A Huge Fire In The Amazon Threatens Thousands Of Indigenous People And An Uncontacted Tribe

The Arariboia indigenous territory is home to an estimated 12,000 people belonging to the Guajajara ethnic group, and to another 80 Aw?-Guaj? Indians, not previously contac...

Bidhya Devi Bhandari Elected Nepal's First Female President.

Nepal’s parliament has elected women’s rights campaigner Bidhya Devi Bhandari as its first female president, in a move hailed as a milestone. She is the second ...

SpaceX Says There’s ‘Not a Lot of Effort’ Going into Satellite Internet Plan

SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell pumped the brakes on the company’s audacious plan to launch 4,000 internet-providing satellites into orbi...

Indonesia's Fires Are Emitting More Carbon Pollution Than The Entire US Economy

More than 115,000 fires are burning across the Southeast Asian nation, most of them on the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, according to the Global Fire Emissions Databas...

These Businesses Have Signed A White House Pledge To Address Climate Change

Eighty-one corporations have signed the American Business Act on Climate pledge, which is intended to combat international climate change and consolidate a business-friendl...

Where’s The Best Place To Be A Woman?

“There has never been a better time in history to be born female,” said US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at this year’s Women in the World Summit...

Over 8 Lakh Medical Shops To Be Shut On 14 October To Protest Online Sale Of Drugs.

As fast growing e-pharmacies eat into the incomes of lakhs of small chemist outlets, nearly 850,000 of them will remain shut on 14 October to protest against the online sal...

To Fix The Gender Gap, Startups Need To Think About Diversity From The Beginning

An entrepreneur builds a startup; chances are that he’s a man. And then it’s likely he hires more men as the fledgling business takes on early employees. That s...

Kindle Litfestx Announces National-International Authors Line-Up

Kindle LitFestX announces national-international authors line-up

Mumbai, October 8, 2015: Leapvault, a knowledge media firm that i...