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 »
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that the US would produce “clean coal” and that rolling back regulations from coal plants would be done in a way that was “environmentally friendly”. He told reporters that the Environmental Protection Agency, which will be led by Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt who once ... Read More »
United Airlines says it has fixed a technology problem that delayed hundreds of flight around the country. An airline spokeswoman said the glitch prevented crews from creating flight plans on domestic and international flights for several hours. The problem was unrelated to a computer outage that grounded all United domestic ... Read More »
In labs testing how brain implants could help people with physical disabilities, tales of success can be bittersweet. Experiments like those that let a paralyzed person swig coffee using a robotic arm, or that let blind people “see” spots of light, have proven the huge potential of computers that interface ... Read More »
The announcement of the 2016 budget pushed the real estate market of Pakistan into gloom since it was accompanied by a new property tax intended to bring black money into the tax-net. The heightened enthusiasm generated by the country’s property market in the two years preceding the 2016 budget was ... Read More »
NEW DELHI: Amid reports that key provisions of new real estate regulation law have been diluted by some states, the central government has forwarded the rules notified by the states to a parliamentary committee for examination. Minister of State for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (HUPA) Rao Inderjit Singh, in ... Read More »
