3+ hour, 5+ min ago   (556+ words) IT WAS 2001 and the dot-com crash has just wiped-out fortunes. - By Yu Ming Chin The Asian financial crisis was still an open wound. Into that wreckage, I walked away from a stable career in IT and education to incorporate a…...

4+ hour, 57+ min ago   (466+ words) Firms should not wait till a major disruption to recognise the risks, say panellists Water is cheap — until it isn’t. Amid worsening climate swings and growing digital-infrastructure demand, water-related hazards worldwide, whether in the form of a deluge, a drought…...

4+ hour, 57+ min ago   (352+ words) At least five heads of government were absent from talks at the annual Pacific Island Forum that began on Aug 31, as China-Taiwan tensions weighed heavily over the meeting that was intended to demonstrate regional unity. The prime ministers of Fiji,…...

6+ hour, 2+ min ago   (212+ words) THE government faces demands for 90 minutes of free parking in town and city centres to help desperate high streets. A parliamentary petition from retail event organiser Spring & Autumn Fair calls for the initiative. It says free parking will draw more…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (264+ words) KATHARINE Hoskyns, 89, has become the latest victim of heavy-handed council apparatchiks in a depressingly familiar parable of modern-day Britain. You would have thought the street garden she has lovingly tended for 25 years in North West London would be cause for…...

3+ hour, 3+ min ago   (357+ words) “That single decision did more to reshape Mumbai's built form than any policy of the liberalisation era. The ULC Act had held the city in an artificial stranglehold for decades. When it was repealed, large contiguous parcels became developable, integrated…...

2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (525+ words) The Great Evacuation was a mammoth four-day operation, beginning on September 1, 1939, that moved countless children to rural locations out of reach of the Luftwaffe. To mark today’s anniversary, two evacuees, now in their 90s, share their poignant memories of being sent…...

4+ hour, 1+ min ago   (216+ words) This story is from the September 01, 2026 edition of Financial Express Delhi. STATE-OWNED POWER producer SJVN and its associate companies added 1,730 MW of generation capacity in FY26, while annual power generation touched an all-time high of 13,302 million units, driven by additions across…...

4+ hour, 3+ min ago   (312+ words) At the GlobalHealth Sri Lanka Awards 2026, Lanka Hospitals was named Bariatric Service Provider of the Year in Sri Lanka, Sustainability and CSR Excellence Service Provider of the Year in Sri Lanka, and Medical Tourism Hospital of the Year in Sri…...

3+ hour, 3+ min ago   (317+ words) The stock of Bosch, the second-largest automotive component company by market capitalisation, hit an all-time high last week. This story is from the September 01, 2026 edition of Business Standard. Mumbai, or the erstwhile Bombay, was already at the cusp of change…...