The opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games was held on Friday, August 5th, 2016 at the Maracana Stadium with 12,000 athletes from 207 national delegations attending. Virginia Thrasher won the Women’s 10m Air Rifle gold medal, beating Li Du and Yi sling of China, who won the silver and Bronze respectively,
A hot air balloon, belonged to the Heart of Texas Balloon Rides, has caught fire and crashed at 7:40 (12:40 GMT), in fields near Lockhart about 30 miles (50km) south of the state capital Austin. Caldwell County Sheriff Daniel Law said the basket of the balloon was on fire when emergency crew arrived. It is…
Home Secretary Mrs. Theresa May finished with 199 votes with Energy Minister Mrs. Leadsom 84 will battle it out to become the next leader of the Conservative Party after Michael Gove , the justice secretary 46 was eliminated. Conservative will now decide the winning candidate, with the result due on 9th September 2016. The winner…
Israeli Mobileye are joining forces with BMW and Intel to make reliable self-driving cars and make future mobility concepts a reality by 2021. “The future of automated driving promises to change lives and societies for the better. The complex world of fully autonomous will require the solutions bu the world’s best organisations to integrate intelligence…
£1.5tn ($2tn) wiped out of Global markets after Brexit, largest single day drop since 2007. US banks began to act and shift operations out of UK as the world’s most convoluted and complex divorce begins. However, hedge funds make big wins from Brexit bets.FTSE100 was spared the worst of pain by the time it closed…
India today successfully launched 20 satellites, including its earth observation 727.5kg Cartosat-2 series, PSLV lifted off a total of 1288kg in to space and began placing satellites into orbit about 17minutes later, in the designated polar Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO), in a single mission on board ISRO’s 320-tonne Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C34 from the…
Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was shot and stabbed in a “horrific brutal” assault in her constituency and was left bleeding on the ground after the attack in Birstall, West Yorkshire. A man was arrested nearby. Tributes flooded in from politicians including David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn and US Secretary of State John…
A wild elephant calf, rescued from the Kakkeri forest of the Tholpetty forest range of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary on 13th June 2016 morning, The one and half months old male calf, was rescued by Forest Department officials after it accidently fell into a trench near the Kakkeri tribal colony near Kattikulam. “Although the forest…
The annual trooping if the Colour parade of more than 1600 soldiers and 300 horses marked the Queen’s official birthday watched by thousands of people. The Queen dressed in lime green coat and matching hat, appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with members of her family, including Princess Charlotte for an RAF flypast and gun…
The former World heavyweight champion, one of the world’s best-known communicators and sportsmen died at a hospital in the US – the city of Phoneix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday 2nd June 2016. He was suffering from respiratory illness and Parkinson’s disease. The funeral will take place in Ali’s hometown of Louisville, Kentucky,…