Retail analysts say the first day of Amazon's Prime Day event and competing sales drove solid online spending.

While Momentum Commerce has reported a 41% drop in sales, it says that it could go up 9.1 per cent overall, given that more people buy stuff in the last two days.

Two widowed mothers in Kashmir, scarred by loss and hardship, found hope in the unlikeliest of places, a classroom and a cowshed. With steady support from a local charity, they began rebuilding their ...