More than 400 whales were stranded on a New Zealand beach Friday, with most of them dying quickly as frustrated volunteers desperately raced to save the survivors. It was one of the largest mass beachings recorded in New Zealand, where strandings are relatively common, the Department of Conservation said. Andrew Lamason, the department’s regional manager, said 416 pilot whales swam ashore at Farewell Spit in the Golden Bay region, on […]

In a country where women are denied some of the basic rights, the observance of Women’s Day is path-breaking. International Women’s Day is widely celebrated across the globe where people pledge their support for gender equality and celebrate the achievements of women and has become a regular event in the social calendar. Yet, many countries beyond this ambit and Saudi Arabia is one such nation where many basic rights are […]

On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin launched a website called Facebook. The platform was initially limited to only Harvard students but was then slowly expanded to other universities in the US and other countries like Canada, before launching globally. Looking to raise external capital to scale up in 2004, Saverin tried to pitch to Jeremy Levine of Bessemer Venture Partners at a corporate retreat. Agitated by the […]

He tried to teach Nicole Kidman how to play cricket but was left unimpressed. When little Sunny Pawar was auditioning for a role in a film along with 2,000 other children, he had no idea that he would eventually end up in an Oscar-nominated movie. “I was only asked to play,” he told HuffPost India, taking a break from his board game for a series of interview that had been […]

What separates the US from Canada? Both the north American neighbours have been dream destinations for immigrants for a variety of reasons. While people choose the US for ‘larger than life’ perception of every aspect of livelihood, Canada presents a serene and calm option for people who wish to settle there. As the world faces one of the biggest refugee crisis in human history, and the emergence of ultra-nationalist regimes […]

President Donald Trump’s clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious. After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google, Facebook, Salesforce, Microsoft and others railed against the move, saying it violated the country’s principles and risked disrupting its engine of innovation. Trump’s next steps could strike even closer to home: His administration has drafted an executive order aimed at […]

Being tied to failure, inability, inefficiency, or underachievement can be crippling. While most underachievement’s are situational, it is very easy to take it personal and interpret these labels as a claim to your identity. Don’t do it! Anyone who has underachieved or has been accused of underachieving has experienced a level of emotional defeat. Your success is not tied to your circumstantial performance. Your success is directly correlated to your […]

“We need to keep this country safe, but we should do that by focusing on people who actually pose a threat,” Zuckerberg said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to his social network to criticise US President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies and his plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. In his first week in the White House, Trump signed executive orders for the border wall, withholding federal […]

India, wrote author VS Naipaul, is a country of a million little mutinies, reeling with rage and revolt. One such mutiny has brewed almost all of this week in southern Tamil Nadu state, where people have been protesting against a ban on a traditional bull-taming contest, known as jallikattu. They say the ban is an attack on their culture and identity. On Saturday evening, a harried government scrambled to bring […]

Whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood, said Donald Trump Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. He will succeed Democrat Barack Obama, who served two terms as the President of the nation. As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in Washington, Trump raised his right hand and put his left on a Bible used […]