Archive for May 1st, 2012

How consultancies work

How consultancies work

| May 1, 2012 | 1 Comment

HR speaks Supretha Amancherla Over the years looking for that elusive job has become a considerably easy task. Getting a job through a consultancy is one of the easiest ways. But before trusting a consultancy do remember to do a thorough background check and be sure about its credibility and placements. Though there are consultancies [...]

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A saga of abandoned daughters

A saga of abandoned daughters

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

Ravinder Saini Rohtak (Haryana): A leading medical health institution in Haryana, not far from the national capital, is grappling with a peculiar problem — an increasing number of abandoned newborn girls who were brought there in a critical condition. In the last 10 days alone, four such baby girls have been admitted to the Post-Graduate [...]

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Bullied children more prone to self-harm later in life

Bullied children more prone to self-harm later in life

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

Children bullied during their early years are up to three times more likely to self-harm than their classmates when they reach adolescence, a study suggests Jill Langlois Children bullied during their early years are up to three times more likely to hurt themselves th­an their classmates when they re­ach adolescence, a study suggests. According to Nurse.com, [...]

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Sikh group app to stop racial profiling

Sikh group app to stop racial profiling

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

Washington: The Sikh Coalition, a US-based community group, has launched FlyRights, an innovative mobile application that allows users to report instances of airport profiling in real time. Reports filed through the FlyRights app will be considered official, actionable complaints by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the group said. “FlyRights [...]

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Breastfeeding key to keeping infant gut healthy

Breastfeeding key to keeping infant gut healthy

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

Washington: Breast-fed babies have healthier gut than formula-fed infants, thanks to the mother’s milk, which encouraged beneficial bugs to grow and protect the infants from illness and pathogens, says a study. The finding has been borne out by a new study that shows that differences in bacterial colonisation of formula-fed and breast-fed babies are involved [...]

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Differences in NDA over Presidential contest

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

New Delhi: Differences surfaced in the NDA camp over President’s election with JD(U) disapproving BJP’s unilateral decision on the issue as Left parties and RJD backed Vice President Hamid Ansari for the post. Samajwadi Party, which is outside the UPA and NDA formations, today sought to inject a new element in the race saying the party would favour [...]

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Indian connoisseurs take interest in high-end European art work

Indian connoisseurs take interest in high-end European art work

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi: Rising disposable incomes, exposure to unique art forms and greater social interaction are opening urban Indian homes to niche British interior accessory art like Amanda Brisbane sculptures, Wedge­wood cutlery and Moorcroft objects’d art. As Europe sinks deeper into recession, high end lifestyle art brands from across the continent are looking at [...]

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Huawei to deploy Airtel’s 4G network in Karnataka

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

New Delhi: Chinese equipment maker Huawei today said it has been selected by country’s largest private telecom operator Bharti Airtel for deploying TD-LTE (4G) network in Karnataka. Under the contract, Huawei will plan, design, supply and deploy TD LTE (4G) network in Karnataka for Bharti Airtel, Huawei said in a statement. This will help Airtel customers in [...]

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India, Afghanistan set in motion strategic partnership pact

| May 1, 2012 | 0 Comments

New Delhi: India today assured that its assistance was neither “transitory” nor in “transition” to Afghanistan, which said it was looking forward to increasing training and capacity building of its security forces apart from equipping them with Indian help. The two countries also set in motion the implementation of the Strategic Partnership Agreement, inked last year during [...]

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I’m not joining politics: Sachin

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Pune: In the backdrop of the controversy following his nomination to the Rajya Sabha, Sachin Tendulkar today made it clear that he has no intentions of joining politics. Speaking for the first time since he was nominated for a Rajya Sabha seat on April 26, Tendulkar stated he would never enter politics by giving up cricket [...]

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