Macron beat Le Pen 66%-% 34 in the run-off in 2017.... Bertrand is running against Valerie Pecresse, head of the Ile de France region, and former European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier for the mainstream right ticket.( Reporting by Richard Lough; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Benoit Van Overstraeten and Alison Williams)....

.... The second player in Sri Lanka's duopoly, Laugfs Gas, has less than 2000 MT of gas, which has

NEW DELHI: Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson has held talks with India’s antitrust head on its pending merger with sister airline Vistara, weeks after the watchdog raised concerns about market power, people familiar with the matter say. The Competition Commission of India( CCI) has been scrutinising the planned merger of Air India, which Tata Group took over last year, with Vistara, a joint venture between Tata and Singapore Airlines.... StarPicks Advanced cancer treatments using Actini

NEW DELHI: Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson has held talks with India’s antitrust head on its pending merger with sister airline Vistara, weeks after the watchdog raised concerns about market power, people familiar with the matter say. The Competition Commission of India( CCI) has been scrutinising the planned merger of Air India, which Tata Group took over last year, with Vistara, a joint venture between Tata and Singapore Airlines.... StarPicks Advanced cancer treatments using Actini

Dennis Reed, founder of the Silver Voices organisation( Image: Rowan Griffiths/ Daily Express) And we thought that the campaigners in favour of scrapping the Triple Lock had slunk away to lick their wounds, for at least the rest of this Parliament; no such luck unfortunately. Both major parties had promised in their manifestos that the Lock was secure for at least five years, but it has only taken 6 months for this vital safeguard to come under pressure again. Labour has just appointed as its Pe

PETALING JAYA: Wah Seong Corp Bhd will turn the corner in the financial year ending Dec 31, 2022( FY22) with the recent RM1. 1bil line pipe thermal insulation job for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline( EACOP) project, according to Hong Leong Investment Bank( HLIB) Research.On Feb 22, 2022, Wah Seong said it had secured EACOP job, located between the town of Kabaale in Uganda and the port of Tanga in Tanzania. HLIB Research pointed out that this is the group’s single largest job win since Nord

PETALING JAYA: RAM Ratings has affirmed its ratings on Genting Bhd and Genting Malaysia Bhd, underpinned by its expectation that the group’s performance and financial profile will steadily improve over the next three years. The ratings agency said the Genting Group has met the thresholds for its ratings a year earlier than anticipated in financial year 2022( FY22).“ Despite the outperformance, we see slightly slower growth ahead, considering more downside risks from the slowdown in key global ec

PETALING JAYA: RAM Ratings has affirmed its ratings on Genting Bhd and Genting Malaysia Bhd, underpinned by its expectation that the group’s performance and financial profile will steadily improve over the next three years. The ratings agency said the Genting Group has met the thresholds for its ratings a year earlier than anticipated in financial year 2022( FY22).“ Despite the outperformance, we see slightly slower growth ahead, considering more downside risks from the slowdown in key global ec

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved a moratorium on payment of spectrum dues by telecom firms as part of a package for the sector aimed at giving relief to companies such as Vodafone Idea that have to pay thousands of crores of rupees in unprovisioned past statutory dues, said news reports. Cabinet has approved moratorium of 4 years for AGR dues, the reports states.... There is also a component of equity-related conversion in the relief package, which will offer a gesture of goodwill and he

Independent presidential candidate Cornel West will announce his vice presidential pick on Wednesday as he seeks to gain ballot access in additional states ahead of the November general election. West, a prominent activist, author and philosopher who had entered the 2024 field first as a Green Party candidate before switching to an independent bid, will make the announcement on" The Tavis Smiley Show."" On Wednesday, we will joyfully open a new chapter in this' moment in a movement,'by announcin