Foreign leaders visiting KingSalmanofSaudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display just in front of the 80-year-old monarch ...Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers....
A postmortem examination will take place on Friday on the body ofPrince, who died at his Paisley Parkhome aged 57, leaving behind him a gaping hole in musical genres as diverse as R&B, rock, funk and pop ... According to a transcript of a 9.43am emergency call released on Friday, an unidentified male caller said he was dead and replied ... As one of the most gifted and prolific musicians of our time, Prince did it all.”....
cruise boat to visit the Caribbean island nation following the restoration of diplomatic relations between the United States and communist-run Cuba... Cuban-Americans protested in front of the company's Florida headquarters and filed lawsuits against Carnival alleging discrimination ... SecretaryofStateJohn Kerry said the cruise line should not sail to Cuba until everyone was allowed aboard....
because the Saudis didn’t want the Americans to interrogate him.“The money was from the government … what the Saudis were doing, so I’ve been told, by reasonable people (I haven’t written this) is that they were also passing along tankers of oil for the Pakistanis to resell ... Hersh also shed light on why bin Laden was killed instead of apprehended and interrogated....
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....
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 Expressionof Interest floated by Departmentof Investment and PublicAsset Management (DIPAM), the last date for submission of bids by merchant bankers is May 16....
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2016 - Today, SIFMA's Asset ManagementGroup (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....
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 Expressionof Interest floated by Departmentof Investment and PublicAsset 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....
Washington, D.C., April 22, 2016 - Today, SIFMA's Asset ManagementGroup (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....
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 ofHDFCBank could not lift sentiment on Dalal Street. Investors were nervous ahead ofReliance 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....
And on their agenda was war indemnities imposed on the Sikh Empire and its ruler, via the 1846 TreatyofLahore. A subsequent TreatyofAmritsar 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 ofKashmir....
Narendra Modi's fourth visit to the USA in two years notwithstanding India is pulling out all stops to build BrandBRICS 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 ofIndian states in a major foreign policy forum....
Green PartyofCanada) ... '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 ofTreaty 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 ofCanada ....
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 ......