Employment News Today 13 July 2013

Employment News Today 13 July 2013

एलजी ने पेश किया दुनिया का सबसे पतला स्मार्टफोन डिस्प्ले

स्मार्टफोन यूजर्स के लिए बड़ी खुशखबरी है। एलजी ने स्मार्टफोन के लिए दुनिया का सबसे पतला फुल एचडी एलसीडी पैनल पेश किया है। कंपनी के अनुसार 5.2 इंच के इस पैनल की मोटाई सिर्फ 2.2 मिमी. है। एलजी ने बताया कि यह पैनल अब तक का सबसे अधिक रेजोल्युशन वाला मोबाइल पैनल होगा। यह डिसप्ले स्मार्टफोन यूजर को फुल एचडी कटेंट देखने की सुविधा देगा, ठीक उसी प्रकार जैसे वे टीवी और कंप्युटर में देखा करते हैं।

Latvia To Join Euro Currency Zone

The European Union has officially approved Latvia as the 18th member of the eurozone, which uses the bloc’s common currency.

Latvia will adopt the euro on January 1, 2014.

It was also announced that Latvia’s current currency, the lat, will be converted at a rate of 0.7028 lats per euro.

Now, after following an austerity plan to recovery, the country boasts the EU’s highest growth rate, which came in at more than five percent year-on-year in 2011 and 2012.

All EU countries except for Britain and Denmark are mandated to join the eurozone once they fulfil its criteria.

Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden have yet to adopt the common currency.

Dubai beach gets Blue Flag certification

Dubai has taken a step towards seaside ecotourism and joined the international Blue Flag program that guarantees conformity to stringent environmental standards.

On the coast that holds some of Dubai's loveliest resorts, the Jumeriah and Mamzar public beaches have just been certified to satisfy Blue Flag's international standards of water quality, safety and environmental management in general. 

The municipality of Dubai has announced that certification is pending for other beaches as well.

Every year the Blue Flag program, an international non-profit consisting of 65 organizations on six continents, awards its stamp of approval to beaches and marinas that meet its 32 criteria of water quality, cleanliness and waste management, safety and services, as well as environmental information and education. 

At present in 2013, there are 3,850 Blue Flags waving proudly over beaches and marinas in 48 countries around the world 

AK Singh new Lt Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands

AK Singh, took over as the new Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. 

Lt Gen Singh, PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ex-general officer, Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Command, was commissioned into one of the oldest Regiments, the 7th Light Cavalry on the 17th June 1973.

The prior task of AK Singh is to provide security and balanced development, while keeping ecological concerns to the fore, would be his focus area.

Shalini Singh bags Prem Bhatia award for political reporting

Shalini Singh, a Deputy Editor with The Hindu, has bagged the prestigious Prem Bhatia Award for Political Reporting-2013. 

S. Nihal Singh, chairman of the four-member jury that decided on the award

The whole idea of the award is to recognise journalists who show great promise, and Ms. Singh’s work on the 2G scam, Coalgate and her information-gathering skills made her a fit candidate.

The award ceremony will be held on August 11, where the former Foreign Secretary and chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), Shyam Saran, will deliver the 18th Annual Prem Bhatia Memorial Lecture.

Past award-winners include Harish Khare, Praveen Swami, P. Sainath, Gargi Parsai, Nirupama Subramanian, Pallavi Aiyar and Amit Baruah for their works in The Hindu.

H.A.B. Parpia, food scientist, passes away

H.A.B. Parpia (91), renowned food scientist and former Director of the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), passed away at his residence here on Tuesday morning after a brief illness.

He was the Assistant Director-General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in 1959 and was in charge of Industrial Liaison Office and Extension, Delhi

In 1987, he received Wattumull Foundation Award from Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Dr. Parpia is now survived by his wife Carolyn Wilkes, two sons and two daughters. After death, his body was donated to Mysore Medical College and Research Institute.

Pran, the good bad man of Bollywood, dies

Veteran Bollywood actor Pran, whose menacing eyes and powerful screen presence intimidated heroes and heroines for decades, passed away on Friday night at Lilavati Hospital here. 

He was 93.

The ailing thespian, who acted in more than 300 films in a five-decade career, was recently honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

In 2001, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, India’s third highest civilian award. 

According to his family members, his last rites will be performed on Saturday noon at Shivaji Park in Dadar.

Born Pran Kishan Sikand into a Punjabi family in Delhi, Pran was credited with enhancing the importance of the villain in Bollywood at a time when the bad guy was very much one-dimensional. 

Pran worked in a number of films before partition. 

But his real break came when his friend and legendary Pakistani author Saadat Hasan Manto helped him get a villain’s role in Shaheed Latif’s Ziddi (1948).

He was especially memorable in two films penned by Salim-Javed in the 1970s — as Sher Khan, an outlaw with the proverbial heart of gold, opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer (1973) and as ‘Michael D’ Souza’ in Majboor (again as Mr. Bachchan’s providential saviour).

India, Aus to hold 2nd round of talks on nuclear deal

India and Australia will hold their second round of discussions on uranium sale in July-end, three months after they launched negotiations for a civil nuclear cooperation agreement.

The first one had happened in March when the negotiations started very well, very constructive... that is the spirit in which they will continue

It would be effectively an agreement to ensure that any Australian uranium sold to India is for peaceful purpose with appropriate safeguards in place to show that that happens under the auspices of the IAEA."

In December 2011, Australia decided to reverse its ban to sell uranium to India after the ruling Labour Party's (ALP) national conference in Sydney favoured the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard's move to open up uranium sale despite India being a non-signatory to the NPT.

Australia, which holds about a third of the world's recoverable uranium resources, has made it clear that it involves International Atomic Energy Agency to oversee its uranium negotiations.

Australian High Commissioner to India-- Patrick Suckling

Indian High Commissioner to Australia: Mr. Biren Nanda

New Australia PM: Kevin Rudd

UN education award for UP’s Razia Sultana on Malala Day

Razia Sultana, a teenager from a village in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut, was awarded the United Nations' Special Envoy for Global Education's Youth Courage Award for Education on Friday. 

The award is in recognition of her efforts to help liberate 48 children from child labour bondage and motivate them to go to school. 

Razia, named after India's first woman ruler, too, has been fighting an uphill battle at her Nanglakhumba village in Meerut. 

School education for this class XII student would have remained a distant dream since she had begun working to help her family when she was only five.

France and Switzerland signed New Inheritance Tax Deal

France and Switzerland on 11 July 2013 have signed an agreement on inheritance taxes as per which Paris will help it bringing in more money.

As per the agreement, the inheritances will be taxed based on where the recipient resides, but not where the deceased lived, as it is used to be earlier. 

The agreement is supposed to allow France to ask Switzerland to investigate suspicious bank activity even if it does not have the suspects’ names.

The new agreement will make it tuff for people living in France to escape taxes. 

It is worth mentioning here that France taxes inheritance progressively up to 45 per cent, compared to Switzerland’s maximum of 7 per cent.

France is one of a growing number of cash impoverished country which is trying to find tax hiding away in Swiss accounts

Bhutan goes to polls today, king likely to be real winner

Bhutan on Saturday will go to the polls to elect 47 new lawmakers from among 94 contestants, more than half of whom have studied abroad.

Bhutanese rules require every candidate contesting to have at least a graduation degree from a recognized university. 

A large number of the present contenders have been to colleges and universities in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and other countries. 

Bhutan embraced democracy in 2008 when King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck abdicated his absolute power. 

A year before this, the monarch got Bhutan the freedom to pursue an independent foreign policy by convincing India to revise the 1949 India-Bhutan Treaty. 

Prior to this, the tiny kingdom of about 700,000, conducted its external affairs under India's "guidance".

Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) claimed that it turned around Bhutan's economy during its rule from 2008 to 2013. "Our growth rate is 8% to 9%. 

We've brought poverty levels down from 23% to 12%. Our per capita income is $2,500, second to the Maldives among Saarc nations," said DPT's nominee for Thimphu Yeshe Zimba, who served as PM twice during the king's direct rule.