted 12-tonne bus and managed to move it several feet across the middle of the road in…
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, 23-year-old economics graduate from the University of Massachusetts has been crowned the new Maharaja of Mysore, nominal head of the 600-year-old Wadiyar dynasty in southern India, and was anointed at an elaborate ceremony lasting nearly two hours, conducted by 40 priests across 15 temples spread across the Mysore Palace grounds…
German court rules adblocking software programs are legal, a judgement that poses challenges to the revenues of global media groups. The case was brought by German broadcasters RTL and ProSiebenSat.1. saying: “ It did not focus on software itself but alleged that the use of a list of acceptable ads- breached law on competition, copyright…
Tragedy and comedy, especially to the acting fraternity are an integral and inescapable part of our lives. Shakespeare wrote 16 plays on each of these subjects each amounting to 32 plays. On Wednesday May 27 Dr Rowan Williams talked on the subjects at The Actors’ Church – St Paul’s in Covent Garden which was founded in 1898. …
