Vijay Mallya bought silence, influence, with freebies to politicians, officials, directors:...
October 7, 2017
Kingfisher owes over Rs 9000 crore to at least 17 lenders including SBI, IDBI Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Baroda and United Bank of India.
1 Indian company, 2134 bank accounts: How firms tried to hide...
October 7, 2017
The Centre today said it has received information from 13 banks about 5,800 companies that used multiple bank accounts to hide black money after demonetization.
Files A money lender counts Indian rupee currency notes at his shop in Ahmedabad – REUTERS/Amit Dave
2017 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear...
October 6, 2017
LONDON — The 2017 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
2017 Nobel Peace Prize
Trump and Melania reportedly compared life in the White House to...
October 6, 2017
President Donald Trump and his wife, first lady Melania Trump met with the wife of an imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader in February and reportedly tried to sympathize with her husband's plight by comparing life in the White House to that inside a Venezuelan prison.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s days seen as numbered as...
October 6, 2017
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the stone-faced former oil executive Donald Trump tapped to serve as his global envoy, is increasingly seen by administration officials and diplomats as on his way out — just as flash-points from Iran to North Korea flare.
As ACA enrollment nears, administration keeps cutting federal support of the...
October 6, 2017
For months, officials in Republican-controlled Iowa had sought federal permission to revitalize their ailing health-insurance marketplace. Then President Trump read about the request in a newspaper story and called the federal director weighing the application.
Trump, during photo shoot, talks of ‘calm before the storm’
October 5, 2017
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump delivered a foreboding message Thursday night, telling reporters as he posed for photos with his senior military leaders that this might be "the calm before the storm."
Royal Caribbean sued over Hurricane Harvey cruise
October 5, 2017
Royal Caribbean (RCL) is being sued for allegedly pressuring passengers booked on a cruise into traveling to Houston even as Hurricane Harvey was set to strike the region, or risk losing the ability to get a refund on their tickets.
With 500 soldiers on guard, China expands road in Doklam
October 5, 2017
Barely a month after the winding down of an aggressive stand-off with India at the Sikkim border, the Chinese army is back to building a road on the Doklam Plateau, just 10 km from the location of the last conflict. The Doklam Plateau is claimed by both Beijing and Bhutan as their territory. India backs Bhutan's claim.
Vijay Mallya’s plush London home ‘Lady Walk’ bought using Indian taxpayers’...
October 5, 2017
The plush London residence of fugitive billionaire Vijay Mallya called Lady Walk was bought using the Indian tax payer's money routed through companies located in the UK, Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has discovered.
