The tremor punched holes on the side of the skyscrapers in the capital at Mexico City. The 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck at 1 pm (6GMT) killed 250 people including 21 primary school children and toppled several buildings in the Mexico City. The earthquake came on the anniversary of the devastating 1985 earthquake that caused major…
Tata Steel, Britain’s biggest steel producer at Port Talbot steelworks in Wales, and German Industrial Group ThyssenKrupp have signed a memorandum of understanding with a view to merging. The announcement on 20th September 2017, said ThyssenKrupp and Tata’s European operations would join forces in a 50/50 venture which could obviously see some job losses in…
John Thomas Chambers (68), is to step down as chairman of Cisco Systems, the networking equipment company. During his tenure, in the last 15 years, Cisco was described as the world’s most valuable company, and currently going through upheaval caused by cloud computing. Chambers stepped back as Chief executive two years ago, handing the position…
George Soros, a supporter of Democratic ideals, who fled his country and went to London School of Economics under Karl Popper, the Austrian-British philosopher, working as a railway porter and a waiter before getting into currency speculation. He also worked in several merchant banks in London before moving to New York in 1963 and in…
Kerala Tourism Department has won “The Pacific Asia Travel Association Grand and Gold Award 2017” for its Muziris Heritage Project Film Tourism Brochure in the Marketing and Media-consumer travel brochure category. The awards were presented at the 32nd edition of the PATA Awards held at Macao, in recognition of its innovative and trending marketing initiatives,…
Sebastain Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari sandwiched Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, and all three collided in the rain before turn One, with the latter two coming together again. Sebastian Vettel was forced to withdraw which handed Mercedes driver the initiative. Fernando Alonso also was caught up in the chaos and the Spaniard was forced…
A new fully electric auto rickshaw Tuk tuk, has been launched at Periyar wild life sanctuary, in Thekkady, Kerala, South India, as the Tuk Tuk craze is spreading quickly all over the world. The tuk tuk running on battery was brought to Thekkady range in Thekkady east division of the wild life sanctuary a month…
Cassini’s grand finale. After 20 years study of Saturn by Cassini space probe is coming to an end by crashing in to the planet on Friday 15th September 2017. A joint venture between the European space agency and the US space agency, the Cassini Huygens mission which has been orbiting around Saturn since July 2004.…
India, Sujatha Gidla was influenced by tales of her uncle, the Dalit revolutionary, port and Naxalite leader KG Stayamurthy. Gilda who grew up in the untouchable slum of Elwin Peta in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, South India. “When you are surrounded by so much misery, you don’t see it as an extraordinary,” and according to her…
Six days in September gives numerous insights and paints a fascinating picture by highlighting the crash of sterling out of the exchange rate mechanism, and how the UK steadily distanced itself from European Monetary Union and EU with Brexit. Britain joined out of desperation at too high a rate and in secrecy without any regard…