The Export Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) of the United States has guaranteed a loan amount of $2.1 billion to RIL( Reliance Industries Limited) predominantly for its megaproject complex in Jamnagar, sponsoring for the necessary products and services that will sourced from America. This has been the largest amount ever granted to the conglomerate in the […]
Burma’s Junta Faces More Criticism As It Extends Suu Kyi’s House Arrest
For the longest time, Burma’s junta has been under scrutiny and backlash from the international community. However, the junta has remained resistant and defiant to the international backlash nonetheless. Back in 2007, the violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests by the junta was widely condemned by the international community. Early in May, there was international criticism […]
British director/producer Ben Bhatia is “Gypsy Wedding veteran”
Ben Bhatia has an extensive resume. Having worked on shows for the BBC, Discovery, Sky, Channel 4, The History Channel, and more, Bhatia has built his career working on docuseries. He helps real people tell their stories. This extends to his work for the hit TLC show My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding. The series […]
Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) signs loan co-financed by Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Japanese banks backed by Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) for up to USD 550 million
Mumbai, April 23, 2014: In continuation of the fund raising programme initiated in FY 2012-13, RIL has tied up Export Credit Agency (ECA) facility of up to USD 550 million co- financed by JBIC and a group of other Japanese banks backed by NEXI to part finance the proposed expansion of its petrochemical plants and […]
Injured Abroad, Neglected at Home: Labor Dept. Slow to Help War Zone Contractors
WASHINGTON–In her first public address after taking office, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis promised to increase enforcement of laws designed to protect workers. "You can rest assured that there is a new sheriff in town," she told union members at a gathering in Miami Beach shortly after her confirmation in February. Ten months later, Solis’ Labor […]
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into tiny crevasses in the […]