By Raghavendra Kamath Buoyed by demand for good quality hostel rooms post-Covid, student housing companies are beefing up their expansion plans.Good Host Spaces, co-owned by Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincus, for instance, is looking to have a capacity of 100,000 beds in the next three years. Currently, it has 38,000 beds.”We are in talks with […]
A dozen US lawmakers have written a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to file a formal request for consultations with India at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over its “dangerous trade-distorting practices” that they claim have impacted the US farmers and ranchers. The Congressmen stated that current WTO rules allowed the governments to […]
By Alokananda Chakraborty The three big blockbusters – Pushpa, RRR and KGF Chapter 2 – from the south film industry have got audiences back into single-screen theatres in good numbers. So will the larger-than-life, raw action thrillers finally change the script for India’s single-screens, most of whom were counting their days before the end came? […]
The Delhi Police Friday said it had issued a notice to suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma on June 18 and questioned her the same day for allegedly hurting religious sentiments, hours after the Supreme Court rebuked her for her controversial comments against the Prophet. She was booked over her controversial remarks on the Prophet during […]
The world is experiencing interesting times with connected devices redefining how human beings interact with the ecosystem. In this context, innovation in the automotive industry is particularly noteworthy, with connected vehicles becoming equipped for varying degrees of autonomous driving. Their popularity will only continue to grow in the near future with an expected market size of […]
Bloomberg Surveillance: Early Edition, live from London and New York. Francine Lacqua, Anna Edwards, Matt Miller, and Kailey Leinz deliver the latest news and analysis on the markets with leaders in global finance and economics. Giuseppe Lavazza, Vice Chairman of Lavazza Group, says demand for coffee remains strong. George Bory, Chief Investment Strategist of Fixed […]
SERHIIVKA — Powerful explosions rocked the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv early on Saturday, the mayor said, a day after authorities said at least 21 people were killed when Russian missiles struck an apartment building near the Black Sea port of Odesa. Read More
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc said it has bought another 9.9 million shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp, giving it a 17.4% stake in the oil company. Read More
JAKARTA — Indonesia proposed raising palm oil export quotas on Friday and is considering increasing mandatory levels of biodiesel in fuel mixes to prop prices for farmers at a time when domestic palm oil inventories are high, a senior minister said on Saturday. Read More
SERHIIVKA — Russia flattened part of an apartment building while residents slept on Friday in missile attacks near Ukraine’s port of Odesa that authorities said killed at least 21 people, hours after Russian troops abandoned the Black Sea outpost of Snake Island. Read More