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San Francisco, Sep 10(ANI): The Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, making his first public appearance since his return to work in June after six months’ medical leave, has admitted of a liver transplant.

Jobs admitted this on the sidelines of a press conference San Francisco, where [...]

New Delhi, Sep. 8 (ANI): Jet Airways, which had to cancel 190 flights by 2 p.m. on Tuesday due to mass sick leave taken by its pilots, has sacked three pilots.

The airliner has called the agitation illegal, and has secured a restraint order from Bombay High Court against any [...]

Washington, September 8 (ANI): Jennifer Aniston believes “laziness” causes relationships to fail.

The actress, who split from former husband Brad Pitt, actor Vince Vaughn, model Paul Sculfor and singer John Mayer, shared her relationship wisdom with Australia’s Harper’s Bazaar magazine.

“Why does the romance leave relationships? I think it’s laziness. I really do,” Contactmusic quoted [...]

New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI): At least ten Jet Airways flights and its subsidiary out of Delhi were cancelled on Tuesday after a large number of pilots did not report to work in protest against the sacking of two of their colleagues.

According to airport sources, at least 10 early morning flights of Jet Airways and [...]

Ottawa, Sep. 4 (ANI): The Canadian Government has decided to challenge a decision by the country’s Immigration and Refugee Board, which granted refugee status to a white South African because of the colour of his skin.

Brandon Huntley, 31, who had [...]

New Delhi, Aug 25 (ANI): Faculty members of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) in Delhi went on mass casual leave on Tuesday protesting disparities in pay.

Earlier, professors at IIT-Madras went on a mass causal leave on Friday, while their colleagues in IIT-Bombay boycotted classes on Monday.

Professors alleged that the Ministry has completely [...]

Chennai, July 15 (ANI): The armed forces personnel accused of committing murder, rape and other such crimes can be tried in a criminal court and not necessarily through court martial, the Madras High Court has noted.

The bench observation came while dismissing a revision [...]

Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): Repeatedly going to work when ill significantly raises the chances of long-term sick leave later in life, according to a new study.

The trend, called “sickness presence”, is becoming increasingly common as staff fear for their jobs during the recession.

In order to study the long-term impact of the behaviour, researchers randomly selected [...]

Kathmandu, April 18 (IANS) After a lull of two years, India has resumed the recruitment of Nepalis for its Gorkha regiments after a full nod by the Maoist government that had in the past pledged to halt all hiring in the Indian and British armies.
Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood had met Nepal’s Maoist Prime [...]

Hong Kong – Hong Kong’s leading airlines Cathay Pacific and Dragonair Friday invited nearly 20,000 employees to take between one and four weeks of unpaid leave as part of a raft of cost-cutting measures.
The sister airlines also announced that they would cut flight schedules, axing some Dragonair flights to mainland China and cutting Cathay Pacific’s [...]

HONG KONG, April 17 (Reuters) – Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd (0293.HK) said on Friday it would cut passenger and cargo capacity from May following a sharp drop in turnover in the first quarter of 2009.
The Hong Kong-based airline is requesting its staff to take unpaid leave over the course of the next 12 months, [...]

HONG KONG, April 15 (Reuters) – These are some of the leading stories in Hong Kong newspapers on Wednesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
APPLE DAILY
– Hong Kong’s economy will see a recovery in the second half of the year, as asset markets appear to have bottomed [...]

SINGAPORE, April 13 (Reuters) – The Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal carried the following stories in their Asia print and/or Web site editions on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
FINANCIAL TIMES (www.ft.com)
– Goldman Sachs (GS.N) has raised $5.5 billion for a fund to buy [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than three months into a medical leave from Apple, Chief Executive Steve Jobs remains closely involved in key aspects of running the company, the Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook runs the day-to-day operations, but Jobs has continued to work on the [...]

Moscow – Russia’s state railway RZD announced Friday that it has sent one-fifth of its workforce, 250,000 workers, on unpaid leave due the ongoing worldwide economic crisis. Quoted by the Interfax news agency, the 100-per-cent state-owned company reported a loss of nearly 50 billion roubles (1.5 billion dollars), its first major loss in years.
A year’s [...]

Colombo, April 7 (IANS) The United Nations Tuesday expressed ‘deep concern’ for the lives of over 100,000 Tamil civilians trapped in a small strip of land in the northern Mullaitivu district, saying ‘a series of humanitarian pauses must be initiated immediately’ to allow them ‘to leave’ the war zone.
Walter Kalin, the representative of the UN [...]

London, April 3 (IANS) Leaders of the world’s largest economies, including India, Thursday pledged a $1.1 trillion package alongside measures for a tighter regulation of the international financial system to help bring the world out of recession.
The measures were also designed to prevent future shocks.
The leaders at the G20 summit agreed to negotiate a speedy [...]

London, Apr 1 (ANI): On the sidelines of the G-20 summit meeting are the innovative protests and demonstrations that will attract just about as much attention as the photo opportunity of world leaders shaking hands. Protestors have every intention of being innovative and clever and fool the over 20,000 cops who will be on duty [...]

Melbourne, Mar 27 (ANI): Doctors providing sickness certificates might be doing more harm than good for ailing people, according to a new study.

Dr Debra Dunstan of the University of New England in Armidale said that extended absence from work can put a relatively well person in [...]

London, Mar.23 (ANI): At least 3,000 police will be deployed across London to protect President Obama and leaders of 19 other nations during their attendance at the Group of Twenty Summit.

Intelligence gathered so far suggest that an alliance of anarchists, anti-globalization groups and environmentalists intend to bring London to a standstill during the event through [...]