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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

Yes, American colleges have too many liberal professors

A study on political affiliations of professors in 51 liberal-arts colleges showed none of these colleges had more Republican supporters than Democrats. 

Chinese women are riding the booming fertility industry

With the Chinese government ending its one-child policy, the market for fertility services in the country will reach $1.5 billion in 2022.

As US-China trade war heats up, these 5 Asian flashpoints can make or break ties

Discussions over matters related to North Korea, South China Sea, East China Sea, Taiwan, and Xinjiang can spark a wider conflict between the world’s biggest economies.

Record fuel prices are hurting Modi as rupee begins to fall again

Fuel costs are adding to Modi’s challenge of tackling a hurtling pace of growth that’s boosting ownership of vehicles and demand for oil ahead of US sanctions on Iran.

India’s homegrown belt-and-road initiative now faces debt crisis

IL&FS and its associates have $12.5 billion in debt, of which $500 million is due over the next six months.

India’s world-beating stock market run may be coming to an end

Goldman Sachs says India’s equity market looks less favorable amid elevated valuations, a potential slowdown in economic growth and upcoming elections.

Yes, you can blame bad storms on climate change

We should drop belief that origins of weather disasters are mysterious. Scientists are growing increasingly sure of our role in causing them.

The airport of the future is here. And it doesn’t need humans

Singapore's Changi has built an entire terminal to test airport bots of the future. London & Tokyo are also exploring automation.

Rihanna’s lingerie show was not a typical one

The women were tall and short, big and small. They were of all colours and sported plenty of tattoos.

How Jack Ma made rich capitalists acceptable in communist China

Ma showed that an innovative private enterprise could thrive under a Communist regime once hostile, and still at times suspicious, of ambitious capitalists.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.