WaterEquity, a WaterCredit Investment Fund 3 (WCIF3), with $50 million social impact investment fund, has been created by Water.Org to invest in enterprises serving water and sanitation needs among the world’s poor. WCIF3 will raise and deploy the investment capital to scale Water.org and its WaterCredit solution that is projected to help at least 4.6 million people in South and ...
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After Blue Whale, a Stranded Dolphin Surfaces Near Alibaug Beach
An Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin measuring 6-ft came ashore from the sea creek at Dharamtar near Alibaug but 14 hours alter returned into the sea, said officials, who were fresh on the recent blue whale that was buried on the beach last week. The dolphin swam nearly 40 kilometres from the sea towards the Amba river, said forest official N Vasudevan, ...
Read More »Star Wars 7: Leaked Photos Reveal Return of Two More Characters
Some leaked photos of ‘Star wars 7’ currently in post-production stage show that two more characters from the original Triology returning in the upcoming ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, to be released this year on December 18. Not surprsing since director J.J. Abrams hinted at the return of these two minor characters from the original movies. The leaked promotional stills ...
Read More »Life slowly returning to normalcy in Nepal after quake
Life in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu is slowly moving towards normalcy on Wednesday after the Himalayan nation was hit by a devastating earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale on April 25. Over 600 aftershocks of relatively low intensity created fear among the public. However, the aftershocks have stopped repeating from Tuesday. Some shops opened on Wednesday morning and vehicles were ...
Read More »Expect ‘Transformers 5’ in June 2017, Not 2016
The fifth part of “Transformers” is scheduled to hit the screens in 2017, says Hascro chief in a statement. “Our plan with the studio and filmmakers… you may have heard that some writers are being hired and we have in fact brought in Akiva Goldsman to lead a group of writers to really create a strategic plan around ‘Transformers’,” said ...
Read More »2 Days More, Rahul Gandhi Will be Back, ‘to Cheer BJP’?
Absent for long, Rahul Gandhi, Congress Vice President, will re-appear on national political scene effective from April 15, after going on a 2-month sabbatical with prior permission from his mother. The Congress party said he would be leading a Kisan (farmer) rally against the Land Acquisition Bill on April 16 and perhaps 19 sharing the dais with his mother and ...
Read More »Rajeev Shukla Back at Helm as IPL Chairman, 2 Years Later
Mumbai, April 6: Congress Member of Parliament Rajeev Shukla was appointed the new chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council on Monday, a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) release said. Shukla resigned from the post of IPL chairman in June, 2013, following a scandal over corruption and spot-fixing in the tournament. Shukla, a former senior vice-president ...
Read More »Nitish Kumar Does a Kejriwal, Returns as Bihar CM
Nitish Kumar on Sunday returned as Bihar chief minister, 9 months after he quit following his party JD-U’s massive defeat in the 2014 general elections, re-enacting the return of Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi but without elections. The 66-year-old Janata Dal-United leader was administered the oath of office as the 24th chief minister of Bihar by Governor Keshri Nath Tripathi. Along ...
Read More »SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 with DSCOVR, But Fails to Recover Rocket 1st Stage
The US space agency NASA has launched its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) finally after postponing it thrice on Wednesday to monitor solar activity in deep space at 6:03 pm ET. SpaceX said in a statement, “Unfortunately we will not be able to attempt to recover the first stage of the Falcon 9. The drone ship was designed to operate ...
Read More »Mohanlal to return money as his Lalisom music band hits wrong note
Following a huge public outcry, mostly through social media over the dismal debut performance of superstar Mohanlal’s new music band Lalisom, he Monday told the Kerala government that the money collected would be returned. In an email to State Sports Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan, the actor said that following the wide criticism he will return the money that he took as ...
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