Dozens of elephants and rafts have been deployed to rescue over 500 people trapped by floods, and forced out thousands of residents out of their houses. According to Red Cross 100, 000 people have been affected. Several hotels also affected in Sauraha, Chitwan district trapping tourists. Landslides and floods caused by torrential monsoon rains have…
Grenfell Tower will be covered to aid the criminal investigation and on going forensic recovery efforts inside the building. The tower block will be covered in a protective wrap after a fire gutted the 24-storey high-rise on 14th June 2017. Scaffolding will also be erected around the skyscraper to facilitate future demolition of the charred…
Robert Winder examines the historical introspection on the idiosyncrasies of the English, and the often general assumption that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas, as his new work examines the shooting of England’s last wolf by Shropshire knight Peter Corbet. However, one can never track down the moment a…
Laura Shapiro’s book reveals, language of food, using six famous women through the culinary prism eyes of food and cooking including what they ate and reveals their attitudes towards food. William Knight, Philosophy professor, was editing Dorothy Wordsworth’s diaries for publication in 1897, and got exasperated with several petty details that popped up in her…
James Damore, a Google engineer, who had been on a PhD programme in systems biology at Harvard University, wrote a memo arguing that women were less suited than men to engineering and leadership jobs in the tech industry have been sacked. Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, sharply criticised the engineer, saying that he had breached…
The grand colonial era at Kolkata, the former capital of British Raj, still have many of its once-grand colonial-era structures. Indian born American writer Kushanava Choudhury explores India’s most industrialised city, and zooms in on Kolkata’s educated and wonders why many Bengali babus borne out of the British empire – including his own family, never…
The eminent late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, a looming intellectual, often paroxysmal, who saw and analysed the great socio-political changes right up to his death in early 2017. His analysis called “Liquid modernity”, included poverty, inequality to migration, fear of the other and decline of nation state, the outcast generation, on building fortresses under siege, o…
A fire broke out just after 1 a.m. at the 87-storey Torch Tower, morer than 1 100 foot tall ( 335 meters), the World’s tallest residential skyscraper located in an upscale waterfront district in Dubai’s Marina, heavily populated by expatriates from around the world. Firefighters successfully put out a blaze that erupted the high-rise, forcing…
Neymar Jr has signed a five-year deal with Paris Saint-Germain, in the French capital , a world-record move for £198m ( €222 m) which could net him a salary of £26.5m (€30m) annually. Although Barca were adamant Brazilian Neymar was not for sale, the monster mega deal gather momentum over recent days and resulted with…
Bitcoin cash (BCH) prices swung wildly in the first full day of trading, ranging between $700 and $1, 300 per coin across a cluster of crypto currency exchanges. The original Bitcoin currency (BTC) was launched as a open-source software in 2009 by anonymous architects who wanted to capitalise on the world’s first decentralised peer-to-peer electronic…