Wellington - New Zealand's APN News and Media Limited, publisher of the country's biggest newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, told staff Wednesday that it was reviewing its operations in reaction to flow-on effects of the economic downturn, a news report said.
The company, which also publishes seven provincial newspapers, the New Zealand Women's Weekly and The Listener, made the announcement to staff, Radio New Zealand reported.
Chief executive Martin Simons said the review and consultation process would affect a small number of staff across the whole company, the report said.
Bad news for all those who had been eagerly waiting to get their hands on the first Motorola Android-based phone, as its launch has been delayed. Reportedly, US markets would be deprived of Motorola’s Android-based phone at least till the second quarter of 2009. Europe’s wait will even continue for longer as there it will arrive in the Q3 of the next year. However, in a move to compensate, Motorola is going for a novelty twofer. 
It’s a big loss to the Tamil Film Industry, famous film maker CV Sridhar who was 73 years old died at Chennai Malar Hospital, where he was admitted last week on being fallen seriously ill. It was reported that the film maker suffered a stroke few years back.
On Monday, the Indigo Airlines had to undergo some unnecessary tension, following a call from an anonymous person, who said that three persons traveling in its flight to Agartala from Kolkata are terrorists. Thus a security operation was initiated. 
Islamabad, Oct 22 : Pakistan security agencies fear that militants were planning to kidnap high-profile diplomats. The threat was conveyed by an intelligence agency to the country’s police authorities in the form of ‘highly classified information’ with instructions to enhance security and inform the relevant embassies about the nature of the threat.
