Luxury cars valued over £600, 000 gutted in garage blaze

Eight fire crews and more than 30 fire fighters, attended a severe blaze at vehicle repair garage of Central Sports Cars in Stourbridge, West Midlands at around 4:30pm on 17th September 2015. The fire was brought under controlat 7:45pm. It was emerged a total of 10 super luxury cars valued over £600,000 perished and were…

India’s Lion Queens

Possibly the world’s first all-women brigade involved in the guarding and running of a big cat wildlife sanctuary, this unique sisterhood of the Gir National park, in the Indian state of Gujarat is gaining international recognition for their unique contribution in preserving the last remaining population of the famed Asiatic lions. Their not so usual…

Angry residents charge in to Bio–waste Energy generation plant

Do Eco friendly initiatives by the government always turn out to be people friendly too? Apparently not, if one has to go by the unusual incident that happened last Wednesday in suburban Chennai. A group of angry residents from the Venkatamangalam and Kandigai localities south of Tambaram in Chennai, breached in to a Bio-Methanisation waste-to-energy…

Chennai dazzles with festive look on Ganesh Chathurthi day celebrations

  It’s that day of the year again when the whole city of Chennai comes alive like the rest of India, with the routine, monotonous and serpentine queues of office-goers’ vehicles occupying the roads on normal days, replaced by buzzing, energetic religious faithfuls gearing up for the festivities, making hurried last minute trips to the…

Chile earthquake kills 5

An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.3 hit off the cost Chile on 16th September 2015, killing 5 people and a tsunami warning for Chile, Peru and French Polynesia. Waves over a meter triggered by the earthquake have begun hitting Chile’s coastline, flooding the streets near the ocean. Tsunami waves of up 3metres could hit…

Mount Aso erupts

Japan’s largest volcano Mount Aso erupted on main southern island of Kyushu on 14th September 2015. The volcano 125 miles west of Tokyo erupted about noon on Saturday spewing ash and rocks.

Man bites his wife’s nose and ate it

A man in China reportedly bit off his wife’s nose and ate it after she did not answer his calls. The couple, from the city of Dezhou in China, allegedly got into a fight after the woman did not answer her estranged husband’s calls after a late shift at work earlier this week. Enraged, her husband…

Russian planes “straying into a “British Area of Interest”.

RAF Tycoon jets intercepted Russian Planes which have recently strayed into British Airspace.  The interceptors were from the Lossiemouth Scotland base.  A Tuplaov plane “which looked a bit like a Concorde” – from a Russian supply was monitored and Defence Secretary Michael Fallon dismissed  the incident saying  “These are games, in effect.”  Other descriptions of the…