BNP Paribas posts smaller-than-expected fall in second-quarter...

Aimed at making it easier to hire and fire workers in order to fight stubbornly high unemployment, it will cap dismissal awards, allow workplace referendums and extend the list of issues bosses can negotiate directly with their staff.

China has again extended by three months its technical hold on the US, France and UK-backed proposal to list JeM chief and Pathankot terror attack mastermind Masood Azhar as a designated terrorist by the UN. China had in February this year blocked the US move ...

Neymar will become the biggest name in Ligue 1 as mega-rich PSG IMAGE: Neymar's move to PSG is expected to go through. Photograph: Neymar/Twitter. Neymar's imminent arrival at Paris St Germain can help France's Ligue 1 grow to match Europe's powerhouse leagues, according to the director general of top flight side Lille. The Brazilian striker's 222 million euro (200 million pounds) transfer from Barcelona to PSG hit a glitch on Thursday with Spain's La Liga rejecting the payment of ...

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Minister Gerard Collomb was speaking ahead of a parliamentary vote to extend emergency search-and-arrest powers given to police after Islamist gunmen and suicide bombers killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015.

Money parked by Indians in Switzerlands banks nearly halved to 676 Swiss francs (about Rs 4,500 crore) in 2016 to hit a record low amid a continuing clampdown on the suspected black money stashed behind their famed secrecy walls. In comparison, the total ...

Posted by Equitymaster Share markets in India closed the Thursday session on a positive note on the back of strong recovery in PSU banks . Hopes of positive quarterly earnings and -free roll-out of the goods and services tax (GST) also lifted sentiment. The ...

The government has exempted from import duty sports items and a wide range of goods for the upcoming FIFA U-17 World Cup India, which will see 24 nations vying for the coveted trophy. The first FIFA event to be held in India will be spread over six cities ...

Syed Akbaruddin, India's permanent representative to the United Nation, on Sunday said that India will not sit idle till Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar is brought to justice.Speaking to ANI, Akbaruddin assured that India would ...