India is always a wonderful place to spend a holiday and there is so much culture to take in when you get there – the beautiful temples, forts, lush vegetation, sparkling waters and the friendliness and colourful dress of its inhabitants not to mention the unbeatable food. Why not try South India on your first…
At Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, southern India, an Indian rocket blasted off successfully with India’s sixth navigation Satellite –IRNSS-1F weighing 1425kg with a 12 year life span, on Thursday 10th March 2016. The Polar Satellite Launch vehicle (PSLV)-SL standing 44.4m tall and weighing 320 tonnes zoomed into the evening sky at 4 pm away from earth’s…
The Natural History Museum in London in collaboration with Indian Researchers scientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) Bangalore, and the Indian Herpetological Society (IHS), have found a new species of burrowing non-venomous snake which has a smooth, shiny scales, which remained hidden for 145 years in the dense forests of the Western…
The US computer programmer, Raymond Samuel Tomlinson, the inventor of email and Internet Pioneer has died of heart attack, on Saturday March 5, 2016, at the age of 74. His ground-breaking use of the @ symbol in email addresses, is now an universal standard and his idea of sending electronic messages from one network to…
America’s favourite Baseball, better watch out for new competition. “Times Internet”, India’s largest digital network and part of The Times of India Group, the newspaper arm of India’s largest media conglomerate Bennett Coleman & Co, announced a £70m ($100m) drive to expand the game in the US, by acquiring Willow TV International, America’s largest…
source Forbes Bill Gates (60), Microsoft head although 4.2 billion poorer than 2015, his net worth of $75bn, is the world’s richest billionaire for the 17th time in 22 years, beating Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu, who came fourth, behind Zara’s Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffet, according to Forbes’ annual ranking of billionaires. Other top ten include…
The Raspberry Pi sales are expected to surpass eight million units, featuring 64-bit processor and built-in wi-fi and Bluetooth connections according to founder Eben Crhistopher Upton, a Computer Science graduate from University of Cambridge, PhD, MBA and director of Studies in Computer Science at St Johns College. He is the technical director and SoC architect…
Brie Larson Best Actress ‘Room’ The 88th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured the best films of 2015, which took place on February 28, 2106 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. Steve Golin and Michael Sugar’s ‘Spotlight’ wins the Best Picture, Son of Saul Best Foreign Language…
A pair of huge menacing crocodiles – adult size were chosen by a gang of drug dealers in Holland to guard their loot. Police arrested 11 suspects in connection with the crime and seized £240,000 in cash hidden in a cage with the two crocs. “They thought it was safer” said police spokesman Frans Zulderhock…
Mars one of the largest privately owned businesses in the US which had a global sale of £23.43bn ($33bn) last year, recalled chocolate products in 55 countries after pieces of plastic were found in a Snickers bar in Germany. After a customer in Germany found the bits of red plastic in a Snickers bar in 8th January…