Sanjay Kasliwal, who belongs to an affluent family of jewellers from Jaipur, says the minorty tag is unnecessary, for their religious identity is intact. Jains, he says, have developed their own code of knowledge, acquired proficiency in numbers and …

Sales of gold coins by the U.S. Mint rose 63 percent in January to the highest since April as futures rebounded. The volume climbed to 91,500 ounces from 56,000 ounces in December, while sales of silver coins almost tripled to 4.78 million ounces, the …

Zeke-Tenhoff-Bering-Sea-Gold.jpg Fans of Discovery's Friday-night gold-mining show "Bering Sea Gold" have watched the personal and professional ups and downs of Nome, Alaska, natives Zeke Tenhoff and Emily Riedel, as they try — formerly together and …

WEALTH. Facebook helps rich get richer. Facebook Inc.'s three billionaire co-founders added billions to their collective net worth this week when stock in the world's largest social networking company soared after it reported quarterly results that …

Billionaires Alice Walton, George Soros and Marc Benioff are helping to finance a super-political action committee encouraging former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to run for president, according to a report filed today with the Federal …

Wynne's decision will only reinforce the status quo, for the benefit of the affluent. Given the … Everyone in the supply chain now has increased labour costs so the cost of their goods or service has to increase in order to make the same money as before.

Indeed, according to the chief executive of UCAS (the universities' admissions service), which has been striving for years to ensure that young people from less advantaged homes get good university opportunities, the affluent/ poor imbalance could soon …

Essentially, once they are separated from their villages and the conservative mindset that locks them into a subservient position, elected representatives are merely regarded as service-providers whose track-record is all-important. Nowadays …

Aaron Swartz, the eldest of three sons, was born in 1986 to bookish parents Robert and Susan in affluent Highland Park, 30 kilometres north of Chicago. By the age of three, he'd …. "It's all in the hands of the Secret Service now," he told them …