Shivpal Yadav is a member of the Samajwadi Party, which swept into power in Uttar Pradesh in March with a pledge to stamp out corruption.
After recovering from near-decade lows in February, a benchmark of how much maritime shippers charge to transport dry goods like steel and coal globally has been swooning to record lows, plunging 31.9 percent in the last month.
Brazilian lawmakers have approved a bill that reserves half of the spots in the country's prestigious federal universities for racial minority graduates of the public school system in a bid to provide them with equitable access to the higher education.
Asian stock markets declined for the first time in five days Friday as weaker-than-expected Chinese trade data stoked fears of a growth slowdown in the world's second largest economy.
China reported a trade surplus of $25.1 billion in July amid slower-than-expected growth in exports and imports, raising the concern that the world's second largest economy isn't doing enough to stimulate the economy and avert a slowdown.
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A report out Thursday morning by Jim Reid, head of Global Fundamental Credit Strategy, noted the global financial crisis is five years old today, tracing the beginning of the world's economic troubles to August 9, 2007.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda survived a no-confidence vote on Thursday, spurred by his proposal to double the consumption tax to 10 percent, in the latest example of a political gridlock that is risking a credit downgrade.
Data compiled by the Congressional Research Service show that thousands of Americans making more than $1 million got unemployment benefits.
Despite most central banks slashing interest rates in 2009, there is still room for central banks to maneuver and stimulate their sluggish economies.
Crude oil futures advanced during the Asian trading hours Thursday after data showed Chinese inflation continued to cooled for a fourth straight month in July, rising hopes for monetary easing measures to support growth.
India's industrial output growth fell in June to 1.8 percent against the analysts' expectation of a 1 percent growth, as compared to the same period a year ago.
China’s industrial production grew at a reduced pace in July compared to June indicating that the weakening global demand and the debt burden faced by the euro zone are adversely affecting the country's economy.
The Bank of Japan Thursday kept its key policy rate unchanged and refrained from announcing any monetary easing measures citing that the country's economy is picking up moderately.
China has become Uganda’s number one trade partner, replacing Britain.
MEMC Electronic Materials, Tower Semiconductor, Pebblebrook Hotel Trust, InterContinental Hotels Group, UBS AG, ARM Holdings, Hewlett-Packard and Credit Suisse Group AG are among the companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday.
Local campaigners have compared the potential impact of the mine's effluent to BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster and the Exxon Valdez oil spill, saying the region's fish stocks will become unsellable if the project goes ahead.
Peregrine Semiconductor, which has sold more than a billion high-frequency chips to the mobile industry in the past five years, raised $77 million in its IPO on Tuesday and plans to start trading Wednesday, the latest technology IPO since the Facebook fiasco.
Asian stock markets advanced for the third straight session on Wednesday as sentiment continued to improve on hopes that the major central banks around the world will soon announce new round of stimulus measures to spur economic growth.
Sri Lanka and China remain friendly, despite an incident involving some stray fishermen. India watches closely as its southern neighbor and its big rival to the north get ever closer.
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India's new finance minister P Chidambaram has said that his topmost priority is to regain the investors' confidence.
