A raging wild forest fire in the northern Alberta Dilsands city of Fort McMurray, that have already torched 1600 homes and other buildings, prompted evacuation of 80, 000 residents. Scott Long of Alberta Emergency Management said “ The situation in Fort McMurray is not stable. It is unstable.” In Rural Municipality of Wood Buffalo, the…
US President Barack Obama was criticised by pro-Brexit campaigners after he warned of the consequences of the UK leaving the EU, just weeks ahead of the 23rd June 2016 referendum. Mr Obama, on a three-day visit , met with David Cameron at 10 Downing Street and will meet Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn later. Last night…
Three remarkable pictures have been released to mark Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday. Queen Elizabeth II is the longest living British Queen of all time and is still going strong wowing people near and far wherever she may go! She is known for her strong religious faith and The Church of England newspaper has…
Thrissur Pooram revellers at the Sree Vadakkunnathan Temple on Sunday cheered elephants of both Thrivambady and Paramekkavu sides stood face-to-face, with men on top unfurling colourful decorative parasols on a two-hour-long parade from southern entrance to the western entrance. A team of elephants, with their mahouts, was ready for the grand finale in the…
William feels incredibly lucky to visit the Taj Mahal, an architectural wonder completed in 1648, where his mother late Princes of Wales, Diana’s memory is kept alive by so many who travel there, twenty four years on from her visit to the Taj. The Duke and Duchess wanted to create some new memories as…
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake has struck Myanmar’s capital Naypuidaw, formerly known as Burma, 84miles (135km) north-west of Mandalay according to the US Geographical Survey reports, with tremors in India, Bangladesh and China. The tremor could be felt in Assam, where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are staying at Kaziranga National Park. Tremors were also…
A thirteen-year-old Indian IX standard school boy, Akshat Mittal, of Amity International School, in sector 44 Noida, in Delhi, India, creator of odd-even.com., which matches individuals to potential ride-share in the direction of their commute, sells his company to Indian ride-sharing company Orahi.com for an undisclosed sum. The website designed by him in December 2015,…
A huge explosion sparked by fireworks at the Puttingal Devi Hindu temple festival at Paravoor in Kerala South India around 3:30am local time ( 22:00 GMT Saturday 9th April 2016), witnessed by thousands of devotees, as sparks fell into the fireworks storeroom according to the local police. An investigation has been ordered as…
India is now the World’s fastest growing large economy, with a bright future. For India to sustain growth, improvements are necessary including accelerated infrastructure investments, greater openness to foreign direct investment and consolidation and recapitalisation of public sector banks, a more stringent bankruptcy code, fast track delivery of public assistance and freedom for individual states…
The Indian government imposed a ban on codeine-based Corex cough syrups, as they posed a health risk, and soon after shares in the Indian unit of US based drugmaker Pfizer tumbled by 9 per cent. Pfizer’s India unit said in a statement it had stopped selling its Corex cough syrup that contains codeine, a…