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| GM-Opel's threatened loss of jobs strains EU principles | 25-NOV-09 |
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| With thousands of jobs across Europe at stake and the spectre of an internal subsidy race that would threaten the hard-fought internal market of the European Union (EU), the General Motors–Opel saga saw another twist in the tale this week, with Brussels stepping in to play referee. |
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| AEPC plans 3 more apparel training centres | 24-NOV-09 |
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| Keeping in view the growing demand for skilled manpower in the apparel industry, the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) under the Union ministry of textiles has decided to set up three more apparel training and design centres in Orissa. These training cum design centres would be set up at Sambalpur, Baripada and Cuttack during the current year under the Skill Development Project (SDP), said Lopamudra Das, head of AEPC's Bhubaneswar centre. |
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| Birla Sun Life Insurance: Batting for insurance | 24-NOV-09 |
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| Birla Sun Life Insurance, which belongs to the Aditya Birla Group, has roped in four cricketers — Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag, Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma — to endorse its wealth and protection solution plans. |
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| Lagging behind in performance | 22-NOV-09 |
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| Quant funds should be used only for portfolio diversification, and are suited for high net worth investors. |
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| Passenger train derails as Naxalites strike | 21-NOV-09 |
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| In a major Naxalite strike in Thursday night, several bogies of the Tata-Bilaspur down passenger train were derailed on the railway tracks near Manoharpur railway station in West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand. Naxalites used powerful explosives to blow up the train, police said. |
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| Sensex jumps over 17K, up 200pts | 20-NOV-09 |
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| The Sensex after rebounding into positive zone has surged singificantly mainly on account of fresh buying in index heavyweights. |
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| CII to raise trained workforce for industries | 20-NOV-09 |
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| To develop soft skills of students in various management and technical institutes, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), MP Chapter, is in talks with various institutes. The idea is to encourage the students from weaker sections of the society to join industry through orientation and development of soft-skills. Further, the CII is also toying with an idea to do assessment of top technical institutes so that it can suggest ways for the institute to improve its weaker areas. |
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| RBI starts brainstorming on HR challenges | 20-NOV-09 |
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| The top management of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will brainstorm for three days, starting this evening, to find ways to deal with the growing manpower challenges that the central bank faces. |
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| ICICI takes up staff retraining to brush up image | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Every Saturday at 2:00 pm, once the branch has closed for the day, staffers at ICICI Bank’s 1,500–odd branches will assemble for an army-style drill. Over the next two hours or so, they will be drilled by their branch manager on customer service covering everything from how to greet a customer to the necessary follow-up needed when a customer leaves. |
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| ICICI to raise funds for overseas business | 20-NOV-09 |
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| India’s largest private sector lender, ICICI Bank, is planning to raise funds for its overseas branches through five-year dollar-denominated senior unsecured notes issued through its Bahrain branch. |
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| Cabinet approves Rs 7,266-cr plan for Bundelkhand | 20-NOV-09 |
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| The Union Cabinet has approved a special package worth Rs 7,266 crore for the Bundelkhand region, comprising parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The aim is to mitigate the effects of drought in seven districts of UP and six districts of MP. The project is spread over a three-year period. |
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| Sunita Narain: Rich land of the poor | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Take a map of India. Now mark the districts of the country in terms of forest wealth. Then overlay on them the water wealth of the country — the sources of streams and rivers that feed us. On this, plot the mineral wealth of the country — iron ore, coal, bauxite and all things nice that make economies rich. But don’t stop here. Mark on these wealth of India, another indicator — districts where the poorest people of our country live. |
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