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Banks see further rise in oil price

NEW YORK - ING and Deutsche Bank joined several peers in raising their crude price forecasts on Friday, with a growing number of major banks saying prices have room to rise as supplies tighten.Analysts are calling for oil prices to gain more than previously expected over the next few years, includin

Guv rubs govt the wrong way again

Bangalore, Dec 5, DHNS :In a fresh salvo against the B S Yeddyurappa government, Governor H R Bhardwaj on Sunday accused it of ''deliberately'' trying to create confusion among the public by handing over land scam cases to a judge when the issue was pending before the Lokayukta. "The only forum com

Airlines lower overall fares

New Delhi -Air travellers can breathe easy ahead of Christmas and New Year festivities as low-cost domestic airlines have slashed their average fares by 20-25 per cent on Sunday following intense pressure from the government. The lowering of tariffs will come as a relief to passengers who were for

IP addresses to be used up in January

MONTEVIDEO, 5 December 2010, (AFP)- The reserve of available Internet addresses will be used up around the world in January, warned experts based here. Internet addresses are distributed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which provides them to five regional organizations a

Reform sponsor system: ILO to Gulf states

6 December 2010 (AFP): The International Labour Organisation (ILO) urged Gulf countries to protect millions of migrant workers by reforming the sponsor system and introducing a minimum wage. ILO also called for allowing foreign workers to form representative organisations through which workers can

New classification system for firms

DUBAI,6 December 2010,(Wam):- Saqr bin Gobash Saeed Gobash, Minister of Labour, has issued a resolution dividing establishments in groups based on their extent of compliance with labour legislations, systems and standards, cultural diversity approach and on-time payment of salaries, provision of acc

Anjuman B Ed. College student secure Karnataka University Rank

Bhatkal, Dec 6,2010 (Bhatkallys News) - Student from Anjuman B.Ed College got 9th University Rank in the exam held in May 2010. Miss. Shaheen Sultana has achieved ninth Rank with 84.12%in the recently concluded December-2009 Karnataka University Examination. Management, Staff and students congratul

26/11: Answer SM Mushrif queries, high court tells govt

The high court on Wednesday sought a reply from the government on whether it has investigated the issues raised in former inspector general of police SM Mushrif's book Who killed Karkare. The division bench of justice BH Marlapalle and justice UD Salvi were hearing two petitions, one by former Bih

CBI registers case

New Delhi, Dec 4,2010 (PTI):The CBI today registered a case against unknown persons for hacking and defacement of its official website by people who identified themselves as ''Pakistani Cyber Army''. The CBI registered the case under various sections of Information Technology Act and said efforts w

Trust vote ruckus: Committee to submit report on errant MLAs

Bangalore, December 3(UNI): The House Committee probing the misconduct of the 15 opposition party members in Karnataka Legislative Assembly during the first trust vote on October 11 for Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa will submit its report in the next ten days.Appachu Ranjan, legislator fr

Majority of Muslim MLAs in Bihar are young, highly educated

Patna: Majority of the 19 Muslim candidates including two women who got elected in the recently held Bihar Assembly election 2010, are new faces, young and highly educated. The average age of the newly elected 19 Muslim MLAs is 45 years. Only five of the 15 Muslim MLAs in the last assembly could win

Houses damaged, police heighten alert in town

Bagepalli, December 2, DHNS :Two groups of the same community clashed over a dispute relating to prayers at the Noorani Masjid Mohalla in the town on Wednesday night.A war of words between the two groups in the night took the form of a clash by late night. A youth was stabbed in the incident. He is

Russia to host 2018 World Cup, Qatar wins 2022 bid

Zurich, Dec 2 (DPA) :Russia won Thursday the right to host the 2018 FIFA World Cup while Qatar will stage the 2022 tournament.he decisions were announced here by Joseph Blatter, the president of football's world governing body FIFA, following a secret ballot by 22 members of its executive committee.

Unemployment challenges haunt the GCC 30 years on

Bloc has failed to come up with a clear-cut solution to rising unemployment rate Dubai: GCC policy makers in the region have been faced with a two-fold labour problem for close to 30 years now - growing unemployment among young nationals and an increasing number of foreign workers in the region. Th

Gulf rail network awaits approval

The much-talked about 2,117km rail network, starting in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, is likely to be completed by 2017 to unite the Gulf Dubai: A long train journey to exotic destinations across the Gulf countries would be possible if final permission is granted to the GCC railway project at the Abu Dh

Egypt ruling party heads to sweeping win

Egypt's ruling party won 209 seats of the 508 that were up for grabs in the first round of a parliamentary election while opposition parties took just five seats. State-owned al-Akhbar cited results announced by the High Election Commission, confirming that President Hosni Mubarak's National Democr

UAE is getting stronger: Khalifa (WAM)

ABU DHABI - In an address to the nation on the occasion of the 39th National Day of UAE, President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, stressed that the government was working hard to achieve social development, to improve quality of life and to realize its developmental goals through

Protest rally held against forest department

BHATKAL, Nov 30,2010 (Bhatkallys News): Condemning the demolition of structured houses built on forest land, the people of Bhatkal organised a peaceful demonstration to protest against the forest department.Repeated memorandums and requests have landed on deaf ears as the authorities continue to ru