Washington, Dec 8 : The global economic crisis will cause a sharp drop next year in worker remittances -- a major source of income for developing countries like India, Bangladesh, Mexico and Philippines, labour specialists have said.
Ryszard Cholewinski, a labor specialist at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), said the fall will heavily affect countries including Mexico, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines.
Islamabad - Pakistani soldiers have seized 20 people connected to a disbanded militant group accused of orchestrating the Mumbai terrorist attacks, media reports said Monday.
Troops made the arrests Sunday afternoon after storming a camp used by Jamaat-ud-Dawa, the charity wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which India blamed for the November 26 attacks that killed more than 170 people, the Dawn newspaper reported.
Jamaat-ud-Dawa previously claimed it had no connection with the LeT and was focusing on religious and charitable work.
New Delhi, Dec 8 : A jobless woman landed a job after putting "herself up for sale" on an online auction site.
The 23-year-old woman lost her job due to economic recession and has now got new one for a monthly pay of 3,000 yuan, reports China Daily.
She used the false name of tony615_2007 to "post herself" on Taobao. com''s website on Nov 18.
She revealed that nearly a dozen of companies contacted her and one of them is expected to sign a contract with her today.
In the statement posted on Taobao. com, tony615_2007 said she majored in business administration last year with excellent marks. She scored 710 in GMAT and won the first prize in a national English contest for university students.
Mumbai, Dec. 8 : The International Cricket Council (ICC) is keeping a close watch on the developments in the Indian subcontinent in the run-up to the 2011 World Cup.
According to sources, if the existing tensions between New Delhi and Islamabad fail to subside in the wake of last month’s terror attacks, the ICC could have a rethink on whether to allow the tournament to take place in the region.
The toughening of stand by the Government of India towards Pakistan, following the terror attacks in Mumbai, is being viewed with some kind of seriousness in Dubai, the headquarters of the ICC.
New Delhi, Dec. 8: India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee has regretted that Pakistan is giving credibility to a ‘hoax’ call, and charged it with resorting to a tactic to confuse the public by only releasing part of the story.
Claiming that the call was a bid to divert attention from what he called ‘Pakistani-based’ elements’ attack on India, Mukherjee flayed Pakistan for putting its military on alert after the call.
He clarified that the last time he had spoken to Zardari was during his visit to Islamabad in May and that the reports about his telephonic call to the president were ‘misleading’.
Washington, Dec. 8 : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday denied that India had given Pakistan a 48-hour deadline to take action against those behind last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai that claimed close to 200 lives and caused injuries to about 300.
Interviewed on Fox television, Rice said there was evidence of involvement of Pakistani elements in the attacks and added that they were non-state actors.
She echoed remarks from Pakistan’s Foreign Office denying Islamabad had agreed to a 48-hour timetable to take action against Pakistanis accused of involvement in the Mumbai attacks.
“No. There’s not a timetable involved here,” the US top diplomat said.
Washington, Dec 8 : The global economic crisis will cause a sharp drop next year in worker remittances -- a major source of income for developing countries like India, Bangladesh, Mexico and Philippines, labour specialists have said.
Islamabad - Pakistani soldiers have seized 20 people connected to a disbanded militant group accused of orchestrating the Mumbai terrorist attacks, media reports said Monday.
