Tweet Washington : For the first time since 2003, the US H-1B visa programme coveted by Indian IT professionals is on track to leave thousands of spots unfilled amid America’s worst downturn in decades, the Wall Street Journal reported. Last year, even as the recession began to bite, employers snapped up the 65,000 visas available [...]
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Tweet Tokyo : Japan’s central bank decided Friday to end its purchases of corporate debt at the end of this year as the world’s central banks begin withdrawing emergency measures taken in the thick of the global financial crisis. With credit now easier to come by, the Bank of Japan also decided at the end [...]
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Tweet Seoul: Samsung Electronics Co’s profit more than tripled in the third quarter to hit a record 3.72 trillion won ($3.14 billion), the company said Friday. Rising prices for memory chips and robust demand for televisions and mobile phones helped the South Korean company achieve its best quarterly net income ever. Sales rose 29.1 percent [...]
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Tweet Helsinki : The world’s largest cruise ship Friday morning left the Finnish shipyard where it was built and embarked on its voyage to its home port in Florida, US. The 360-metre long ‘Oasis of the Seas’ was built at the STX Finland shipyard in Turku operated by the South Korean group, STX. During the [...]
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Tweet London: Colombian pop star Shakira has vowed never to marry because she doesn’t want the press to make a mockery of her divorce if she ever split from her partner, investment banker Antonio de la Rua. “It is funny how the papers want to see you married and then they want to see you [...]
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Tweet London : Actress Kate Hudson discusses the intimate details of her love life with her mother Goldie Hawn and stepfather Kurt Russell. “They love sex! They talk about it all day. Kate gets graphic talking about her boyfriend’s body even to her parents,” femalefirst.co.uk quoted a source as saying. The 30-year-old actress, who has [...]
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Tweet London : Australian singer Dannii Minogue, who is judge on the reality show “X Factor”, says her inability to pay off her debts forced her to pose naked for adult magazine Playboy. The singer, who is the sibling of Kylie Minogue, apparently owed over $240,000 and couldn’t even afford her rent after she split [...]
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Tweet London :Oscar winning actress Reese Witherspoon is set to star in the movie “Rule 1″ after Terrel Seltzer sold her screenplay to Fox Searchlight. Hollywoodreporter.com reports that Brad Epstein will produce the film, which is about a woman who becomes a friend of a Puerto Rican girl with an attention deficit disorder. Seltzer had [...]
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Tweet Washington : A giant next generation space rocket Wednesday shot off its launchpad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in the US for its very first test flight. The 100-metre tall Ares I-X rocket sped into the sky over the Florida coast trailing a plume of flames and steam in a trial that [...]
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Tweet New York :The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to condemn the US embargo on Cuba, and for the 18th consecutive year urged the US to lift the sanctions that have been in place against the communist island since the 1960s. The 192-nation assembly voted 187-3, with two abstentions, to adopt yet another resolution [...]
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