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Industrial action over Sats tests is expected to move a step closer this weekend. Skip related content Related photos / videos Industrial action over Sats tests moves a step closer as NUT members are asked to vote … Related content * Bank learns lessons from Japan's deflation mistakes * School inspections row erupts * Video: Claudia Lawrence's dad makes ... Full story

he Bank of England left interest rates unchanged at a record low of 0.5 percent on Thursday, as expected, and said it would continue with its 75 billion pound asset purchase scheme to boost the economy. Skip related content "The Committee also voted to continue with the programme, announced on 5 March, of asset purchases totalling 75 billion pounds financed by the issuance of central bank ... Full story

* The Bank of England said Thursday it had held interest rates at a record-low 0.5 percent and had so far pumped 26 billion pounds of new money into the economy under ongoing "quantitative easing." Skip related content Related photos / videos Interest rates have already been slashed to a record low 0.5% Enlarge photo * Interest rates have already been ... Full story

The Bank of England left interest rates at a record low of 0.5 percent on Thursday and said it would take two more months to complete its 75 billion pound quantitative easing programme to fight recession. Skip related content Related photos / videos Pedestrians walk past the Bank of England in London Enlarge photo Related content * Sale Sets Barclays Boss For £5m Windfall ... Full story

Barclays said Thursday it had sold its asset management business iShares to private equity group CVC Capital Partners for 4.4 billion dollars (3.0 billion pounds) to bolster its finances. Skip related content Related photos / videos Barclays has fared better in the financial crisis than many of its banking rivals Enlarge photo Related content * Sale Sets Barclays Boss For £5m Windfall ... Full story

The FTSE 100 index is seen opening 18-33 points higher on Thursday, according to financial bookmakers, rallying after notching up a fourth straight session of losses on Wednesday thanks to strength overnight on Wall Street and in Asia. Skip related content Related content * Sale Sets Barclays Boss For £5m Windfall * US bank Wells Fargo sees 'record' $3 bln ... Full story

Failed banks that have been bailed out by the state might need to be broken up to prevent a repeat of the credit crisis, shadow Chancellor George Osborne said on Wednesday. Skip related content Related photos / videos Conservative Party shadow Chancellor Osborne speaks at the Royal Society of Arts in London Enlarge photo Related content * Sale Sets Barclays Boss For £5m Windfall ... Full story

The Bank of England looks set to hold interest rates steady this week for the first time since September, as the central bank continues its 75 billion pound asset-buying programme to get the economy out of recession. Skip related content Related photos / videos A man enters Britain's Bank of England in London Enlarge photo Related content * US bank Wells Fargo sees 'record' $3 ... Full story

The mob of neo-hippies and anarchists that descended on London this week to protest the G-20 economic summit certainly seemed angry. They marched, chanted, burned effigies, broke windows and scrawled graffiti. Some clashed with police and ended up bloodied, arrested or both. Overall, it was a typical display of the poor behavior that has marred these sorts of global conferences since the WTO meeting in Seattle ... Full story

RAM SINGH stands outside Malad railway station and points to a line of vegetable and fruit vendors. "You will find all of UP (Uttar Pradesh) and Bihar here," he says. A potato vendor, the 40-year-old Singh takes pride in being a "Bihari Bambaiyya". Like most migrants, he is a registered voter; he has lived 30 years in the city. Singh knows his time is now, when elections ... Full story

London, Apr 7 (ANI): Prince Harry's charity for orphaned and vulnerable children has seen its fundraising and donations income fall by 84 percent. Sentebale, which operates in Lesotho, paid out tens of thousands in wages and other benefits to staff, which was more than the total collected from donations. Harry co-founded the charity in 2006 with Lesotho's Prince Seeiso with the aim of helping children orphaned by ... Full story

Mumbai, Apr 7 (ANI): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao has said that there was a long-term cost to monetising the budget deficit that needed to be considered despite the apparent short-term benefits of not tapping the market for funding. Subbarao said that government borrowing in the 2009-10 fiscal year would be significantly higher than in the previous year. "This year, we expect the ... Full story

Agra, Apr 7 (ANI): 'Chini ka Roza', a century old monument in Agra, believed to have been built with glazed tiles from Iran, is now in a dilapidated state due to lack of proper care and maintenance. Built in the 16th century by Allama Afzal Jhan Shukhrullah of Shiraz, Prime Minister of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan and a well-known poet, every portion of the monument is ... Full story

London, Apr.6 (ANI): The TATA-owned struggling motor group Jaguar Land-Rover looks to set to receive a European bailout package of 270 million pounds to safeguard as many as 14,500 jobs in the UK. JLR has been one of the victims of a 22 per cent drop in UK car sales over the last year. The loan deal, which has been agreed with the European Investment Bank ... Full story

New Delhi, Apr. 6 (ANI): With the Nifty hitting the 3300 mark on Monday, equities made an impressive opening. Buying interest has emerged in realty, banking and metal stocks. The Sensex jumped by 306.06 points to touch the six-month high level at 10,654.89, while National Stock Exchange's Nifty is up 87 points to 3,298. The Nifty hit 3300 benchmark in the first few minutes of trade ... Full story

Sales and marketing often get lumped together, but that doesn't mean they know how to play nice. You know the story. The sales squad snipes about getting meager support from the marketing department, while marketing folks--who on the whole command far smaller salaries--whine about feeling unappreciated for the quantity and quality of help they provide. And both sides are quick to point the finger at the ... Full story

President Dmitry Medvedev became the first Russian leader to publish his family's assets on Monday, declaring $124,000 in annual income and his wife's Volkswagen Golf as part of a new anti-corruption drive. Medvedev, who says fighting endemic graft is one of his top priorities, has changed the law to force senior officials to make annual declarations of their family income and property. The former lawyer earned 4.14 ... Full story

Hyderabad, April 6 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi Monday said Hyderabad and its twin city Secunderabad were sitting on a powder keg and that terrorists more dangerous than those in Kashmir reside here. He alleged that any incident happening in Gujarat or Mumbai would have links with Hyderabad. He was addressing an election meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Nizam College grounds here ... Full story

London, April 2 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has said that there is a need to substantially increase the existing resources for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the tune of 500 billion dollars in the next two years as an interim step and also to double the IMF quota ... Full story

Dhaka, Apr.2 (ANI): The Government of Bangladesh has taken its first step towards tackling the menace of corporate corruption, which exists on a large scale in the country. Corporate corruption is a force that is as destructive as the cyclones that have ravaged the country's coastline in the past. Last week, Bangladesh's newly elected government took its first high-profile swipe at the problem. According to the ... Full story