MUMBAI: A Tardeo-based businessman opened his e-mail recently to find messages telling him that his wife's credit card had been used in over 20 transactions within 12 hours across four continents to run up a bill of over Rs 2 lakh. The family was in the city at that time. After the shock, 51-year-old Rikin Choksi felt as if he had run into a wall—the issuing bank was way less than helpful and the...
Critics seek to delay NYC sugary drinks size limit
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Opponents are pressing to delay enforcement of the city's novel plan to crack down on supersized, sugary drinks, saying businesses shouldn't have to spend millions of dollars to comply until a court rules on whether the measure is legal.With the rule set to take effect March 12, beverage industry, restaurant and other business groups have asked a judge to put it on hold at least until...
US Postal Service to End Saturday Mail Delivery
Label: Business Feb 6, 2013 8:28am Weekend mail delivery is about to come to an end.The U.S. Postal Service will stop delivering mail on Saturdays, but will continue to deliver packages six days a week, the USPS announced at a news conference this morning.While post offices that open on Saturdays will continue to do so, the initiative, which is expected to begin the week of August...
Tunisia protests after government critic shot dead
Label: WorldTUNIS (Reuters) - A fierce critic of the Tunisian government's dealings with radical Islamists was shot dead on Wednesday, sending protesters onto the streets two years after their Jasmine Revolution sparked revolt across the Arab world. The headquarters of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party, which rules in a fractious coalition with secularists, was set ablaze after Chokri Belaid, an...
Falkland Islanders "do not exist", says Argentinian foreign minister
Label: Technology LONDON: Argentina's Foreign Minister Hector Timerman said on Wednesday that the Falkland Islanders "do not exist" after snubbing the chance of talks with their government members.Timerman told a press conference in London that the 3,000-odd residents of the South Atlantic archipelago were simply British citizens who live there.British Foreign Secretary William Hague met Jan Cheek and Dick...
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Rushed, ordinance is half-baked, may help rapists
Label: LifestyleNEW DELHI: Can a rape accused get away by claiming that he had penetrated a woman's vagina for "proper hygienic or medical purposes"? The hastily promulgated ordinance replacing rape with the broader and gender neutral offence of "sexual assault" has given rise to such a bizarre possibility. This is because of the ill-thought-out definition of sexual assault, which encompasses a wide range of non-consensual...
Critics seek to delay NYC sugary drinks size limit
Label: HealthNEW YORK (AP) — Opponents are pressing to delay enforcement of the city's novel plan to crack down on supersized, sugary drinks, saying businesses shouldn't have to spend millions of dollars to comply until a court rules on whether the measure is legal.With the rule set to take effect March 12, beverage industry, restaurant and other business groups have asked a judge to put it on hold at least until...
Boy Rescued in Ala. Standoff 'Laughing, Joking'
Label: Business The 5-year-old boy held hostage in a nearly week-long standoff in Alabama is in good spirits and apparently unharmed after being reunited with his family at a hospital, according to his family and law enforcement officials.The boy, identified only as Ethan, was rescued by the FBI Monday afternoon after they rushed the underground bunker where suspect Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, was...
Iran's Ahmadinejad kissed and scolded in Egypt
Label: WorldCAIRO (Reuters) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was both kissed and scolded on Tuesday when he began the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The trip was meant to underline a thaw in relations since Egyptians elected an Islamist head of state, President Mohamed Mursi, last June. But it also highlighted deep theological and geopolitical differences....
Iran "danger" threatens Israel's existence: Peres
Label: Technology JERUSALEM: Israeli leaders warned Tuesday of threats posed by Iran, Hezbollah and their mutual ally Syria as the new Israeli parliament opened following last month's general election.President Shimon Peres said the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran was growing under the "terrifying dictatorship" ruling the Islamic republic."The Iranian danger has grown," Peres said in a speech to the Knesset,...
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