The 73-year-old and his partner Ria have been living in poverty in southeastern Bulgaria for the last two months, only to receive help after his story grabbed huge attention in the Netherlands following a TV documentary shown last Sunday. They survived the freezing conditions in a broken-down van, lacking electricity, water and sanitary facilities, and…
A UNIVERSITY admin worker has declared bankruptcy, almost six years after she told a group of students to leave an indigenous-only computer lab at the Queensland University of Technology. Cindy Prior became the subject of a nationwide debate around racial discrimination when she told a handful of QUT students to leave the lab in May…
With the palladium price more than $500/oz more expensive than platinum, which is trading at about $812/oz and no signs of palladium supply matching demand any time soon, autocatalyst makers are moving closer to substituting palladium with platinum, Muller said. There are no short-term levers to pull to increase palladium by any miners, particularly in…
RCom on Friday said that it has decided to file for insolvency as the proposed asset monetisation plan failed to make any progress. With Anil Ambanis Reliance Communications (RCom) filing for insolvency proceedings under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) is likely to take a hit over its claim of…
Super priority lending (also known as rescue financing) has been recognized in many jurisdictions. In India, it has now been expressly covered, to some extent, under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC). It falls under the realm of interim finance, which is provided during the corporate insolvency resolution process of an Indian corporate debtor…
Last year corporate deaths rose to levels not seen in five years. On almost every level, personal and company insolvencies are rising, and fast, according to the Insolvency Service. It is bleak news in a bleak midwinter. Maybe that is not a surprise.HMV and House of Fraser were just two of the high street names…