Indian biopic movie “Shakuntala Devi’s director Anu Menon narrates through the eyes of Shakuntala’s daughter Anupama Banerjee, how a phenomenon was born at the cost of the mother and wife. Shakuntala Devi is a drama about a mother-daughter relationship and beyond portraying Shakuntala Devi as a flawless genius and a flawed person, highlighting the importance…
The UK’s largest tour operator Tui is set to shut 166 High Street stores in the UK and Ireland with 900 job losses after changes in customers behaviour including a shift to online. They hoped to keep on 630 workers in a mix of sales and home-working roles and in remaining stores. 350 retail stores…
For the first time, scientists have decoded the buzz of a bee, revealing they are much noisier when pollinating flowers than they are when they make sounds for other reasons. Bees buzz loudly while they are pollinating flowers as it vibrates their bodies, shaking the plant and allowing more polling to cling to them. In…
India is now home to nearly 3, 000 tigers, a third more than it had four years ago according to the tiger census. India is home to around 70 per cent of the world’s tiger s and now one of the biggest and most secure habitats of the tiger. Wayanad a wildlife sanctuary in Kerala.…
Perseverance rover launches from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It will spend seven months travelling to Mars before landing in Jezero Crater near the planet’s equator. Perseverance rover will travel 314 million miles to the Martian surface. Project scientist Katie Stack Morgan says they believe the rover will be able to find a diverse set of…
The website offering £50 bike repair vouchers in England crashed after the government scheme launched on Tuesday. Fix Your Bike vouchers worth £50, 000 were due to be made available online at 23:45 BST on a first-come, first-served basis. The site was back up before 04:00 BST but later paused and by 09:00 BST vouchers…
GSK-Sanofi vaccine A fourth coronavirus vaccine deal has been signed by the UK government, securing up to 60 million doses of an experimental treatment being developed by GSK and Sanofi. The government has already signed up for 100 million doses of the Oxford University vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and another 90 million doses of…
According to World Wild Fund 2.46bn reptiles, 180m birds, 143m mammals, 51m frog were killed or displaced during Australia’s devastating bushfires of the past year. The findings meant it was one of the “worst wildlife disasters in modern history” said the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) which commissioned the report. Mega blazes swept across…
The gold price has hit a new high in the international market, making the sixth consecutive day on the rise. The US-China tension and the fall in the value of the US dollar have caused an increase in gold prices in the international market. The Spot gold has reached £1, 505 (1, 928 US dollars)…
On Saturday evening the UK government removed Spain from the list of travel destinations where you can come back from without self-isolating for 14 days, from Sunday, after a spike in the number of cases in Spain. In the UK, there have been calls for support for people returning from Spain to quarantine where there…