Travel Chaos as Lorry Fire cancels all Eurostar trains!

A lorry fire at the French end of the  Tunnel and  as the carbon dioxide alarm had gone off, Channel Tunnel cancels, all Eurostar trains for the rest of the day. Train operator Eurotunnel spokesman has offered apology and says that if the passengers have booked for cancelled or delayed trains they can get either a…

87th Academy Award Oscar Nominations

The Grand Budapest Hotel  and Birdman scored nine nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, announced in Los Angeles on Thursday 15 January ahead of the February 22 ceremony. We think The Grand Budapest Hotel will lead Oscar awards as pack leader, with  Birdman, Boyhood,  and The Imitation Game hot on its heels. Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon…

125 miles per litre Fuel efficient moped with a Honda GX35

Three mechanical engineering students  from Government Engineering college at Barton Hill in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, designed and developed a prototype vehicle which runs upto 125miles  per litre of petrol. This will be one of the 12o entrants competing for fuel efficiency contest ” Shell Eco Marathon”  to be held at Phillippines between  26th February and 1st March.…

LOOKING BACK AT THATCHER’S FIGHT WITH “AUNTY”: – OUR BBC

Arguably one of the best loved “institutions” in Britain  – the BBC was involved in constant battles with the Iron Lady and the Conservative Party.  In Hilary Mantel’s book “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher”,  she reports that other political leaders followed her lead and favoured undermining the licence fee by encouraging ITV to “create television…

28th International Kite festival In Ahmedabad, India

Kite flying is one festival which has the potential to give far reaching effective  social messages, awareness information marked on exclusive patterns and designs displaying amazing collections of simple and fancy kites in all shapes and sizes. It also involves a common platform where people from all walks of life can come and display kite flying…

61 goals Ronaldo wins World’s Best Footballer!

  Cristiano Ronaldo for the third time, won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for 2014 on Monday, earning the title of world’s best football player. ‘I want to become one of the greatest players of all time,’ Ronaldo  said through a translator in his acceptance speech. ‘Of course, this requires a lot of effort and I hope…

India’s ISRO Mars orbiter programme team wins Space Pioneer Award

  India’s Mars Orbiter  launched on  5 Nov, 2013 that went into Mars Orbit on 24 Sep 2014 achieved no other country has ever done – an Indian Spacecraft orbited around Mars on maiden attempt and also transmitter full-disk colour imagery of Mars from its elliptical orbit using  a high apoapsis  a high resolution camera.…