Written by: Muhammad Javed Iqbal Rakizar in www.Dawn.com India tested its first atomic bomb in 1974 and until now it has almost 60 bombs and other nuclear weapons, but the security of Indian nuclear assets is highly questionable and dubious. We find numerous cases in which top Indian companies had been criminally involved in the [...]
Ethiopian Airlines orders 22 new aircrafts
Published in August 3rd, 2009
(TDN): In an unprecedented move, Ethiopian Airlines has placed an order for five B777-200LRs from the Boeing Company and twelve A350-900s from Airbus. Ethiopian will begin taking deliveries of the B777-200LR in October 2010 and the A-350-900 in 2017. The order for the five B777-200LRs is valued at $ 1.3 billion and the twelve A-350-900s [...]
TUI UK & Ireland slashes recruitment costs by 50%
Published in August 3rd, 2009
(TDN): StepStone, Europe’s leading provider of Human Capital Management solutions, has today announced that TUI UK & Ireland, part of the international leisure travel group, TUI Travel PLC, has implemented its e-recruitment and onboarding solution to support recruitment across its business in the UK and Ireland. The StepStone platform is enabling the company to reduce [...]
Obama predicts unemployment rates US reach record levels
Published in August 3rd, 2009
Posted by The Business Time in Business
(PTI): US President Barack Obama predicts more job losses, as unemployment rates in some parts of the United States reached record levels. In June, the jobless rate hit a 26-year high of 9.5 percent amid more cutbacks by employers. Now, in some parts of the United States, double-digit unemployment
Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan under house arrest
Published in August 3rd, 2009
Posted by The Business Time in World
(PTI): Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the kingdom’s former ambassador to the United States, is reportedly under house arrest over a conspiracy against the monarch. Saad al-Faqih, head of the opposition group Islamic Reform Movement, told Arab-language TV al-Alam that Prince Bandar has been disappeared and the media has published no word
