HP Assembly Elections: Virbhadra Singh to contest from Solan; ...

By Francesco Guarascio BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed on Wednesday watered-down measures to help guard European Union banks against future crises, after two years of fruitless talks among the 28 EU states on more ambitious plans. The ...

The Chief Election Commissioner Achal Kumar Jyoti and two Election Commissioners T Rawat and Sunil Arora, will be in Shimla on Sunday, September 24, to review Himachal Pradesh's election preparedness.The term of the 68-member Himachal Pradesh assembly will end on January 7, 2018. The Election Commission will have to conduct polls before that. The CEC with his two colleagues are also planning a visit to Gujarat in the first week of October. The dates for their travel have not been finalised. May ...

By Foo Yun Chee and Valentina Za BRUSSELS/MILAN (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators will investigate whether the planned 46-billion-euro ($54 billion) merger of Italian eyewear maker Luxottica and French lens manufacturer Essilor could drive out rivals from ...

Set to be the first woman to be a full-time Defence Minister in India, Nirmala Sitharaman's journey in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) started as a spokesperson, and grew in rank soon with her speaking style and debating skills. On Sunday, Sitharaman became ...

The country’s largest non-life insurer New India Assurance is all set to launch its mega initial public offering (IPO) of Rs 10,000 crore this week. In an exclusive interview, its chairman-cum-managing director G Srinivasan spoke to Falaknaaz Syed about the ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Daimler lifted the outlook for its trucks division for a second time in three months on Friday while its overall profit fell on costs related to diesel-engine updates, vehicle recalls and restructuring. Earnings before interest and taxes ...

An attempt by the J&K bar association to challenge the instrument of accession is preposterous. There is a fine line between calculation and deceit and the bar body using prevarication cannot rewrite history There is an old Creole proverb which says cutting ...

Agence France-Presse City: New York US metropolises are locked in a frenzied bidding war to woo the e-commerce giant to build its second headquarters there It’s the prize of a lifetime – a $5 billion investment creating 50,000 well-paid jobs that ...

Soumya Swaminathan’s appointment as World Health Organisation’s deputy director offers an opportunity to push for improving the medical research environment in India, reports Veena Mani. Her famous father, M S Swaminathan, played a key role in revolutionising agriculture in India. Now, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, the newly appointed deputy director of the World Health Organisation, the first Indian to hold the post, has the opportunity to make her mark in healthcare from the vantage ...