A signed vintage photo of Mahatma Gandhi, walking alongside Madan Mohan Malaviya, was auctioned for $41,806 in the United States. Signed in fountain pen, “M K Gandhi,” the rare photo was taken after the second session of India’s Round Table Conference in London in September 1931, according to Boston-based RR Auction. Gandhi who died in 1948 attended the conference, a British initiative aimed at discussing constitutional reforms in India, as […]

Last month, a Trump administration official accused top Indian outsourcers of unfairly cornering the lion’s share of H-1B visas. With the H-1B laws poised to be tightened, India’s IT majors like Infosys and TCS have looked for ways to continue their operations in the US without sending Indian employees to customer sites in the US, which is the largest market for the over $110-billion Indian IT export industry. However many […]

The limit on withdrawal from current accounts has been enhanced to Rs 100,000 per week. In a major relief, the Reserve Bank on Monday more than doubled the daily ATM withdrawal limit to Rs 10,000 but retained the weekly ceiling at Rs 24,000. RBI however doubled the weekly withdrawal limit from current accounts to Rs 100,000 from Rs 50,000 – a move which will ease cash position of small traders. […]

The people who sit on the boards of America’s largest corporations got a modest raise last year. Corporate directors at Fortune 500 companies saw a three percent increase in their total direct compensation for 2015, rising to a median $263,500, according to a new report from the advisory firm Willis Towers Watson. But over the past decade, the increase looks more substantial, rising a cumulative 65 percent since 2006, when […]

The 25,000th Syrian refugee landed in Canada Saturday night marking the end of the first phase of the Liberals’ massive resettlement program. They were part of a plane load of refugees who touched down in Montreal. In the coming days, the group will spread to eight different provinces joining those who’ve arrived in Canada since the Liberals’ launched their Syrian refugee plan in November. The Liberals had first made a […]

When Kris Sanchez joined Twitter in 2009, he didn’t expect much to come of it.  “I really started my Twitter account because I wanted to follow Britney Spears,” Sanchez told Business Insider. “I’m a huge fan.” He found he didn’t have much to tweet about in his daily life, so he started sharing random facts he found while procrastinating on the Internet. He obviously had a knack for it. “By […]