Pakistan Textile Exporters Association (PTEA) has threatened to launch protests in the coming days, in view of the failure of Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) in addressing the gas loadshedding issue faced by textile producers in ...
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Source: Credit: Fisher Marantz Stone National September 11 Memorial: Two 200-foot-square, illuminated pools mark the footprints of New York’s twin towers. Breakthroughs in LED and lighting control technology have made it possible ...
The sharemarket struggled to gain traction yesterday as investors traded cautiously after seven straight weeks of gains. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed down 6.5 points,or 0.1 per cent,at 4717.3.It hit a 19-month high of 4750.7 in early ...
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Workers of the Ilva Genova steelworks protest during a demonstration in Romea gainst the closure of a factory decided by the head of the company. Overhauling Italy’s rigid labor rules was supposed to be Mario Monti’s flagship ...
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Reuters reported that Oman's 2013 budget raised spending nearly 30% over its 2012 plan to IRR 12.9 billion as the Sultanate boosts outlay on social benefits it promised after Arab Spring protests in 2011. Mr Darwish Al-Balushi finance ...
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The Times of India reported that police authorities are beefing up their presence at Anrak alumina plant area to withstand protests scheduled to be held by Congress party activists at the site. Despite prohibitory orders being clamped in ...
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A new contribution framework negotiated between mineral resource giant Xstrata and the Espinar community regarding the company's Tintaya-Antapaccay copper mine in Peru's Cuzco region is to be included in the agreements reached with local ...
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Business Standard reported that GAIL has started issuing compensation to land owners who have lost their land to the gas pipeline project, connecting the Kochi LNG terminal to Bangalore and Mangalore. The first set of cheques were ...
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Business Standard reported that in a bid to find alternate source of bauxite for the Lanjigarh alumina refinery of the Vedanta Alumininium Ltd which is shut down for want of raw material since December 5, Odisha Mining Corporation has ...
Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s Shia prime minister, has warned the largely Sunni protesters to stop their demonstrations. The move comes as powerful Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr voiced his support for the Sunni protests. Maliki has ...
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Pakistan reinstated its YouTube ban on Saturday after it was briefly lifted, reportedly without approval from the country's prime minister, local media reported. The country's federal interior minister, Rehman Malik, wrote on Twitter on ...
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As a new session of the U.S. Congress convenes in early 2013, don't expect lawmakers to rush out a new version of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) or the Protect IP Act (PIPA). While some groups representing copyright holders still want ...
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Pakistan Daily Times reported that the Economic Coordination Committee of the cabinet,which recently met with Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Federal Minister for Finance and Economic Affairs in the chair,approved the recommendations of its sub ...
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IDG News Service-Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack,Symantec,PayPal and other organizations. On Sunday,a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers,MySQL databases,routers ...
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The House Judiciary Committee is moving toward passage of a small portion of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, raising concerns among SOPA opponents. The committee has released a draft bill, called the Intellectual Property ...
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