Russian president, Vladimir Putin yesterday promised support to Shell chief executive officer Ben van Beurden’s plan to expand the Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project in Russia’s Far East, at a meeting at his residence near Moscow

Lesson to India: China admits nearly 20% of farmland polluted

19 Apr 2014

About 16.1 per cent of soil and 19.4 per cent of farmland in mainland China is polluted, according to an official government report released this week.

Over a third of temp workers in US from India: report

16 Apr 2014

Chinese real estate hit by slowest growth in six quarters

16 Apr 2014

The weakest first-quarter property-investment growth since 2009 indicates tight credit and faltering demand adding to economic and default danger

Global poverty could be up to a third higher than reported

15 Apr 2014

New research suggests that global poverty figures could be underestimated by up to a third

Indian regime change should not affect ties, says China

15 Apr 2014

How widespread is tax evasion?

12 Apr 2014

Every 1 per cent increase in the top US tax rate leads to an increase of 2.1 per cent to 2.8 per cent in foreign portfolio investment (FPI) from tax havens by Peter Dizikes

RBI chief Rajan calls for global ‘safety-net’ fund

11 Apr 2014

RBI governor Raghuram Rajan says a global safety net would be a good policy that could help limit the need to build up reserves, offering little credit risk against extreme balance sheet policies of countries

Majority of UK students to continue repaying study loans into their 50s: study

11 Apr 2014

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