GLOBAL MARKETS – Asia shares advance, but economy fears weigh
Oct 17th
HONG KONG, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Asian shares rose on Friday after encouraging earnings signals from technology firms such as IBM and a slowly improving tone in beleaguered short-term money markets helped ease concerns about a global recession.
Asian stocks posted their first weekly gain in seven, with advances in the last trading day underpinned by More >
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Loading ...Kingfisher talking to oil cos for ‘phased’ repayments
Oct 17th
MUMBAI (Reuters) – Kingfisher Airlines, India’s No 2 private carrier is in talks with state-run oil firms to repay dues in a ‘phased’ manner, a senior official of UB Group said Friday.
India’s Oil Secretary R.S. Pandey said on Thursday some domestic airlines, including Kingfisher, had defaulted on jet fuel payments.
“We are discussing with Oil PSUs More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Titanic survivor to sell off mementoes to pay medical fees
Oct 17th
London, Oct 17 (DPA) The last remaining survivor of the Titanic in Britain has said she is forced to sell mementoes from the ill-fated cruise liner to pay for her nursing home fees, reports said.
Millvina Dean, 96, is hoping to raise more than 3,000 pounds ($5,200) from selling a suitcase full of clothes given to More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Jet Airways reinstates sacked employees
Oct 17th
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s leading private carrier Jet Airways has reinstated 800 sacked flight attendants, its chief said on Thursday, following protests in cities and demands for a probe by politicians.
Chairman Naresh Goyal told a news conference in Mumbai that reinstating the sacked employees was his personal decision.
“I apologise for all the agony you went More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Doctors warn of rash from mobile phone use
Oct 17th
LONDON (Reuters) – Doctors baffled by an unexplained rash on people’s ears or cheeks should be on alert for a skin allergy caused by too much mobile phone use, the British Association of Dermatologists said on Thursday.
Citing published studies, the group said a red or itchy rash, known as “mobile phone dermatitis”, affects people who More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Soon, fridges that will text or e-mail you when food is going off!
Oct 17th
Fridges that will be able to send consumers email or text alerts when food is going off are being created by a group of researchers.
Ten scientists at Manchester University are working on an advanced device that will be able to send consumers email or text alerts.
Project head Dr Bruce Grieve said: “Food wastage costs in More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘US cannot shape the world without India’
Oct 17th
Washington, Oct 17 (IANS) Describing the India-US civil nuclear deal as a ‘game-changing’ success story, a senior Republican leader has advised the next US president that American efforts to shape the world may not succeed fully without India.
‘The bottom line is that American efforts to shape the world are unlikely to succeed fully without the More >
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...THREE WISHES humor
Oct 16th
An advertising team working late into night
Had to present their report the next morning.
A genie appeared and offered one wish each.
Copy writer said he wanted to write a novel
Which will fetch a Nobel Prize. For this he
Wanted to be in a tropical island, so he can
Concentrate. The art director said “ I want to
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BRITISH OR AMERICAN ENGLISH – WHICH IS CORRECT
Oct 16th
I still remember my third standard teacher chiding for misspelling the word “colour” as “color” and now after four decades my software says that colour is wrong spelling. India was one country which was faithful to British in many ways even after independence and among many one main affinity is (was??) we speak read and More >
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