Attacks on students in Australia must stop: India

India on Friday said the spate of violent attacks targeting its students in Australia should stop immediately and asserted that authorities here should come up with a solution to prevent such incidents from recurring. Indian High Commissioner Sujata Singh, who met premier of Victoria John Brumby and top police and educational officials of the province, said there is a `racist element in some of the attacks` but many of them were `opportunistic`. "The fact of the matter is that whatever t...
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239 million people jobless in two years: ILO

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has revised upwards its estimates of worldwide unemployment, and called for a "global jobs pact" to address the current crisis. In a statistics released on Friday, the ILO said it now estimated that in the period of 2007 to 2009, between 210 million and 239 million people would lose jobs, representing world unemployment rates of 6.5 and 7.4 per cent respectively. Three months ago, the ILO projected global unemployment is likely to increase by 24 m...
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Vienna gurdwara attack suspects identified

All six accused in the violent attack on a gurdwara in Vienna [Images] that left one top leader of an India-based Sikh sect dead and another injured have been identified as illegal immigrants, police said on Friday, days after the incident sparked riots across Punjab [Images] and Haryana. Police spokesman Michael Takacs said all the six were in custody, including the mastermind who was in coma in a hospital after he was shot in the head during the Sunday attack. The attack was clearly pr...
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20,000 Tamils killed in final war, says Times

An investigation by The Times, London [Images], has revealed that more than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed by Sri Lankan armed forces in the final stages of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. This number is thrice the number of casualties announced by the Sri Lankan government. Even as this report came out, Sri Lanka [Images] scored a propaganda victory of sorts on Thursday night when the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution praising its defeat of the Tamil Tig...
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Five teenagers arrested in Australia for attacks on Indians

The Australian police on Friday arrested five teenagers in connection with the recent spate of attacks on Indian students in Melbourne [Images], and charged one of them with attempted murder. A 17-year-old boy was charged with attempted murder after four Indian students, including Sravan Kumar, were brutally attacked by gatecrashers at a party in Melbourne on Saturday night, according to the police. Kumar, 25, who was attacked with a screwdriver at the party, continued to remain critical a...
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Pradeep Guha joins Vdopia Board of Directors

New Delhi: Pradeep Guha, Ex CEO of ZEE TV and currently a venture advisor at the Nexus India Capital, has joined the advisory board of Vdopia, a player in the leading online video monetization and premium video advertising platform. Guha brings in an experience of around three decades working in the fields including marketing, media and advertising. Vdopia provides its services to prominent media publishers like NDTV Group, India Today Group, Rediff and Indian express among others. Guha has ...
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ILO predicts further decline in global employment

Geneva: Global unemployment levels will be worse than previously predicted, the International Labour Organisation said Thursday, revising upwards its previous numbers. According to the new data, unemployment could hit global rates between 6.5 percent and 7.4 percent. This would roughly be equal to 210 million and 239 million unemployed worldwide. The new data showed a projected increase of between 39 and 59 million unemployed, compared to previous estimates released earlier this year whic...
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Scientists launch first global study on ocean plants

Washington: Scientists have launched a first global study on the health and productivity of ocean plants using a unique signal from the US space agency NASA`s Aqua satellite. Ocean scientists can now remotely measure the amount of fluorescent red light emitted by phytoplankton and assess how efficiently these microscopic plants turn sunlight and nutrients into food through photosynthesis. They can also study how changes in the global environment alter these processes at the centre of the ocea...
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ITC garments factory in Nepal shuts down after labour trouble

Kathmandu: Indian tobacco major ITC`s NRS 250 million, state of the art garments factory in southern Nepal has been shut down indefinitely due to security concerns after disputes with a Maoist labour union. Ravi K.C., corporate general manager at Surya Nepal Pvt Ltd, a joint venture in which ITC owns majority shares with the rest held by British American Tobacco and private Nepali investors, told IANS that talks have begun Friday to resolve the problem. The trouble started after the autho...
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Economists hope U.S. recession will end in 2009

Washington: A panel of top economists in the US forecast an end to the country`s deep recession by late 2009, according to a survey released Wednesday. The National Association of Business Economists (NABE), which surveyed 45 economists, said the US economy had shown some signs of stabilising but would still recover more slowly than in past downturns. The panel still expected the US economy to contract 1.8 percent in the second quarter, after a massive 6.1-percent contraction in the first...
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