Cartoon courtesy of The Times of India Group. Copyright: Bennett, Coleman and Co Ltd. All rights reserved. Cartoonist R.K. Laxman 94, creator of the iconic ‘The Common Man’ and made millions smile every morning by capturing their moods in the space of one column, died in a Dinanath…
OK this can be old news for some, but Hollywood megastar Julia Roberts, her husband and three children regularly attend Hindu ceremonies and her faith has definately changed her and her family’s life for the better. Read on:- Julia changed her faith after starring in the hit movie “Eat Pray Love” in India. At the…
The Grand Budapest Hotel and Birdman scored nine nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, announced in Los Angeles on Thursday 15 January ahead of the February 22 ceremony. We think The Grand Budapest Hotel will lead Oscar awards as pack leader, with Birdman, Boyhood, and The Imitation Game hot on its heels. Julianne Moore (Still Alice), Reese Witherspoon…
Kite flying is one festival which has the potential to give far reaching effective social messages, awareness information marked on exclusive patterns and designs displaying amazing collections of simple and fancy kites in all shapes and sizes. It also involves a common platform where people from all walks of life can come and display kite flying…
Cristiano Ronaldo for the third time, won the FIFA Ballon d’Or award for 2014 on Monday, earning the title of world’s best football player. ‘I want to become one of the greatest players of all time,’ Ronaldo said through a translator in his acceptance speech. ‘Of course, this requires a lot of effort and I hope…
India’s Mars Orbiter launched on 5 Nov, 2013 that went into Mars Orbit on 24 Sep 2014 achieved no other country has ever done – an Indian Spacecraft orbited around Mars on maiden attempt and also transmitter full-disk colour imagery of Mars from its elliptical orbit using a high apoapsis a high resolution camera.…
British Airways Boeing 777-200’s flight 114 left New York JFK at 10:50pm Eastern Standard time (EST) and landed at London Heathrow at 9:06am GMT 45minutes early after hitting 200mph North Atlantic Jet stream. According to Flight Aware, which tracks plane movements, the BA Boeing flew at 745mph relative to ground speed almost reaching the supersonic…
More than 1.6million people linked arms with 40 world leaders flocked to the French capital and took part in a march in defiance of terrorists in a moving tribute to the 17 people killed in terror attacks during three days of deadly attach in Paris last week. President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron and…
“Avoid bitcoins for Now”- Gavin Anderson On Monday, 5th January 2015, Security concerns were alarmingly raised at Bitstamp Europe’s leading bitcoin exchange, after an apparent hack that led to the company losing 19,000 bitcoins, worth £ 3.3m. This led to a sharp fall in the price of crypto currency. Bitcoin at its peak, traded for…
Stories of buildings, their creators and their highs and lows interest most eager readers. Here’s one where we give you the facts on a hotel which set the standard for higher and higher edifices – and we claim that it is one of the first luxury hotels in the ‘modern’world, which gave rise to modern…