The police in Pakistan have arrested five men on charges of assaulting, stripping and filming four women in Faisalabad’s Bawa Chak Market, the Dawn reported.The matter had surfaced after a video of the four women went viral on social media.According to the FIR, the complainant, a garbage-picker, went to the Bawa Chak Market with three…Continue Reading
The Union Health Ministry has requested the Supreme Court for early listing and hearing of the matter on the EWS quota so that counselling for the NEET PG could start, as the resident doctors’ strike protesting against the delay entered its 11th day on Tuesday.The NEET PG counselling will not start until the top court…Continue Reading
In the backdrop of the Indian Medical Association’s warning of a massive third wave of Covid pandemic, people in Odisha have set their eyes on the result of genome sequencing reports of 246 Covid positive patients in the State. At a time when the number of Omicron positive cases in the country is increasing with each…Continue Reading
Stocks jumped for a second day, continuing their rebound from a recent rough patch, as investors grew less fearful of the potential economic impact from the new omicron coronavirus variant.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 492.40 points, or 1.4%, to 35,719.43. The S&P 500 added 2.07% to 4,686.75 and sat about 1% away from its…Continue Reading
Dr. Saule Omarova listens during her nomination hearing to be the Comptroller of the Currency with the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on November 18, 2021 in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden’s nominee for comptroller of the currency, Saule Omarova, withdrew her name from Senate consideration for…Continue Reading
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker is stepping down next year after two decades running airlines and will be succeeded by the carrier’s president, Robert Isom, on March 31, the company announced Tuesday.Parker’s retirement as CEO of the largest U.S. airline is the latest in a wave of leadership changes at the country’s big carriers, and the new executives are…Continue Reading
Mickey Drexler has led some big retail brands, and he sees challenges ahead for the sector even as in-store shopping is picking up again. But he doesn’t understand how the latest Wall Street idea for retail —spinning off growing online operations — will solve more issues than it ends up creating.Drexler who has led some…Continue Reading
While global equity markets rallied, other asset classes held steady. Gold, treasury, and dollar saw little change Topics stock markets | Sensex | Omicron Samie Modak | Mumbai Last Updated at December 8, 2021 01:27 IST India’s benchmark indices rebounded from their three-month lows on Tuesday on hopes that the Omicron variant of coronavirus would likely cause only mild…Continue Reading
A day after NCLT admitted RBI’s petition for insolvency resolution of Reliance Capital, the central bank on Tuesday said it has retained the three-member Advisory Committee to assist the newly appointed administrator of the crisis-ridden NBFC. The Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Monday admitted the Reserve Bank’s plea to initiate…Continue Reading
China opposes the boycott and would take “resolute countermeasures”, foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said Topics United States | China | Olympics Reuters Last Updated at December 8, 2021 01:22 IST Photo: Bloomberg The US will have to “pay a price” for its diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, China said, just weeks after talks aimed at…Continue Reading