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Share this article Share this article WALTHAM, Mass., April 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Third Pole Therapeutics, a privately held company developing critical life-sustaining cardio-pulmonary therapies, announced today that it has entered into a $15 million debt facility with Avenue Venture Opportunities Fund, L.P. ("Avenue Venture Fund"). "We are pleased to partner with Avenue Venture Fund and their team as we achieve some of the most significant milestones in our companys history. This non-dilu...

Local Author Mark Synnott Joins Roy Prescott to discuss “The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession and Death on Mount Everest” by Gino Devaney on White Birch Books and Local Author Mark Synnott are teaming up to do an “in-person” Author Event in celebration of Mark’s new book, The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession and Death on Mount Everest. The event will take place outside (weather permitting) at the bookstore tomorrow, Thursday, April 15th, starting at 4 p.m. All COVID protocols will be...

Amid Covid-19 tourism slump, Nepal’s elephant ride operators are selling their animals to India Activists allege that the ongoing cross-border trade is illegal and want the two governments to act against it. Representational image. | Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters Padam does not remember when he began keeping elephants at his hotel. But he says that guests used to pay well for elephant rides in the community forests outside Nepal’s famous Chitwan National Park. Padam’s two ...

Diwakar Pyakurel April 6, 2021 Comments Tourists on elephant safari in Chitwan National Park, Nepal [Image by: Sergi Reboredo / Alamy] Facing a tourism slump due to the Covid-19 pandemic, elephant ride operators around Nepal’s Chitwan National Park are selling their animals to India in defiance of laws. Padam does not remember when he began keeping elephants at his hotel. But he says that guests used to pay well for elephant rides in the community forests outside Nepal’s famous Chitwan Nat...

Not far from millions of Kumbh Mela pilgrims, two Hindu monks are on a hunger strike to save Ganga The monks are protesting sand mining and the construction of dams and barrages on the river and its tributaries. Devotees on the banks of Ganga during the Kumbh Mela festival in Haridwar. | Prakash Singh / AFP Millions of Hindu pilgrims have taken a dip in the holy Ganga in the past month, and millions more are expected in Haridwar, Uttarakhand for the next big dates of the Kumb...

news Political siblings beyond borders Kathmandu Post Nepal, March 17 -- The fall from grace of Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been fast, furious and harsh. Repeatedly held under house arrest for nearly two decades, she was once celebrated as one of the most famous political prisoners in the world. Feted as an icon of peace, democracy and human rights, she strode into the parliament with ease in 2012 through military-controlled elections. Suu Kyi soon agreed to share power ...

A railway project is putting animals at risk in a tiger reserve in Jharkhand The upcoming third track meant to increase the railways’ coal-carrying capacity could end up killing more wildlife. Near the Palamu Tiger Reserve, human settlements are dangerously close to wildlife. | Gurvinder Singh/ The Third Pole Kanhai Singh, a resident of the Ledgain village in the Latehar district of Jharkhand, has been suffering sleepless nights. He has nightmares of wild elephants ravaging...

Third Pole Therapeutics Expands Board of Directors Veteran Pharmaceutical Industry Executives William Heiden and Werner Cautreels, Ph.D., Add Critical Expertise News provided by Share this article Share this article WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Third Pole, Inc., a privately held company developing and delivering critical life-sustaining cardio-pulmonary therapies, announced today that it has added two seasoned pharmaceutical executives to its Board of Directors, William Heiden...

I am a child of the Ganga Himalaya , nourished materially and spiritually by Dev Bhoomi, our sacred land. The mountains , forests and Ma Ganga have shaped my imagination, my knowledge ,my science , my life , my activism. I have been an ecological activist for 4 decades inspired by the Chipko movement which started in the early 1970’s in my region of the Garhwal Himalaya in Uttarakhand. Uttarakhand is the source of the sacred Ganga and its tributaries.The Ganga is   the lifeline of India. Th...

GlacierHub On Sunday, February 7, a devastating flood tore through a Himalayan valley in the northern Chamoli district of India’s Uttarakhand state. The flood rushed down the Rishi Ganga River and destroyed two hydropower projects and several villages. While initial reports said the flood was a glacial lake outburst flood, further investigation has shown that the causes of this tragedy are much more complex. As of this Sunday, a week after the flood, 50 people have been confirmed dead while 1...