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Topline Approximately 100 protesters , many of whom were heavily armed , assembled outside of the Kentucky Capitol building on Saturday afternoon while both chambers of the General Assembly were in session, for a "patriot rally ," mere days after pro-Trump protesters violently infiltrated the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. Key Facts The "United Kentucky"…
India's coal import declined by 17 per cent to 137.16 million tonne (MT) in the April-November period of the current fiscal.
Reliance Industries buys Future Group, its closest competitor in bricks-and-mortar retailA FEW YEARS ago Future Group was seen as, well, the future of Indian retail. From humble beginnings making trousers in the 1980s, Kishore Biyani, its founder, built 2,000 shops in 400 cities across India, selling all manner of consumer goods. That is second only…
A secretive software-maker says hello to the stockmarket—and goodbye to Silicon Valley“ONE NEVER really knows who one’s enemy is.” The words of Jürgen Habermas, a noted Frankfurt School philosopher, are a good point of departure for understanding Palantir Technologies. On August 25th the controversial software firm, named after a magical orb in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord…
The small Croatian firm’s low volumes belie its ambitionsTHE BUSHY beard sported by Mate Rimac, the 32-year-old founder of a Croatian electric-car-technology firm named after him, long predates lockdown affectation. He is said to have grown it to conceal youthful features that might put off potential customers and partners among the world’s big carmakers, who…
In a few months the Chinese telecoms giant will run out of chips—and optionsTHANKS TO ITS high quality and low prices, Huawei’s telecoms gear is popular around the world. Not in America, where the Chinese giant is banished over (unsubstantiated) fears that it could be used by spies in Beijing to eavesdrop on Americans. But…
Washington is increasingly hostile to Chinese firms. Not Wall StreetCHINESE FIRMS get a frosty reception in America these days. President Donald Trump is a relentless China-basher. His administration has tried to crush Huawei, a telecoms giant, ban TikTok and WeChat, two popular Chinese-owned apps, and expel Chinese companies listed on American stock exchanges. No wonder…
A grand settlement looks unlikely in the short term“IN THE SHADOW of their own profound failures, DoJ and DEA now seek to retroactively impose…requirements that are not found in any law.” Unusually strong words to hurl at America’s Department of Justice and its Drug Enforcement Administration. They come from an unusual lawsuit filed by Walmart…