Behind a Real-Estate Empire, Ties to India's Gandhi Dynasty
Robert Vadra, an in-law of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi of India's ruling Congress party, built a real-estate portfolio nearly from scratch in a few years.
View ArticleIn India, a Political Dynasty Prospers
Dynastic politics have surfaced as a major issue in Indian elections. Punjab, ruled by the Badal family, offers a view into how those ties can work.
View ArticleIndia Should Be Bigger Than It Appears
The nation’s recent reactions to foreign opinion has only made it look small.
View ArticleTake a Deep Breath if You Want to Try Competitive Vaping
Competitors are turning electronic cigarettes into sporting devices, challenging each other to see who can blow the biggest vapor cloud.
View ArticleRothschild Mulls Bid for Asia Resource Minerals
Asia Resource Minerals PLC’s co-founder and major shareholder Nathaniel Rothschild said he is considering a rival takeover offer for the embattled U.K.-listed Indonesian coal miner.
View ArticleRio Keeps Pumping Iron
Rio Tinto’s first-quarter iron ore shipments fell sharply, but the miner still expects record sales in 2015.
View ArticleOpportunities in Commodities Open Up
Investors are tiptoeing back into commodities ranging from crude oil to copper to sugar, fueled by signs the global economy is healing and a pause in the U.S. dollar’s rally.
View ArticleWall Street Journal Wins Investigative Pulitzer Prize
The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of abuses in the Medicare system. The New York Times also won three awards.
View ArticleSpider Venom Shows Promise
A discovery about spider venom could lead to a new class of painkillers.
View ArticleLove at First Sight? You Gotta Believe
We are genetically wired for the possibility of falling in love immediately, but it’s largely a matter of timing and self-confidence.
View ArticleTraders Wield Social Media
Some individual investors are building trading careers using social media as their primary tool.
View ArticleThe Best Way to Organize a Lifetime of Photos
Tech Review: Apple Photos, Adobe Lightroom, Shoebox, Lyve and Mylio put your entire picture library in your pocket, Geoffrey A. Fowler says.
View ArticleWhy Do I Throw Out So Much Food?
Refrigerators want to come to the rescue with new technology to keep produce fresher longer.
View ArticleWhy Did These Oil Workers Die?
The deaths of oil-field workers had haunting similarities. Natural causes were blamed at first, but now the possible role of hydrocarbon chemicals is being investigated.
View ArticleClean Up Your Messy Phone Contacts Without Going Mad
Streamline your address books with software tools and Joanna Stern’s contact cleanup plan.
View ArticleMilitants Attack Somali Restaurant
A car-bomb attack bears the hallmarks of the al-Shabaab militant group.
View ArticleChina Widens Economic Door to Pakistan
Chinese President Xi Jinping kicked off $28 billion in infrastructure projects in Pakistan, in a visit meant to showcase deepening ties between the two countries.
View ArticleAbe Says U.S., Japan Near Trade Deal
The U.S. and Japan are near a bilateral agreement on a major trans-Pacific trade deal, Shinzo Abe told The Wall Street Journal.
View ArticleMigrants' Trip Takes a Tragic Turn
Their overloaded and listing boat collided with a rescue vessel; its captain and a crewman have been detained.
View ArticleEgypt's Morsi Gets 20 Years
The ex-president was sentenced on charges of fomenting violence.
View ArticleSaudis to End Airstrikes in Yemen
Saudi Arabia declared an end to its air campaign against Houthi rebels in Yemen and said it was shifting to a political process aimed at stabilizing the country.
View ArticleGoogle Gives Boost to Mobile-Friendly Sites
Google began shuffling its rankings for mobile websites Tuesday, favoring sites that look good on smartphone screens and penalizing sites that don’t.
View ArticleTech Companies Struggle to Get World on Internet
Google, Facebook and others are scrambling to reach the roughly two-thirds of the global population still without Web access. But the Internet’s expansion among new users is actually slowing.
View ArticleGoldman, Morgan Stanley Find Different Paths to Profit
The rival lenders’ strong first-quarter results show that when the markets and customers cooperate, there is more than one way to rack up big profits on Wall Street.
View ArticleCanon Ready to Snap Up Deal
Canon aims to spend another $3 billion to buy a company in a growth sector.
View ArticleCredit Suisse Profit Rises
Credit Suisse posted an improved profit due, in part, to a pickup at its investment bank.
View ArticleGM Sales Get Boost From China
GM’s global sales were boosted by a 9.4% overall gain in China that offset deep declines in Europe and South America.
View ArticleWipro's Profit Fell 9% Last Quarter
Wipro Ltd reported a 9% decline in its fiscal-fourth quarter profit hurt by a stronger dollar and weakness in energy business.
View ArticleChief Executives Awarded More Cash Pay
CEOs’ cash pay rose at its fastest rate in at least four years in 2014, while equity grants are becoming less attractive.
View ArticleTeva Bids for Mylan, Seeking to Create Biggest Generics Firm
Teva Pharmaceutical has proposed to acquire rival Mylan for about $40 billion, a tie-up that would create the world’s biggest generic drug company by sales.
View ArticleOil's Slide Helps Japan Notch First Trade Surplus Since 2012
Japan reported its first monthly trade surplus in nearly three years, helped by falling oil prices, a weaker yen and stronger U.S. demand.
View ArticleJ.P. Morgan Shuffles in Asia
J.P. Morgan reassigned roles among its senior bankers across Asia, giving some veteran bankers broader roles.
View ArticleThe Trouble With Grading Employees
Employee-performance ratings such as ”meets expectations” sap morale, but many companies, including Intel, aren’t sure they can do without them.
View ArticleAsian Debt Piles Up, and Up
Asian countries borrowed heavily during the financial crisis, and coutinued borrowing as the economy healed. Now they are feeling the hangover.
View ArticleEU Tackles Thailand Over Fishing
The European Union said it would ban seafood from Thailand unless it clamps down on illegal fishing.
View ArticleDemocratic Fissures Appear in Pacific Trade Pact
A bloc of congressional Democrats is bucking White House pressure to exclude concerns over currency manipulation from a bill to expedite a 12-nation Pacific trade pact.
View ArticleIndia Official Raised Oil Field Issue With Iran
India has raised the issue of getting back an oil field from Iran, where domestic companies have invested but hadn’t begun producing natural gas because of sanctions.
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