Diane Ackerman

Braving the selloff by foreign investors, a meltdown in global equities, weakening rupee, soaring inflation and Nifty’s 52-week low level, retail mutual fund schemes saw positive inflows for the 16th consecutive month since March 2021, data…

The planned takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk is in “serious jeopardy”, according to a report, sending shares in the company 4% lower in after-hours trading on Wall Street.Musk’s team has stopped certain discussions around funding for the…

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have been acquitted of fraud in a Swiss court. The two men, once among football’s most powerful figures, were acquitted of illegally arranging a two million Swiss francs (£1.7m) payment in 2011.At the time,…

The UK’s competition watchdog has raised concerns over the margins made by refineries amid sky-high fuel prices on forecourts across the country.The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said on Friday that it has “found cause for concern…

Costco has reportedly raised the prices of two of its popular food court items. Business Insider reported that the chicken bake jumped from $2.99 to $3.99 while the price of a soda increased from 59 cents to 69 cents.Nexstar Media confirmed…

Key events:Show key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureAll four English regions monitored by KPMG and REC saw a slowdown in permanent job placements, with the North of England only seeing a fractional upturn.London saw…

Sowing of kharif crops has picked up pace with the southwest monsoon entering an active phase, which has pushed up rainfall across the country to normal levels. The acreage under kharif as on July 1 was 27.872 million hectares, up from…

The former Theranos executive Sunny Balwani has been convicted on all 12 fraud charges brought against him for his role at the now-defunct blood testing company.The decision closes the final chapter of Theranos’s legal saga, nearly eight…

Microplastic contamination has been reported in beef and pork for the first time, as well as in the blood of cows and pigs on farms.Scientists at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) in the Netherlands found the particles in…

For all the talk by nationalists about how much they value unity, democracy and tradition, nationalism always turns out to be the most divisive, undemocratic and disrespectful political principle imaginable.The Brexit variety is no…