For the first time ever Green & Christmas Concepts has announced an expansion into India. This will be the first interior plantscaping business to target the recent phenomenal growth of Indian businesses.
June 28, 2008: San Luis Obispo, CA (PressReleasePoint)
Green Concepts has just announced their first member joining from India. Green Concepts has over 800 members worldwide operating their own home-based business in the Plant Rental industry. Plantscaping will be a completely new industry to this country and will require many special arrangements and permits to launch this industry..
Its summer time in the UK and the Hawaiian party theme is making a comeback due to the excitement and the plendor of different colours.
For many years in the UK Hawaii became popular because of the hit TV show Hawaii 50 which run for over 12 years until 1980.
Hawaii Five-O was shot on location in Honolulu, Hawaii, and throughout the island of Oahu — with occasional filming in other locales like Los Angeles, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as other Hawaiian islands. Hawaii Five-O centers on a fictional state police force of the same name — in honor of Hawaii's status as the 50th Stat..
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Tourism earned El
Salvador a total of US$399,565,060 between the months of January and May
2008, according to a report made public today by the Ministry of Tourism
(MITUR) through the Salvadorean Tourism Corporation (CORSATUR).
As detailed in the report, this is the result of the arrival of 813,810
foreign tourists and adventure seekers, representing a 24% rise in the
number of arrivals and a 13% increase in revenues.
Guatemala remains El Salvador's number one source of foreign tourists
with 199,045 arrivals, nearly 36..
ST. LOUIS, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The 201-member Assembly of the
Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) today voted in favor of abolition of
the death penalty in Illinois.
The vote came after presentations by former federal prosecutor Thomas
Sullivan, past president of the ISBA Terrence K. Hegarty, and the President
of the Illinois State's Attorneys Association, Joseph Birkett, State's
Attorney of DuPage County.
After quoting from the dissent of retired Illinois Supreme Court
Justice Moses Harrison, newly-installed ISBA president Jack C. Carey of
Belleville, said..
Exensys Software Solutions Limited, one of the leading Indian software product company in the Enterprise Space, IT Consulting and Telecom Solutions, inaugurated its second Research and Development Centre at Madhapur, Hi Tech City, Hyderabad on 23rd June.
This new Research and Development Centre was inaugurated by Mr. Mohammad Shams Qamar, CEO and Managing Director, who said “Exensys has always considered its people as its first customers and its most valuable assets. The ability of the team members to master emerging and cutting edge technologies and the understanding of best practices and ..
The Rs.1000 crore NK Minda Group today announced the formation of a new Joint Venture with Tokai Rika, Japan for the manufacture of Automotive Seat Belts, Locks & Immobilizers. The new company will be called Tokai Rika Minda India private limited and will have an equity participation of 70% from Tokai Rika while the balance 30% will be held by the NK Minda Group.
The new company will invest Rs.100 crore in setting up a new Greenfield facility at Bangalore, Karnataka for the purpose. The commercial productionwill coincide with the roll out of the Toyota new strategic small car from its s..
“About U Fashions Pvt. Ltd”, a Pioneer Group Company launched a new line of international lingerie for the young generation at the Intercontinental Grand, today. A scintillating product introduction was followed by a fabulous fashion show which had Brazilian models strut down the ramp as they showcased the 3 “About U” product lines “10 hours”, “Shiny Disco” & “Love Is Back.” The stage was set in the midst of golden background with pulsating music.
‘about u’ is synonymous with Gen-X girl, The collection has been designed in three separate collections for the different times and different..
Wherever you live, you are constantly running through life, competing against yourself and others. Running for success, for excess, for money – sometimes you don’t even know why everything is in such a hurry. Brace yourself for Diesel Spring Summer 2008 Timeframes collection, now launched in India which ensures you stay ahead of the game.
Diesel, the globally acclaimed casual wear brand from Italy is present over 80 countries and is a revolution among the youth. Revered as a leader in pioneering new styles, each watch in the Timeframes collection combines an exquisite design and a contempor..
Pioneers and leaders in the organized movie rental business, Seventymm - www.seventymm.com, further reinforce its leadership position by reaching the landmark of 70,000 members. Seventymm launched its operations in 2006 and established the organized movie rental category in India. Over 70,000 members now enjoy the Seventymm service across Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh.
Seventymm currently offers more than 18,000 titles across wide range of genres covering English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujrati, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Oriya, Punjabi ..
Jetway Info. Co. Ltd, one of the top five leading IT manufacturers today announced its plan to run ‌“Jetway King Club” (JKC) program for its premier partners. Through this program Jetway plans to enroll at least 100 – 150 partners in the first year and later increase depending upon the market feedback.
Announcing the program, Mr. Virender Singh, Country Manager-India, Jetway Information Co Ltd. said, “Now that we have been in the Indian markets for over 18 months, it is time that we reward the partners who have been consistently performing and provide them a range of additional be..
Kerala Tourism’s official website, www.keralatourism.org has won the Net4 PC World Web Award 2008 instituted by the technology magazine PC World, for the best tourism website in India. In its second year, the PC World Web Awards chose www.keralatourism.org from among 57 websites across 31 popular categories.
www.keralatourism.org was launched in 1998 and currently receives around 1,50,000 visitors and 6,00,000 page views per month. The site offers thousands of pages on Kerala, indexed in all major search engines. Designed and maintained by Invis Multimedia, the website was judged as the mos..
Cricinfo, the world's leading cricket website announced today that it has tied up with Myntra.com, an online platform for personalized merchandize, to offer cricket merchandise. Through the customized Cricinfo - Myntra portal, cricket enthusiasts will have the opportunity to display their enthusiasm and liking for their favourite cricketers and cricketing teams by choosing a customized T-shirt, mug, mouse pad or poster.
Cricket fanaticism is perhaps at its peak with the recently concluded IPL series. To help cricket fans express their feeling towards the game and its players, the Crici..
Aptech Computer Education, the flagship brand of the Global Learning Solutions Company, Aptech Limited, organized a Job Fair on 21st June 2008 at the Utsav Ceremonial House, 134 Rash Behari Avenue in Kolkata.
This job fair was open for all job seekers, who were starting their career or were looking for better opportunities in IT industry.
Realizing the fact that IT and ITES organisations are parched for suitable manpower, global IT Training major, Aptech, has taken this initiative to bridge this gap between the employers and prospective employees.
Commenting on this Job Fair, Ms. Laji..
Rajasthan Gramin Bank (RGB), one of the largest rural banks in India and IFFCO- Tokio General Insurance Co. Ltd. (ITGI), a trusted player in general insurance, today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding. ITGI is the first private non life insurance player to have entered into a tie-up with RGB to cater to all insurance requirements of RGB’s customers through the bank’s 195 branches.
Commenting on the tie-up, Mr. S. K. Singhvi, Chairman, Rajasthan Gramin Bank said, “The tie-up with ITGI will help our customers access a full range of insurance products. Since we will ..
Guatemala's interior minister died when a helicopter crashed on Friday in bad weather north of the Guatemalan capital, officials said. All four people on board were killed, including Interior Minister Vinicio Gomez, Guatemala's presidential spokesman Fernando Barillas told reporters.
"Bad weather caused the accident," he said. Barillas initially reported that Gomez had been aboard a small plane, but Vice President Rafael Espada later said it was a helicopter that had gone down. The helicopter was traveling to Guatemala City from the northern jungle region of Peten, Espad..
The United States and the European Union are near a deal on letting law enforcement and security agencies obtain private information like credit card transactions and travel histories about people on the other side of the Atlantic, The New York Times reported on Saturday. The newspaper, which obtained an internal report on the potential agreement, said it would amount to a diplomatic breakthrough for U.S. counterterrorism officials after a history of clashing with the EU over demands for personal data.
It was unclear when the agreement could be completed, the Times said, citing officials, b..
Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper said on Saturday the presidential election turnout could be a record and that this was a slap in the face to world leaders who had criticized President Robert Mugabe. A storm of condemnation from inside and outside Africa greeted Mugabe's decision to hold Friday's election, in which he was the sole candidate. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Western powers denounced the poll as illegitimate. Tsvangirai, who won the first round on March 29 but pulled out of the run-off and took refuge in the Dutch embassy because of what he called stat..
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton take the first step toward healing the wounds of their bruising presidential nominating fight with a joint appearance on Friday in the symbolically named New Hampshire town of Unity. The rally will be the first time the former rivals have shared a stage in public since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination earlier this month and began trying to mend the rifts caused by their epic 16-month campaign struggle.
The Illinois senator has tread cautiously in courting Clinton and her millions of supporters, including some still angry about the outcome o..
Personal spending rose by a more-than-expected 0.8 percent in May as government stimulus checks bolstered household budgets, government data on Friday showed, while a key gauge of inflation stayed tame.
Personal spending, under scrutiny as a barometer of how consumers behave as they received a fiscal boost of $48 billion in May amid a cooling economy, had been forecast by analysts polled by Reuters to increase 0.6 percent.
The rise was the largest increase in personal spending since November, and compared with a 0.4 percent rise in April.
The Commerce Department said personal income a..
Oil leapt to a new record high above $142 a barrel on Friday, extending gains after surging nearly 4 percent in the previous session, as tumbling global stock markets helped to trigger a wider commodities rally.
U.S. light crude for August delivery was $1.70 up at $141.34 a barrel by 8:12 a.m. EDT, off a record high of $142.26.
London Brent crude was $1.39 up at $141.22, off a record high of $142.13.
World stocks fell to a three-month low as a fast deteriorating global inflation picture intensified concerns over the outlook for corporate profits, hastening the rush of investors' ..
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton take the first step toward healing the wounds of their bruising presidential nominating fight with a joint appearance on Friday in the symbolically named New Hampshire town of Unity.
The rally will be the first time the former rivals have shared a stage in public since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination earlier this month and began trying to mend the rifts caused by their epic 16-month campaign struggle.
The Illinois senator has tread cautiously in courting Clinton and her millions of supporters, including some still angry about the outcom..
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea toppled the cooling tower at its plutonium-producing reactor on Friday in a symbolic move to show its commitment to a nuclear deal that comes a day after it submitted an inventory of its atomic program.
Responding to the unusual opening by Pyongyang, the United States has moved towards taking the North off its list of state sponsors of terrorism and issued a proclamation lifting some sanctions under the Trading with the Enemy Act.
But experts say key questions remain about nuclear weapons and proliferation, and global powers still need to verify the claims ..
The U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 decision overturning Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban is the biggest gun rights ruling since the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. The Court had not waded into this divisive issue since 1939, when it declared, "We cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear" arms. But on Thursday the Court broke its silence to do just that, ruling for the first time that the Constitution confers an individual right to gun ownership beyond providing for "a well regulated Militia," as the amendment states. The Constitut..
BELGRADE (Reuters Life!) - A fragment of a human jaw found in Serbia and believed to be up to 250,000 years old is helping anthropologists piece together the story of prehistoric human migration from Africa to Europe.
"This is the earliest evidence we have of humans in the area," Canada's Winnipeg University anthropology professor Mirjana Roksandic told Reuters.
The fragment of a lower jaw, complete with three teeth, was discovered in a small cave in the Sicevo gorge in south Serbia.
"It is a pre-Neanderthal jaw that we believe is between 130,000 to 250,000 years ..
In the new areas particularly, we lag behind badly. As Gen Kapoor said, “Military usage of space in the Indian context is at a comparatively nascent stage... There is an imperative requirement to develop joint structures for synergising employment of space assets.” Normally, our defence chiefs do not make statement which have a bearing on international relations and are likely to raise eyebrows in diplomatic circles. But then we are not living in normal times; we live in an era in which ruling coalition, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), puts political gains above defence ..
The disclosure of a Russian kickback confirmed by the Interpol to the Central Bureau of Investigation published in The Economic Times (June 18, 2008) is likely to become a huge embarrassment for the ruling Congress Party preparing for an early winter election. The Party has not so far reacted to the disclosure. The report however says that a Congress national general secretary was interrogated by the CBI in this connection. Sources say that the general secretary, a former chief minister likely to play a crucial role in the Rajasthan election and two other top party officials are also involved ..
Democrat Barack Obama's decision to bypass taxpayer money for his presidential campaign endangers the public-financing system, Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, a Democrat and Obama supporter, said Sunday.
"In terms of undermining the public financing idea for everyone, it doesn't help," Biden said on NBC's Meet the Press. "It's going to be harder to make the case" for taxpayer funding.
However, Biden and another Democratic Obama backer, former South Dakota senator Tom Daschle, said Obama already has transformed the campaign-finance system by tapping int..
Last summer, Terri Harlow faced a decision between two types of follow-up treatments for breast cancer: the standard, six-week-long whole-breast radiation, or a newer, one-week option called MammoSite radiation.
Harlow turned to the renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston for a second opinion. "I tried to cover every base," she says.
But Harlow, 60, decided not to travel to Boston from where she lives in West Chester, Pa. She discovered that by submitting her medical records through a service called Partners Online Specialty Consultations (POSC), she could obtain a seco..
Roadside bomb attacks and fatalities in Iraq are down by almost 90% over the last year, according to Pentagon records and interviews with military leaders.
In May, 11 U.S. troops were killed by blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) compared with 92 in May 2007, records show. That's an 88% decrease.
Military leaders cite several factors for the drop in attacks and deaths. They include:
• New vehicles. Almost 7,000 heavily armored Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles have been rushed to Iraq in the last year. "They've taken hits, many, ma..
A U.S. leak of an Israeli air exercise reported to be practice for possible bombing of Iran's nuclear sites was seen in Israel on Sunday as a deliberate move to increase pressure on Tehran to halt sensitive atomic work. "When the diplomacy of economic and political pressure fails to produce results, a shift is made to gunboat diplomacy," wrote Alex Fishman, military affairs correspondent of Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth.
"As the Iranian regime discusses the European Union representative's most recent offer to halt its nuclear program in exchange ..
Wherever you live, you are constantly running through life, competing against yourself and others. Running for success, for excess, for money – sometimes you don’t even know why everything is in such a hurry. Brace yourself for Diesel Spring Summer 2008 Timeframes collection, now launched in India which ensures you stay ahead of the game.
Diesel, the globally acclaimed casual wear brand from It..
Zimbabwe's state-run Herald newspaper said on Saturday the presidential election turnout could be a record and that this was a slap in the face to world leaders who had criticized President Robert Mugabe. A storm of condemnation from inside and outside Africa greeted Mugabe's decision to hold Friday's election, in which he was the sole candidate. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai ..
Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton take the first step toward healing the wounds of their bruising presidential nominating fight with a joint appearance on Friday in the symbolically named New Hampshire town of Unity. The rally will be the first time the former rivals have shared a stage in public since Obama clinched the Democratic nomination earlier this month and began trying to mend th..
The disclosure of a Russian kickback confirmed by the Interpol to the Central Bureau of Investigation published in The Economic Times (June 18, 2008) is likely to become a huge embarrassment for the ruling Congress Party preparing for an early winter election. The Party has not so far reacted to the disclosure. The report however says that a Congress national general secretary was interrogated by ..
Democrat Barack Obama's decision to bypass taxpayer money for his presidential campaign endangers the public-financing system, Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden, a Democrat and Obama supporter, said Sunday.
"In terms of undermining the public financing idea for everyone, it doesn't help," Biden said on NBC's Meet the Press. "It's going to be harder to make the case&q..
A U.S. leak of an Israeli air exercise reported to be practice for possible bombing of Iran's nuclear sites was seen in Israel on Sunday as a deliberate move to increase pressure on Tehran to halt sensitive atomic work. "When the diplomacy of economic and political pressure fails to produce results, a shift is made to gunboat diplomacy," wrote Alex Fishman, military affairs correspo..
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai pulled out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe on Sunday, saying his supporters would be risking their lives if they voted. Speaking only hours after his opposition Movement for Democratic Change reported its rally had been broken up by pro-Mugabe youth militia, Tsvangirai called on the United Nations and the African Union to interve..
Increase in the population of tiger in Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary and Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh has forced the 'low profile' leopard to move to the fringes of forest leading to frequent incidents of man-animal conflict. Divisional forest officer of the sanctuary, Ramesh Pandey told PTI that in order to avoid clash with the tigers in these forest areas, the leopards have ..
A Philippine ferry with more than 700 people on board capsized during a typhoon and all but a handful of those aboard have been accounted for, officials said on Sunday. Rescuers had not yet reached the scene where the MV Princess of Stars sank near Sibuyan island in the centre of the country as a Typhoon Fengshen pounded the area. "The ship is upside down. We are waiting for rescuers but ther..
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday that could shield phone companies from billions of dollars in lawsuits for their participation in the warrant less surveillance program begun by President George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks.
The White House-backed, compromise measure -- which triggered a firestorm of opposition from civil liberties groups -- would also overhau..
U.S. President George W. Bush did not know about a White House effort to leak the identity of a CIA agent but tried to protect staffers who were involved in one of the biggest scandals of his administration, former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan told Congress on Friday.
McClellan said he did not think Bush was involved in a 2003 effort to blow the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, whose..
Oakland, Calif.; and orlando, fla. - When Sen. John McCain visits Santa Barbara, Calif., next week, Charles Eckberg will be there to protest the Republican presidential candidate's calls to lift the federal ban on US offshore drilling.
Mr. Eckberg, a grass-roots activist, remembers the 1969 spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that galvanized the state and the nation to halt fresh drillin..
Chicago - The floodwaters, in many cases, have simply been too high. The sprawling network of levees — built over many years to protect the Upper Mississippi basin from the sort of disastrous flooding that has claimed homes, lives, and millions of acres of farmland this past week — was never designed to withstand the magnitude of a 500-year flood.
And so towns like Gulfport, Ill., and La Grange..
OMAHA, Neb. - Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said Friday he would consider serving as Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's running mate if asked, but he doesn't expect to be on any ticket.
Hagel's vocal criticism of the Bush administration since the 2003 invasion of Iraq has touched off speculation that if Obama were to pick a Republican running mate, it might be Hagel...
WASHINGTON - If the nation doesn't trust the Bush White House, it's the president's and Dick Cheney's own fault, Bush's former spokesman told Congress Friday.
From life-and-death matters on down — the rationale for war, the leaking of classified information, Cheney's accidental shooting of a friend — the government's top two leaders undermined their credibili..
Enraged by the recent US air strikes in the tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, Pakistani military has threatened to postpone or cancel an American programme to train a paramilitary force for combating Islamic militants, a media report said today. Some Pakistani officials are convinced that the Americans deliberately fired on their military, killing 11 men from the very paramilitary force the Ameri..
A day after DMK snapped ties with his party, PMK leader and Union Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss today met Congress President Sonia Gandhi to "explain" the political situation in Tamil Nadu.
He also sought to dismiss any suggestions of possibility of a rapprochement with the M Karunanidhi-led party.
"You should ask the DMK about it," Ramadoss shot back when asked about a..
Sachin Tendulkar is just 171 runs short of overtaking Brian Lara as the top Test run-getter and Sri Lanka tourism is hoping to encash the impending moment to woo Indian tourists for next month's Test series against Mahela Jayawardane's men. "Sachin is a mere 171 runs behind (Brian) Lara's aggregate of 11,953 runs and is expected to set the new mark during India's third Tes..
US President George Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House. Defence and intelligence sources in Washington and London have confirmed that a renewed hunt was on for the leader of the 9/11 attacks. Delta, the US army special operations unit, and the British SBS are undertaking the main operations in Pakistan against Bin..
Premier League champions Manchester United will begin their title defense against Newcastle at Old Trafford on the opening weekend of the new season. The Red Devils close the campaign with a trip to newly promoted Hull City on 24th May. United face top four sides Liverpool and Chelsea away on successive weekends, 13th September and 20th September, before also visiting Arsenal on 8th November.
L..
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith was last night facing a Commons summons to explain the latest government security lapse after another batch of secret papers was left on a train.
The documents, covering global terrorist funding, drugs trafficking and money laundering, were handed in to the Independent on Sunday after being found last week on a train going to Waterloo station, London.
This coincided..
An international smuggling ring sold bomb-related parts to Libya, and, as well as managed to obtain blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon, former UN arms inspector David Albright wrote in a report on Sunday. Washington Post published the report that claimed that the Pakistani government did not refute the findings of the report but pointed out that it had co-operated extensively with UN invest..
Euro 2008 co-hosts Switzerland ended their Euro campaign on a happy note Sunday with a 2-0 victory against Portugal in a Group A game played in Basle. Both goals for the Swiss, who had previously not won a game at the finals of a European Championships, were scored in the second half by Hakan Yakin.
The victory was a fitting farewell for Swiss coach Koebi Kuhn and 37-year-old goalkeeper Pascal..
Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened Sunday to send Afghan troops across the border to fight militants in Pakistan, a forceful warning to insurgents and the Pakistani government that his country is fed up with cross-border attacks. Karzai said Afghanistan has the right to self defense, and because militants cross over from Pakistan "to come and kill Afghan and kill coalition troops, it ex..
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WI) has just published the final version of a report by the Task Force on the Future of U.S.-Israel relations. The title is appealing: How to Deepen U.S.-Israel Cooperation on the Iranian Nuclear Challenge. But no less appealing is the list of people endorsing this report: Tony Lake and Susan Rice of the Obama campaign, Vin Weber, James Woolsey of the..
Dr V K Saraswat, top scientist of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said here that India is planning to develop an anti-missile shield against any conventional or nuclear attack. The missile shield will have highly sensitive radars to track the incoming missiles, besides an interceptor that can destroy it, said Dr Saraswat.
He added that the guidance system in the shield woul..
Blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon have been found on the computers belonging to the nuclear smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist, but it is not clear whether they were sold to Iran or some other customers, the New York Times has reported.
US and international investigators who found the electronic blueprints say the plans closely resem..
Bhartiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh on Sunday expressed concern over Communist Party of India general secretary A B Bardhan's remarks that the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal would make India a US outpost against China.
In a statement issued to the media on Sunday, Rajnath said: 'The CPI in its over-enthusiasm towards China seems to have forgotten that it is not a Chinese but ..
Bangalore, India, May 19th, 2008- Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT) today announced an agreement with SAP AG, through which it established a closer collaboration and an increased focus on customer adoption of SAP® solutions. Under this agreement, Wipro has invested in a state-of-the-art Solutions Lab, through which it is building ..
Five major blasts rocked the pink city of 'Jaipur' on Tuesday (May 13) at 7.35 pm. The serial blasts occured in Tripolia, Manek Chowk and Chandpol Gate, while the fourth blast occured at Lakshmi Mishthan Bhandar in old Jaipur. Though the cause of the blast is still unknown, it's learnt that five blasts occured within a span of half an hour in the walled city of Jaipur. According to ..
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