Third seeds China won the junior girls' title with an upset victory over India 'A', while top seeds India 'A' won the junior boys' crown, in the US $8000 Reliance India Junior and Cadet Open Table Tennis Championships, at the NSCI-Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.
'We can't say that a year has gone by and it doesn't hurt. But that they didn't succeed, that we can say!' Voices from a memorial ceremony in New York for Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg and his wife Rivika who were killed in the terror attacks.
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Sven-Goran Eriksson's Mexico slumped to a 1-0 defeat in Jamaica in a World Cup qualifier on Saturday while the United States routed Cuba 6-1.
"Temporary recruitment may overtake permanent in the short-term, with employers preferring the flexibility of being able to add or remove staff from their payrolls as needed," Manpower India Managing Director Naresh Malhan said. Citing the global economic turmoil, many employers around the globe are trying to find ways for containing costs and are cautious about hiring decisions by making do with the people they have.
The facility will extend the firm's Latin American presence. Genpact will provide services to GE Money from this facility. The facility was officially opened in July by GE Money and BAC/Credomatic. The centre will initially accommodate more than 700 professionals and has the capacity to grow to approximately 2,000.
The demand for global solutions is pushing Indian BPOs to grow aggressively into global centres, said a senior executive. For instance, in the past 18 months, WNS has expanded its presence in the Philippines, Romania, and now Latin America. Analysts believe the trend will only increase in the days ahead, as clients look for outsourcing partners that can support critical processes from multiple delivery centres.
The pilot program will concentrate primarily on facilities in third countries, such as China and India, which produce much of the world's pharmaceutical raw materials, but are sometimes beyond the reach of US inspectors. The United States imported more than $2 trillion worth of products last year, an amount that exceeds the entire GDP of France and approximately $6,500 for every man, woman, and child in the US.
The study, titled 'Fifty years of violent war deaths from Vietnam to Bosnia: analysis of data from the world health survey programme', published in the British Medical Journal said: 'War causes more deaths than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support a recent decline in war deaths'.
Factbox on former Brazil striker Romario, who officially announced his retirement at the age of 42 on Monday.
Super-heavyweight Robert Acea beat American Michael Hunter on Tuesday to cap off a dominating display by Cuban boxers at the Americas Olympic qualification tournament with nine fighters earning tickets to Beijing. The results marked a stunning return to the international ring by the powerhouse Cubans, who did not send a squad to Chicago for last year's World championships where the first Olympic qualifying spots were up for grabs, following a string of defections.
Cuba produced an upset by holding the United States to a 1-1 draw in the opening round of Olympic qualifying games.
Tough intellectual property rights sought by the EU in its free trade agreement with India have set off global protests
Sri Lanka is listed as the third most dangerous country for journalists, ahead of Pakistan in fourth place. Iraq leads the list with 50 journalists killed in the war-ravaged country in 2007. Somalia is listed in second place.
Ranbaxy has completed the second phase of the clinical trial of a revolutionary anti-malarial drug that could enable it to be the nation's first pharmaceutical company to launch a New Chemical Entity globally.
Cardamom auction crossed a milestone on Thursday when the first-ever e-auction of the commodity was inaugurated by Union minister of state for commerce Jairam Ramesh at Bodinayakannur.
The Black Sea resort of Sochi gained 51 votes to upset favourites Pyeongchang of South Korea who took 47 votes in the second round of the ballot.
Elected along with India on the board of UNAID were the US, Russia, Ethiopia, Mauritania, Guatemala and Monaco.
Two biathletes and four cross-country skiers from the 2006 Turin Olympics were banned for possession of doping equipment and collaboration.
In India, there are so much of added costs in the form of providing food and transportation to employees, says S Nagarajan, Co-founder, 24/7 Customer.
Avid tourists may no longer have to worry about catching the dreaded travellers' diarrhoea, popularly known as Montezuma's Revenge during their numerous jaunts, thanks to researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health, who have developed a new needle-free vaccine containing E. coli toxins, which they claim prevents the disease.
If the country's educated elite (within the 50 million internet number) is dissatisfied with MSM, then it will increasingly rely on emergent media, says Govindraj Ethiraj.
24/7 Customer, a $70 million BPO services provider, said that it planned to tap the capital market, but not in the immediate future.
Indian IT services major TCS will open a global delivery centre in Mexico next year.
India is the next great frontier for global retailers, a $500 billion market growing at 20 per cent a year.
Quoting a US Department of Homeland Security report, mercurynews reports that Indians are the fastest-growing group of illegal immigrants.
Oil rich Venezuela, which has been lobbying for the non-permanent UN Security Council seat for a long time, distributing huge amounts of aid among African, Asian and Caribbean nations. But it is vehemently opposed by the United States.
India, 28 others demand end to Israeli military action
Benita and partner Ruth DeGolia have been chosen for their work among women, especially widows, in Guatemala.
After MacDonald's and Pizza Hut it is the turn of US-based restaurant chain 'Hooters of America' to open outlets in major Indian cities.
There is a tendency to greet new technologies promising large potential returns with exaggerated optimism. But widespread hysterical behaviour ("irrational exuberance") with price increases detached from all underlying economic is far from norm.
A top US Republican lawmaker has slammed the recently unveiled immigration reform plan in the Senate, saying the 'worst' message that can be conveyed while controlling illegal immigration is to 'reward' 12-20 million illegals.
Mumbai based Mocha, a leading coffee and desert destination, has drawn out a massive expansion plan to go international and launch 65 outlets in the country, involving an investment of more than Rs 30 crore (Rs 300 million).
Tara Suri, 17, a high school junior who has been helping orphaned children, has won the grand prize in the Teen Hero Awards programme of the Taco Bell Foundation for Teens. Tara, a Scarsdale, New York, resident, began volunteering when she was 13, when she founded Helping Orphans Pursue Education. Through the organisation, she has helped provide children at orphanages in India and Sudan with access to shelter, education, health care, and other daily necessities.
Midfielder Edmilson has not played for Brazil since he suffered right knee ligament damage playing for Barcelona and underwent surgery a year ago.
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