NEW DELHI, Feb 9 (AFP): India's suspended Olympic body elected world squash chief N. Ramachandran as its president on Sunday, raising hopes of the country's return to the Olympic fold after a 14-month absence. Ramachandran, whose elder brother N. Srinivasan...
LONDON, Feb 9 (AFP): Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho insists that Manchester City should still be considered Premier League title favourites despite seeing his side top the table for the first time since September. Chelsea have signalled their title intentions in...
Jones claims Britain's first ever snow medal ROSA KHUTOR, Russia, Feb 9 (AFP): Veteran snowboarder Jenny Jones made history on Sunday by winning Britain's first ever Winter Olympics medal on the snow-and said she was struggling to come to terms...
FE Report | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
An eight-member delegation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) is visiting Bangladesh mainly to develop a detailed plan to improve safety and workers' rights in readymade garment (RMG) factories. Their visit also aims to cover areas including training and capacity...
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (AFP): NASA-building on successful partnerships with private companies to resupply the International Space Station-is now looking to private entrepreneurs to help exploit resources on the moon. In its latest initiative, unveiled in late January, the US space...
FE Report | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
Speakers at a seminar has urged the local IT professionals to register their names online at free of cost to sit for the second Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE). The test will enable the local IT professionals to compete for...
India's bank unions to go on 2-day strike from today NEW DELHI, Feb 9: Operations at India's public sector banks are likely to be impacted as employee unions have decided to go on a two-day nation-wide strike from today (Monday)...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
The number of inbound foreign businessmen has marked a sharp increase in recent weeks thanks to the country's current political scenario, which has improved after the 10th parliamentary election. With the stability of political situation the global business partners are...
Yasir Wardad | 2014-02-10 00:00:00
After a production fall in last fiscal year (FY), rice output of Aus season in the current FY has increased significantly, ushering in hope for achieving a notable growth in overall production which also witnessed a reduction in last FY....
ITEN, Kenya, Feb 9 (AFP): Take a tour around the small Kenyan town of Iten and the scene is something of a who's who of the athletics world. Olympic gold medallists, world record holders as well as the stars of...
DUBAI, Feb 9 (Reuters): Pakistan's finance minister said on Sunday that the country's economic growth was encouraging and that tax collection had risen 26 per cent in January. Ishaq Dar, speaking at a news conference with the International Monetary Fund's...
PHNOM PENH, Feb 9 (Xinhua): Cambodia's 38 microfinance institutions reported a 44 per cent increase in loan disbursements in 2013, according to a report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), the regulator of banking and finance institutions in the...
CARTAGENA, Colo mbia, Feb 9 (Xinhua): The 8th Summit of Latin American trade bloc Pacific Alliance kicked off Saturday in the northern Colombian city of Cartagena aiming to strengthen trade among member states with an agreement on tariff reductions. Leaders...
GREATER NOIDA, Feb 9 (AFP): German giant Mercedes admits it was "a little surprised" when Indian customers snapped up 125 of its new top-of-the-line S-Class luxury cars costing $250,000 apiece in just 16 days. India's auto industry has skidded onto...
PARIS, Feb 9 (AFP): President Francois Hollande begins a three-day visit to the United States on Monday, hoping to leave scandal behind as he seeks to shore up business ties and revive France's stagnant economy. Deeply unpopular at home and...
TAIPEI, Feb 9 (AFP): Taiwan technology giant Foxconn group has signed a letter of intent to invest up to $1 billion in Indonesia as it seeks to diversify production away from China, officials said Sunday. Foxconn, also known by its...
WASHINGTON, Feb 9 (AFP): Argentine President Cristina Kirchner's government was accused by a leading Republican US senator Friday of risking a credit default and of failing to stand by its democratic promises. Latin America's third-largest economy appears powerless in the...
London, Feb 9 (Reuters): Barclays said it had launched an investigation after a newspaper reported that the personal details of 27,000 customers had been stolen and sold, raising the prospect of new fines for the bank. Confidential information on customers'...
MADRID, Feb 9 (AFP): About 40 men pace around on a busy Madrid square to keep warm as they wait to be hired for the day at building sites across the Spanish capital. Every day at 6:00 am Carlos Gonzalez,...
DETROIT, Feb 9 (Reuters): General Motors Co is boosting discounts on full-size pickup trucks by thousands of dollars to keep pace with competitors and to whittle down bulging inventories on dealers' lots. Dealers for rival Ford Motor Co, meanwhile, are...
LAGOS, Feb 9 (AFP): Africa's biggest oil producer Nigeria is facing questions about where billions of dollars in oil money is going, amid suspicions of fraud and it being syphoned off to fund election campaigns. The issue has been rumbling...
CARACAS, Feb 9 (AFP) : President Nicolas Maduro said Saturday he wants to speak to Totoya's top official for Latin America after the carmaker said it would stop production here. Toyota said Friday it would soon halt production at its...
BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) : China's catering sector grew at its slowest pace in more than two decades in 2013 as diners avoided splashing out in luxury restaurants during an anti-corruption campaign targeting official excess, according to state media. Catering...
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