In the fall of 1998, Erskine Bowles, the White House chief of staff, traveled to Capitol Hill to meet with the speaker of the House. Mr. Bowles enjoyed a better relationship with Speaker Newt Gingrich than anyone in the Clinton White House, partly based on a shared Southern heritage and commitment to fiscal conservatism. At […]

(Reuters) – U.S.-based Blackstone Group agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Essel Propack Ltd, India’s largest rigid plastic packaging provider said here on Monday. Blackstone will buy the stake from the Ashok Goel Trust at 134 rupees per share, representing a premium of 1.1 percent over the company’s Monday closing price. Under India’s […]

(Reuters) – India’s packaging company Essel Propack Ltd said on Monday that private equity funds backed by Blackstone Group agreed to buy a majority stake in the company. The consortium of funds will buy a 51 percent stake in Essel from promoter Ashok Goel Trust and the deal value will range from $310 million to […]

The sun, as it always does, brought out every tribe this weekend. Hikers and bikers, golfers and gardeners, talkers and drinkers. Prominent along many a sun-kissed coastline were that ilk recognisable by their bright colours, chilled-out attitude and peculiar vernacular – surfers. An activity brimming with cardio benefits, it’s a pursuit close to the top […]

Representative Max Rose thinks Congress has surrendered its national security authority, ceding too much power to presidents to make war and enter into international agreements. “Congress has just extricated itself from any involvement in foreign policy decisions,” said Mr. Rose, a Democratic freshman whose district includes Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn. “Like, if […]

Kim Blackburde-Moore and her daughter Tehya have been quite busy since the launch of their website in October. The duo has sold hundreds of pieces of clothing inspired by four different Indigenous languages. They make garments with slogans in Michif French, Michif Cree, Ojibwe and Dakota. An assortment of clothing offered by MakadeMigizi Clothing & […]

She might have been a hairdresser or an accountant, a nurse or a factory worker, and the personal tragedy would be as deep. Her family would be as hopelessly cast down, her partner as deeply distraught, her friends as bereft. Lyra McKee chose to live as a writer and journalist – in a world where […]

To the Editor: An April 12 letter commented that because the United States, and now Israel, have elected leaders not to the writer’s liking, he is not “proud of” either country any longer. But I, for one, am proud that the United States and Israel do not put duct tape over the mouths of their […]

THE green plastic bottle, slightly crushed but otherwise intact, must have looked out of place. It lay on the sediment on top of an underground chamber that contained the bones of dead children. The site investigators regarded it as being of “significant evidential value” so they recovered it for analysis, first ensuring that doing so […]

Lyra McKee will not have died in vain if it shocks Irish nationalism, north and south, into resetting its moral compass. We need to do that because under cover of our anger about Brexit, Sinn Fein is rewriting the narrative of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Bad enough that most Northern nationalists forget who did what […]