A thirty-two-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy, around 2:30 am on June 129th 2017, in an ambulance, surrounded by 12 lions including three males from adjacent forest, who created an impromptu road block. Lions appear to stage a road block after their kill and were too full and too lazy to move off…
Serious concerns were being raised over efficiency of checks after it emerged insulation beneath the cladding was never tested for fire safety, as 181 high-rise buildings in 51 local authorities have failed fire safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Cladding samples tested as part of a “major national investigation” into the…
Austerity vs Stimulus is a collection of new and old essays complied by economic historians seeking to provide alternative answers by clarifying and balancing the arguments from both sides. Germany is rock of stability and serenity compared to Italy’ stagnation, France’s morosity, Britain’s self-exclusion from European Union, Poland’s drift from the rule of law, in…
Brussels has hit Google with a £2.13bn (€2.4bn) antitrust fine fro abusing its dominance in search. The European Commission ended its seventh-year competition investigation concluding that the company had abused its near-monopoly in online search to “give illegal advantage” to its own shopping service. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said Google “denied other…
Theresa May promised “major national Investigation” into the widespread use of flammable cladding on residential tower blocks. The newly elected Labour Mp Emma Dent Coad for Kensington complained that England’s building regulations had been “watered down”. to suit the fat cat developers and contractors. Even the Germany city of Wuppertal ordered the evacuation of a…
According to the Government, 75 tower blocks from 25 councils have now failed the fire safety combustibility tests on cladding since the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, blamed on buildings polyethylene insulation. Every panel testes has failed. In the past building materials passed building control officials are considered to be dangerous. The Association of British Insurers told ministers…
Peter Temin, an eminent professor Emeritus of economist at MIT offers an illuminating way to view vanishing middle class as the United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. “The middle class was critical to the success of the United States in the twentieth century, as they…
Andrew Lo, a professor at MIT, in his latest book, gives graphic evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviour. Half of Americans throw their dice in the stock market, yet economists can’t agree on if investors and markets are rational and efficient, as modern theory assumes , irrational and inefficient and as financial bubbles, crashes…
Kochi Metro, the newly inaugurated metro system for Kochi Metropolitan in Kerala, which includes sustainable initiatives with the introduction of non-motorised transport corridors in the city, installation of solar panel for power and vertical garden on every fourth metro pillar and the technology for driverless trains and is hoping to implement this in the near…
India has successfully put into orbit its own earth observation satellite Cartosat weighing 712kg, nano satellite NIUSAT and 29 foreign satellites weighing 243 kg from Austria, Belgium, UK, Chile, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and the US. The entire mission was completed in 23 minutes. According to ISRO, the images…