Police officer in Camden smashing motorist’s windows with baton

Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation after a video emerged showing a police officer smashing his way into a motorist’s car after the driver refused to exit the vehicle in a “disgraceful” incident on Friday 16th September 2016, in Camden, London. The video clip went viral on Saturday after being shared on several social media…

Bahman Iranian para-cyclist dies after a crash

Bahman Golbamezhad 48, an Iranian Para-cyclist has died after a crash during the men’s C4-5 road race at the Rio Olympics. He suffered a cardiac arrest after the incident on a “mountainous stretch” of the circuit. According to a statement “ The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he…

If you love good theatre – Don’t Miss this!

Adam Brace’s Incredible play – They Drink It in the Congo – Catch it before October 1st!  The Almeida theatre in Islington is an intimate venue which is ideal for this type of play.  You will need to hold onto your seats as its pulls a few punches and embraces the depth of corruption of…

Byju start-up secures $50m funding

Byjus, India’s leading education technology provider, has raised $50m from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), Sequoia, Sofina, Lightspeed and Times Internet venture capital partners to fund its expansion plans. Byjus founder and CEO Byju Raveendran hails from Azhikode in Kannur, Kerala, said “ We will deploy the fund to fuel international expansion and inspire additional funding…

Inventors of radical imaging solutions awarded

Inventors of radical imaging solutions including femto-photography- an ultra-fast imaging system can see around  corners –low-cost eye-care solutions for developing world, and a camera that allows users to read pages of a book without opening the cover,  Nasik-born Ramesh Rashkar (46) won the  prestigious awards  of $500, 000 Lemelson –MIT Prize 2016 and Dinesh Bharadia…

GB win 9 gold medals

Dame Sarah Storey, Hannah Cockroft Hannah Russell, Alex Zanardi all win gold GB won nine golds on Wednesday to take their medals tally to 43 at the Rio Paralympics 2016. Hannah Cockroft won the T34 400m in a world-record time   of 58.78secs, her 15-year-old team-mate Kare Adenegan finished thied for her second medal of Paralympics…

Elephant corridor appeal

WLT announces Big Match Fortnight appeal 31 August, 2016 – 16:34 — World Land Trust Elephant project in South India – Big Match Fortnight appeal – Worldland Trust This year’s Big Match Fortnight will be raising funds to protect a wildlife corridor between two tiger reserves in southern India to enable the safe passage of…

£43 million for Picasso sold at Sothebys

Described by Sothebys as “the greatest cubist painting to come to the market in decades”, the 1909 Femme Assise has been in a private collection since 1973.  It was bought then for £340,000.  Experts say it depicts Picasso’s lover, – model Fernande Olivier. It sold for £43 million in June this year at Sothebys. Impressionist…

Pro-Kremlin station offers Farage his own show

  RT has been described by Vladimir Putin saying”The channel is funded by the Government so it cannot help but reflect the Russian government’s official position on the events in our country and in the rest of the world one way or another”. They have now offered Nigel Farage his own television show as part…