India delivers rate cut despite rupee weakness and resilient growth – Nikkei Asia
India delivers rate cut despite rupee weakness and resilient growth Nikkei AsiaSensex settles 450 pts higher, Nifty ends near…
Nikau Hepi lands US college football scholarship despite never playing the sport
Florida State, who initially offered Hepi a scholarship in June, are one of the most prestigious programmes in…
Gotham Awards: Jafar Panahi’s triple win boosts Oscars hopes despite Iran ban
In 2010, Panahi had been sentenced to prison for six years and banned from making films or leaving…
International economists pick Reserve Bank will have to cut Official Cash Rate again
The Kiwi dollar was more sensitive than peers to shifts in global risk appetite, BMI said. “Key headwinds…
‘Please walk on me’: Exhibition with NZ flag on Hastings gallery floor shocks councillor
Hastings councillor Steve Gibson said seeing the New Zealand flag on the floor of the gallery with a…
Swiss tourist Patrick Keusch admits causing crash that killed Glenda Douglas
The court heard that there was no sentencing date available until the new year, despite defence lawyer Grant…
Govt-owned Napier apartment block with 30 flats was completed 5 months ago but is still empty
It had expected a CHP would be contracted to operate the site as soon as it became available,…
Inside Richard Peebles’ $130m Downtown vision for Christchurch’s revival
Christchurch property investor Richard Peebles. Photo / Supplied Peebles’s financial education truly began with his vocation as a…
Consumer confidence still negative despite lift, Roy Morgan index shows
“Although it’s early days in terms of the economic recovery, this is not the only indicator suggesting that…
Luke Metcalf: Warriors star says he was never going to leave, despite wide NRL interest
Metcalf is happy at the Warriors and unlike some past Australian imports has truly bought into the culture…
Richard O’Brien calls Spice Girls ‘lovely’ but says they ‘don’t qualify’ as great singers
But despite not liking their music, the star enjoyed spending time with Melanie C, Mel B, Victoria, Geri…
Reserve Bank Governor Christian Hawkesby comfortable, despite markets suggesting fixed mortgage rates might rise soon
Asked on Thursday morning what he made of swap rates rising, Hawkesby told the Herald, “I think we…