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No fresh buying by the price-elastic consumer has led India's gold imports to hit a 13-year low in 2009. The trend though had changed in the second quarter but a full recovery has not been seen yet.

World Gold Council published a report recently which showed that the total import of gold in 2009 was just 459 tonnes which is the lowest since 1997. WGC, a body funded by global miners, published in the report that for the first time after 1997 India's gold import had fell below 500 tonnes.

The Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson caused chaos at New York Fashion Week after coming late to a runway show held in her honor.

Pammie was invited to be the celebrity guest at fashion designer Richie Rich's A*Muse show, exhibiting outfits inspired by the busty blonde.

Anderson aka Rich's inspiration arrived three hours late to the event, which almost landed in trouble.

A source tells the publication, "She showed up at 9.55 when the show was supposed to start at 9, and press people were there as early as 7 to interview her. People were yelling at door handlers and getting incredibly antsy, especially because the standing room was so packed."

Aditya Birla group chairman, Kumar Manglam Birla in Kolkata addressing the 28th Annual National Conference of National Institute of Personnel Management on 'India Inc: Alignment of Business, HR & Technology' said that his company hopes to become a $65-billion conglomerate by the calendar year 2015.

The management targets to become a fortune 500 company and achieve a target turnover of $30 billion by the year 2010, a target which they achieved 2 years before the deadline in 2008 only. Current $35 billion conglomerate, the group aims to raise the figure $65 billion in the coming 5 years.

In a joint venture with India, a power facility will be established in Bangladesh by 2013 in order to generate 1,320 MW.

According to reports, two coal-fired plants having production capability of 660 MW each will be set up in Khulna region, 180 km southwest of Dhaka.

A two-sided document before signing up a MoU regarding the matter is likely to be signed today.

The two nations also decided to set up a cross-border power grid, for which tenders will be invited in Feb and work order will be supplied in June.

Flexibility in work hours is the key for good health of employee. It is believed that more the elasticity in work schedule the less the burden is.

The researchers found 10 studies that fit in their criteria for review enclosure. Three of them took place in the United States, two in Finland and one each in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia and Denmark. Another study analyzed workers in the U. K. and Germany.

Another case of negligence (previously it was Rajasthan based) causing HIV was detected. This time it was School of Tropical Medicine and the victim was a 23 year old pregnant lady.

Everything was going fine till one fine day the Doctors claimed that her blood is HIV+ve. It was misery which heralded from that time and lasted for more than ten months. It was a period of harassment, ostracism and mental torture she went through. It was such a worse scenario that even she was not allowed to breastfeed her new born baby.