December 8, 2016
New Delhi: The government on Thursday announced a host of measures to encourage digital transactions including discounts on petrol and diesel purchases, suburban railway tickets and insurance policies from state owned insurance companies purchased through electronic means.
A file photo of finance minister Arun Jaitley.
December 8, 2016
Chuck Jones uses a flip phone, so he didn’t see the tweet. His friend of 36 years called him Wednesday night and said: The president-elect is smearing you on Twitter.
President-elect Donald Trump speaks at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis.
December 7, 2016
Julian Assange has thumbed his nose at Swedish investigators, who he says have robbed him of his freedom for six years, by releasing the answers he gave to them under questioning in Ecuador’s London embassy last month.
December 7, 2016
CHENNAI, TAMIL NADU – A rare, public eulogy of former AIADMK chief J Jayalalithaa by her most vitriolic political opponent, DMK, has potentially raised hopes of better relations between the two parties which have fought some of the most ugly battles in Indian politics.
December 7, 2016
Britain's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it had fined Pfizer a record 84.2 million pounds ($107 million) for ramping up the cost of an epilepsy drug by as much as 2,600 percent.
The Competition and Markets Authority also fined Flynn Pharma 5.2 million pounds for its role in hiking prices of phenytoin sodium capsules in 2012.
December 7, 2016
This week, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath took us to Clearwater, Fla., where a former Scientologist claimed to be on the receiving end of treatment he previously dished out to enemies of the Church.
Known 'Troublemaker' for Scientology, Leah Remini, has a new series.
December 7, 2016
WASHINGTON: Time magazine on Wednesday named President-elect Donald Trump its Person of the Year.
"It's a great honor. It means a lot," Trump said in a telephone interview on NBC's "Today" show.
December 7, 2016
Leading Indian journalist and satirist Cho Ramaswamy has died, aged 82.
Cho Ramaswamy was a longstanding confidante of Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalitha
Decemebr 7, 2016
In the ongoing Ratan Tata vs Cyrus Mistry battle at the venerable Tata Group, the veteran corporate said that the ousted Tata Sons chairman was given an opportunity to quit, but he chose to stay and fight and was then ejected after the relationship deteriorated further.
December 6, 2016
The death of popular Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa presents a political opening for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in one of India’s most industrialized states.
