Jaipur, Oct 27 (IANS) French multinational Saint-Gobain Monday inaugurated its $185 million glass manufacturing unit in Rajasthan. State Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje inaugurated the World Glass Complex at Bhiwadi, Alwar district. The plant has a capacity to manufacture close to 1,000-tonne of glass per day and is a fully automated, futuristic (with state-of-the-art robotics), integrated glass […]
Srinagar, Oct 27 (IANS) The National Conference Monday launched a scathing attack on Congress leader and former chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, saying giving it (NC) a full six-year term to govern Jammu and Kashmir after the 2008 elections was no favour. Azad had blamed the decision to let the NC hold the chief minister’s post […]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) The AAP Monday accused the central government of being “selective” in revealing names of foreign bank account holders, asking it to make public all those with money stashed abroad. Addressing a press conference here, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal said the government was not disclosing all the names because […]
Beirut, Oct 27 (IANS/EFE) The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has intensified its airstrikes on anti-government forces over the past week, killing 500 people, 182 of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said Monday. Between Oct 19 and 26, the government forces launched a total of 602 airstrikes, 326 by aircraft and […]
Mumbai, Oct 27 (IANS) After the release of his big-ticket picture “Happy New Year” (HNY) Sonu Sood has pressed the “pause” button in his career. The idea is to watch the audience and the film trade’s reaction to his performance in the movie and to take his career to the next level. “I am looking at […]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Behind the step-by-step approach in the government’s disclosure of names of foreign bank account holders is the confidentiality clause under the Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty (DTAT) that prevents making public the identity of the account holders. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had earlier said the names of persons would be disclosed as […]
Ghaziabad, Oct 27 (IANS) Train movement between Ghaziabad and Delhi was disrupted for about two hours after a railway employee was crushed to death by an EMU train. The accident occurred at 12.30 p.m. Monday at the Sahibabad railway station when gangman Faiz Nath was working on the track and was run over by a Ghaziabad-New […]
Tallinn, Oct 27 (IANS) A teacher was killed in a school shooting around 2 p.m. Monday in Viljandi, southern Estonia, media reported. The school, Paalalinna, where the teacher worked, confirmed the shooting incident reported by Estonian website Delfi. A teacher, who asked not to be named, told Xinhua that the local police had been called in […]
“The Council (US Council on Competitiveness] champions the belief that to be competitive, and raise the standard of living Americans, we must enhance productivity.” www.compete.org/images/uploads/File/PDF%20Files/CoC_2014_Clarion_091014_FINAL.pdf Effective competitiveness is often described as above. Being competitive means being able to increase prosperity, which requires increasing productivity. It’s a fairly straightforward and well-understood relationship – increased productivity leads […]
Kabul, Oct 27 (IANS) A group of suicide bombers stormed the office of a prosecuting attorney in the Afghan city of Kunduz, 250 km north of Kabul Monday, leaving six people dead and seven wounded, security official Abdullah said. “A group of suicide bombers stormed the office of prosecutor in Kunduz city at 1.20 p.m. today […]