April Giraffe delivers her calf

The world’s most famous Giraffe April, has given birth her fourth calf, whose prolonged pregnancy has been watched by millions of zoologists online, April lives at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, 200 miles north-west of New York. The mother and baby are said to be fine.

Pope Francis Easter Vigil

Pope Francis held solemn Easter vigil in Vatican City at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican city. Saturday’s service came after Francis presided over the evocative torch-lit Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum, where he repeatedly denounced the shame of the blood spilled by innocent children, women and migrants in the world’s conflicts, shipwrecks and other…

Our economy may have recovered from recession but not our economics

Whenever there is a financial crisis, Economists does a  forensics and post-mortem of past financial crises to discover the clues as to how the next one might occur and what you can learn from them. In the latest book by former Securities and Exchange Commission regulator and Treasury department advisor Richard Bookstabe, reveals how the…

Empire strikes back: British struggle for Imperial identity

Stuart Hall catalogues his experiences that shaped his intellectual, political and theoretical work in his new book said: “ Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial”. Stuart Hall an immigrant intellectual,  one of the most prominent and influential scholars, and public intellectual of his generation, who is well placed as outsiders insiders,…

Superwoman super YouTube blogger

Canadian YouTube Vlogger, Comedian Writer and actress, Lilly Singh 28, 75th most popular star and ranked 20th YouTube star, from Scarborough, Toronto of Indian heritage, nicknamed as “Superwoman” when speaking to her social media following of over 12 million people, appeared on Forbes “highest paid YouTube Star of 2015” list.  She earned an estimated $2.5m…

United forcibly removes passenger from plane

A Vietnamese descent passenger of United Airlines was forcibly dragged, to make room for airline staff,  from an overbooked flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky. and left with blood dripping from his face. The video of United Airlines passenger creates a furore in China as over 270 million viewers watched in Weibo Chinese equivalent of Twitter…

Raghu Rai’s latest book celebrates life of Saint Teresa

   In 1928, when Mother Teresa was only eighteen, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. From 1931 to 1948, Mother Teresa taught in  Calcutta, the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent made such deep impressions on her that in 1948 she received…

Flipkart gets $1.4bn funding to face upto Amazon

Global technology groups  Tencent, eBay and Microsoft have injected $14bn into Indian e-commerce group Flipkart to face a battle with Amazon. The fundraising comes ahead of proposed deal for Flipkart to take over its biggest domestic rival Snapdeal, a plan backed by Japan’s Softbank, Snapdeal’s biggest investor. Forrester Research, which predicted that Indian e-commerce sales…

Sinkhole traps bus and car at Chennai

A 4.5 meter deep (15 ft), 5 meters long and 2 meters wide, a sinkhole at Chennai’s Anna Salai Road, near Church Park school, India, trapping a car and passenger bus, around 2 pm on Sunday. This could be natural sinkhole caused over hundreds of years from water forging a cavity in the chalk and then…