WASHINGTON — The Senate early Friday approved the nomination of Representative Tom Price to be secretary of health and human services, putting him in charge of President Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act. By a vote of 52 to 47, the Senate confirmed Mr. Price, Republican of Georgia, ... Read More »
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Arne Duncan, Education secretary under President Obama, condemned protesters who briefly blocked Betsy DeVos from entering a Washington, D.C., public school on Friday morning. “Agree or disagree w @BetsyDeVos on any issue, but let’s all agree she really needs to be in public schools,” wrote Duncan, who served as Education ... Read More »
The confirmation hearings for Betsy DeVos provided an inordinate amount of drama: guns and grizzlies, an all-night talkathon on the Senate floor, and Vice President Mike Pence’s tie-breaking vote — and with good reason. DeVos, now confirmed as secretary of Education, is not just another inexperienced member of the president’s ... Read More »
Betsy DeVos, just sworn in as education secretary after Vice President Pence cast a tiebreaking vote in the Senate to confirm her appointment, visited Howard University on Thursday to meet with university leaders. It was her first visit as secretary. On Friday, she visited Jefferson Academy, a public school in ... Read More »
The Infosys Ltd board does not want a war of words with the Indian software services company’s former leadership to descend into the kind of damaging row seen at Tata, an Infosys boardroom source said on Friday. India’s second biggest IT services company, based in the southern tech hub of ... Read More »
Sweden’s Saab has offered to build the world’s most modern fighter aircraft factory in India, it said on Friday, as it goes head-to-head with U.S. rival Lockheed Martin to supply hundreds of locally produced planes to India’s military. Saab’s pitch for its Gripen E aircraft comes a day after Lockheed ... Read More »
Investors expecting a deal this year in Tata Steel’s talks to merge its European assets with Germany’s Thyssenkrupp risk disappointment, given complications associated with the Indian-owned firm’s British pension scheme. Tata and Thyssenkrupp shares have firmed on hopes a merger would trigger European steel capacity cuts. Tata Steel UK, Britain’s ... Read More »
India has appointed senior finance ministry official Ajay Tyagi as the new chairman of its capital markets regulator, the government said on Friday, at a time when corporate governance issues have taken centre stage in the country. Tyagi, 58, currently an additional secretary at the Indian finance ministry’s economic affairs ... Read More »
