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Foxconn re-employs staff

Edit The Hindu 13 Jul 2016
Foxconn India, which has set up a ‘fairly large’ facility at Sri City, has re-employed a number of its employees who were working at its factories in Sriperumbudur that were closed down ... factory shut down....

Akron looks to repair broken waterline on Sues Court

Edit Ohio 13 Jul 2016
“This is a lot of water going down nowhere,” he said Tuesday. “They let it run down the street like it’s no big deal.” ... City officials said Tuesday they are aware of the break and expect to repair it Wednesday ... City officials also didn’t deem it to be an emergency situation that needed to be corrected immediately....

Tamil Nadu government plans to shut 1,000 more Tasmac shops

Edit Deccan Chronicle 13 Jul 2016
Having closed 500 Tasmac shops in line with its stated policy, the Tamil Nadu government is exploring options to shut down an additional 1,000 liquor shops across the state in the next few months ... Once officials complete the process of ... Sources said the shops near these places would be the first to shut down once the top brass receive the report....

Larry the cat staying put in Downing Street

Edit Arabnews 13 Jul 2016
British Prime Minister David Cameron is leaving his official 10 Downing Street this week to make way for Theresa May, but one resident is staying put ... But while government members nervously await their fate, officials insisted the nine-year-old brown and white tabby was staying on and would survive May’s forthcoming reshuffle ... There have been resident mice-fighting cats in Downing Street since the 1920s....

20 govt schools shut per year in last decade

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
The incidence of government primary schools shutting down for want of students is increasing alarmingly in Goa ... Over the last decade, 20 government schools have shut down on an average every year, bringing the total number of government primary schools in Goa down from around 1,000 a decade ago to less than 800 in 2015-16 ... Some officials are of the opinion that the state government itself is to be blamed for this condition....

China produces less summer crops than last year's record

Edit China Daily 13 Jul 2016
BEIJING - China produced less summer farm produce in 2016 than last year's record, but still the second highest amount in history, official figures show on Tuesday....

India cricket team heads for an island ahead of West Indies Tests

Edit Indian Express 13 Jul 2016
Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan pose for a selfie with Cheteshwar Pujara ... Kohli, too, shared a video from the visit on his official Instagram account ... Ashwin, too, shared the news of “rolling down with the boys” on his official Twitter handle. Rolling down to Nevis with the boys😄😝 pic.twitter.com/AevJvRthnC ... The official Facebook page of the Indian cricket team shared more pictures from the team-bonding visit. ....

Tamil Nadu likely to hold Facebook accountable for suicide case

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
Officials also requested Facebook to take down the objectionable photographs of the young woman ... Her morphed nude photographs were taken down only on the day of her death, according to the police ... Officials are considering charging Facebook with abetment to suicide and including Facebook in the chargesheet if the site is found culpable after investigations....

12 staffers abducted from Sola Civil

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
Ahmedabad. A group abducted 12 members of the housekeeping division of Sola Civil Hospital to Mehsana ... When Chauhan turned him down, he got angry," said a Sola police official. Darbar, a supervisor at the hospital, got to know about the incident when the night shift officials reported 12 persons missing ... RELATED....

Munde’s Singapore visit ‘private’, not official

Edit Indian Express 13 Jul 2016
“Munde Madam is on private tour. It is not official. So we are not putting it on official record,” said a secretary ... It is not official. So we are not putting it on official record,” said a secretary ... A senior officer said, “Since it was not official, there was no question of any formal communication to the State or Central government.” ... Bombay HC strikes down Rs 6,300-crore tenders Pankaja Munde dept issued Maharashtra Cabinet reshuffle ... ....

Civic body to make pet registration compulsory

Edit The Times of India 13 Jul 2016
Ahmedabad ... Officials said that the move for pet registration was sped up after complaints about pet dogs kept increasing at AMC ... Officials pointed out that the AMC is likely to ask the owner to give proof about the source of purchase ... Sources hinted that this provision is likely to be struck down ... Click here to download it for your device. RELATED....

Meaningless economic statistics will cause problems for stewardship of country

Edit RTE 13 Jul 2016
Ireland’s economy grew by more than a quarter last year – according to official statistics ... The parameters to constrain spending have been watered down by the revision of the size of the economy ... The gap between what economists think is happening in Ireland right now and the official statistics is embarrassing for the Central Statistics Office....

Daily Blotter

Edit New York Post 13 Jul 2016
on June 12, with one of them posing as a customer, officials said ... They hit the same store at almost the same time and using the same strategy on June 30, making off with $110, officials said ... Cops got wind of the robbery in progress, and as they closed in, the accomplice fled and Edwards ran down a fire escape, authorities said ... The victim tumbled down the steps and suffered a fractured knee....
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