Total Solar Eclipse in North America

North America will witness a solar eclipse for the first time in 99 years on August 21st, 2017, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across the bands of Earth’s surface, and all the three planets become perfectly aligned in once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle. The total Solar eclipse will last more…

What the clerk in East India Company

Nigel Halleck,  son of a Coventry-based lawyer, after serving over a decade as a clerk in the East India Company, he went turned his back on the imperial project, in 1840s India. His descendant Kief Hillsbery arms himself to find some answers. His grandmother’s tale of a long-lost cousin that sparked his interest around Patagonia.…

India to have 1bn broadband subscribers by 2022

India to have 1bn broadband subscribers by 2022 and the internet penetration, under the first phase of the project several villages are to be connected by optical fibre cable. There are  422.19 million broadband subscribers at present. However according to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman RS Sharma,  “Low broad penetration in India will…

JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sach CEO’s £ 322m ($418m) richer

Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfein, the men running two of Wall Street’s biggest banks saw the value of their shareholdings rise by a combined   £242m ($314m) in 2016, as stock market prices rocketed in the aftermath of Donald Trump’ s election victory as US president. The value of their stock and options in JP Morgan…

Unmanned automated Bingobox shops

Shelves of BingoBox outlet in Shanghai are lined with instant noodles, beer and bags of duck neck without any staff. As China’s labour costs are rising and higher than Latin America, the manufacturers are employing robots to production lines and retail China is being more automated. Chen Zilin, BingoBox’s founder, who plans to launch over…

William and Harry open up with Diana memories

Princes William and Harry have decided to honour her mother, Princess Diana, on the 20th anniversary of their mother’s death. Prince William and Harry bared their souls in a candid and emotional interview they have given about their mother. “ The things I’d have said to her if I knew it was the last time…

England wins the 4th World Cup Cricket

Women’s World Cup Final England vs India  at Lord’s  England 228-7 (50 overs) Sciver 51 off 68, 5 fours, Taylor 45 off 62, Goswami 3-23 India 219 (48.4overs) Raut 86 off 115, 4 fours, 1 six, Kaur 51 off 80, 3 fours, 2 sixes, Shrubsole 6-46 England beat India by nine runs in thrilling final.…

Ideas that change the world in numbers

Small-town Michigan boy, Claude Shannon, a brilliant thinker and digital pioneer, making the discovery of a dry theory that created history was fundamental for the information age. The Mathematical Theory of Communication and its publication in the late 1940s was followed by a wave of popular interest, as in the early 20th century including Mid-western…

AlphaBay dark web masted shut down

AlphaBay, the encrypted site of the dark net market place selling everything from stolen identities to heroin, which operates through the Tor network and dispatches contraband through the post, had gone down unexpectedly, locking it 200, 000 users from their account which collectedly led to millions of pounds worth of crypto currencies. Many voices fears…

Strange signals from Red dwarf star

Astronomers have detected mysterious radio signals coming from a red dwarf star –Ross 128 (GJ447), 2, 800 times dimmer than the Sun, located 11 light-years from Earth. The signals detected by astronomers at the University of Puerto Rico, in May 2017, using the Arecibo Observatory, a massive 1000-foot-wide (350meters)  radio telescope built inside of a…