China and Argentina sign £10bn deal to construct two nuclear reactors

China is fund and help to build two nuclear plants in Argentina in $15bn deal. The agreement signed on 15th November 2015, by the President of Nucleoelectrica Argentina SA (NASA), Jose Luis Antunez Argentina’s minister of federal planning Julio de Vido and China’s Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission Xu Shaoshik, on the…

Costa aspiring to be PM of Portugal

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…

British Asian Popular Indian Star Dies

    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. …

G20 leaders condemn Paris terror attack

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…

Brics condemns Paris attack

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…

Iconic singing legend Lata Mangeshkar’s new book

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, author of children’s book passes away

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…

Jamaica being trawled for Teachers for UK

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…

MORE ON PM MODI AND HIS NETWORKING AROUND THE GLOBE

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…

SCORES OF PEOPLE KILLED IN PARIS TERRORIST INCIDENTS

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…