Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (30) has been named the international Cricket Council’s world player of the year and is the third Indian to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy and is also ICC Test cricketer of the year. Alistair Cook was named Captain of the ICC Test team of 2016. The voting period closed in…
Winter solstice occurs today 21st December 2016, the longest night of the year, The sun is closer to the horizon than any other time of the year and the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees away from the sun. Europeans celebrate the winter solstice by feasting of Juul or Yule lasting for 12 days which…
Andy Murray (29) is the World No1 after beating Novak Djokovic in ATP world Tour finals title The Brit beat five-time champion Novak Djokovic in the final 6-3 6-4 at London’s O2 Arena. Andy Murray’s victory ends Djokovic’s four-year run of success at the tournament and the Serb’s to equal Roger Federer’s record of six…
130 people have been killed and 200 injured after 14 carriages of an Indore-Patna Express train derailed just after 3:00 am local time on Sunday (21:30 GMT Saturday) near Pukhrayan in the city of Kanpur in Northern Uttar Pradesh in India. According to eyewitness who was travelling on the train, several coaches were derailed with several…
Facebook-owned, WhatsApp, the instant messaging app on Tuesday 15th November 2016, launched its video calling feature with over billion users. The feature will be available on all platforms – Android, iOS and Windows. WhatsApp started with messaging, Group Chat and voice calling. When you receive the WhatsApp app update with the video calling feature you…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made good on his election pledge with a shock declaration on Tuesday that so-called high-value currency notes denominations of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 would not be legal tender as of midnight that day. This draconian move affected £177bn ($223bn) worth of notes, an 86 per cent of rupees…
Donald Trump beats Hillary Clinton to win the US presidency in a remarkable upset. Trump defied all expectations including media forecasts. At the start of the presidential campaign over a year ago, few people thought he would actually run and win the election. They said he would not win any primaries and would not win…
Amazon launched its first e-reader nine years ago in November 2007. The original Kindle cost £320 ( $399) and had a 6-inch black and white ink-screen and a keyboard which sold out within hours. Today technology has improved in storage, battery life and weight and now the cheapest model costs only a fifth of that original price.…
Sir James Dyson (69), a British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company has called for foreign engineering and science students to be guaranteed visas after completing university courses to address the UK’s acute skills shortage. He is best known as the inventor of the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner which works on the…
Twenty-one year old Italian prince Filippo Corsini cycling to a his college at Regent’s University, London succumbed to his catastrophic injuries killed on Monday 31st October 2016, after colliding with a lorry and was caught under the wheel of a lorry near the One Hyde Park development at Knightsbridge and was dragged 30 yards…