On her first day as CM, Mehbooba drops four senior ministers from her cabinet

Edit DNA India 05 Apr 2016
On the day she created history by becoming the first woman chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti went into an overdrive and cracked whip against the dissidents by dropping four senior PDP leaders and former ministers of the Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's cabinet ... Mir was termed as giant killer after he defeated former chief minister Omar Abdullah from Sonawar constituency in 2014....

PDP MP boycotts swearing-in

Edit Indian Express 05 Apr 2016
Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohara along with Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti and her cabinet poses for a group photo at Raj Bhawan in Jammu on Monday ... While founding-member and senior PDP leader Tariq Hameed Karra “boycotted” the event in Jammu, Mehbooba’s decision to drop key party faces and induction of her uncle Farooq Andrabi, a first-time MLA, appears to have triggered some discontent in the party....

Disney heir apparent Tom Staggs is leaving the company

Edit LA Daily News 05 Apr 2016
The surprise announcement Monday means Disney will have to look further for Iger’s successor after he steps down in June 2018, a date the popular chief executive has extended twice. Staggs, a 26-year Disney veteran and its chief operating officer, had been assumed to be on track for the top job after the next leading candidate, Jay Rasulo, resigned last June as chief financial officer....

Chhattisgarh government dismisses CJM who accused BJP MLA of threatening him

Edit Indian Express 05 Apr 2016
Based on the recommendation of the Bilaspur High Court, the Chhattisgarh government has dismissed Sukma’s Chief Judicial Magistrate Prabhakar Gwal from “service in public interest with immediate effect”. While senior government officials refused to reveal the ......

New CM Mehbooba Mufti gets down to work

Edit Indian Express 05 Apr 2016
New J&K; Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti with Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu and J&K; Governor NN Vohra during oath taking ceremony at Raj Bhawan in Jammu on Monday ... Mehbooba Mufti, 56, got down to work with a one-on-one meeting with Governor N N Vohra and convening a meeting with her Cabinet colleagues and senior bureaucrats soon after taking oath....

Centre to SC

Edit Indian Express 05 Apr 2016
Archive ... The bench said the AMU, represented by senior advocate P P Rao, thereafter, can file the counter-affidavit to the Centre’s stand and posted the matter for hearing after the summer vacation. The court also allowed some intervenors, for whom senior advocate Salman Khurshid appeared, to assist in the matter. There was another matter related to the AMU which was listed before a bench led by Chief Justice T S Thakur ... ....

SMBC Nikko Creates Two Jobs to Bolster Overseas Market Research

Edit Bloomberg 05 Apr 2016
Starting this month, Yoshimasa Maruyama will become the chief market economist, covering Japan and other countries, the company said in a statement. Makoto Noji will be a currency and foreign bond strategist after previously working as the senior interest-rate strategist ... Ten-year U.S ... ....

Hanna Shelest discusses the Ukraine crisis and international security in free lecture, April 11 (University of Alaska Anchorage)

Edit Public Technologies 05 Apr 2016
(Source. University of Alaska Anchorage). Monday, April 11, 10-11.15 a.m ... Hanna Shelest is currently the editor-in-chief of UA ... For more than ten years, she served as the senior researcher for Ukraine's National Institute for Strategic Studies....

Capital Region health insurers improve financial wellness in 2015

Edit Times Union 05 Apr 2016
"The hard work we've done, diversifying our product portfolio and reducing administrative costs by more than $30 million in two years, has had a significant impact on our bottom line," said Chris Del Vecchio, chief operating officer at Schenectady-based MVP Health Care ... That resulted in the loss of some members, especially in Medicare, which provides coverage primarily to seniors, who often require the most costly medical care....

Meet on Huda City Centre revamp, waste plant revival

Edit The Times of India 05 Apr 2016
Residents, especially those commuting through Huda City Centre and Sohna Road, may soon get some respite from traffic woes if state chief secretary D S Dhesi gives the nod to a traffic plan made by Huda, PWD and MCG, at a meeting of the task force on traffic scheduled for Thursday in the city ... said a senior Huda official....

Credit Suisse faces tough questions after $1 bln write-downs

Edit Yahoo Daily News 05 Apr 2016
19, Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam contacted the head of the Swiss bank's markets business asking for more details about the fourth-quarter results at the trading division, according to materials seen by Reuters ... Thiam has said he and other senior bank officials were unaware of the size of the positions behind the write-downs but that no trading limits had been breached or trades concealed....

Punjab and Haryana HC slams Haryana, calls out attempts to ‘cover up’ lapses during stir

Edit Indian Express 05 Apr 2016
HC notice to Centre, insurance firms for fast settlement of claimsNo senior Cong leaders in Jat stir ... Accepting a suggestion by amicus curiae senior advocate Anupam Gupta, the court directed District and Sessions Judges of districts— Rohtak, Sonepat, Jhajjar, Jind, Bhiwani, Kaithal and Hisar to submit reports on security of judicial officers during the stir in February....

TTC still worried about transit officers issuing bogus tickets

Edit Toronto Sun 05 Apr 2016
Three years after a scandal saw eight transit officers fired — five of whom were charged criminally — and their leadership quietly dismantled, an internal audit shows the TTC remains concerned about bogus tickets being issued to homeless ... Former deputy chief Fergie Reynolds, who headed up the unit, and one of his senior officers, former Staff-Sgt ... Another senior officer, Staff-Sgt ... cdoucette@postmedia.com  ....
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