Friday

  On the biggest shopping day of the year, U.K.-based trade union GMB is organizing a protest against Amazon for what it calls “inhuman” conditions for warehouse workers. Amazon has been under a microscope recently as it gets ready to bring 25,000 jobs to each of two new “headquarters” locations in New York and Arlington, [...]

The prospects of growing supplies of oil on the market offset the latest OPEC chatter on rebalancing efforts to push oil prices lower in early Friday trading. Oil drifted around in volatile trading Thursday as key economic indicators bounced off underlying questions about the gap between oil supplies and global demand. Libya and Nigeria, two [...]

A global fund has raised over $12.9 billion from international donors as part of a campaign aimed at effectively eradicating AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis by 2030, conference organizers said on Saturday. The Global Fund asked government, faith-based and private-sector partners to raise a total of $13 billion at a donor conference in Montreal to support [...]

KOLKATA: Indian Oil Corporation Ltd will start moving petroleum goods to Tripura via Bangladesh from Friday. The first convoy of tank trucks will be flagged-off from IOCL’s Guwahati terminal by executive director Dipankar Roy. This convoy of seven tank trucks will carry 84,000 litres of diesel and kerosene to Tripura via Betkutchi (Assam), Dawki (Meghalaya), [...]