The next time you pick up a bag of spuds from the supermarket or fill up the car with petrol, you can thank a treaty signed in 1875 for the metric system that underpins daily life.

as the standard unit of measurement for length. This led to the establishment of the metric system. The International Organization of Legal Metrology (OIML) and the International Bureau of Weights and ...

The standard definition of arbitrage involves buying and selling shares of stock, commodities, or currencies on multiple markets to profit from inevitable differences in their prices from minute ...

The measure will apply to people serving standard determinate sentences, which is the most common type of jail term. It is based on sentences, rather than offence type. That means violent ...

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Auto component manufacturer Belrise Industries, whose initial public offering (IPO) opens on Wednesday, has raised Rs 645 crore from anchor investors. Some of the marquee names that participated in ...

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