The United States government appointed pay czar will review the executive compensation packages at 419 bailed out companies including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase.
The US, in coordination with allies and partners, continued to forcefully respond to Russia's "unjustified, unprovoked and premeditated" invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Putin and Lavrov.
Days ahead of the second US- China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, the United States has reiterated that China needs to move towards a market-oriented exchange rate.
The Reserve Bank is unlikely to cut the benchmark interest rate in its forthcoming bi-monthly monetary policy review later in the week as retail inflation is still a cause of concern, and there is a possibility of the Middle East crisis deteriorating further, impacting crude oil and commodity prices, say experts.
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday said the Preamble to the Constitution is very well there in NCERT textbooks of Class VI as he refuted charges made in this regard by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge.
The move has apparently been taken in view of the drug peddler's attempts to enter the US for setting up business. \n\n
US sanctions Mexico captain Rafa Marquez for alleged drug ties 'I deny categorically any type of relation with this organization'
The US government, under its $700-billion bailout plan, has purchased shares in 30 American banks for a total of over $150 billion, half of which have gone into Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo.
The United States has announced sanctions against 14 senior Myanmar officials, and called on India, China and other nations to support the people of Myanmar who were struggling for democracy.
The United States government may own 70 per cent stake in the restructured General Motors, the ailing auto maker which is battling to avert a possible bankruptcy.
The US President Barack Obama on Saturday said that as many as 95 per cent of the working families would get tax cuts and beginning April an average American family would start receiving an additional $65 each per month.
He also pointed out the high sums earned by the coaching centres leading to the commercialisation of education.
The Pakistan government has sealed offices of Al-Amin Trust in Karachi and Lahore and frozen several bank accounts as part of its ongoing crackdown on groups added to a UN Security Council list of terrorist organisations subject to sanctions.
'The banking channel is gradually becoming the most preferred way of transaction for terrorist outfits.'
The US banking behemoth Citigroup has got risky assets worth $306 billion -- a figure equivalent to over half the total assets, nearly six times of market value as well as annual revenue, or about 50-times of full-year net profit of all Indian banks together!
To govern effectively, to legislate successfully, Modi must reach out to the Opposition. As long as he does not and he is showing no signs that he accepts the reality, the drift his fans are anguishing over will remain, cautions Aakar Patel.
A peek into the life of a public-sector banker who did well professionally, but paid a price for it, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
India has also taken note of reports of Saeed's son Talha contesting elections in Pakistan and said the "mainstreaming" of radical terror outfits in the neighbouring country is nothing new and that it has been part of its State policy for a long time.
The Treasury Department said it will convert about $25 billion of preferred shares into common stock provided private holders agree to the same terms, the government said in a statement on Friday. The conversion would give the US a 36 per cent stake in the New York-based firm.
Gold prices rallied by Rs 220 per ten grams to resume at Rs 14,275 on the bullion market in Mumbai on Wednesday on hectic stockists buying triggered by higher New York advices.
Retail investors should continue to invest in accrual schemes like cash and floating rate funds.
Reveleus, a business of I-flex solutions, said on Monday the International Monetary Fund has selected its business intelligence and data warehouse technology offering for the design and implementation of a data warehouse.
A bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and Bela M Trivedi said it is not issuing notice but tagging the matter with the pending similar appeal also filed by the CBI.
Overseas transactions were used by the September 11 hijackers to wire more than $ 130,000, officials said.
What stood out in his 15-year journey as a member of the political executive at the Centre was his glowing record as India's most successful and effective finance minister. Both as prime minister and finance minister, he understood the importance of gradualism, except when the economy or the polity was in a crisis.
The US Treasury Department said Ibrahim has links with Al Qaeda and finances the activities of Lashkar-e-Tayiba and other terrorist organisations.
India's real gross GDP grew by 7.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter of 2004 and the rupee depreciated by less than 1 per cent in the first half of the same, the US treasury department has said in a report.
In December, Aisha Shah was named as Partnerships Manager at the White House Office of Digital Strategy.
India and the US on Thursday said they are looking forward to the reconvening of the India-US Trade Policy Forum later this year to further enhance trade relationship and identify new areas for engagement.
As Australia moves ahead with relaxing a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, a state government gave the all clear for more than 2,000 fans to attend an Australian Rules Football game at a stadium in Adelaide this weekend. Australia has suffered at least 102 COVID-19 deaths and about 7,200 infections, but it has not reported a death for more than a week, and new cases have dwindled to less than 20 daily.
The Gupta family has relocated to Dubai amid corruption charges against them in South Africa.
The Asian Development Bank is all set to tap the Indian capital market with its maiden bonds issue amounting to over Rs 455 crore (Rs 4.55 billion) and said its loan sanction to the country would go up to $1.7 billion next year.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, along with her team of bureaucrats, delved into the fine print of the 2024-25 Budget documents in a press conference, detailing the government's road map on bringing down the debt-to-GDP ratio and bold tax measures.
Even as protests raged across Washington, thousands thronged Pennsylvania Avenue on Friday as President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump made their way from the Capitol to the White House.
The US on Friday slapped sanctions against two Indians, including a brother of underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, and a Pakistan-based paper company for their ties with D Company.
Regional States will be worried that the US's nascent engagement with the Taliban behind the fig leaf of humanitarian aid enables the return of US intelligence personnel to Afghanistan, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The country has reduced its holding of American treasury bills by as much as $1.9 billion compared to July when it stood at $58.9 billion.
73-year-old Prasad is in custody following his conviction and sentence by a Central Bureau of Investigation court in February in a fodder scam case involving embezzlement of over Rs 139 crore from Doranda treasury.
'The global situation is not very good.'
