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New Delhi, Aug.31 (ANI): ‘Lateral entrants’, a term coined for non-RSS workers, are in for tough days ahead in the Bharatiya Janata Party.

In the wake of recent wrangling in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) followed by the exit of senior leader Jaswant Singh [...]

New York – Ford Motor Company and union leaders reached an agreement Monday designed to lower health care costs in the ailing US car industry.
The deal would allow the carmaker to make contributions to the United Auto Workers (UAW) health care plan for retirees with up to 50 per cent stock instead of cash, [...]

Berlin – A German union seeking pay rises for Berlin airport staff vowed to disrupt operations at two capital-city airports, with workers to walk off the job for three and a half hours on Tuesday.
Officials said Monday that in the period to be affected, after 6 am Tuesday, 50 takeoffs and 30 landings were timetabled [...]

Lagos – Oil workers in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta went on strike Monday to complain about a lack of protection from militant groups who attack oil facilities and kidnap workers.
Several hundred employees of oil company Total picketed the company’s office in Port Harcourt despite union officials delaying industrial action due to begin Monday, local media [...]

Reykjavik – Icelandic police Tuesday used tear gas to disperse protesters outside parliament during its first session for the year, broadcaster RUV reported.
Iceland has experienced a wave of protests since October when the country’s three banks were nationalized when they faced collapse in the wake of the global credit crunch.
The North Atlantic nation of some [...]

Dhaka – Rescue workers Tuesday recovered 21 bodies from river Meghna in southern Bangladesh after a boat with 50 passengers on board capsized after a collision with a second vessel, police said.
At least 25 people, mostly day labourers, went missing after the accident, which occurred on Monday. Others managed to swim ashore after the small [...]

Around 4,000 employees are looking forward to a chance to get their jobs back at the JK Cotton mill in Kanpur, which closed 20 year ago and will re-open on Monday. The JK Group officials informed that most probably, the mill, which will re-open on Monday, will start functioning in full-swing in the next three [...]

Tokyo – Demanding better job and housing security, a demonstration by 300 Brazilians and their supporters in Tokyo Sunday is just the latest sign of the impact that the global economic slowdown is having on Japan’s Brazilian-based workforce.
Waving their national flags across the busy streets of central Tokyo, the demonstrators called out, “Give us [...]

New Delhi, Jan 9 (ANI): Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) and Oil India Ltd workers today called off their three-day strike, which has severely affected supplies of transport fuels.
BPCL Director (Marketing) S Radhakrishnan here today said that the fuel supplies would be resumed by this evening.
More than 70 per cent of the striking employees resumed [...]

Sydney, Jan 9 (ANI): Australians work the longest hours in the developed world, according to a new study.
One third of full-time workers won’t take any annual leave this year, according the country’’s largest ever study into annual leave accrual by Tourism Australia.
Almost 60 per cent of full-timers don”t use their four weeks holidays each year [...]

Washington, January 9 (ANI): While workers in ant society are known to physically restrain their peers from cheating the queen by having their own offspring, scientists have for the first time found how the cheaters get caught red-handed.
Jurgen Liebig and his colleagues at Arizona State University say that experimental evidence shows that chemical hydrocarbons produced [...]

Colombo – Seven people, including four civilians and three air force personnel, were killed in a roadside claymore mine explosion in north-eastern Sri Lanka on Friday morning, police said.
A vehicle carrying a group of construction workers and airmen was targeted in the Morawewa area of the Trincomalee district, 230 kilometres north-east of the capital Colombo.
In [...]

Chennai, Jan 8 (ANI): Strongly condemning Israeli attacks on Gaza, Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said that the international community would get together and help restore peace in the region.
“India has strongly condemned these incidents and it is our hope that the international community would get together and help restore peace in the region [...]

Hong Kong – The threat of strike action by baggage handlers at Hong Kong International Airport was lifted Tuesday as management reached a deal with workers over their end-of-year bonuses.
Thousands of passengers were hit when 1,000 ground workers staged a three-hour strike between Christmas and the New Year top protest over the axing of their [...]

Hanoi – Some 4,000 workers at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in Vietnam’s Thanh Hoa province went on strike over the weekend, protesting alleged misconduct by the management in the first wildcat strike of 2009, police and trade union officials said Monday.
“This is the first wildcat strike in our province this year,” said Tran Thi Gioi, [...]

Seoul – Ailing South Korean automaker SsangYong Motor Co is to receive 45 million dollars from its Chinese top shareholder Shanghai Automotive Industry (SAIC) Motor Corp, the company said Monday.
The measure showed SAIC’s determination to keep the SUV maker going, SsangYong said. Also the company received an order for 2,000 cars and minivans from SAIC.
SAIC [...]

Hanoi – Vietnamese workers found an unexploded bomb believed to have been dropped by the US Air Force during the Vietnam War, a military official said Monday.
The bomb, estimated to weigh 250 kilograms, was 1.2 metres long and has a diameter of 30 centimeters. It was found Friday in front of a house on central [...]

Kuala Lumpur – Malaysia’s opposition-ruled northern state of Penang announced Monday that builders hiring foreign workers over local applicants would be blacklisted from receiving state contracts.
Contractors and developers awarded contracts would only be allowed to hire foreigners if they are unable to find enough local workers to complete their jobs, said state Chief Minister Lim [...]

Karachi, Jan.5 (ANI): The court here has accepted the bail petition of Sindh National Front chief Mumtaz Bhutto.
Bhutto was arrested on Saturday morning in Larkana and shifted to Karachi for interrogation. Earlier, he was placed under house arrest in Mirpur for allegedly ordering his workers to attack on the office of a Sindhi newspaper in [...]

Tokyo – The Japanese labour ministry on Monday announced it would provide shelters and food for about 500 people who lost their homes and jobs as a result of recent economic recession that led many Japanese businesses to downsize workforce.
The global financial turmoil affected mainly the Japanese manufacturing sector, and the number of temporary workers [...]