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Equity benchmark BSE sensex jumped more than 300 points to hit record (intra-day) high on Wednesday in early trade, propelled by a rally in index-heavyweight Reliance Industries (RIL). Please follow and like us:
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee will continue its public impeachment hearings on November 20. CAP experts will be following along to share context throughout the proceedings. The post Congressional Impeachment Hearings, November 20, 2019 appeared first on Center for American Progress. Please follow and like us:
Since taking office in 2017, the Trump administration has had Alaska’s wild places in its crosshairs. This winter, the administration will attempt to auction off the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, which would have extensive impacts on a pristine ecosystem and the Alaska Native communities that depend on its resources … Read moreTrump’s Energy Policies Put Alaska in the Climate Crosshairs
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An indictment was unsealed today charging a former chief executive officer (CEO) of Braskem S.A. (Braskem), a publicly traded Brazilian petrochemical company, for his role in a massive bribery and money laundering scheme involving Braskem and its parent company, Odebrecht S.A. (Odebrecht), that resulted in the diversion of hundreds of millions of dollars from Braskem … Read moreFormer Chief Executive Officer of a Brazilian Petrochemical Company Charged for His Role in a Scheme to Pay Bribes to Brazilian Officials and to Falsify Company Books and Records
A former currency trader was convicted today in New York for his participation in an antitrust conspiracy to manipulate prices for emerging market currencies in the global foreign currency exchange (FX) market, the Justice Department announced today. Please follow and like us:
Cadie McAlister, 21, pleaded guilty to a federal offense and admitted concealing other correctional officers’ assault of an inmate while McAlister was serving as an officer with the Tennessee Department of Corrections. Please follow and like us:
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s Healthcare Inc., doing business as Pharmacy Plus and Pharmacy Plus Specialty (collectively, Jewish Hospital), of Louisville, Kentucky, have agreed to pay $10,101,132 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly submitted false claims to the Medicare program, the Department of Justice has announced. Please follow and like us:
A federal jury in Denver, Colorado, found Martin Fields guilty yesterday of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to commit money laundering, making false claims against the United States, and money laundering, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. Please follow and like us:
Three people are now in custody in relation to the fatal raid that occurred in January 2019 on Harding Street in Houston, Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick for the Southern District of Texas and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. … Read moreTwo Former Houston Police Department Officers Indicted in Connection to Fatal Raid
The government on Tuesday said that the share of Rs 2,000 notes seized during searches conducted by the income tax department has declined from close to 68% in 2017-18 to around 43% so far this year. Please follow and like us:
SALT LAKE CITY UTAH RESIDENTS WILL SEE THE BELOW BILLBOARDS THIS WEEK. TO UTAH – PLEASE CALL SENATOR MIKE LEE @ 801-524-5933 AND ASK HIM WHY HE IS CHAMPIONING A BILL CALLED s386 WHICH WILL GIVE ALL EMPLOYMENT BASED GREEN CARDS TO INDIA ONLY FOR THE NEXT 14 YEARS. BILL s386 IS BEING BACKED BY … Read moreProtect U.S. Workers National Billboard Campaign – Utah Billboards are up & running
We recently posted Out and About in Wollongong featuring the Jolly Swagman, in which we examined the state of the local economy. The show was supported by some excellent research from Mitchell Grande, a recent Graduate of Politics, Philosophy, Economics (Honours) at the University of Wollongong – concerned with Australian public policy, and especially energy policy. … Read moreOut And About In Wollongong
We ran our regular live event last night. This is the high quality edited edition, including some behind the scenes footage. We discussed our scenarios on property prices and other economic metrics over the next couple of years as well as a range of other important questions from the community. The original recording of the … Read moreDFA Live Property And Finance Q&A 20 Nov 2019 And Updated Scenarios
Terra R. Martin is an associate in the Immigration & Workforce Mobility practice group in Polsinelli’s Atlanta office. Terra leverages her experience in immigration law spanning over seven years, to best serve her clients. Prior to joining Polsinelli, Terra worked as a senior associate and in-house counsel. Terra focuses her practice on preparing and filing … Read moreE-Verify Records Purge
When American Men Were Still Men This was in the pre-feminist era https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC44tlr_KsU The post When American Men Were Still Men appeared first on PaulCraigRoberts.org. Please follow and like us:
AUSTRAC, Australia’s anti money-laundering and terrorism financing regulator, has taken Westpac to court, alleging the major bank violated anti-money laundering and terrorism regulation on over 23 million occasions. Via Australian Broker. According to AUSTRAC CEO Nicole Rose, the decision to commence civil penalty proceedings came on the back of a detailed investigation into Westpac’s non-compliance. … Read moreWestpac Hit By AUSTRAC Court Action
Check out my recent podcast on the future of property market/challenges over at Spark Your Fire… https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PBC7EF44GQTIN https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-gqtin-c7ef44 Please follow and like us:
When the Chicago economists discovered that women exist, they added them to the model as if they were just like him. The post Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? appeared first on Evonomics. Please follow and like us:
The use and regard to expenditure benchmarks is “an area that is ripe for further guidance from ASIC”, and will be a focus of the updated RG 209 guidance next month, the financial services regulator has suggested. Via The Adviser. Speaking at the parliamentary joint committee on corporations and financial services hearing on its oversight … Read moreMortgage Expense Benchmarks Under The Microscope
Los Angeles, Nov 19 (IANS) Hollywood star and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio gave a push for safe air in Delhi by posting online about the “hazardous pollution levels” in the Indian city. He took to Instagram to share the post with his 37.9 million followers. “#Regram #RG @extinctionrebellion: Over 1500 citizens gathered in at India Gate, in … Read moreLeonardo DiCaprio pushes for safe air in Delhi
This is an essay on anti-Semitism, but because it’s also about Slavoj Žižek we’re going to have to start with the subject of extra-marital affairs. Very early in my academic career, I was asked to take part in a cross-faculty seminar, where PhD students could present small talks on the development of their research. As… … Read moreSlavoj Žižek’s “Pervert’s Guide” to Anti-Semitism, by Andrew Joyce
Editor’s note: See this new Senate report on the Chinese government program to transfer or steal knowledge and research from American universities. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY American taxpayers contribute over $150 billion each year to scientific research in the United States. Through entities like the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy’s … Read moreThreats to the U.S. Research Enterprise: China’s Talent Recruitment Plans
The Truth About World War II Is Beginning To Emerge 74 Years Later Paul Craig Roberts “The Lies About World War II” (https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/05/13/the-lies-about-world-war-ii/) is my most popular column of the year. It is a book review of David Irving’s Hitler’s War and Churchill’s War, the first volumn of Irving’s three volume biography of Winston Churchill. … Read moreThe Truth About World War II Is Beginning To Emerge 74 Years Later
The United States of America continues to be a land of immigrants, but there is a significant decline in the number of new migrants. According to the American Community Survey (ACS) data for 2018, which measures the US population as of July 1, 2018, the total number of foreign-born population in the US stood at … Read moreIndians living in US up 9 lakh since 2010
The election of former defence secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, as the seventh President of Sri Lanka came as no surprise to those familiar with the island’s politics. Gotabaya’s strong and assertive personality, focussed on results rather than means, earned him… Please follow and like us:
Hotel rooms provide their guests with a very desirable service in the form of a DND – Do Not Disturb – sign. This is meant to ensure that your privacy is not invaded by the… Please follow and like us:
By Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev People ask me, “If death is inevitable, why should i spend time and energy preparing for it?” Don’t forget that what you refer to as death is a unique happening. Almost everything else in your… Please follow and like us:
Anurag Thakur, minister of state for finance, observed in Lok Sabha this week that India is the fastest growing major economy in the world. He added that IMF has projected that in 2020 India will… Please follow and like us:
Amrawati, from a village in Siddharthnagar, UP, lived in a hut with her young children. She singlehandedly ran her household with her earnings as agricultural and MGNREGS labourer in her village. She would face problems running… Please follow and like us:
Dashing hopes that the long running Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute had achieved closure after the Supreme Court’s November 9 verdict, three more Muslim litigants have said they would file review petitions against the ruling. With this a total… Please follow and like us:
The Left’s new pantheon of saints and heroes—here Laura Ingraham and I name names and dish out dirt on each of these fakers! The post HEROES OF THE LEFT: The Left reveals its obsession with liars appeared first on Dinesh D’Souza. Please follow and like us:
Many of you who know me either in person or through my writings know that I adore Twitter. I’ve repeatedly stated that by light years it’s the most effective medium I’ve ever used from the standpoint of reaching individuals and organizations I very much want to reach. It’s also great for challenging users to express … Read moreHouse-Keeping: I Just Got Suspended by Twitter??!?!!?
Indra Nooyi, 64, the former chairperson and chief executive officer of PepsiCo — the world’s second largest beverages company — even in retirement, continued to create history, becoming the first Indian- American to be inducted into the Smithsonian National Portrait… Please follow and like us:
Dr. Siva Subramaniam, 74, chief of the Department of Neonatology at Georgetown University Hospital, on Nov. 14, became the first Hindu-American to be honored with the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington’s ‘Interfaith Leadership Award’ at its 40th anniversary interfaith conference… Please follow and like us:
Dr. Siva Subramaniam, 74, chief of the Department of Neonatology at Georgetown University Hospital, on Nov. 14, became the first Hindu-American to be honored with the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington’s ‘Interfaith Leadership Award’ at its 40th anniversary interfaith conference… Please follow and like us:
As part of the celebrations of the 550th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev — the founder of Sikhism — the Indian embassy hosted an event and reception on Capitol Hill on the philosophy and teachings of Guru Nanak, where… Please follow and like us:
Editor’s Note: Jeff Ferry is chief economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, where Arpan Dahal serves as a research assistant. Bill Parks is a member of the coalition’s board and the founder of NRS Inc. in Moscow, Idaho. In this article, the authors argue that a sales factor apportionment system at France’s statutory rate would likely generate more than double the revenue … Read moreAn Alternate Solution for France’s Digital Services Tax
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee will continue its public impeachment hearings on November 21. CAP experts will be following along to share context throughout the proceedings. The post Congressional Impeachment Hearings, November 21, 2019 appeared first on Center for American Progress. Please follow and like us:
The U.S. House Intelligence Committee will continue its public impeachment hearings on November 20. CAP experts will be following along to share context throughout the proceedings. The post Congressional Impeachment Hearings, November 20, 2019 appeared first on Center for American Progress. Please follow and like us: