London: A leading Indian-origin entrepreneur has been elected as the head of the Bureau of International Recycling, a global organisation that facilitates free and fair trade of recyclables in a sustainable and competitive world economy. Ranjit Singh Baxi, chairman of J & H Sales (International) ltd, will serve a two-year term as president of the Brussels-based recycling association. The election was held at the association’s World Convention & Exhibition in […]

Girish Badragond, a 28 year old guy from Bijapur District came to Bangalore in 2006 with a laptop, a wireless router and one way bus fare. Now, after six years he is a partner at Santepp Systems, a fast growing technocrat proprietary firm in the field of agricultural technology manufacture. “Ever since I was a child, I loved playing with the machines. My first experience in machine was when I […]

  Many theatre owners like to say they offer an intimate show but only one really means it. That would be Theatre for One – a 4-foot-by-8 foot portable theatre that allows one audience member at a time to see one short play performed by a single actor. “There’s definitely an immediacy that happens within this,” said Tony-winning scenic designer Christine Jones, who conceived and leads the project. “The theatre […]

Google India on Friday launched a range of new and affordable Chromebooks and Chromebox targeted at education and businesses. “The Chromebook was launched in India a year ago. Now we are launching three new Chromebooks,” Smita Hashim, global product manager, Chrome OS, said here. Two Chromebooks, from Xolo and Nexian and priced at Rs. 12,999, will be available from Amazon and Snapdeal and the pre-order booking will start from Friday. […]

    Like many children, Robert Lee was taught never to waste food. But growing up the son of Korean immigrants who struggled to get by, he really took the idea to heart. In college, Lee joined a student group that delivered leftover dining hall food to homeless shelters. That was when he learned the magnitude of the problem. One in six Americans struggles with food insecurity. Yet in the […]

If you pay attention to what the various players in tech are reading, you may have seen some of them talking about the book The Accidental Superpower. I heard about the book from Mark Suster and shortly after reading it myself, saw Auren Hoffman posting about it. If you haven’t read it, it generally ignores the common discussions of education, computer technology, and partisan political dysfunction as they relate to […]

  In the current scenario, everything is just one click away. While these clicks have made things easier, but somewhere in between, we have become slaves of technology. People prefer looking at their smartphones to check the time, track (or even stalk) people on Facebook and Whatsapp, become paranoid if they don’t respond. For that matter, even stopped listening to radio or cassette players or spending time with loved ones. […]

London: A South African man has claimed that three women bundled him into a car at gunpoint before raping him and harvesting his semen. The 33-year-old victim was walking down a road in the Kwazakhele Township, Port Elizabeth when a black BMW pulled up next to him and asked him for directions. As he pointed where they should go, one of the 3 women pulled out a handgun and pointed […]

  CALIFORNIA IS RUNNING on groundwater right now. As the state has cut down on surface water deliveries from rivers and reservoirs, farmers and municipal water suppliers have reacted by sucking more and more out of Madre Earth. The state’s land, in response, is sinking lower and lower, day by day, year by year. In times of crisis, turning to groundwater is understandable (it may even be unavoidable). But—as it […]

The whales were feeding off the shores of Duxbury Beach Wednesday. The wakes from the whales could be seen on the calm ocean waters. The whales feed on copepods by opening their mouths as they swim through masses of the tiny creatures. Water erupted from the blow hole of one of the whales. A whale came up for some air off the coast of Mass. Please follow and like us: