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…
One Day International Series South Africa vs India India 287-6 off 50 ov, Rahul 55 off 79, 4 fours, Pant 85 off 71, 10 fours, 2 sixes, Thakur 40* off 38, 3fours, 1 six, S Dhawan 29 off 38, 5 fours, Shamsi 2-57, Phehuylukwayo 1-44, Maharaj 1-52, Markram 1-34, Magala 10-64. South Africa 288-3 off…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised last week after days of speculation, but told MPs he was only at the party for 25 minutes adding ” I thought it was a work event”. Sir Keir Starmer has refused to say sorry over images of him drinking beer in a constituency office at a time when indoor…
International Test Match Series Day 1 of 5 Australia vs England Australia 1st innings 303 ao off 75.4ov Labuschagne 44 off 53, 9 fours, Head 84* off 88, 10 fours, Green 74 off 109, 8 fours, Carey 24 off 60, 2 fours, Lyon 31 off 27, 1 four, 3 sixes, Broad 3-59,Wood 3-115, Robinson 2-24, Woakes 2-64. England 1st Innings…
International Test Match Series Day 1 of 5 Australia vs England Australia 1st innings 303 ao off 75.4ov Labuschagne 44 off 53, 9 fours, Head 84* off 88, 10 fours, Green 74 off 109, 8 fours, Carey 24 off 60, 2 fours, Lyon 31 off 27, 1 four, 3 sixes, Broad 3-59,Wood 3-115, Robinson 2-24, Woakes 2-64. England 1st Innings…
International Test Match Series Day 2 of 5, third Freedom Test at Newlands in Cape Town. India 223 ao off 77.3 ov Virat Kohli 79 off 201, 12 fours, 1 six, Pant 27 off 50, 4 fours, Pujara 43 off 77, 7 fours, Rabada 4-73, Olivier 1-42, Jansen 3-55, Ngidi 1-33, Maharaj 1-14. South Africa 1st Innings 210…
International Test Match Series Day 1 of 5 Australia vs England Australia 1st Innings 241-6 off 59.3ov Head 101 off 113, 12 fours, Green 74 off 109, 8 fours, Broad 2-48, Robinson 2-24, Wood 1-79, Woakes 1-50. Travis Head’s century on day one of the fifth Ashes Test in Hobart put Australia on the…