Scientists in New Zealand are dissecting an entire spade-toothed whale, one of the rarest whale species in the world, for the first time, according to The Guardian. When the five-meter male whale came ashore in Otago, South Island, in July, it excited cetacean scientists. The elusive beaked whale is known as a spade-toothed whale because […]
US President-elect Donald Trump nominated veteran Washington attorney Paul Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a move cheered by the cryptocurrency industry. Atkins, an SEC commissioner from 2002 to 2008, founded risk consultancy firm Patomak Global Partners in 2009, whose clients include companies in the banking, trading and cryptocurrency industries. An announcement […]
A significant agreement was signed in Beijing today paving the way for China to make major inroads in Nepal. Seven years after an initial understanding for Kathmandu to be part of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative or BRI, today’s agreement lays the framework of how projects will be executed. Breaking tradition of making New Delhi […]