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October 8th, 2009 PRINCETON, New Jersey - Impliant, Inc., a developer of novel motion-sparing alternatives to traditional spinal fusion surgery, announced today that it conducted the first two implantations of its TOPS VersaLink System, the newest addition to its product portfolio. (Logo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080527/NETU060LOGO ) The system is comprised of the company's flagship TOPS(TM) Total Posterior Arthroplasty device, a motion-sparing posterior implant designed to treat moderate to severe lumbar stenosis with or without spondylolisthesis and facet arthrosis, attached to the company's recently-developed VersaLink Fixation System(TM).

October 1st, 2009 BASILDON, England - Travel insurance price comparison site QuoteBanana has been shortlisted for the Travolution Awards 2009. The company was a contender in the travel insurance website category.

August 31st, 2009 AMSTERDAM - As of today, Muslims from all over the world can search the World Wide Web safely without coming across content that might be considered "Haram" according to the Islamic Law. The search engine, ImHalal.com (www.imhalal.com/ ), only fetches results that are flagged as to be "Halal".

August 27th, 2009 GLASGOW, Scotland - Kwik Fit Insurance has been named as one of the top performers of the year in the Top 50 Brokers list for 2009. The Uddingston-based intermediary has risen two places to 15th in the overall Top 50 Brokers list published by Insurance Times but was also identified as a 'top performer' in the motor insurance sector by consultants IMAS who compiled the list.

July 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - Telmar Group Inc. is pleased to announce an alliance with Cuende Infometrics S.A., Spain's leading Outdoor software engineers and developers.

July 1st, 2009 GLASGOW, Scotland - Kwik Fit Insurance (KFI) played host to a battle of the sexes on Monday as they undertook their second major sales day of 2009. The day, which saw the firm negotiate discounts for its customers, was a huge success as KFI enjoyed some of it's strongest sales figures since it began trading in 1995.

June 15th, 2009 GLASGOW, Scotland - Leading UK insurance intermediary Kwik Fit Insurance has reported that sales of car insurance leapt by almost a third in May in comparison with the same month last year. It's presence in the home insurance market continued to grow with policy sales rising by nearly a quarter in the same comparative period.

May 28th, 2009 MANCHESTER, England - The Co-operative Insurance has launched a new range of specially designed sector-specific, flexible packaged business insurance products. The range of tailored insurance products have been developed to meet the protection needs of the self employed, shop and salon owners, publicans, restaurateurs, hoteliers, office and surgery owners and residential property owners.

April 1st, 2009 EDINBURGH - Year on Year Growth at end of First Quarter is 87% Leading European flight search engine Skyscanner today announced a 54% year on year increase in site traffic for the first quarter of 2009. More than 50 million flight searches take place each month on the Skyscanner site - 65% of these from outside the UK.

March 19th, 2009 LONDON - Over 50s Home Insurance Specialist Castle Cover Has Launched Their New Regal Insurance Website This Week, Catering for the Needs of People Who Require High Value Home Insurance Cover www.regalinsurance.co.uk promotes the benefits of home insurance (which includes antiques insurance, art insurance and jewellery insurance) for those who require a superior level of cover. The site also includes new features such as a contents calculator and online quote facility.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will provide health insurance to 150,000 weavers and open two textile parks, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran said Wednesday while unveiling the department's first 100 days' work agenda. "The textile sector is the second largest employer after agriculture and accounts for 13.5 percent of the total merchandise export earning and four percent of the GDP," said Maran.

December 22nd, 2008 KOLKATA - Around 99 percent of Kolkata-based National Insurance Corp and 76 percent of General Insurance Corp non-management staff stayed away from work Tuesday in support of a nationwide insurance sector strike. Employees unions claimed 98 percent of Life Insurance Corp's non-management staff in the eastern region also participated in the strike.

June 24th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The government will spend Rs.1,100 crore (Rs.11 billion) annually till 2012 to provide subsidies and upgrade technology to the textile sector, Textiles Minister Dayanidhi Maran said here Wednesday. The Technology Upgradation Fund Scheme (TUFS), which was launched to improve competitiveness and overall long term viability of the industry, has been extended till March 31, 2012.

August 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is all set to come out with insurance specific accounting standards in the next three months. Interacting with newsmen here on Sunday ICAI President, Uttam Prakash Agarwal, said: "We are likely to come out with a insurance sector accounting standards in the next two-three months." Agarwal informed that ICAI has appointed a group of experts for the purpose, once the board approves the recommendations of the committee it will become mandatory.

August 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Raising the foreign equity cap in the insurance sector to 49 percent will not lead to losing management control, the government informed parliament Monday. "Increase in foreign equity holding limit to 49 percent in the insurance sector would not result in change in management control automatically," said Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament.

December 22nd, 2008 AGARTALA - Over 1,700 insurance employees in the northeast went on strike Tuesday as part of a nationwide protest against the government's move to raise foreign direct investment (FDI) in the insurance sector. More than 1,700 insurance employees belonging to 22 branches of Life Insurance Corp of India (LIC) and the General Insurance Corp (GIC) in Tripura, Manipur, Mizoram and Assam took part in the strike, said Dipankar Chakraborty, a spokesman of the All India Insurance Employees Association (AIIEA).

October 14th, 2009 Death toll from Indonesian quake tops 1,100JAKARTA, Indonesia — Hundreds of people buried by landslides in Indonesia two weeks ago have been registered as dead, raising the death toll from last month's earthquake to 1,115. Disaster Management Agency spokesman Priyadi Kardono said Wednesday that the search for 300 missing people has ended and that they have been declared dead.

February 22nd, 2009 PANAJI - The number of airports in India will go up from the present 85 to about 400 in the next 10 years, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said here Saturday. It was a busy day for Patel, who visited three cities to inaugurate two new air terminals and lay the foundation stone of a third.

March 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Indian realty sector should be accorded an 'industry status' and the integrated township development activity an 'infrastructure status', the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has said in a report submitted to the government. 'With strong backward and forward linkages with more than 250 industry sectors including cement, steel, brick, timber, building material, the real estate and housing sector has played a catalyst role in India's growth story,' CII said in a written statement.

August 18th, 2009 SRINAGAR - The tourism sector of Jammu and Kashmir has welcomed the initiative of the state government to device an insurance scheme to those involved in tourism trade. This sector will be compensated for the losses borne by them, if any.