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On TV and in the courtroom, Standard & Poor’s has waged war against a US Justice Department lawsuit...

The first five books of the Murty Classical Library of India (MCLI), an initiative by the Harvard University...

The tax proposals would face opposition from the Republican-controlled Congress. Its lawmakers argue that tax hike would hamper economic growth at a time the country cannot afford it

Microsoft set to unveil details about Windows 10 that can adapt PC applications to mobile devices

Google likes its ambitions sky high. This time, it has gone a little further...

The rating agency cites narrowing possibilities for Russian government and companies to service their debt...

The Federal Reserve’s upgraded view that growth in the world's biggest economy is “solid”...

You’ve got to hand it to SAP for competitive vision. Then take some back for how it’s explaining itself.

As we learned during the financial crisis, a country with high debt levels can get into trouble regardless of whether its debts are most heavily owed by the govt (Greece, Italy), households (Spain, US), or financial institutions (Ireland, Britain)

A sensuous Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has been sold from a Swiss private...

The housing market has shown signs of life recently. Prices have risen, mortgage rates are very attractive and construction...

Jon Stewart, who turned Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” into a sharp-edged commentary on current events...

Finance ministers to meet on Monday again to find a solution

David Carr, a writer who wriggled away from the demon of drug addiction to become an unlikely name-brand...

Many officials are concerned that raising rates prematurely ‘might damp the apparent solid recovery’.

Silicon Valley has lately come to the realisation that it is not the meritocracy it has long pretended to be...

The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to regulate broadband Internet service...

Emerging from the desert like a giant steel squid, Abu Dhabi’s new airport terminal is starting to take shape.

A reversal of fortunes within the financial industry is illustrated in few places more vividly than JPMorgan Chase.

Assets of top oil funds quadruple to $5.4 bn since July, Contango structure trims gains through roll costs

The US is home to 50% of the world’s golf courses. That also figures why the country has some of the most beautiful and wonderfully...

Will Apple’s newest product—the Watch—be as big as its iPhone?

Candidates are following a shift in the political debate, from jobs and a fragile economic recovery during the 2012 campaign, to one now centred on income inequality

Every start-up hopes for a lucky break. Swedish company Neo Technology only found out it was getting one the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world.

US Elections 2016: The US Embassy in Delhi is all set to welcome the new President. Here are some pics what the US embassy in Delhi looks like right now:

Fifa adding more World Cup berths could mean better representation for Asia and Africa

The number of applicants seeking H-1B visas has dropped significantly with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) receiving only 199,000 petitions for 2017, compared with 236,000 in 2016, reflecting the impact of the recent protectionist measures undertaken by the American government.

The President’s executive order directs the federal bureaucracy to enforce visa law more vigorously, and to study new ways to reform and restrict the H-1B system.

It will allow startups to challenge incumbent operators.

A minor planet has been named after a Bengaluru student. What are the rules behind such nomenclature?

Defence, water issues and agriculture will top the agenda of talks when Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Israel next month.

The ocean has deep secrets. It is a world as vibrant as the one outside. There is a unique ecology that defies common knowledge and often perplexes scientists. This barely-explored territory is also believed to hold vast quantities of precious metals and minerals that can sustain the modern world for centuries. So it is not […]

Employees no longer need to be working at the desk to stay productive: Microsoft.

Uber doing away with the post-trip tracking feature that had drawn the ire of users is a sign of the torsion privacy concerns create when faced with the demands of a data-driven world.

Alliance Air, which is the low cost regional subsidiary of Air India, will launch three new routes under the government's regional connectivity scheme by the end of September and will induct eight ATR – 72 aircraft by the end of FY18 to further consolidate and expand its operations.

The board of directors of AirAsia Group (AAGB) on Tuesday rebutted all allegations levelled against the airline’s top brass including group CEO Tony Fernandes, deputy group CEO Bo Lingam and also AAGB and AirAsia India.

The trial, starting the day before a momentous midterm election, could help rewrite the nation’s political map for a decade.

Spearheaded by France, the plan has met resistance from countries such as Ireland and Sweden, which question the wisdom of the EU going it alone given the global nature of digital services.

The proposed city been embroiled in controversy from the start over how data from smartphones, sensors and the like, will be used.

Amazon.com said on Monday it would offer free shipping with no purchase minimum for the first time this holiday season, heating up the competition with Walmart and other rivals vying for customers’ Christmas shopping sprees.

Billionaire Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma called fighting over trade senseless and decried once again a widening conflict between the US and China.

Chinese President Xi Jinping promised on Monday to lower tariffs, broaden market access and import more from overseas at the start of a trade expo designed to demonstrate goodwill amid mounting frictions with the United States and others.

Western bigwigs were a no-show at China’s biggest web conference.

The study is the second in a series, after an earlier report found that OPEC’s spare capacity reduces oil price volatility and generates as much as $200 bn of annual economic benefits for the world economy.

The Trump administration has assured lawmakers and the American corporate sector that the public would get an opportunity to respond to its proposal of revoking work authorisation to H-4 spouse visas after they raised their concerns over the move, which will impact thousands of Indians. H-4 visas are issued to the spouses of H-1B foreign […]

That’s a field Europe’s biggest software company wants to gain a stronger foothold in because it’s growing faster than its core enterprise software business.

Asian nations gave up hopes of completing a 16-nation trade bloc this year, with Chinese and Australian officials now looking to finalise the deal in 2019.

Prominent Indian-American lawyer Neomi Rao has been nominated by US President Donald Trump to fill Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s seat on the powerful DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

The Trump administration will hold off for now on imposing new tariffs on automobile imports as top officials weigh revisions to a report on the national security implications, according to two people familiar with the matter.