World economy
UK to help well-intentioned jihadists returning home to stop others from joining conflict
03 Nov 2014
Getting US patent becoming more difficult: study
01 Nov 2014
China factory activity slides to five month low
01 Nov 2014
Federal Reserve ends bond buying; says US economy recovering
30 Oct 2014
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday ended its monthly bond purchase programme — started in 2009 during the global financial crisis — amidst an uptick in US economic activity and improvement in the labour market
China to invest over £100 bn in UK infrastructure over the next decade
28 Oct 2014
China is set to invest over £100 billion in the UK's infrastructure over the next decade, setting off a new wave of joint ventures with UK firms
Brazil markets fall as President Rousseff wins another term
27 Oct 2014
In one of the tightest voting, Rousseff polled 51.6 per cent of votes in a runoff against Neves, who won 48.4 per cent votes
Five million Britons now in low-paid jobs
27 Oct 2014
Goldman Sachs sees oil prices tumbling in 2015
27 Oct 2014
Rising output will outstrip demand as forecasters generally pare estimates for oil due to slowing global growth, a strengthening dollar and ample supplies
UK recovery slowed in third quarter
25 Oct 2014
WHO vaccines head volunteers to undergo Ebola vaccine trial
25 Oct 2014
The WHO official under whose supervision an Ebola drug was being developed has signed up to become one of the first volunteers to undergo vaccine trials
Oil black-marketing, extortion making ISIL richest terror group: US
25 Oct 2014
US officials have confirmed that the vicious Islamic State has fast become one of the world's wealthiest terror groups, generating tens of millions of dollars a month
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HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
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Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
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