The Pigeon Express
A helicopter crash that killed the head of India’s armed forces and 13 others was caused by a pilot disoriented by a sudden turn in the weather. Gen Bipin Rawat was among those killed when the chopper hit a hillside and burst into flames in Tamil Nadu state in December. Conspiracy theories about the accident […]
India’s Defence Chief Bipin Rawat, his wife Madhulika Rawat and 11 other people were killed after a military helicopter they were travelling in crashed in southern India on Wednesday, the Indian Air Force said. Rawat, 63, was appointed as India’s first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government in late 2019. […]
A baby killer whale or orca belonging to the dolphin family found stranded in New Zealand has died, after a huge effort to reunite him with his mother failed. Toa washed ashore near the capital Wellington 10 days ago, prompting a desperate search to find his family in nearby waters. Believed to be two to six […]
New Zealand on Tuesday reported two new coronavirus cases, both related to recent travel from the UK, ending a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country. New Zealand lifted all social and economic restrictions except border controls last week, after declaring it had no new or active cases of the coronavirus, one of […]
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was unflustered by an earthquake that struck the capital Wellington on Monday while she was doing a live TV interview, and calmly continued with the programme. Ardern, who became prime minister in 2017, is hugely popular in New Zealand for her handling of several crises – a mass shooting […]
A man in New Zealand was produced at a district court for carrying out an assault with a bunch of bananas. Yep. Cesar Robert Scanlan was at Jimmy’s Fruit Mart on November 25 last year when he got into an argument with the vendor about the price of bananas. Losing his cool, the 43-year-old went […]
An Artificial Intelligence-based police officer called “Ella” has made its place in the New Zealand Police force. Ella is a virtual assistant with a face. Basically, it is like Apple’s Siri or Amazon’s Alexa but with a human like face. According to reports, Ella will use real-time animation to emulate face-to-face interaction. The virtual assistant, […]