The next golden age of growth will depend on whether we are able to innovate sufficiently to face environmental challenges, according to Carlota Perez, Visiting Scholar, London School of Economics. "The planet is no longer a place to store our wa…
With planes grounded and employees being sent home because of the pollution in northern and eastern China this week, the country's state media has called for more government transparency, a stop to the cover-ups and a real critique of the nation's pr…
Analysts from research company Comscore suggest that US online retailers had their most successful day ever on Monday 26th November. The company believes customers will have spent around $1.5bn (£0.9bn) on the day, being dubbed “Cybe…
A review into over 230 science projects involving data collected by the public known as “citizen science” has conclude that the application of technologies is transforming scientific research, through the recording of data online and the …
Vancouver, which plans to be the world’s greenest city by 2020, is trialling a new innovation in street paving. The city is using a new paving material made by mixing together asphalt and old plastics. Traditionally, tarmac needs to be at …
Fifty one farmers including old women had been staying immersed in neck deep water for the last fifteen days. Crabs and fishes were biting them and the limbs of many of them, particularly the old ladies, were deteriorating fast...
Assam is burning. Widespread ethnic violence for the last three days has 38 people killed, over 200,000 people fleeing from homes to 150 relief camps and 500 villages abandoned. This is the inevitable outcome of a continuous process of neglect, polit…
He had 500 professional wrestling bouts to his credit and remained undefeated in all them. His opponents included the names of the greatest international wrestlers of that time like King Kong from Australia, George Gordenko from Canada and John Desil…
India is a country that is literally littered with gaping unmanned holes—you may call these as bore well or tube well, manholes, pits, shafts or whatever. These are found anywhere—streets, playgrounds or even residential areas in both urb…
It had to be Uttar Pradesh again. The largest state of India—in northern India, politically strategic and notorious for a continuing feudal mindset...