EXCLUSIVE: Anita Hill, who was thrust into the national spotlight when she accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, is launching her own podcast. The author, lawyer and feminist icon has teamed up with Malcolm Gladwell’s Pushkin Industries to launch Getting Even with Anita Hill. The weekly audio series, which launches on February 28, will feature conversations […]

In all this, the political establishment — and especially the finance ministry — appears the weakest link, and worse still, the possible reason for the political backing to Narain and Ramkrishna that emboldened them to defy all the sentinels — the independent board, the auditors, top management persons like the chief compliance officer, the company secretary, and unbelievably the super-regulator […]

The cost of residential real estate has risen so much that even cities which had relatively low home prices for years have become expensive. People relocating from expensive cities like San Francisco to previously inexpensive cities like Boise encountered a market where prices have risen well over 30% in a year. People are not just fleeing San Francisco. Home prices […]

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With Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) becoming a parent company of both IDBI Bank and LIC Housing Finance, either of the subsidiaries will have to wind down its home loan business in the next 20 months, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) condition while approving the insurance behemoth’s takeover of the erstwhile public sector lender. In its approval letter […]

A person with political ties argues they would suffer irreparable reputational damage if their name suppression lapsed in the case of a convicted former rich-lister. A prominent political figure is fighting to keep their identity secret after being mentioned several times at the trial of a wealthy businessman found guilty of indecent assault and corruption. The Herald and Stuff asked […]