Sharjah / Emirates Business A delegation from Knowledge without Borders (KwB), the Sharjah based cultural project, recently visited the Department of Punitive and Reformatory Establishments in Sharjah. On the agenda for the meeting was the effective rehabilitation of criminals through the habit of reading, with the aim being to successfully reintroduce them into society as model citizens. Headed by …

  Reuters Middle East fund managers have grown more cautious about building positions in both equities and fixed income, partly because of the risk of a U.S. interest rate hike as soon as June, a monthly Reuters poll showed. The poll of 14 leading fund managers, conducted over the last 10 days, shows 21 percent anticipate reducing allocations to Middle …

  New Delhi / Bloomberg India may spend as much as $16 billion — over $1 billion more than initially estimated — on the nation’s first bullet train to elevate the entire railroad, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said. Land acquisition hurdles, as well as people and animals potentially wandering in front of carriages speeding at 350 …