The US Federal Reserve on Tuesday cut interests rates by 0.75 points from 3 per cent to 2.25 per cent. The cut initially disappointed markets which had risen sharply on hopes of a 1 percentage point cut. The decision was taken by eight votes to two. First quarter earnings at the two Wall Street firms fell less than analysts had expected, easing concerns about the state of the investment banking sector.
December and January can bring a blizzard of pink slips.
A worker has died in a "work-related fatality" at the site of a 2022 World Cup stadium in Qatar, the country's World Cup organizing body said late on Saturday.
The 'terrible' surge of the coronavirus cases in India has severely impacted COVAX's vaccine supply in the second quarter of this year to the extent that there will be a shortfall of 190 million doses by the end of June, according to a joint statement by the WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and CEPI.
The State Department's annual report on human trafficking released worldwide on Tuesday, ranked India for a fourth consecutive year in the report's second-worst category, the so-called Tier 2 Watch List.
Not to say that India couldn't have handled the situation better, but on average, it didn't do anywhere near as badly as the naysayers make it out argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
Concerns are being raised about the shortage of registered nurses, which is set to get much worse in the coming years. According to figures released by the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, over three million RNs will be employed in 2016, an increase of 20 percent from more than 2.5 million in 2006. Various factors such as alternate employment opportunities, nurses retiring or leaving and fewer new nurses joining the profession, will culminate in a massive shortage.
Indian doctor Mohammed Haneef, who was wrongly accused of links with the failed UK bombings, on Monday said he will return to Australia only if authorities assured him that his family and he would be "safe" in the country.
More a lobbying group than a true union, association is a sign of changing times.
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Traders said slackened demand from jewellers and retailers and absence of cues from the global markets as US market are closed today on account of 'Labor Day', kept pressure on gold prices.
'Let's talk a bit about minimum and overtime wages, since that is a topic so dear to everyone's heart. After all, critics say that heartless Devyani paid poor Sangeeta neither the minimum wages nor overtime wages and since "in this country we don't do it this way," she deserves to go to jail. But the FLSA itself makes several occupations exempt from either payment of minimum wages or from overtime wages or both. Disabled people need not be paid minimum wages under FLSA. Seamen on American vessels have to be paid minimum wages but seamen on other than American vessels need not be. So how fair is the Fair Labor Standards Act,' asks Sharmista Khobragade, diplomat Devyani Khobragade's sister.
Businesses have donated nearly $14 billion to cure society's many ills.
'There shall be no change in India-Japan ties,' predicts Rajaram Panda.
'Prime Minister, there will be no agreement with the Americans unless you get the BJP on your side in the name of the greater national interest.'
The U.S. continues to grow thanks to innovations from recent arrivals.
Slacking on these routine maintenances can lead to long term problems and depreciated value.
Aseem Chhabra feels every Indian-American should support The Namesake.
What are the hottest jobs for 2007? Fast Company spoke with trend experts to compile a list of the top 10 professions that will be in high demand in 2007.
The United States has proposed changes to the H-2B application process to make it more responsive to urgent work force needs in the country.
Hana Al Jader, 39, wife of Saudi Prince Mohamed Bin Turki Alsaud, was charged with forcing two Indonesian women to work as her domestic maids.
This makes Howard Australia's second longest serving prime minister, after Liberal Party founder Robert Menzies, who remained in office for 17 years from 1949.
HCLA was selected through a highly competitive process where it demonstrated its managed cloud-as-a-service solution called iGOVERN(r).
Supporting India's concerns on the immigration reform bill, an eminent Indian-American has asked US lawmakers to make the necessary changes in the pending legislation, which if passed, among other things would badly hit the global competitiveness of American companies.
In MP, farmers say sales under new 'Sauda Patrak' method below MSP; Haryana mustard farmers wait for their turn to sell. The annual purchases of major rabi crops in North India largely wheat, mustard and also chana to some extent have been delayed as most cereal mandis were closed in the aftermath of the nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
Trump also announced that the US will end special treatment of Hong Kong in response to Chinese imposition of new controls.
The Indian IT companies, which account for a large number of H-1B applications, are likely to face the additional financial burden because of this proposed increase in H-1B filing fees.
US economic growth slowed sharply in the fourth quarter.
Calpers, the largest US pension fund, on Tuesday ruled out investing in some of the world's largest countries, including China, India, Indonesia and Russia, and decided against returning to Malaysia and Thailand.
'People are just putting the mask below their nose.' 'They are only protecting the mouth, but not the nose.' 'People need to understand that it is the nose which has to be protected.'
