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Taxi-hailing service Uber has planned to hire more female drivers, citing safety concerns. The San Francisco-based company announced Tuesday that Uber will create 1 million jobs for women within the next five years in a partnership with the United Nations. The alliance aims to recruit drivers not just in the United States, but around the world.

Uber has been criticized in the past for a number of driver assaults on passengers. Also, highly-publicized assaults on women passengers, including the rape of one passenger in New Delhi, which has been cited as the main reason behind Uber's new move.

According to Salle Yoo, Uber's general counsel, driving for Uber offers flexibility and options that are particularly attractive for women.

Although Florida is known as the Sunshine State, when it comes to harnessing solar power, lots of customers find it less profitable, as electricity in Florida is already cheap and there are very less incentives made available to shift from fossil fuels.

Now, anger over the issue has led to the coalition of hardline conservatives, evangelical Christians and liberal environmentalists. They all want to break down the monopoly of the big power companies.

Some others who are involved in the union include the Sierra Club, the Christian Coalition, the Libertarian Party, the Evangelical Environment Network, Greenpeace USA and Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Rising employment and personal incomes may make the spring travel season for the US airlines the best one. It could see maximum passenger numbers in seven years, said industry group Airlines of America.

It is said that around 134. 8 million passengers or around 2.2 million people per day are expected to fly in March and April. If the projections for 2015 turn out to be true then it would be a 2% boost from the 132.2 million people who flew on US airlines in the same period last year.

John Heimlich, Airlines for America vice-president and chief economist, was of the view that two factors, firstly, high consumer sentiment and secondly, the continued affordability of air travel, may add to a busy travel season.

On Tuesday, chief financial officer (CFO) of search and technology major Google, Patrick Pichette, said that he has planned to retire from his job. It will be the latest change in a series of changes in the Internet company's management level. According to some analysts, Pichette's resign will not cause major disruptions in the company.

Incepta Pharmaceuticals has brought a generic version of the drug Sovaldi, of the Gilead Sciences, which is being used in treatment of hepatitis C, is a very popular drug. The generic version of the drug will be sold at a price of $10.

The generic drug of Sovaldi is named as Hopetavir and the cost of the drug for a period of 12 weeks will be $900. Cost of Gilead Sciences Inc.'s Sovaldi is very high. "Gilead is aware of unauthorized generic versions of sofosbuvir being offered in the marketplace .We're focused on enabling our eleven Indian generic partners to launch their authorized generic versions as soon as possible", the company said in an e-mail.

So far, it was the most successful drug for treating hepatitis C. And the cost of this drug for a period of twelve weeks was $86,000.

New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has come up with a revised plan for dealing with non-native mute swans, the majestic white water birds. The new plan involved less shooting and more management.

The department proposed the original plan in December 2013, which asked to shoot and destroy the eggs of the elegant long-necked birds, in order to eliminate the wild populations.

There are many other states including, Maryland, Michigan that have similar plans, with wildlife biologists citing damage that the swans can cause to the native species.

The plan was backed off by the department last March, following an outcry by New York City animal lovers, according to whom the rationale for killing the graceful birds was flawed.