Whole Foods sales continue to struggle with the company reporting its forth consecutive quarter of declining sales at stores open at least a year. Just a year since the grocer was accused of price-gouging, profits have dropped 22 percent from 2015 and sales, while growing overall 2 percent, were still ... Read More »
The government is set to face resistance in passage of the bill which seeks to amend the Enemy Property Act, with major opposition parties Congress, Samajwadi Party, JD(U) and CPI opposing its key provisions. The Enemy Property (Amendment and Validation) Bill seeking to make changes in the Enemy Property Act, ... Read More »
Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh will leave for Saudi Arabia soon to assess the severity of the food crisis faced by nearly 10,000 Indians rendered jobless and will explore their possible return, with Saudi authorities assuring assistance. Singh will travel to the Gulf nation in the ... Read More »
After a dismal earnings report, Norwegian energy company Statoil said it secured a stake in an oil basin off the coast of Brazil from the nation’s oil company. “Through this acquisition, we are accessing a world class asset, and we strengthen our position in Brazil, one of Statoil’s core areas ... Read More »
St. Lucia’s government has signed an agreement to build the island’s first internationally targeted, integrated development — a project worth $2.6 billion designed to attract Chinese tourists and investment. The Pearl of the Caribbean will occupy a 700-acre site on the south end of the island. Plans include a casino, ... Read More »
Protesting the flogging of a Dalit family by gau rakshaks in Una for skinning a dead cow, thousands of Dalits gathered in Ahmedabad Sunday where community leaders put the BJP-led government in Gujarat on notice ahead of the 2017 assembly polls. Seeking strong measures to check atrocities against them, leaders asked ... Read More »
The government will come up with an action plan for revitalising the public education sector with a mission to bring back the State’s rich culture of secular education, Minister for Education C. Raveendranath has said. He was speaking after inaugurating a newly constructed building of the Karaparamba Government High School ... Read More »
Terming the Centre’s draft ‘National Education Policy 2016’ as an obvious attempt to subvert equity and secularism of India’s pluralistic society, the Samaththuva Kalvikkaana Koottamaippu (Confederation for Egalitarian Education) has appealed to the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) to redesign its proposals by including outstanding educationists from various ... Read More »
Sruthi Palaniappan, whose parents immigrated to the United States in 1992 from Chennai, was the youngest delegate to attend to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) that ended on Thursday night. The 18-year-old high school graduate is set to join the Harvard University to study government. She also spoke on behalf ... Read More »
HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar held a closed-door meeting Wednesday with senior functionaries of the RSS and representatives of several affiliated outfits on the new national education policy, making this his first formal interaction with the Sangh since he took charge of his new portfolio this month. According to sources, Javadekar ... Read More »
Declared a proclaimed offender by the Indian authorities and now living in London, liquor baron Vijay Mallya failed to get any relief from the Delhi High Court which on Friday asked him to appear before the trial court in a number of cheque-bounce cases filed against him by Delhi International ... Read More »
China and Russia are underscoring their military partnership, by holding a joint naval exercise in the South China Sea (SCS), following a ruling, by an international tribunal at The Hague, which did not go in Beijing’s favour. The drill will “enhance the capabilities of the two navies to jointly deal ... Read More »
