UK-based mining giant Vedanta Resources is threatening the health, livelihoods, human and religious rights of entire communities in India due to its unethical practices, a major new report said on Tuesday.
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The FTSE 100 remained steady on Friday with the banking sector leading the gains following the release of positive news from Lloyds.
Lloyds Banking Group has claimed it is set to return to profit this year due to a larger than expected drop in bad debts.
The FTSE 100 made steady progress on Friday morning, rising by 0.35 per cent, led by some significant gains in the banking sector.
A report from the government's spending watchdog has concluded that students, particularly those with disabilities, were failed by the Student Loans Company last year.
The UK government borrowed another £12.4 billion in February, around £2 billion less than had been predicted by some economists.
The banking sector left the FTSE 100 flat on Thursday, on the day it was confirmed the government borrowed £12.4 billion in February.
Japanese car manufacturer Nissan had welcome news for the British car industry on Thursday with the announcement that production of the UK's first mass market electric car would begin in Sunderland.
The FTSE 100 opened slightly down on Thursday with the banking sector suffering in the first hour of trading.
The FTSE 100 rose by almost half a per cent on Wednesday following the news unemployment in the UK fell by 33,000 in the final quarter of 2009.
Reports claim the union Unite, which represents British Airways (BA) cabin crew, is to meet with its US counterpart Teamsters later today.
Unemployment in the UK fell by 33,000 in the three months to January, with the jobless rate standing at 7.8 per cent, official figures have revealed.
The FTSE 100 continued to build on gains made on Tuesday to open this morning up over a third of a per cent.
Honda has recalled 412,000 cars in the US after customers complained that brakes felt "soft", in yet another blow to the Japanese carmaker industry.
The markets in London ended trade slightly up on Tuesday with British Airways (BA) leading the blue-chip gainers.
The British government must do more to cut its £178 billion budget deficit, a report by the European Commission has said in a pre-general election blow to Labour.
The FTSE 100, Britain's leading shares index, was up 0.64 per cent at 36.03 points to 5,629.88 at 09:40 GMT on Tuesday morning.
The FTSE 100 suffered a disappointing start to the week on Monday, slipping over half a per cent.
British Airways has announced 60 per cent of its customers will be able to fly as planned during strike action due to be carried out by cabin crew later this week.
Lip gloss, hair straighteners, garlic bread and cereal bars have all made it onto the nation's typical 'basket of goods' used to calculate inflation.
The owner of Calvin Klein, Philips-Van Heusen, has bought the clothing group Tommy Hilfiger for $3 billion (£2 billion), it has been confirmed.
Strike action by British Airways cabin crew will go ahead at the weekend after talks aimed at preventing the disruption collapsed this afternoon, the union Unite has confirmed.
Police have handed the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) another file of evidence relating to the expenses of a parliamentarian.