Brussels airport and metro bombs cause horror

Brussels has been targeted by two bombs in the airport and one in the metro causing at least 36 fatalities. It is said at least 14 people died in the airport and 20 in The Metro.  Scores of people fled the disaster zones in fear of their lives. “What we feared has happened” said Belgian Prime…

SpiceJet passengers in shock after 30 minutes mid-air scare

Passengers of SpiceJet flight SG152, was hit by high turbulence on Saturday, 15minutes after takeoff from Mumbai- Guwahati via Delhi and was grounded back to Mumbai. The Airbus 319 aircraft took off with 141 passengers including two infants and seven crew members at 7:50am from Mumbai and hit the turbulence and affected its hydraulic system…

Anbang offers $13.2bn cash for takeover of Starwood

Anbang led by Wu Xiaohui, is determined to takeover the US company, after Starwood Hotels and Resorts said a $13.2 bn cash bid from a group led by Anbang, China’s Primavera Capital and US private equity Group JC Flowers, thereby trumping its planned deal with Marriott International. Mr Wu is married to the granddaughter of…

Mobile inventions – but not phones – great art!!

Celebrated as the “originator of the mobile” (not phone) Alexander Calder – an American artist’s work is currently being exhibited at The Tate Modern London.  On the third floor of this unusually architecturally “different” venue, you can see 3 dimensional artworks and mobiles too.  Calder was influenced by Mondrian, Miro and other artists who engineered…

“dont walk by!” Meaning of sign on builders’ jackets in London.

Just a quick explanation on why builders in Victoria and Tottenham Court Road area in busy London locations   where there is much construction going on wear a fetching statement on the back of their special work clothes.  Don’t walk by! means to the people all around whilst the building trade continues their construction work…

Golden City Gate Award for New World film

Kerala Tourism’s new campaign has won them the “Golden City Gate Award” at the world’s leading travel trade show in Germany. “New Worlds”, the multimedia campaign  incorporating three short films directed by Anwar Rasheed won the silver prize of this year’s Das Golden Stadttor or Golden City Gate at the Internationale Tourismus-Borse Berlin (ITB-Berlin) 2016.…

India is now the world’s fastest growing economy

India is now the World’s fastest growing large economy, with a bright future. For India to sustain growth, improvements are necessary including accelerated infrastructure investments, greater openness to foreign direct investment and consolidation and recapitalisation of public sector banks, a more stringent bankruptcy code, fast track delivery of public assistance and freedom for individual states…