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British driver Lewis Hamilton clinched his second Formula One title in style with victory at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday, with title rival Nico Rosberg drifting out of contention after failing to recover from a poor start. Hamilton, the 2008 F1 champion, entered the race with a 17-point lead over his Mercedes rival Rosberg, needing only a top-two finish to guarantee the title. Rosberg started from pole position and, with double points on offer, could have taken his first F1 title with a win providing Hamilton finished third. That dream scenario lasted three seconds - the time it took Hamilton to overtake Rosberg, whose race turned into a nightmare. Brazilian driver Felipe Massa crossed the line in second place ahead of his Williams teammate Valtteri Bottas.

In a ceremony which was watched closely by thousands in Kerala, a Catholic priest and a nun from the state - Father Kuriakose Chavara and Sister Euphrasia - were conferred sainthood by Pope Francis at Vatican on Sunday. Prayers and masses were offered at several churches in Kerala since early morning today, and thousands of devotees thronged these churches. The event was streamed live on screens set up in select church centres. The ceremony included a Latin hymn and a recommendation by a representative or a mediator of the Congregation for the Saints, after which Pope Francis pronounced them as saints at a special mass at St Peter's Square at Vatican. With today's canonisation, the centuries-old Syro Malabar Church now has three Saints, the first being Sister Alphonsa, who was declared a saint in 2008.

Looks like Michelin is trying to reinvent the wheel and then mass produce it. Well, the tyre manufacturer's latest production facility will be solely dedicated towards making its new airless radial tyres. Christened the Tweel, this tyre combines the tyre and wheel assembly into one solid unit and takes the all-important air out of the equation. The components of the Tweel that remain common with the conventional tyre are the rigid hub at the centre and the shear beam - but the difference lies in the method in which these two components are connected. Where regular wheels use metal or alloy spokes, the airless radial tyre employs polyurethane as material, which is "flexible and deformable." The highlight of the non-pneumatic technology is, of course, the fact that the Tweel can never go flat. As Ralph Dimenna, head of Michelin Tweel Technologies puts it, "The Tweel airless radial tyre enables Michelin to enter new markets and expand its reach in existing business s

The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi pet project of "Clean INDIA" started on October 2 2014 with a huge fan fare . The Campaign is christened as Swach Bharat Campaign . The Campaign started with PM himself cleaning and posing for photos . This was followed by many celebrity and politicians also posing with a broom stick . A million Dollar Effort and Commitment from each and every citizen of the Country is needed for the success of this project . If this project succeed then the health condition of the rural India will also improve . Instead of making it a Photo option the political class need to put in whole hearted effort to make india Clean . The First and fore most place that need cleaniness is the INDIAN Railway and its Assests . If the Condition improves there then the Entire country will change . For this to happen the Open latrine of the Indian Railway locomotives need to replaced and new fool proof & efficient technology need to be developed . During

The head of Future Group, one of India's largest and most established retailers, admits he can't keep up with web sites like Snapdeal and Flipkart when it comes to spending money to entice shoppers to buy online. Private investors have poured $2.3 billion into India's e-commerce companies so far this year, according to consulting firm Technopak, giving them financial firepower to overwhelm shoppers with bargains and deals that brick-and-mortar retailers like Future Group, which runs a host of chains including Future Retail and Future Lifestyle Fashions, cannot match. "It's all about money. The e-commerce guys have money to experiment - I don't have this kind of money to blow," Kishore Biyani, who pioneered modern retail in India and is chief executive of the Future Group, told Reuters in an interview. In an attempt to match up, traditional retailers are forging partnerships with well-funded websites such as Flipkart.com, Amazon.com Inc and Snapdeal to

Budget carrier SpiceJet started the trend of announcing hefty discounts on air fares in India. Despite being neck-deep in losses, India's third largest carrier by market share cut air fares on some tickets by 50 per cent in January 2014 and followed up with a series of even steeper discounts. (Read) By the end of the year, the price of a promotional SpiceJet ticket came down to triple digits. Other airlines followed suit raising fears of a price war in India's troubled aviation sector, where only a couple of carriers are making profits. There was apprehension that SpiceJet was resorting to "mindless discounting", but second quarter results show that "there is a method to the madness", SpiceJet's COO Sanjiv Kapoor told NDTV on Monday. SpiceJet lost Rs 310 crore in the three months to September 30, which is 45 per cent less than the Rs 560 crore it lost last year. (Watch the full interview here) The narrowing of losses has been driven by operational p

< Veteran Communist leader and general Secetary of the CMP party died at the age of 81 yrs .