Oil contract recipients to be named: Time

The United States Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will soon make public the names of prominent individuals from several countries who received lucrative oil contracts from Saddam......

'Pakistan treating US like chumps'

American lawmakers and experts called for cutting off aid to the country and listing it as a state sponsoring terrorism. A manipulative Pakistan, which supports terrorist elements has been treating......

Learn from India, respect The Hague verdict: US tells China on SCS

The United States has asked China to learn from India's handling of its maritime disputes with its neighbours, ahead of a key ruling by an international arbitrary tribunal on rival claims over the......

Allow Sikhs to serve in the US Army, lawmakers tell Pentagon

A group of prominent United States lawmakers have urged the Pentagon to end the presumptive ban on Sikh Americans serving in the United States military. The group -- a major bipartisan coalition of......

Apple used subsidiaries to dodge billions in taxes

Apple, the top US computer and smart phone manufacturer, used a complex web of offshore entities to avoid billions in taxes, a Senate panel has alleged. The electronics giant's rootless......

'HSBC, StanChart cases won't hit industry'

Recent statements by US regulatory authorities on the captive centres of global banking players HSBC and Standard Chartered would not affect the $70-billion Indian information technology /business......

India staff under scanner in HSBC probe

HSBC's staff in India have come under the scanner for deficiencies in their role as "offshore reviewers" of the global banking giant's compliance to safety mechanism against money laundering and......

HSBC might pay $1.8 bn money laundering fine

HSBC Holdings Plc might pay a fine of $1.8 billion as part of a settlement with US law-enforcement agencies over money-laundering lapses, according to several people familiar with the matter.The......

PGA tour officials to testify to US Senate panel over merger

The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and rival Saudi-backed LIV circuit announced an agreement in early June to merge and form a unified commercial entity. The LIV Golf series is bankrolled by the Saudi......