Some months back, India made the headlines for all the wrong reasons. There was a mass rape of a woman who was a student and was set upon by unknown men. This is a rare event yet the press made much of it – some would argue understandably, but on the other hand it gave…
David Cameron has returned to Downing Street with 330 seats the Tories won the general election. The Conservatives made gains in England and Wales giving them a slim majority. Labour leader Ed Miliband stood down, after a diffult and disappointing night as they secured only 232 seats, and could muster only one seat in Scotland, saying…
A welcome cast of Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas play out a drama based in a luxurious but decaying Paris apartment which Mathias (Kline) has inherited from his deceased father. Arriving from America, broke but excited, he encounters a myriad of problems with the two feisty ladies living there and discovers that…
Residents of Kuttanad in Kerala where clean potable water was scarce although surrounded by water bodies who ran out of funds, Dr S Sajith Kumar associate professor at the Community Medicine Faculty of Alappuzha Medical College came to the rescue and installed Reverse Osmosis plant and helped 500 families and 13 local authorities (Panchayats). …
Pepsi Indian Premier League, 40th match: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Kings XI Punjab at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, May 6, 2015 RCB 226/3 (20.0/20 ov) CH Gayle 117 off 57, 7 fours and 12 sixes, AB Devilliers 47 off 24 not out , 3 fours and 4 sixes, V Kohli 32 off 30, 3 fours…
The famous Silicon roundabout Tech City ( Old Street) venture start-ups being build by talent, by funding and great ideas are greatly improvised due to slow internet connections and rising rents and property prices. Forty eight per cent of the new ventures are seriously looking elsewhere to relocated due the poor internet in the area.…
Firstly, disregarding the content of this story for a moment, the acting, in particular by Tom Hardy – a British actor who has starred in The Dark Knight Rises, and many other US and UK films, and Noomi Rapace (she is mesmerising in The Gril with The Dragon Tattoo and The Girl who Played…
Barry Humphries – AO, CBE – born in Australia, with Manchester parentage, is equally or rather more well known as Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson, and a few other aliases – information on that later. He is currently with his fourth wife and has two sons and two daughters – fully grown as the frisky ridiculously funny…
Pepsi Indian Premier League, 39th match: Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, May 5, 2015 Delhi Daredevils 152/6 (20/20 ov) JP Duminy 28 off 19, 3 fours and 2 sixes, Yuvraj Singh 57 off 44, 7 fours, 2 sixes, Harbhajan Singh 11-2, HH Pandya 13-1, SL Malinga 33-2 Mumbai Indians 153/5 (19.3/20 ov)…