CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk, June 19, 2013 http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/epfo-meet-on-provident-fund-transfer-withdrawals-in-3-days/1/195996.html Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is planning to settle all claims like transfer and withdrawal of provident fund within three days. A decision to this effect would benefit over one crore such claimants every year. In order to give effect to the proposal, EPFO has called a meeting of all zonal heads on July 5, to draw an action plan. The body is expecting ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk, June 19, 2013 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324577904578555023624561226.html By GILLES CASTONGUAY MILAN—The trial of Finmeccanica SpA's FNC.MI +2.34% former chief executive began Wednesday, in which he faces fraud and corruption charges for allegedly overseeing the use of bribes to win a helicopter contract in India. The case has convulsed Italy's biggest defense contractor because it has, according to industry analysts, risked worsening its relationship with an important customer—the Indian government. India has opened its ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk, June 19, 2013 http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Kolkata/Mamata-cries-murder-alleges-CPM-and-Maoist-plot-to-kill-her/Article1-1079071.aspx Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged that the central government and its agencies, the CPI(M), Congress, Maoists and even a section of the media are conspiring to kill her. On Wednesday, she kicked off her panchayat poll campaign from Gaighata in North 24 Parganas, 60 kms from Kolkata, with cries of the conspiracy. "I have information and even the police told me that CPI(M), ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk, June 19,2013 http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/rep-michael-burgess-says-15-week-old-male-fetuses-pleasure-themselves/             (Image Credit: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images) ABC News’ Brooke Kettler reports: At what age do young boys begin sexual self-exploration? As early as 15 weeks in utero, according to Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas. “Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” said Burgess, a former obstetrician-gynecologist. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk, June 19,2013 http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-to-relaunch-peace-talks-with-taliban/2013/06/18/bd8c7f38-d81e-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines   The Obama administration will start formal peace talks with the Taliban on Thursday in the Persian Gulf state of Qatar, the first direct political contact between them since early last year and the initial step in what the administration hopes will lead to a negotiated end to the protracted war in Afghanistan. Afghan government representatives are not expected to attend the meeting. But ...

CORPORATE  PRESS  RELEASES  (INDIA)  news desk, June 19,2013 http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Delhi-government-refers-decision-on-Bhullar-to-home-ministry/Article1-1078898.aspx Delhi government has decided torefer to the union home ministry a decision on the execution of death row convict Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar following a medical board report that he is under severe mental depression. The medical board, set up by Delhi Government to examine his health, has in its report submitted to Delhi Government last month said that Bhullar was not mentally sound ...