Posts Tagged ‘office’

Foreign Secretary David Miliband will make his first visit to Russia by the summer, the Russian ambassador to London said on Thursday, amid signs of a warming in chilly bilateral ties. Skip related content Related photos / videos Foreign Secretary David Miliband heads to Moscow this year Enlarge photo "British Prime Minister (Gordon Brown) is intending to send David Miliband to Moscow by the summer. They are now ... Full story

Elderly people are being neglected by care services which are failing to properly train, check and monitor staff, a Panorama investigation will claim. Skip related content Related photos / videos Elderly people being neglected by care services, Panorama investigation suggests Related content * Man remanded on 1983 Colette murder * Terrorism raids: The arrests * Man in court 25 ... Full story

Bonn, Germany - German's main competition agency, the Federal Cartel Office, fined US software company Microsoft 9 million euros (12 million dollars) Wednesday for imposing a retail price for its Office Home and Student 2007 software. Microsoft said it would pay the fine to avoid a lengthy legal dispute and was reviewing its internal processes in Germany to ensure they complied with German ... Full story

Lima - Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa on Wednesday joined celebrations of the historic ruling that ordered former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori to 25 years in jail for human rights abuses and crimes against humanity. For the author of "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter" and "Conversation in the Cathedral," among other works, the decision is a great precedent not just for Peru, but for all ... Full story

Mexico City, April 9 (EFE) Computer science, law, languages and yoga are some of the subjects included in Mexico's first university for the elderly, an innovative project that seeks to respond to the gradual ageing of the population. Approximately eight percent of Mexicans are over 60, a proportion that rises to 16 percent in the capital borough of Benito Juarez, home of the new institution. Around half ... Full story

HE IS one of India's longest serving MLAs - a rare Muslim who has never lost an election in a constituency where Muslims do not make up even 1 per cent of the voters. Meet Habibullah Khan, the 74-year-old MLA of Nabarangpur, a son of the soil and symbol of national unity in this remote tract of Orissa, 450 kilometres southwest of the state capital ... Full story

New York, Apr 7 (ANI): A sinister plot to smuggle nuclear weapons materials to Iran through unwitting New York banks has been unearthed by the Manhattan District Attorney's office. The Daily News reported that officials plan to unseal a 118-count indictment on Tuesday accusing a Chinese national of setting up a handful of fake companies to hide that he was selling millions of dollars in potential ... Full story

Los Angeles, April 7 (ANI): Each testimony in the latest hearing on prosecutorial misconduct in Anand Jon case was contradictory, fuelling claims that the Indian fashion designer has been a victim of unfair trial. During the hearing, Brian Bennett, the supervising investigator on the case for the Los Angeles district attorney's office, admitted that a juror was stopped from meeting Jon's sister Sanjana, reports LA Weekly. Bennett ... Full story

London, Apr. 7 (ANI): A black council officer has won 112,000 pounds compensation for racial discrimination after he was told not to eat lunch with other staff. Rosene Railton, 43, was forced to eat alone, was refused holidays and told she did not 'fit in,' during her eight months at Northumberland County, an employment tribunal heard. The bullying left Mrs Railton suffering panic attacks and ... Full story

Mumbai, Apr. 6 (ANI): Samajawadi party leader Amar Singh has claimed that an associate of underworld don Chhota Rajan has given him a threatening call, and asked him to stay away from his party colleague Abu Asim Azmi. "I have informed Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, home minister Jayant Patil and also ... Full story

Washington, Apr.6 (ANI): Two young Americans who left their homes to join an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in Somalia held a rare "press conference" in Southern Somalia on Monday, saying they want to be killed "for the sake of God." According to a U.S. law enforcement official and a video posted on a Somali news Web site, at least 20 Somali-American men from the Minneapolis ... Full story

London, Apr.6 (ANI): Details of every email sent and website visited by people in Britain are to be stored for a year as part of what campaigners claim is a massive assault on privacy. A European Union directive, which Britain was instrumental in devising, comes into force which will require all internet service providers to retain information on email traffic, visits to web sites and ... Full story

Washington, April 6 (ANI): U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama's mother, Marian Robinson, will feature with her in the May issue of Essence magazine. Marian joined her daughter for a joint interview and cover shoot for the U.S. Mother's Day issue of the magazine. The interview was conducted in Michelle's East Wing Office at about a month after the inauguration. The mother-daughter duo discussed family, life in the ... Full story

Washington, April 6 (ANI): Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a religious application that alerts Muslim mobile users when it's time to perform the five daily prayers called salat. The application known as Sun Dial is currently being discussed this week at the human-computer interaction conference, CHI, in Boston. "We have to understand religion because it's such a central part of peoples ... Full story

Washington - The United States will push for more restrictions on tourism to the North and South Poles to protect the regions' natural environment, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. Opening a nearly two-week summit bringing together the two diplomatic bodies that govern the Arctic and Antarctic, Clinton warned that protecting the region was crucial for reducing global climate change. "Strengthening environmental regulation is ... 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

Pirates seized a British-owned ship and a Taiwan-registered fishing boat after taking three vessels last weekend, officials said on Tuesday, marking a jump in the number of hijackings in the 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 ... Full story

Islamabad, Apr 2 (ANI): Pakistan today asked India to continue the composite dialogue process, which was stalled in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks. Addressing a weekly briefing here, Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit emphasised the need that efforts should be made for the resumption of composite dialogue process, as it is the only way forward ... Full story

Washington, Apr.2 (ANI): A withering internal report made public on Wednesday has criticized the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for bureaucratic bloat, financial mismanagement and a failure to end the turf battles among America's spy agencies that led to disastrous intelligence failures in recent years. The report, by the inspector general, was the most detailed account to date of problems that bedevil America's intelligence ... 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