There will be no government handouts for the hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing crippling increases in monthly mortgage repayments after the Bank of England’s decision to raise rates to 5%. To do so would defeat the object of the interest rate rise – t... More »
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Solar farms stretch out mile after mile along Interstate 10 around Palm Springs, creating one of the densest areas of solar developm... More »
Reliance Jio's plan to launch a 4G phone at a market-low price of $12 to capture the broadly untapped entry-level 2G market in India will disrupt the bottom of the consumer pyramid, but not spark a price war reminiscent of its first such move in 2016, analysts... More »
John Eastman, who was in the vanguard of lawyers plotting schemes involving “fake electors” and other ploys to help Donald Trump thwart Joe Biden’s win in 2020, is now under close scrutiny in federal and state investigations of Trump’s drives to stay in power,... More »
India is considering bilateral agreements with countries such as Japan to allow them to use carbon credits linked to green hydrogen production in India in exchange for investment and purchase deals, two government sources and one industry source told Reuters. ... More »
Americans continue to be arrested on suspicion of taking part in the Capitol attack, two and half years after the January 6 insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump.Court documents on Monday showed that a Michigan man accused of attacking a police officer wi... More »
Food, fuel and fertiliser crisis is a big challenge for all the countries in the world surrounded by controversies, tensions and epidemics and there must be united efforts to deal with it, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday. In his opening remarks a... More »
The Commissioner of Railway Safety (CRS) report investigating the reasons for the train accident near Balasore on June 2 found "lapses at multiple levels". One of the main reasons for it is the wrong labelling of wires inside the level-crossing location box, w... More »
By Annie Massa and Jack Witzig The world’s 500 richest people added $852 billion to their fortunes in the first half of 2023. Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index made an average of $14 million per day over the past six months, according to dat... More »
By Sarah Frier Instagram’s highly anticipated Twitter rival is expected to launch Thursday, according to a listing on Apple Inc.’s App Store.The app, called Threads, will function similarly to Twitter, with text-based posts that can be liked, commented on... More »
By Anto Antony A $64 billion merger of two big Indian lenders is yielding almost no fees to financial advisers, highlighting investment bankers’ struggle for profits in the country. Housing Development Finance Corp.’s all-stock merger into HDFC Bank Ltd.,... More »