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New Delhi: Delhi Police will be questioning former Haryana Minister Gopal Kanda on Sunday. Kanda was sent to police custody for a week following his surrender on Saturday. He was charged for abetting Geetika Sharma's suicide on the August 5 after he was named in the former airhostess' suicide...

Sergio Marchionne drives a hard bargain. After all, the Fiat SpA chief executive gained control of Chrysler Group LLC in 2009 for nothing. Now, he might have met his match in his own boardroom. Erickson Perkins, a close adviser to United Auto Workers President Bob King with an extensive Wall Street background, is on Chrysler’s board as the representative of the union’s retiree health-care trust. He and Marchionne are about to play a multibillion-dollar game of chicken that lines up this way: Marchionne needs the trust’s 41.5 percent of Chrysler to get full control and access to the automaker’s cash, so he’s a motivated buyer and Perkins knows it. At the same...

Seeking to quell environmental concerns about the chemicals it shoots underground to extract oil and natural gas, Apache Corp. told shareholders in April that it disclosed information about “all the company’s U.S. hydraulic fracturing jobs” on a website last year. Actually, Apache’s transparency was shot through with cracks. In Texas and Oklahoma, the company reported chemicals it used on only about half its fracked wells via FracFocus.org, a voluntary website that oil and gas companies helped design amid calls for mandatory disclosure. Energy companies failed to list more than two out of every five fracked wells in eight U.S. states from April 11, 2011, when...

The Sentinel profiles four Central Floridians looking for work. 12:41 PM EDT, August 8, 2010 With bleak job market forcing many to retire early, Social Security facing first ever shortfall...

Struggling to pay for your prescription medication? You’re far from alone: Studies show roughly a quarter of patients don’t take medicines they need because they cannot afford them. There are plenty of ways to save big on medicines, but the complexity of finding the best deal can be a problem. Along with patient assistance programs, there are countless coupons and discount cards available. Prices change often and vary dramatically among pharmacies, even within the same chain, so it’s often very difficult to compare all the deals. Here are some guidelines and sources to try: For starters, when a doctor is about to write a prescription, jump in with key questions: • Are...

New Delhi: Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Saturday said an education loan is a right of every student and the officials with the public sector banks (PSBs) who are found rejecting a large number of applications may be penalised for denying the loans. "Bank account is a right of an individual. It is not a gift of a bank and bank loan is...

Late last year, Youngstown attracted more than 1,000 people to a one-day downtown business conference themed largely around how to make money in the early stages of exploring oil and natural gas from Ohio’s Utica shale. This year’s event, the Youngstown Ohio Utica & Natural Gas 2012 Conference & Expo in early September, will be a little bit different in a couple of ways from last...

The wholesale fashion clothing market is being supplied by CloseoutExplosion.com, a New York based wholesale and closeout business with many customers from Africa, including Ghana. Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) August 18, 2012 The Ghana wholesale clothing and product market is being supplied by Ghana wholesale clothing web site that is part of http://www.CloseoutExplosion.com, a New York wholesale export company that specializes in brand name clothing, shoes, and handbags. With access to designer closeouts, overstock, department store shelf pulls and store returns, Closeout Explosion Inc is able to supply retailers, boutiques, and wholesalers based in Ghana with top of the line closeout merchandise...