Employment News Paper Today 26 July 2013

Employment News Paper Today 26 July 2013

Assam to launch Food Security scheme

Assam government said that would roll out Food Security scheme from November to cover about 2.25 crore people in the state.

We will roll out Food Security scheme from November 19. In Assam, about 2.25 crore people from around 40 lakh families will benefit from the scheme," Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi told reporters in Guwahati.

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The government will announce the names of the beneficiaries on August 1 and all the disputes regarding inclusion and exclusion of families will be completed by October 2.

As per the scheme, rice will be available at Rs 3 per kg, while wheat and coarse cereals will be offered at Rs 2 and Re 1 respectively for each kg.

Aircel to offer free mobile Wikipedia access

Aircel today announced its partnership with Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access to its customers.

This initiative is part of the foundation's 'Wikipedia Zero' programme to reach mobile internet users around the world. The partnership will help provide Wikipedia to 60 million new users in the region.

Aircel customers will be able to access versions of Wikipedia in English, Hindi, Tamil, and 17 other Indic languages.

 India, Belarus signed protocol to Enhance Trade Ties
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India and Belarus signed a protocol on 24 July 2013 to enhance trade ties during the sixth session of the Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technological and Cultural Cooperation held in New Delhi.

The meeting was held in the direction for strengthening trade and economic relations between the two countries.

The Belarusian side recommended India to determine an Indian counterpart deputed to negotiate on the long-term cooperation agreement, take decisions and signing of the agreement for the full volume of the deliveries.

Both the Countries also signed a protocol after the Meeting as per which both the sides will take necessary steps to sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry of Textiles, India and the Belarusian State Concern for Manufacturing and Marketing of Light Industry Goods (concern Bellegprom) on Cooperation in the Field of Textiles, Clothing and Fashion Industries.

The Belarusian delegation proposed to hold the 9th meeting of the Business Council "India-Belarus" in 2013 to promote the collaboration of business representatives, as well as agreed to define the dates of the National Exhibition (exposition) of the Republic of India during 2013-2014 in Minsk.

Assange launches Senate team

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Julian Assange on 25 july 2013 launched his WikiLeaks Party’s Senate candidate team for Australian elections due this year.

Mr Assange said his party’s seven Senate candidates would go to the national capital of Canberra to address what it says has been a gradual decline in Australian democracy over the past 30 years.

The Australian government has echoed U.S. condemnations of Mr Assange’s publishing, but has also acknowledged he has broken no Australian law.

WikiLeaks Party national council member Sam Castro said that if Mr Assange wins a seat but cannot return to Australia by then, the party can choose a replacement.

US charges hedge fund SAC-SAC Capital Advisors Capital

SAC Capital Advisors, the hedge fund operated by embattled billionaire Steven A. Cohen, was charged in federal court in Manhattan in an indictment with wire fraud and four counts of securities. General-knowledge-by-month-year

The fund was accused of making hundreds of millions of dollars illegally, and a related government lawsuit said insider trading was pervasive and unprecedented at the firm

Four employees of the fund operated by billionaire Steven A. Cohen have been charged with insider trading and an SAC affiliate has agreed to pay $615 million to settle SEC charges.

SAC Capital Advisors was charged in federal court in Manhattan in an indictment with wire fraud and four counts of securities fraud; prosecutors allege the crimes were carried out from 1999 through at least 2010.

Mr. Cohen, who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, is one of the highest profile figures in American finance and one of the richest men in America. 

He is among the handful of upper-tier hedge fund managers on Wall Street who pull in about $1 billion a year in compensation.

There are already reports that SAC’s clients are pulling their money from the Stamford, Connecticut-based firm. 

Arun Nehru, former Union minister, dies

Arun Nehru, 69, a cousin of Rajiv Gandhi and minister for internal security in his government, died in a hospital in Gurgaon.General-knowledge-by-month-year

He is survived by his wife Subhadra and two daughters. Lucknow-born Nehru was a three-time Lok Sabha member.

Nehru moved out of the family home in Allahabad at an early age and studied at the La Martinere Boys College in Lucknow. 

At the age of 20, he began a successful career in the corporate world, which he gave up 17 years later when Indira Gandhi asked him to join politics. 

Nehru was then the president of the Jenson and Nicholson group of companies.

Four Russian nationals and a Ukrainian have been charged in what's being called the largest hacking and data breach scheme ever prosecuted in the United States. 

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They're accused of running a hacking organization that penetrated computer networks of more than a dozen major US and international corporations over seven years, stealing and selling at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers, resulting in losses of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Heartland Payment Systems Inc, which processes credit and debit cards for businesses, was identified as taking the biggest hit in a scheme starting in 2007 — the theft of more than 130 million card numbers at a loss of about $200 million.

Global Payment Systems, another major payment processing company, had nearly 1 million card numbers stolen, with losses of nearly $93 million, prosecutors said.
The government said hackers in 2008 covertly removed about 30 million card numbers from its computer network.

About 800,000 card numbers were stolen in an attack on the Visa network, but the indictment did not cite any loss figure.

रेलवे भर्ती के परीक्षा पैटर्न में किया गया बड़ा बदलाव

पूर्व में जहां 120 मिनट में 150 बहु विकल्पीय प्रश्न हल करने पड़ते थे, अब अभ्यर्थियों को 90 मिनट में 100 प्रश्न हल करने पड़ेंगे। इससे परीक्षार्थियों को पेपर हल करने में आसानी हो जाएगी। बदला नियम अक्तूबर से होने वाली परीक्षाओं से लागू होगा।

पिछले साल रेलवे बोर्ड द्वारा ग्रुप डी की निकाली गई रिक्तियों के समय साफ किया गया था कि परीक्षार्थियों को लिखित परीक्षा उत्तीर्ण करने के लिए 150 बहु विकल्पीय प्रश्न के जवाब 120 मिनट में देने होंगे। लेकिन, अब इसमें बदलाव कर दिया गया है।

यही नहीं, परीक्षा उपरांत परीक्षार्थी प्रश्न पुस्तिका भी अपने साथ ले जा सकेंगे, ताकि वह घर पहुंचकर उत्तरों का मिलान कर सकें।

अगस्त माह 2012 में ग्रुप डी के पदों को भरने के लिए निकाली गई भर्ती प्रक्रिया को पूरा करने के लिए अक्तूबर से दिसंबर माह के मध्य परीक्षा का आयोजन होगा। यह परीक्षा बदले पैटर्न पर आधारित होगी।

रेलवे बोर्ड ने भर्ती परीक्षाओं के खर्चों के लिए परीक्षा शुल्क बढ़ाकर एक सौ रुपये कर दिया है।

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