Posts Tagged ‘Industry’

Chancellor Alistair Darling has been urged to invest in a national housebuilding programme to give "immediate social and financial return" to the ailing economy. Skip related content Related photos / videos Alistair Darling has been urged to provide £6bn for home-building Related content * McLaren in the dock again with the FIA * McLaren invited to explain themselves * ... 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

Ludhiana, April 7 (ANI): Established in 1978 as a small enterprise by Mrs. Bector, a housewife and passionate food enthusiast, the Cremica Group is today a widely diversified food products company engaged in food retailing and food services industry. Mrs Bector's Cremica, a ... Full story

Amritsar, April 7 (ANI): Jasjit Shergill is today best known for his performance in 'Maachis', the film that highlighted the little known story about making of a terrorist, on big screen. Since then he has acted in over 20 Hindi and Punjabi films. Born into a Jat Sikh family, Jasjit a.k.a Jimmy says when an artist knows that his film has an excellent story, ... Full story

Mumbai, Apr 7 (ANI): Winners of Miss India Universe, Miss India World and Miss India Earth titles have said they were determined to bring international laurels to the country. Ekta Choudhary from New Delhi bagged the Miss India Universe title. Pooja Chopra of Mumbai won the Miss India World title and shared the No. 1 position with Choudhary. Shriya Kishore of Pune was crowned Miss India Earth. The ... 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

Kuwait City, Apr 6 (ANI): Vice President Hamid Ansari on Monday sought the support of Kuwait in forging a common, comprehensive approach to deal with terrorism.Terrorism is an international plague and it has to be fought at the international level," Ansari told reporters onboard his aircraft. On a three-day visit to the Gulf state, Ansari ... Full story

Sydney, Apr 6 (ANI): Cathay Pacific has been honoured with the title of the world's best airline at the annual Skytrax awards. The Hong Kong based airline has beaten world's most renowned passenger aircrafts to grab the top position for the third time in the last 10 years. The annual Skytrax awards are among the most highly regarded in the industry, with the results based on surveys ... 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): Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will begin his three-day visit to Kuwait from today. During his visit, Ansari will hold talks with the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf al Jaber Al Sabah on a wide range of issues. Welfare of Indian community in Kuwait and fostering greater economic partnership will figure prominently in the talks. Besides, strengthening cooperation in the energy ... Full story

Motilal Oswal Financial Services, one of India's leading stockbroking and research firm, has come out with earnings estimates on FMCG sector for the quarter ended March 2009. The company in its latest research report revealed that Nestle's March quarter sales are expected to go up by 18.7% to Rs 1295.4 crore on Y-o-Y basis. In addition, Motilal Oswal predicated Nestle's net profit to go up by 18.5% ... Full story

Pirates seized a British-owned ship on Monday after taking three vessels over the weekend, marking a jump in the number of hijackings in the perilous waters off Somalia this year. In the first three months of 2009, only eight ships had been hijacked in the busy Gulf of Aden linking Europe to Asia and the eastern Indian Ocean off the Somali coast, according to the International ... Full story

Bangalore/ Frankfurt, Apr 1 (ANI/Business Wire India): D A Prasanna, Founder of Ecron Acunova, based out of Germany, India and US, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Antal K. Hajos as Managing Director of Ecron Acunova and CEO Europe. In his new role, Dr Hajos will have overall responsibility for all business, strategic and operational aspects of the European operations. Ecron Acunova GmbH, located ... Full story

London, Apr. 1 (ANI): Estate agents and politicians have been voted as Britain's least trusted professions in a new survey. Bar Standards Board, which conducted the survey, struggled to find anyone who could trust the two occupations. Only one percent people said they trust estate agents and politicians, while bankers (2 per cent) and journalists (3 per cent) got some more public faith, The Telegraph reports. The ... Full story

London, April 1 (ANI): British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith's husband Richard Timney reportedly watched a porn movie called 'Raw Meats 3', while she was away. The 46-year-old used Virgin Media's pay-per-view service to enjoy the skin flick. By secretly dialling up for two porn films on April 1 and 6 last year, he landed his wife in soup, after she claimed their 67 pounds monthly ... Full story

London, Mar 30 (ANI): Watching how a tot reacts to cartoons could help spot autism, according to a new research. It is already known that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) tend to stare at people's mouths rather than their eyes. Now, the new study of ... Full story

Changki (Nagaland), Mar 29 (ANI): First Aloe Vera Distillation Unit of the northeast was recently inaugurated here in Nagaland to cater to internal as well as external consumer. The Rs. 28.5 million Aloe Vera Processing Plant comprises of washing unit, extractor, juicer, storage tank, filtering device, cosmetic processor, powder unit section, tray, drier, boiler and ... Full story

Washington, Mar.29 (ANI): US First Lady Michelle Obama has spent the past month travelling to North Carolina to rally military families, standing next to Hillary Clinton to encourage women to get politically active, showing up at a home-building site on the National Mall, visiting a District of Columbia school to talk up good grades and shovelling dirt for a "kitchen garden" at the White House. ... Full story

Moradabad, Mar 29 (ANI): Chemical substances used in making brass items in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh for exports have now come under the scanner of the European Union's new regulatory framework on safe management of chemicals. The brass industry of Moradabad, which is already handicapped with business, going down by almost 60 per cent due to ongoing global recessionary trends, has to cope with new regulations. ... Full story

Guwahati, Mar 28 (ANI): Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Saturday said he had not received any notice from the Election Commission (EC) for his reported statement concerning mobilisation of resources from the industry. "The EC has not given me any notice till now. I don't ... Full story