Adele wins Brit 2017 Global Success Artist

  The BRIT 2017 Sponsored by Master Card held at London’s O2 Arena, hosted by Emma Willis and Dermot O’Leary after Michael Buble was forced to pull out. Emeli Sandé wins Best British Female Solo Artist beating Ellie Goulding, Lianne La Havas, Anohni and NAO. The 1975 win Best British Group who beat Bastille, Biffy Clyro,…

Status videos launched in Whatsapp that expires in 24 hours

Facebook, which acquired WhatsApp two years ago for $19bn, has always thrived in a rivalry with Snapchat, constantly bringing changes in step with its competitor to stay of the game. The new feature in WhatsApp called Status, allow users to update their statuses with time-limited photos, videos, scribbles and GIFs. These updates will disappear after…

Trump owns 3,600 domains

President Donald Trump is a businessman still not a politician. He and his organisation own more than 3, 600 web addresses, according to the research firm DomainIQ, including donladtrumpsucks.com ; voteagainsttrump.com ; no2trump.com ; trumpmustgo.com which all sounds like Trump bashing websites. There are 274 domains alone featuring the name of Trump’s daughter Ivanka. It…

Jet Airways escorted by two German Typhoons to Heathrow

German Fighter aircrafts Typhoons with a top speed of 1320mph and a powerful 27mm Mauser cannon on board, were scrambled on Thursday 16th February 2017, as London bound Jet Airways plane, 9w 118, was crossing over Cologne, after it lost radio contact. As a precaution the Typhoons continued to escort plane until landing at Heathrow.…

Barren Island volcano erupted

The Barren Island volcano, located  87 miles (140km) north-east of Port Blair is erupting again after being dormant for over 150 years.  The volcano, in the Andaman and Nicobar Island, was spewing ash. Goa-based National Institute of OIceanography said “ the only live volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar island is erupting again. A team…

The great Scunthorpe gold rush treasure hunt

Five pieces of art work by Luke Jerram are going up in the 20-21 Arts Centre, on Saturday 18th February 2017, each with a clue as to the whereabouts of five small artifacts cast in 18ct gold, each worth £2, 500, have been hidden around Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire, and the deal is finders keepers.…

Zealanda: Earth’s hidden and smallest continent discovered

Eleven Geologist claims to have discovered a new continent to the east of Australia called Zealandia with 4.9 million square kilometres of land mass, 94 per cent of which is under water, which makes it world’s smallest continent. They presented their finding in the study of “Zealandia: Earth’s hidden continent” in Geological Society of America,…

Titans merger – Essilor and Luxottica

Essilor France’s world number one manufacturer of lenses and contact lenses and Italy’s Luxottica a leading frame manufacturer, has announced their merger. If the deal goes through later this year the new company will be called EssilorLuxottica and will sell not only lenses and frames around the world but also stocking its own optician’ shops…

Delivering taste of India via APP

A new app “Flavours Of My City” brainchild of two Pune techies  Smitha Nair and Preeth Padmanabhan who wanted digitise your taste in food habit. “ We run a SAP consulting firm and we enforced a rule anybody going on holiday must bring back local delicacies from the placed they visited. We wanted to start…

Peugeot in talks about buying Opel

PSA Group, make of Peugeot, DS and Citroen cars, is in talks about taking over General Motors’ (GM) loss-making European business Opel. France’s PSA group already works with GM in Europe on several projects, said any deal would involve Opel’s UK arm Vauxhall, which employs 4, 500 staff at plants at Ellesmere Port and Luton.…