Employment News 7 August 2013

Employment News 7 August 2013 Gk 7 August 2013

Railway announces Rs 5 lakh reward for para-athlete Jhajharia

Devendra Jhajharia, the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold at the Para Athletics World Championships, will be rewarded Rs five lakh by the Railways for his feat in the recently-held sixth edition of the event in Lyon, France.

Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge announced the special reward for Jhajharia while declaring open the 79th Railways Athletics Championships in New Delhi.

Jhajharia, an Office Superintendent working at Southeast Central Railway Zone headquarters in Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh), had won gold in javelin throw in F-46 category -- meant for one-armed athletes on 21st July in the sixth Para-Athletics World Championships.

Jhajharia was among a host of past and present Indian athletes, who are employees of Railways, present at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi.

China fines foreign milk powder makers

China fined three companies including Mead Johnson Nutrition Co(MJN.N) and New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra andcompany penalised was Hong Kong-listed Biostime International Holdings in relation to a probe into price fixing and anti-competitive practices by foreign baby formula makers.

 Foreign infant formula is highly coveted in China, where public trust was damaged by a 2008 scandal in which six infants died and thousands of others were sickened after drinking milk tainted with the toxic industrial compound melamine.

Mead Johnson, the maker of Enfamil formula, said it would pay a penalty of about $33 million. The company, based in Glenview, Illinois, gave no details on what the NDRC said it had done wrong.

Fonterra, the world's biggest dairy exporter, said it had been fined NZ$900,000. 

It also did not say why it had been penalised but added it would give additional training to sales staff and review its distributor contracts.

Soldiers from Commonwealth countries like India Khudadad Khan was the first Indian-born soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
Indian soldiers who fought in the war for the British hailed from Punjab, Garhwal, Bengal, Nepal, Madras, and Burma.

who gave their lives for Britain during World War I will be honoured and remembered during UK's four-year-long roster to commemorate the centenary of the great battle, beginning in 2014.

Around 1.2 million soldiers from undivided India fought for the British Empire during the war, of which 74,000 died.

Baroness Warsi recently paid tribute to the sacrifices made by the 1.2 million men from the Indian Army who fought for Britain during a visit to the battlefields of France and Belgium. She went to the Western Front where 140,000 men from the Indian Army fought alongside Britain. Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August, 1914.

Vodafone, ICICI launch M-Pesa money transfer service in Bihar

Telecommunication major Vodafone India in association with ICICI bank has started a unique money transfer and payment service “M-Pesa” in Bihar and Jharkhand where banking network and financial penetration is inadequate, particularly, in rural areas.

The ‘M-Pesa’ service launched in December last year is available across 32 districts and 250 tehsils in Bihar at present,” Suresh Sethi, Business head-M-Pesa, Vodafone, told reporters here on Tuesday.

The innovative use of mobile technology makes it possible for customers to enjoy a fast, simple and secure way to transfer money and make payments, Mr Sethi said.

For a population of over 10.50 crore, there are only 4108 bank branches. Bank penetration in Bihar is as low as 13 per cent, Mr Singh said.

With a subscriber base of 56 lakh, 82,840 retail outlets and 2826 M-Pesa outlets, Vodafone in association with ICICI which has 51 branches in the state holds great promise for easy and convenient money transfer facility in Bihar.

Argentina pushes claim on Falkland Islands at UN

Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner renewed her country's demand for talks on the sovereignty of the British-ruled Falkland Islands at the UN Security.

Kirchner recalled that the UN General Assembly passed a resolution in 1964 urging Britain and Argentina to hold negotiations over sovereign of the islands, which Britain has ruled since 1833.

Speaking the day after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon notified her that Britain had again refused to discuss the sovereignty issue, Kirchner questioned Britain's commitment to upholding UN resolutions.

Argentina, which was then ruled by a military junta under General Leopoldo Galtieri, invaded and occupied the islands in April 1982.

This prompted Britain to send a task force of 100 ships to recapture them in a war in which 649 Argentine and 244 British troops died.

In March, Falkland Islanders voted 99.8 percent to remain a British territory. But Argentina rejected the vote as meaningless and Kirchner has repeatedly staked its claim. 

68th anniversary of historic atomic bombing-Hiroshima Day

Japan marked the 68th anniversary today of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with a somber ceremony to honour the dead and pledges to seek to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Some 50,000 people stood for a minute of silence in Hiroshima's peace park near the epicentre of the early morning blast on August 6, 1945, that killed up to 140,000 people.

The bombing of Nagasaki three days later killed tens of thousands more, prompting Japan's surrender to the World War II Allies.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that as the sole country to face nuclear attack, Japan has the duty to seek to wipe out nuclear weapons.

The anniversary comes as Japan is torn over restarting nuclear power plants shut down since the massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011 damaged reactors at a plant in Fukushima, causing meltdowns. 

More than 100,000 people remain displaced because of radioactivity near the plant. Abe favours restarting plants radioactivity near the plant. 

Abe favours restarting plants under new safety guidelines, while many Japanese oppose such restarts.

Mahindra group saral rojgar recruitment scheme 

महिंद्रा समूह की सरल रोजगार सुविधा से। महिंद्रा समूह ने देश के किसी भी हिस्से में मौजूद कुशल, अर्द्ध-कुशल व अकुशल बेरोजगारों को नियोक्ताओं से जोड़ने के लिए एक अनोखी मोबाइल आधारित रोजगार सुविधा की शुरुआत की है।

प्रदेश में मंगलवार को इस मोबाइल आधारित सुविधा, सरल रोजगार की औपचारिक घोषणा की गई।

सरल रोजगार सुविधा का मुख्य केंद्र बिंदु स्नातक से निचले स्तर के युवा हैं। टेक महिंद्रा लिमिटेड में मोबिलिटी वीएएस प्रोडक्ट एंड पोर्टफोलियो विवेक चंदोक ने बताया कि सरल रोजगार इन बेरोजगारों को उनके ही शहर में नौकरी के अवसर उपलब्ध कराने में सहायक साबित होगा।

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लघु उद्यमी भी वॉयस कॉल के जरिए कामगारों तक पहुंच सकते हैं। एक बार आवेदनकर्ताओं की सूची को अपनी जरूरतों के मुताबिक चुनने के बाद नियोक्ता एसएमएस के जरिये या आउट बाउंड आईवीआर कॉल के लिए हजारों चुने हुए आवेदनकर्ताओं से उनकी स्थानीय भाषा में संवाद कर सकते हैं।

ग्रामीण व शहरी क्षेत्रों में रह रहे मोबाइल उपभोक्ता 30 रुपये में तीस दिन के लिए इस सुविधा की सदस्यता ले सकते हैं।