The Daily Times reported that Pakistan's Privatization Commission has approved withdrawal of the review petition filed against the Supreme Court's judgment,which annulled the privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills Corporation. Prayer was ...
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Cornwall County Council has voted in support of an IT outsourcing and telehealth partnership with BT after rejecting a controversial plan to privatise a much broader range of council services. After councillors threw out their executive's ...
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CSC has stemmed losses in its 10-year outsourcing deal with Royal Mail through a combination of job cuts, tax breaks and relief payments, according to an analysis of eight years of published accounts for the venture. The supplier signed ...
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Councillors from Cornwall Council have become concerned that backers of a controversial BT outsourcing deal have been using "undemocratic" tactics to influence councillors ahead of a December vote that will decide its fate once and for all. ...
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ABC reported that more than 100 wharf workers have gone on strike at Fremantle Port and the Kwinana bulk terminal, south of Perth. The Maritime Union says members have stopped work because they want their new enterprise agreements to ...
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“Royal Mail wanted a CIO who is comfortable in a really volatile and changing environment to drive change. And I am. I joined because the scale of the challenge is huge and I would be mad to say no to that.” Catherine Doran ...
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Out of India's total use of electrical power, over 60% in domestic and commercial area is for lighting. As India continues to sleep, China is today lighting up many Indian homes and commercial premises through Indian LED trading businesses ...
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New Zealand's largest electricity producer,Meridian Energy has resumed talks with Rio Tinto Alcan,the majority owner of the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter over Rio's request for changes to 18 year contracts for power supply that kick in on ...
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Effort by the Federal Government to comply with the Supreme Court ruling ceding the management of the Aluminium Smelter Company of Nigeria, ALSCON, in Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State to its rightful buyers, BFIG Corporation has been rebuffed by ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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An Egyptian court has ordered the cancellation of Assiut Cement s privatisation contract and the firm returned to state ownership, Ahram has reported. The cement maker has been 95.8% owned by CEMEX, a global building materials firm, since ...
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Digital delivery and a move to mutualised services will be essential for the civil service to weather cuts that will see it shrink to its lowest size since the Second World War,according to Whitehall's Civil Service Reform Plan(CSRP). The ...
ICANN has published the list of companies bidding for new domain names made available by the internet organisation. A significant 1,930 submissions were made to ICANN for the generic top level domains (gTLD) which will enable companies to ...
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Energy-saving measures such as solar panels and double glazing fail to reduce bills in up to a quarter of homes, an official report has found. A trial of the Coalition’s £3 billion “green deal”, under which ...
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Energy-saving measures such as solar panels and double glazing fail to reduce bills in up to a quarter of homes, an official report has found. A trial of the Coalition’s £3 billion “green deal”, under ...
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