The Heating Industry Cuts Through the Spin to Debate the Truth Behind Government Targets

September 4th, 2009 Bundelkhand Akikrit Party demands central government to help Bundelkhand farmers directly through the district administrations but not in the way of releasing drought package to state governments. According to party convener Sanjay Pandey, it is proved in the past that such packages from central government were badly misused by UP government.

August 25th, 2009 KENILWORTH, England - The Solar Trade Association and the Heating and Hotwater Industry Council will be holding a joint launch event at the Restaurant Ship Hispaniola at 5pm on Wednesday 9th Sept for the Solar Thermal Benchmark Commissioning Checklist and STA Solar Handbook. The launch event will feature a keynote speech by a principal political figure in the drive to reduce the UK's carbon output.

August 24th, 2009 LONDON - Unite union has sharply criticised Lloyds Banking Group's (LBG) confused management style today (25th August) as the bank announces over 200 job losses in its general insurance arm, bringing the total job cuts at the bank to 7,500 this year. Only last week LBG decided to abandon the closure of the Cheltenham and Gloucester branches bringing reprieve for 900 staff.

July 6th, 2009 LONDON - - Survey Reports 'High Risk' of Council Tax Rises if Government Targets Missed A ground-breaking campaign is launched today by the plastics industry to challenge itself, government and consumers to step up recycling and to stop sending plastic to landfill. The Plastics 2020 Challenge, backed by MPs from across the political divide, is the first time plastics manufacturers and processors themselves have called for a widespread and open debate and set their own targets for helping make the country greener.

May 28th, 2009 LONDON - The "green shoots of recovery" may not be political spin after all - according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. The pace of decline is slowing and the government can take some credit with an aggressive fiscal stimulus.

May 25th, 2009 NYON, Switzerland - Postal market liberalisation routinely leads to unemployment, attacks on working conditions and poorer service for customers, says a study released today by UNI Global Union. UNI is urging the European Union to immediately put a moratorium on the implementation of the 3rd postal directive and start a proper debate on the issue.

May 13th, 2009 PARIS - On the occasion of the opening ceremony of the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, the actress and member of the jury, Robin Wright Penn, wore diamonds and white gold earrings, and a bracelet from Les Ardentes collection. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: www.prnewswire.com/mnr/louisvuitton/38364/ Les Ardentes collection is characterised by two new cuts of diamond representing the flowers of the Louis Vuitton Monogram.

March 24th, 2009 LONDON - Unite has accused HSBC of "creative accountancy" with jobs as HSBC concedes that the true number of job cuts is in fact 2,900 as the union has rightly claimed, and not 1,200 as HSBC had originally claimed. Derek Simpson, Unite Joint General Secretary, said: "As if it was not bad enough for staff of HSBC to hear from the media that their jobs are at risk, we now have a situation where the company is failing to come clean with the true extent of these cuts.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - LONDON, March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- When: 11 am, Tuesday 17th March Where: Scottish Parliament, outside the main entrance, Edinburgh, EH99 1SP. Unite members will today (Tuesday) gather outside the Scottish Parliament dressed in black and accompanied by a horse drawn hearse, to mourn the loss of key jobs and services in Scotland's voluntary sector due to funding cuts.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, Britain's biggest union, has welcomed the successful second reading of the Statutory Redundancy Pay Amendment Bill which would increase to GBP500 a week the amount of pay used to calculate compensation for workers made redundant. Unite the union is calling on the government to introduce the measure through the forthcoming budget.

April 7th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers at North Carolina University, US, have developed a device that controls electron spin at room temperature. The researchers have designed a magnetic semiconductor memory device, using GaMnN thin films, which utilizes both the charge and spin of electrons at room temperature.

May 6th, 2009 BRISBANE - Australia's shortage of quality spin bowlers has prompted the game's custodians to call for a "spin summit" at Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence (COE) in Brisbane later this year. Some of the nation's best thinkers on the art of spin, including Shane Warne's mentor Terry Jenner and COE spin bowling coach John Davison, will meet in June to try to resolve why Australia's tweakers are struggling to make an impact in all levels of the game.

April 23rd, 2009 DUBAI - Stand-in Australian cricket team captain Michael Clarke has refuted suggestions that his players are not good against spin. Reacting to media reports that surfaced after Pakistan won the first of five one-day internationals against Australia here, the Daily Telegraph quoted Clarke as saying: "I certainly don't think we have a weakness against spin but we haven't been performing as well as we would have liked against them." "Whether we like it or not we are going to be facing a lot of it so we have to practice hard against it and probably have to be a little more disciplined, especially on a wicket like that that is spinning," he added.

March 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The high government borrowing targets will leave very little room for interest rate cuts, Cabinet Secretary K.M. Chandrasekhar said Friday, adding that the troubled time is yet to come for the Indian Economy.

April 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - In the first demonstration of its kind, researchers at the University of British Columbia have controlled the spin of electrons using a ballistic technique. For controlling the spin of electrons, the team bounced electrons through a microscopic channel of precisely constructed, two-dimensional layer of semiconductor.

March 1st, 2009 LONDON - Australian spin legend Shane Warne is disappointed with the progress of England left-arm spinner Monty Panesar but said he would still pick him ahead of Graeme Swann. 'Monty has the ability to come out and take five-for on the last day and win you the Test.

February 8th, 2009 LONDON - Local schools and homes in small Georgian town of Reepham in Norfolk are showing how renewable heating oil remains a viable option. Like two million homes across Britain and Ireland, the properties depend on heating oil for warmth and hot water, and the aim of the University of East Anglia (UEA) trial is to prove that reusing the oil is a viable option.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - Job losses in India will continue into the next year due to the global slowdown, but it will be at 'minimum' levels, a top government economist said here Tuesday. Soon after the government tabled the mid-year review of the Indian economy in parliament, Arvind Virmani, the chief economic adviser in the finance ministry, told reporters that most of the job cuts would be in the export sector as industry was hit hard by the slowdown.

April 11th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan is banking upon its spinners to tackle the new but exceptionally talented Australian batting line-up in the forthcoming UAE one day international series. Coach Intikhab Alam said he would be relying more on spinners in the series as the Kangaroos are not great players of spin bowling.

May 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Cricket observers in Australia have admitted for the first time in 16 years that England possesses the most threatening spin bowler, off-spinning extrovert Graeme Swann. Spin coach Terry Jenner is very impressed with Swann, who used to front a rock group called Dr Comfort and the Lurid Revelations.