Cadbury Plc, now part of Mondelez International Inc, used a nonexistent factory in India to avoid about $46 million in taxes, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing a report by the Indian tax authorities. ...
11:29 PM, Mar 05, 2013
China's Foreign Ministry has denied hacking foreign websites in a strongly worded statement. The statement came after reports that Google Chairman Eric Schmidt had labelled China as "the most sophisticated and prolific" hacker of foreign companies in his upcoming book. ...
12:05 PM, Feb 05, 2013
Your salary may rise or shrink depending on your male boss' firstborn, according to a new study which found that employees can expect a hike if the child is a daughter but salaries may decrease if it is a son. ...
01:12 PM, Jan 07, 2013
Washington: Observing that the "truth-telling" of US President Barack Obama "evidently pricked the thin skin of India's politicians", a leading American financial daily has said he is in fact "cheering" the Indian elite and not insulting them. "It is no wonder foreign investors are appealing to their leaders for help against Delhi's protectionism. Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong alluded to how these policies created a poor business climate during...
06:47 PM, Jul 21, 2012
Los Angeles: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is preparing to spin off its newspaper business into a separate company, an acknowledgement that the printed page that gave rise to a media empire will never again be central to its future. Murdoch's plan to split his company represents a break from the past. The 81-year-old billionaire built the company from a single Australian newspaper he inherited from his father. And through the...
08:59 AM, Jun 27, 2012
New York: Pakistani officials gave the go-ahead to a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani troops, unaware that their own forces were in the area, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday quoting US officials. Last weekend's cross-border attack has caused public outrage in Pakistan, where the government has pulled out of next week's international conference on Afghanistan and threatened to end support for the US-led war there if...
03:02 PM, Dec 02, 2011
New York: An advertisement by Pakistan in America's leading daily the Wall Street Journal on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks has not gone down well with readers in New York with some calling the ad a "joke" and questioning how a country where Osama bin Laden was hiding safely for years can "claim to be a victim of terrorism". Readers posted their reaction to the half-page advertisement in...
01:15 PM, Sep 13, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan has placed an advertisement in the US media to reach out to America on 9/11. "Which country can do more for your peace," asks the advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. "Since 2001, a nation of 180 million has been fighting for the future of the world's seven billion." Dawn reported that Islamabad had initially given this advertisement to The New York Times but they refused to carry...
09:17 AM, Sep 13, 2011
Anna Hazare's agitation has whipped up the curiosity of the global media. While some international websites have compared it to Egypt's Jamsine Revolution, others are questioning if this Gandhi-like method will help the cause. ...
03:12 PM, Aug 18, 2011
London: Rupert Murdoch accepted the resignations of The Wall Street Journal's publisher and the chief of his British operations on Friday as the once-defiant media mogul struggled to control an escalating phone hacking scandal, offering apologies to the public and the family of a murdered schoolgirl. The scandal has knocked billions off the value of Murdoch's News Corporation, scuttled his ambitions to take control of a lucrative satellite TV company,...
07:10 AM, Jul 16, 2011
New York: Former investigative reporter Jill Abramson will become the first female executive editor in the nearly 160-year history of The New York Times in September, the newspaper announced on Thursday. Abramson, 57, is to succeed Bill Keller, who will continue to write for the daily as a columnist. The Times' Washington bureau chief, Dean Baquet, will replace Abramson as managing editor, a post she has held since 2003. "In...
11:16 AM, Jun 03, 2011
Boston: 9/11 attacks mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was warned by a senior Al-Qaeda military commander not to kill Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 and that he should be "freed" but the American was killed anyway, according to leaked WikiLeaks documents. 38-year-old Pearl, who was the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, was beheaded by his Pakistani captors in February 2002 after being abducted. "A...
01:02 PM, Apr 27, 2011
WSJ/NBC poll point to an increasingly difficult political climate for Obama. ...
01:24 PM, Jan 20, 2010
India clarified, Krishna did not advocate a political settlement with Taliban. ...
09:25 PM, Sep 24, 2009
Infosys has topped the list of 10 most admired Indian companies. ...
07:56 PM, Aug 14, 2009
Western companies closing down back-office facilities is to slash costs. ...
10:11 AM, Jun 08, 2009
What are the implications of this deal on the global technology sector? ...
04:48 PM, Mar 19, 2009
Pakistani PMO has told CNN-IBN that LeT planned and executed 26/11 attacks. ...
08:18 PM, Dec 31, 2008
Mumbai terror attacks where 125 people have been killed, have been covered extensively. ...
12:14 PM, Nov 28, 2008
The report late on Monday came after Barclays confirmed it had considered a bid for all of Lehman. ...
12:25 PM, Sep 16, 2008
