Defying predictions, the eastern city lives on and continues to inspire generations past and future “Calcutta is a purely English city. The city belongs and has always belonged to the English and the native community in it is simply a foreign and parasitical community which would cease to exist if …

Canadian Cancer Society releases international status report India has been ranked fifth in the listing of countries that have pictorial health warning on tobacco products, with experts here quick to add that the country is making tremendous progress towards creating public awareness on the health hazards of tobacco abuse. ‘The …

Personal I-T collections increase 19.1% Gross direct tax collection during the first six months of the financial year rose 16.7% to Rs. 5.47 lakh crore, the Finance Ministry said on Thursday. “The provisional figures of direct tax collections up to September 2018 (half-yearly figures) show that gross collections are at …

Decision after creditors’ committee appeals to Bench for another chance to parties to pay off debts The Supreme Court on Thursday struck a reconciliatory note in the ArcelorMittal-Numetal spat in relation to the auction of distressed Essar Steel by giving both companies a fortnight to pay off the NPAs of …

Appoints Vineet Nayyar as MD, chalks out roadmap to put troubled firm back on track by month end The newly appointed board of troubled project developer and financier Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) met on Friday to take stock of the situation, and started preparing a roadmap to bring …

German Chancellor was on a day-long visit to Israel Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of Germany’s “everlasting responsibility” to oppose anti-Semitism during a visit to Israel on Thursday as she and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed past their differences and promoted cooperation between their nations. The one-day visit by Ms. Merkel …

Tiny chips inserted in U.S. computer equipment manufactured in China were used as part of a vast effort by Beijing to steal U.S. technology secrets, a report said on Thursday. The Bloomberg News report said the chips, the size of a grain of rice, were used on equipment made for …

U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated prominent Indian-American nuclear expert Rita Baranwal to head the nuclear energy division at the Department of Energy. If approved by the Senate, Ms. Baranwal will be an Assistant Secretary of Energy, responsible for nuclear technology research and the development and management of the department’s …

It’s seen as a symbol of ‘military aggression’ South Korea on Thursday reiterated a demand that Japan remove its “rising sun” naval flag from a warship participating in an international fleet review at Jeju island next week. Many South Koreans associate the symbol with Japanese military aggression during the Second …

With popularity slumping, the President doesn’t want to be viewed as someone who favours big business at the expense of workers As President Emmanuel Macron presses ahead with the most business-friendly overhaul of the French labour market in decades, his popularity with many of his countrymen has gone into a …