Paris shooting: one gunman surrender

  Paris: An 18-year-old implicated alongside two brothers in the bloody attack against a satirical weekly in Paris, in which 12 people were killed, has surrendered to police, according to a source close to the case. ‘Hamyd Mourad handed himself in to police… on Wednesday at 11:00 pm (2200 GMT) after seeing his name circulating…

Three gunman attack on staff at Charlie Hebdo magazine kills 12

  Paris: Twelve people including eight journalists, have been killed and  further 10 others injured  –  4 critical in an apparent Islamic attack by three masked gunmen at the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo while  their daily editorial meeting. Four of the magazine’s famous cartoonists, including its editor, were among those killed, as well as two…

Flying snakes in India

      Hyderabad: A flying snake, has been sighted at Eastern Ghats  mountains in Andhra Pradesh’s Seshachalam forests,  biosphere  reserve in Chittoor district forest officials and researchers said. According to researchers, this is the first time that Chrysopelea taprobanica which climbs using ridge  scales along its belly, pushing against rough bark of  surface of tree trunks, allowing…

Diety watched over Mumbai for six centuries

Goddess Mumbadevi has watched transition of Mumbai over the past six centuries including the reclamation of the sea, Victoria Terminus station being emerged where her temple precincts once stood. Although her seat and surroundings have changed, the original red sandstone idol remains untouched by the despoliations of time. Bombay was not part of mainland India…

Travel misery for thousands of Christmas travellers from London

London’s King’s Cross and Paddington  which had already been the source of chaos on 27th December 2014, when the track maintenance work overrun, as a result of deploying wrong equipment, and multiple failure of track laying equipment. It is disgraceful that the Operator East Coast was given only 12hours notice on boxing day that both…

White tiger succumbs to cobra bite! 

In Indore a dynamic commercial largest city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh situated southern edge of Malwa Plateau, located 190 km west of the state capital of Bhopal, with 2.1m population, a white tiger died after being bitten by a cobra. According to Indore Zoo keeper Dr Uttam Yadav, Rajan – a two year old white…

Jumbo Showers

  Jumbo showers at Konni  The Indian Elephants of Kerala, has been listed as endangered species by International Union for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN)  as the world’s as the population has declined by at least 50% over the last three generations, estimated to be 33, 000 in the wild. The species is pre-eminently threatened…

Sachin Tendulkar ICC World Cup 2015 Ambassador

  The International Cricket Council (ICC) Monday named Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar as the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Ambassador for the third largest sporting event in the world, following his  previous role in the World Cup 2011, then hosted by India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The ICC World  Cup 2015, 11th edition, will take…