Bloomberg ICICI Bank Ltd., India’s second-largest lender by assets, reported the biggest drop in quarterly profit in at least 15 years after setting aside reserves on top of bad-loan provisions to cushion future defaults. Net income fell 76 percent to 7 billion rupees ($105 million), or 1.2 rupees a share, for the three months ended March 31, from 29.2 …

  Reuters Saudi Arabia’s central bank, which serves as the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, reported a fall of $6 billion in net foreign assets in March as low oil prices took their toll. Net foreign assets held by the central bank dropped by 1.0 percent from the previous month to 2.17 trillion riyals ($579 billion) in March, central bank data …

  China / Ann The quest for that beauty treatment did have fatal consequences for three Hong Kong women. The medical miscarriages took place over less than three-and-a-half years. Nothing has changed. The city’s beauty industry still is pretty much free to do whatever makes it most profitable. A 46-year-old woman named Chan walked into a DR beauty centre in …