Mumbai: Employees in India are likely to get a salary increase of 11.9 per cent this year, says a survey conducted by global human resources consulting and outsourcing firm Aon Hewitt. This is well ahead of competitors China and Philippines, the highest in the Asia-Pacific region. Sandeep Chaudhary, practice leader - compensation consulting told CNBC-TV18 that pharmaceutica sector is expected to top the charts in terms of salary hikes. "Pharmaceutical...
07:46 AM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: India has once again emerged as the most optimistic market, driven by its buoyant domestic consumption levels, but slowing growth and inflationary concerns could put pressure on consumer confidence for the year ahead, says a survey. According to the latest global consumer confidence findings from Nielsen, a provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, India remained the world's most optimistic market for the eighth...
11:50 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Manila: Rescuers digging for survivors among dozens of people buried by earthquake-triggered landslides on a central Philippine island have found only bodies. The death toll climbed to 15 on Tuesday, and at least 73 people were still missing. Monday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake also collapsed bridges and damaged roads on Negros Island, forcing soldiers and firefighters to hike mountains to reach remote villages. Most of the confirmed deaths were in Planas village,...
10:06 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Manila/ Philippines: Rescuers dig with picks and shovels trying to reach dozens of people trapped under houses collapsed by a strong earthquake on Monday that shook a central Philippine island and set off landslides. At least 13 people were killed and 40 are believed missing, most of them along the shore near the epicenter of the 6.8-magnitude quake that struck in a narrow strait just off Negros Island. In the...
04:35 PM, Feb 06, 2012
Manila: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines on Monday, killing a child and triggering a local tsunami alert. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology issued the tsunami alert for the central Philippines, saying the quake, which hit in a narrow strait just off Negros Island, could trigger a 3-foot (1-meter) wave along the island's eastern coast as well as west of Cebu City, the country's second largest. The...
11:49 AM, Feb 06, 2012
Manila: A landslide buried shanty houses in a mining area on a southern Philippine island, killing at least 25 people and leaving dozens missing, local disaster and security officials said on Thursday. The incident, the second one in Pantukan town in almost nine months, took place near the Kingking area on the southern island of Mindanao, said to be one of the world's largest undeveloped copper-gold deposits. Government officials said...
07:46 AM, Jan 06, 2012
Iligan: Philippine President Benigno Aquino ordered an investigation on Tuesday into flash floods and landslides that sent mud and logs crashing down on residents, killing about 1,000 people on a southern island. The national disaster agency said 957 were killed and 49 missing on Mindanao after Typhoon Washi triggered the slides. Most of the casualties were in the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan and tens of thousands remain...
02:04 AM, Dec 21, 2011
Manila: Nearly 1,000 people were killed when flash floods and landslides caused by Typhoon Washi swept through riverside and coastal villages in the southern Philippines late last week, the national disaster agency said on Tuesday. The agency said 957 were killed and 49 were missing, with most of the casualties coming from the cities of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan. The previous death toll was 650. Authorities in the two...
09:03 AM, Dec 20, 2011
Manila: Flash floods devastated a southern Philippines region unaccustomed to serious storms, killing at least 450 people while they slept, rousting hundreds of others to their rooftops and turning two coastal cities into muddy, debris-filled waterways that were strewn with overturned vehicles and toppled trees. With nearly 300 people missing, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin and top military officials were to fly to the worst-hit city of Cagayan de Oro on...
07:38 AM, Dec 18, 2011
Cagayan de oro: More than 400 people have been killed and hundreds more were missing after a typhoon hit the southern Philippines, National Red Cross Secretary-General Gwendolyn Pang said on Saturday. She said in a text message to Reuters that the death toll of 426 was expected to rise due to flash floods and landslides that forced tens of thousands to flee from their homes. Typhoon Washi, with winds gusting...
04:18 PM, Dec 17, 2011
New Delhi: A supporter sits on a shoe-shaped custom vehicle beside other fans as they watch the bout between Philippine boxing champion and Congressman Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez of Mexico during a free screening of their WBO welterweight bout at a park in Marikina City, Metro Manila November 13, 2011. Filipinos prayed and nervously waited until eight division boxing champion Manny Pacquiao was declared winner over Mexican Juan...
06:52 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Manila: The motorcade of US Secretary of State Hilliary Clinton was targetted by protestors in Philippines on Thursday. The incident took place when the motorcade was leaving the presidential palace in Manila. A group of around 50 protestors pelted eggs and, reportedly, paint balls on the official cars. However, the US Secretary of State remained unhurt in the incident. ...
10:45 AM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: In keeping with the United Nations projection that the world population would hit 7 billion for the first time, on October 31, babies from the Philippines, to Uttar Pradesh are symbolically being recognised as the seven billionth person. Though the UN on Monday announced the birth of the symbolic 7 billionth baby, it hasn't been able to pinpoint exactly where the child was born - it could be...
08:53 PM, Oct 31, 2011
New Delhi: The United Nations announced that the world population will hit 7 billion on Monday, October 31, but could not pinpoint exactly where the child will be born. Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, where an estimated 11 children are born every minute, is a likely candidate, with the NGO Plan International announcing the birth in Mal, 20 km from Lucknow. A baby girl named Nargis, born to Ajay...
10:58 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Manila, Philippines: Rescuers scrambled on Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for days because of flooding in the northern Philippines, where back-to-back typhoons have left at least 59 people dead. Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore in northeastern Isabela province on Saturday, then barreled across the main island of Luzon's mountainous north and agricultural plains, which were still sodden from fierce rain and winds unleashed...
10:59 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Manila: Back-to-back typhoons left at least 55 people dead and rescuers scrambling on Sunday to deliver food and water to hundreds of villagers stuck on rooftops for four days because of flooding in the northern Philippines. Typhoon Nalgae slammed ashore in northeastern Isabela province on Saturday then barreled across the main Luzon Island's mountainous north and agricultural plains that were still sodden from fierce rain and wind unleashed by a...
12:18 PM, Oct 02, 2011
Hong Kong: A powerful typhoon arrived in southern China on Thursday after skirting Hong Kong and bringing death and widespread flooding to the Philippines earlier this week. Typhoon Nesat made landfall on the eastern tip of China's Hainan island at 2:30 pm, the official Xinhua News Agency said. Hainan authorities closed schools, suspended ferry services and recalled fishing boats as the storm made its way across the South China Sea...
03:58 PM, Sep 29, 2011
Manila: Typhoon Nesat crossed the Philippines' main island late on Tuesday, leaving behind at least seven dead after it lashed crop-growing provinces and brought the capital to a near standstill as it flooded roads and villages and cut power supplies. Among the dead following the typhoon was a 22-month-old boy, and four others were missing, the disaster agency said. Crop damage in the northern Cagayan Valley area may begin to...
02:40 AM, Sep 28, 2011
Manila: Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters, dodging branches and flying debris on Tuesday as a powerful typhoon sent surging waves as tall as palm trees crashing over seawalls and submerging entire neighbourhoods. At least seven people were killed, most of them in metropolitan Manila, which already was soaked by heavy monsoon rains ahead of Typhoon Nesat's arrival and where the old town areas by the bay suffered their worst...
02:18 PM, Sep 27, 2011
Manila: Heavy rains and floods battered the northeastern Philippines for a third day on Wednesday, swamping homes of about a half million people and raising the death toll to at least 25 with 31 others missing. Waist-deep floodwaters swamped the houses of nearly half of the population of eastern Albay province after Tropical Storm Nock-ten set off pounding rains since Monday and sent residents to seek shelter in churches and...
02:03 AM, Jul 28, 2011
