India's industrial production grew 2.4 per cent in January from a year earlier, government data showed on Tuesday. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected the output to grow 1.2 per cent annually. Revised data for December showed production at factories, mines and utilities shrank 0.5 percent compared with 0.6 per cent contraction earlier. ...
11:41 AM, Mar 12, 2013
New Delhi: It had been another brutal day for the rupee on the foreign exchanges as India's economic crisis escalated and, travelling home from a visit to Myanmar last week, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh summoned journalists on his plane for a briefing. The one statement he had prepared for the media that night, however, concerned allegations of corruption levelled against him and his cabinet ministers - not the economy. Quizzed...
09:02 AM, Jun 04, 2012
Washington: Being cut off from official e-mails not only lowers stress levels but also allows employees to concentrate far better, says a new study. During the study, researchers attached heart rate monitors to computer users in a suburban office setting. Software sensors detected how often they switched windows. People who read e-mails changed screens twice as often and were in a steady "high alert" state, with more constant heart rates....
11:34 AM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Cash-strapped Air India on Saturday released an instalment of pending allowances to its employees and said it would pay the last month's salary on Monday. "We have today released Productivity-Linked Incentive (PLI) for all eligible employees and will be paying the October salary on Monday to all our staff," a top airline official told PTI. With these payments, no salary would be pending and the number of unpaid...
03:15 PM, Nov 12, 2011
CNN-IBN is putting forth 3 solutions and its probable impact to control inflation. ...
02:25 PM, Nov 04, 2011
London: Working in a posh open plan office? Well, it may be bad for your brain and can also make you less productive, scientists say. A new study has claimed that the hustle and bustle of modern offices can lead to a 32 per cent drop in workers well being and reduce their productivity by 15 per cent. Study researchers found that open plan offices create unwanted activity in the...
07:31 PM, Aug 07, 2011
Survey says, common cold affects work productivity in offices across the country. ...
04:06 PM, Dec 18, 2008
Colombo: Sri Lanka's national press showed rare unity Wednesday in hailing the national team's qualification for the World Cup final after beating New Zealand in a tense last-four encounter. "Sri Lanka in ICC final again," said Colombo's Daily Mirror in a front page splash. The same theme was repeated in the main Sinhala, Tamil and English language national dailies."Lankans stuff the Kiwis to enter finals," said the Daily News. Despite...
01:53 AM, Jan 10, 2008
