The International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn has said that the global economic recovery is fragile and remains uncertain as not enough jobs are being created.
Strauss-Kahn's new apartment is a $50,000 per month luxury pad with four bedrooms, five bathrooms, a spa, gym, steam bath, and home theatre.
The former IMF chief, who was indicted on seven counts on Thursday, allegedly forced the maid at the Sofitel hotel in Manhattan to perform oral sex.
The company is managing 30 per cent growth a year and anticipates to cross the euro 100-million mark in the coming year.
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On Wednesday, the alleged victim, a 32-year-old chambermaid, testified against Strauss-Kahn that 'there was nothing consensual' about the assault that allegedly took place on Saturday in a Manhattan hotel room, ABC News reported.
Various options, including expanding the scope of some of the existing tools, were being considered to provide a financial safety net.
The International Monetary Fund has added island nation Tuvalu located in the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia as its 187th member.
With many countries piling up massive debts in the wake of the global crisis, the International Monetary Fund has cautioned that 'fiscal sustainability' is going to be a big problem for the coming several years.
The levy, the IMF said, should raise an equivalent of at least two per cent of a country's economic output -- about $300 billion in the US -- and set it aside to underwrite the cost of seeing banks through bankruptcy.
The International Monetary Fund has said that it expects India's economic growth to accelerate and inch closer to that of China.
Strauss Khan argued that the stimulus measures adopted by countries to combat the global crisis should be withdrawn only when the economic recovery has taken hold and unemployment is set to decline.
The IMF members' investment in the fund's securities will boost the fund's capacity to help member countries, particularly developing and emerging market countries, cope with the crisis and thus benefit all members by facilitating an early recovery of the global economy. At the same time, the new notes will offer members a safe investment instrument with reasonable return.
The International Monetary Fund welcomed the commitment made by the G-20 Summit on Thursday to enhance the multilateral agency's ability to support emerging markets and low-income countries, and to bring the world economy out of its deepest post-war recession.
The MoU was signed in presence of visiting French Minister of State for Transport Dominique Bussereau, Minister of State for Railways Naranbhai Rathwa, Chairman and Managing Director SNCF International (French Railways) Jean-Pierre Lubinox and Railway Board Chairman K C Jena. The agreement will be valid for a period of three years and it will enable mutually beneficial cooperation between the two railways, Jena said.
Salzburg won the Austrian Cup with a ruthless 5-0 destruction of second tier Austria Lustenau in the final as the season resumed following the coronavirus stoppage on Friday.
IMF has praised India's economic performance and has negated the concept of decoupling as economies today are much closely related to each other.
Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci brought together some of the biggest names in the business for a special showing of his menswear line.
Observing that the world is at a crossroads now as it faces the greatest economic crisis in 60 years, the IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said at a news conference that the G-20 leaders have the opportunity to spur a recovery next year if they take the right action.
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has announced his intention to appoint Anoop Singh as Director of the Asia Pacific Department. Singh, an Indian national, who is currently Director of the IMF's Western Hemisphere Department, will succeed David Burton. He holds graduate and post graduate degrees from the Universities of Bombay, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. Singh has also been special advisor to the governor of the RBI.
'When a woman gets married, she leaves her village, her friends and family.' 'In her new home, she will make friends, but they can never replace those she left behind.'
Despite its strong views on non-proliferation issues, Switzerland is unlikely to block the waiver for India at the NSG meet even as it officially says it is yet to firm up its stand on the matter.
Dominique Lapierre, author, Indophile and now Padma Bhushan recipient, on the continuing suffering and neglect of the survivors of the Union Carbide gas leak.
The Legion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) was awarded in recognition of Bachchan's contribution to Indian and international cultural life at a glittering function at the French embassy in New Delhi.
ITER showed India is a responsible nuclear state: France
Having lost the men's and women's team events in the morning session, Verma and Dahal were India's only hope to sign off with a medal and the duo did not disappoint.
Seeking to gain a bigger foothold in India's growing aviation market and also expand trade with the country, France on Wednesday said it intends to set up aircraft manufacturing and training facilities in India.
The award was conferred by French Ambassador Dominique Girard at a function.
The six 1,500-ton submarines, being bought from France, will be armed with French-made Exocet anti-ship missiles.
A group of French Joint Services Defence College is on a week-long study tour to India beginning April 21.
Dominique de Villepin replaces Jean-Pierre Raffarin, dumped after voters on Sunday roundly rejected Chirac's call for the ratification of a European Union constitution.
Germany announced their arrival at the FIFA Women's World Cup on Sunday by handing out a near-record 10-0 thrashing to Ivory Coast.
France has banned children from wearing any religious symbol in public schools, and it includes head scarves, an integral part of a Sikh's dress.
French Ambassador Dominique Gerard has said that the toxic waste can be taken back after dismantling.
France said on Wednesday it would be too happy to see Indian liquor baron Vijay Mallya become a major player in the French champagne industry, but for that to happen he needs to outsmart competition.
In the first-ever collaboration between an Indian and European institute, premier business school IIM-Ahmedabad on Friday signed an agreement with French business School ESSEC for double degree programme for a limited number of select students.
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