The consumer Group “Which?” found 9000 flights and 37 million passenger journeys to and from UK were delayed by 15 minutes or more between June 2014 and May 2015, and out of 90,000 passengers who could be eligible to claim compensation only four in 10 people, 38% put in a claim. So delayed airline passengers…
Day 2 Australia tour of England and Ireland, 4th Investec Test: England v Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, Aug 6-10, 2015 Australia 60 all out 18.3 ov , MJ Clarke 10 off 15, 2 fours, MG Johnson 13 off 25, 2 fours, SCJ Broad 15-8; MA Wood 13-1, 241 for 7 62.2 ov, David…
On 6th August 10:30 am, five people are reported missing after a passenger bus ferrying 30 pilgrims fell into the swollen Shivnath river near Bhatapara-Baloda Bazar District, Balsipur in Chattisgarh in northern India. 20 people rescued were traumatised and are being treated in local district hospitals. The bus was going towards Bilaspur from Bhatapara when…
The largest Latin American country with 191-million population, Brazil dominated by Roman Catholic Church, where abortion is illegal, and no official government policy has ever promoted birth control, the family size has sharply dropped in the last five decades. Their demographic phenomenon, the fertility rate of 2.36 children per family has crashed to the national…
231 fossilised dinosaur eggs and a dinosaur skeleton have been seized from a house in China’s southern Guangdong Province. The Heyuan City Police raided the house on July 29 and seized the eggs, which date back to the Cretaceous Period according to Xinhua news agency. The skeleton was later identified as belonging to a…
From nearly 1 million miles,160,000 km away, a NASA’s Polychromatic imaging 4 megapixel CCD camera and telescope aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a stunning view of the far side of the moon as it moved in front of the sun-lit side of Earth last month. The images show the fully…
Australia tour of England and Ireland, 4th Investec Test: England v Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, Aug 6-10, 2015 Australia 60 all out 18.3 ov , MJ Clarke 10 off 15, 2 fours, MG Johnson 13 off 25, 2 fours, SCJ Broad 15-8; MA Wood 13-1. England 274-4, 65 ov, AN Cook 43 off 86, 7 fours, …
Airbus’s Concord 2.0 jet, has won a patent for a hypersonic passenger plane which could be capable of flying four and half times the speed of sound and potentially fly from London to New York in an hour, the same time as a train journey from London to Sunny Sand beaches , Flokstone in Kent. The…
Like all good inventions the first traffic signal was invented by JP Knight, a railway signalling engineer and installed outside houses of Parliament in 1868 the first ever gas-operated non-electric traffic Red-green lights. Police officers had to work the lights by hand in an effort to control vehicles crossing the nearby Bridge Street, Great George…
Due to heavy rains near the town of Harda, two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madya Pradesh, have derailed on 4th August 2015, 11:30pm, within minutes on a partially flooded bridge over the Machack river between Khirkiya and Bhirangi stations, as the tracks caved in killing 30 people, 50 injured and over 300…