Los Angeles: Diana Ross thinks she should receive a lifetime achievement Grammy for being a mother - not a music legend. The 67-year-old diva, who served as the leader of the Motown group The Supremes before striking gold on her own as a singer and actress, giggled at the notion of such an accolade while on hand to accept her trophy at Saturday's Grammy Special Merit Awards ceremony. "It's been...
11:16 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Los Angeles: The Trustees Awards at the 54th Grammy Awards ceremony which recognise contributions to the music industry in areas other than performance, were awarded to band leader Dave Bartholomew, jazz recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder and Apple impresario Steve Jobs. The Grammys honoured Jobs citing the late Apple boss' advancements that "transformed the way we consume music, TV, movies, and books." Grammy organisers called him a "creative visionary" for...
08:53 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Washington: FBI background interviews of some people who knew Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reveal a man driven by power and alienating some of the people who worked with him. In the FBI documents released Thursday, many of those who knew Jobs praised him, speaking highly of Jobs' character and integrity and asserting that he always conducted his business dealings in a reputable manner. They recommended him for a post during...
10:34 AM, Feb 10, 2012
The Centre has banned four ISRO scientists, including former chief Madhavan Nair, from government jobs over their alleged involved in Devas deal. ...
09:43 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Washington: The United States created jobs at the fastest pace in nine months in January and the unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to a near three-year low, giving a boost to President Barack Obama. Nonfarm payrolls jumped 243,000, the Labor Department said on Friday, as factory jobs grew by the most in a year. The jobless rate fell to 8.3 per cent - the lowest since February 2009 - from 8.5...
05:46 AM, Feb 04, 2012
Brussels: European leaders promised to stimulate growth and create jobs, in a tacit acknowledgment that their exclusive focus on austerity has had painful side effects. Heads of European state and government meeting in Brussels on Monday pledged to offer more training for young people to ease their transition to the work force, deploy unused development funds to create jobs, reduce barriers to doing business across the EU's 27 countries, and...
09:28 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Bahraich: Criticising Mulayam Singh Yadav for his reported statement promising government jobs to rape victims, BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday said the Samajwadi Party president lacked understanding of social concerns. Talking to reporters, the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister favoured capital punishment for rape convicts. "If the BJP is voted to power, it will make provision of capital punishment for rapists to prevent recurrence of such incidents," she said....
01:38 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Davos: Opening up the retail sector to foreign investment will help create millions of jobs in India and also strengthen its trade ties with America, former American Ambassador to India Timothy Roemer has said. However, the US understands the compulsions associated with policy decisions in a democracy, Roemer said in Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum's annual meeting. Timothy Roemer, who resigned as US Ambassador to India...
12:47 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: As political parties try to outdo one another in offering sops in Uttar Pradesh elections, Mulayam Singh Yadav first promised free laptops and tablets to students if Samajwadi Party comes to power in UP. Going a step further, he has announced free saris and blankets for the needy, and if that was not enough, the Samajwadi Party supremo has also said his government will give jobs to rape...
07:52 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has raked up another controversy, this time over his alleged comment that his party will offer jobs to rape victims if elected to power. Yadav was addressing a rally at Siddharth Nagar in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing the crowd, Yadav said, "Investigations will be ordered against the murderers and rapists and they will be sent to jail. We will help the rape victims...
06:50 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Los ANgeles: Apple's Steve Jobs directly asked former Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt to stop trying to recruit an Apple engineer, a transgression that threatened one junior Google employee's job, according to a court filing. The 2007 email from Jobs to Schmidt was disclosed on Friday in the course of civil litigation against Apple Inc, Google Inc and five other technology companies. The proposed class action, brought by five software...
02:34 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Lucknow: Twelve days to go for the first round of polling in Uttar Pradesh and it is pouring sops. The BJP and the Congress released their manifesto on Friday. While the BJP rode the Hindutva plank, the Congress focussed on reservations and unemployment. The Congress wants to increase the sub quota for backward Muslims to 9 per cent while the BJP threatens to do away with the 4.5 per cent...
07:29 AM, Jan 28, 2012
India will have a GDP (gross domestic product) of close to $2 trillion by March 2012. She is expected to more than double her GDP in the next 10 years. With a formal-sector employment of over 80 million, more than 100 million jobs in the formal sector will be created in the next 10 years not only due to growth, but also to fill in the large-scale retirement in the...
10:50 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Davos: With HCL Technologies announcing 10,000 jobs for locals in the US and Europe, India Inc on Thursday chose the WEF meet to send a strong message that Indian IT firms are creating and not stealing jobs in troubled western economies. Also, a message emerged from British Prime Minister David Cameron's advice to the European Union (EU) that instead of being a threat, the emerging economies like India can be...
08:03 PM, Jan 26, 2012
New Delhi: After launching employment schemes for rural India, the Centre now plans to create job opportunities for the nearly 100 million urban poor. The UPA-II has proposed a National Urban Livelihoods Mission (NULM) to address issues related to urban poverty like skill upgradation, entrepreneurship development and providing credit at affordable rates. The mission, to be launched in the 12th Five Year Plan, will replace the Swarna Jayanti Sahari Rojgar...
01:54 AM, Jan 25, 2012
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