‘Silicon Valley’ Season 3: Everything Happens, and Nothing Happens

Edit New York Times 23 Apr 2016
The HBO comedy returns for Season 3 with a new villain and an office move in the offing for the frantic Pied Piper crew ... ....

175 countries sign landmark climate agreement

Edit CNN 23 Apr 2016
New York (CNN)Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, a fiery 32-year-old from Chad, took the podium here at the United Nations on Friday morning in front of nearly 200 world leaders ... "Today young mothers are becoming climate refugees" because of drought, she told the assembly ... Leaders from at least 175 countries came to New York to sign an international treaty that aims to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius....

Armenian sappers may join demining activities in Palmyra

Edit Topix 23 Apr 2016
PanARMENIAN.Net  -  Moscow  and  Yerevan  discussed the possibility of involving sappers of the Russian-Armenian Center for Humanitarian Response in demining activities in Syria's  Palmyra , Russia's Foreign Minister said Friday, April 22. Lavrov further expressed Russia's support for the plan of priorities of Armenia's chairmanship in the Collective Security Treaty Organization ... ....

Govt invites bids from merchant bankers for stake sale in NMDC

Edit The Times of India 22 Apr 2016
New Delhi, Apr 22 () Government today invited bids from merchant bankers interested in assisting it in the sale of 10 per cent stake in blue-chip NMDC which could fetch about Rs 3,900 crore to the exchequer ... As per the Expression of Interest floated by Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), the last date for submission of bids by merchant bankers is May 16....

SIFMA Submits Comments to OECD on Treaty Benefits for Investors in Non-CIV Funds (SIFMA - Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2016 - Today, SIFMA's Asset Management Group (SIFMA AMG) submitted a comment letter to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in response to questions included in its recent consultation document on the treaty entitlement of non-CIV funds ... For investors, access to treaty benefits is important for purposes of avoiding an additional layer of tax....

Govt invites bids from merchant bankers for Rs 3,900-crore NMDC stake sale

Edit DNA India 22 Apr 2016
Government invited bids from merchant bankers interested in assisting it in the sale of 10% stake in blue-chip NMDC which could fetch about Rs 3,900 crore to the exchequer ... As per the Expression of Interest floated by Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM), the last date for submission of bids by merchant bankers is May 16 ... Shares of NMDC had slipped over 3 per cent during the day to Rs 99 a share....

SIFMA AMG Submits Comments to OECD on Treaty Benefits for Investors in Non-CIV Funds (SIFMA - Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2016 - Today, SIFMA's Asset Management Group (SIFMA AMG) submitted a comment letter to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in response to questions included in its recent consultation document on the treaty entitlement of non-CIV funds ... For investors, access to treaty benefits is important for purposes of avoiding an additional layer of tax....

Critical guide to Prince’s albums

Edit Star Tribune 22 Apr 2016
The following list of 37 albums is as complete as we can make it, omitting best-ofs, remixes and fan-club releases ... ....

Mapping the market: Investors lost Rs 2,285 cr in rangebound market

Edit The Times of India 22 Apr 2016
The BSE Sensex traded in a narrow 50-point range for most of the session on Friday and a 150-point range in intraday trade, but ended a shade below 25,850. Fourth quarter results of HDFC Bank could not lift sentiment on Dalal Street. Investors were nervous ahead of Reliance Industries' earnings scheduled for later in the day ... Here's a wrapup of the key actions from across stocks/sectors that hogged the limelight on Friday....

Kohinoor's Kashmir link

Edit The Times of India 22 Apr 2016
And on their agenda was war indemnities imposed on the Sikh Empire and its ruler, via the 1846 Treaty of Lahore. A subsequent Treaty of Amritsar was also signed to ensure the vanquished paid up and the Kohinoor, sent to Queen Victoria in 1850, was just part of the package ... Ergo, the same treaties that saw the Kohinoor pass into Company hands and thence the British crown, also saw a Dogra become ruler of Kashmir....
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The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during  the reception being organized on the occasion of Civil Services Day at Ceremonial Hall in RBCC on 20-04-16

PM Narendra Modi to build brand BRICS to counter allegation of tilting towards US

Edit The Times of India 22 Apr 2016
Narendra Modi's fourth visit to the USA in two years notwithstanding India is pulling out all stops to build Brand BRICS as it plans to host a series of key forums and meets outside the national capital to popularize this grouping of major economies in the run-up to the 8th edition of the Summit in mid-October in Goa ... "This is the vision of the PM as he is keen to increase the stakes of Indian states in a major foreign policy forum....

Elizabeth May visits Site C dam protest camp, offers support to hunger striker Kristin Henry in Vancouver, B.C. (Green Party of Canada)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016
Green Party of Canada) ... 'Having been through the physical and emotional pressure of hunger strike myself, I'm very concerned for Kristin's health,' Ms ... This destructive project is in clear violation of Treaty 8 First Nations rights. Further issuing of federal permits will continue to violate those treaty rights without serious and meaningful consultation with affected Nations by the Trudeau government.' ... Green Party of Canada ....

NMDC drops after govt initiates stake sale process

Edit The Times of India 22 Apr 2016
Mumbai, Apr 22 () Shares of state-owned NMDC today plunged by over 2 per cent after the government invited bids from merchant bankers for assisting it in the sale of 10 per cent stake in blue-chip NMDC. The stock settled at Rs 99.85 on BSE, a drop of 2.20 per cent over its ......
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