The New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan on Nov. 24, 2020 in New York City. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images The Federal Reserve on Wednesday proposed easing a key capital rule that banks say has limited their ability to operate, drawing dissent from at least two officials who say the … Read more
A university in Nigeria has sparked outrage after a video went viral showing female students being touched to see if they were wearing bras before taking part in an exam. In the footage, female staff at Olabisi Onabanjo University in south-western Ogun State are seen touching some students’ chests as they queue to enter an … Read more
Sondeep Shankar/Getty Images Indira Gandhi addressing a press conference in Delhi in 1983 During the mid-1970s, under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s imposition of the Emergency, India entered a period where civil liberties were suspended and much of the political opposition was jailed. Behind this authoritarian curtain, her Congress party government quietly began reimagining the country … Read more