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Washington, Mar.11 (ANI): A top US Army official has raised concerns over the possibility of a war between India and Pakistan triggered by extremist groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Addressing the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Lt.Gen. Francis Kearney, Deputy Commander, US Special Operations Command, said while America is taking steps regarding preventing any terrorist activity [...]

FRANKFURT, March 3 (Reuters) – Adidas (ADSG.DE), the world’s No. 2 sports goods maker, expects to grow faster this year in North America than the No. 1, arch rival Nike (NKE.N), Adidas Chief Executive Herbert Hainer said on Wednesday.
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“I am convinced that Adidas and Reebok will grow this year in North America,” Hainer said. [...]

* Opposition says to challenge vote
* Threatens to organise street protests
By Roman Kozhevnikov
DUSHANBE, March 3 (Reuters) – Tajikistan’s opposition threatened on Wednesday to call street protests to challenge the result of a parliamentary election in the impoverished nation bordering Afghanistan.
Any unrest in Tajikistan could worry the West, which uses the Muslim nation of seven [...]

London, Sep 5 (ANI): Former President of USSR Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for failing to fight corruption and for rolling back democracy in the country.

Gorbachev attacked Putin in an exclusive interview to The Times over his failure to convict the killers of prominent Kremlin critics such as the [...]

Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Entrepreneurs should remain wary of what they read in newspapers and other written sources, for they might lead them off track, according to University of California researchers.

Dr. Susan Glover said that public information from both informal and written sources, like newspapers, lead entrepreneurs astray.

In a study Glover took as an [...]

London, Aug 19 (ANI): The collapse of Lehman Brothers is to be turned into a primetime drama by the BBC.

The BBC Two drama will offer a behind-the-scenes take on doomed attempts of chief executive Dick Fuld to save the US investment bank over the three days before the company [...]

Sharm-el-Sheikh (Egypt), July 16 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh held bilateral meetings with his Bangladeshi and Vietnamese counterparts-Sheikh Hasina and Nguyen Tan Dung respectively on the sidelines of the XVth Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit here on Wednesday.

Leaders of developing states that make up NAM had earlier said the world needs a financial system that [...]

Toronto, July 11 (IANS) The unemployment rate in Canada, the most robust of all G8 economies during the current global crisis, has jumped to 8.6 percent, a national report here has said.
Releasing the report Friday, Statistics Canada said 47,500 jobs were lost in June in this nation of about 33 million people.
Nearly 1.6 million Canadians [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): Formula One head Bernie Ecclestone has for his support of Adolf Hitler’s style of functioning saying he was an “idiot” to discuss Hitler or Saddam Hussein.

Ecclestone apologised through a German tabloid saying: “I’m sorry. I apologise honestly [...]

L’Aquila (Italy), July 10 (DPA) French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pushing for an expansion of the Group of Eight (G8).
“The G8 are no longer representative enough to manage the economic crisis,” Sarkozy said Thursday in L’Aquila, Italy, after the close of the second day of the summit of the world’s seven leading industrialised democracies plus [...]

New Delhi, July 7 (ANI): Hours before his departure for the G8-G5 summit in Italy, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said he would project India’s views on major global issues relating to the world economic and financial crisis.

“During my visit, I will discuss several issues relating to the world economic and financial crisis and [...]

London, July 7 (ANI): Formula One commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has claimed that there has been a “big misunderstanding” over his comments about Nazi dictator Hitler that appeared in the press over the weekend.

Ecclestone had said that Hitler was a “man who could get things done” during an interview in which he expressed strong [...]

London, July 6 (ANI): Following the global slow down and economic crisis, the Queen is determined to switch from the LPG-fuelled black cab to an environmentally friendly car service, to save money.

The Queen’s staff at the Buckingham Palace has signed up with Toyota’s ‘Green Tomato Cars’ to cut costs, after they found out about the [...]

New Delhi, July 3 (ANI): Activists of Communist party of India and Socialist Unity Centre of India staged demonstrations against the increase in prices of petrol and diesel here on Friday.

Shouting slogans against the ruling Congress party, protesters demanded the government to roll back the hike.

“The prices of [...]

Rajkot, June 30 (ANI): Foundry Industry in Gujarat has staged a comeback as new business with the revival in demand from engineering and automobile sectors.

Although, the demand from the export sectors is yet to pick up significantly, the [...]

Rome (Italy), June 29 (ANI): Facing a series of domestic scandals that would have embarrassed Roman Emperor Tiberius, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has decided to take the sobriety route by announcing the program for this year’s [...]

Surat (Gujrat), June 28 (ANI): As the government gears up to present this year’s union budget, the recession-hit diamond cutting industry is looking forward to some sops, which could bail it out from the economical rough waters.

Traders in Surat, nation’s diamond hub, said they are anticipating some tax relief in the budget.

“The interest rate in [...]

Seoul, June 26 (ANI): Union Minister for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath has said that the Indian Government is making efforts to protect women from economic slow down and also enable them to uplift themselves.

Addressing the Plenary Session of 3rd East Asia Gender [...]

London, June 21 (ANI): Dashing hopes of Labour Party rebels, British Prime Minister has declared that he will be leading the party at the next election, and has no intention on quitting the leadership.

“I’m just getting on with the job. It is because of my purpose in politics that I’m determined to lead Labour [...]

Washington – The US city of Pittsburgh will host the next Group of 20 (G20) summit of the world’s leading wealthy and developing nations to highlight the effects of the global recession on industry, the White House announced Thursday.
Spokesman Robert Gibbs said the September 24-25 summit, which will be the third gathering of G20 [...]