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National Instruments Named Among the World’s Top 25 Best Multinational Workplaces

For the second consecutive year, the Great Place to Work® Institute has ranked National Instruments among the top 25 multinational companies to work for in the world. This year’s “World’s Best Multinational Workplaces” list ranks NI at number 16. Mark Finger, NI’s vice president of human resources, joined other prominent executives from leading global organizations …

Market Quality Is Best Served by Maintaining Strong Competition between Trading on Lit and Dark Venues, Says New CFA Institute Study

London, United Kingdom, 19 November 2012  As larger volumes of equity-market transactions take place away from public exchanges, and concerns about transparency, investor access, and competition with traditional exchanges have been raised, a new study by CFA Institute concludes that markets best serve investors when there is strong competition between trading on lit and dark …

Russia Hikes Minimum Vodka Price By 36%

In a watershed moment for inverse deflation watchers everywhere, Russia, and specifically its alcohol watchdog entity aptly named “Rosalkogoluregulirovaniye” just delivered the judgment blow, with a decision to hike the minimum vodka price by 36% in 2013… as if a million cirrhotic livers cried out (or was it rejoiced) and were suddenly silenced. The reason …

ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel receives “German Business Award for Health” Concept for preventing chronic illnesses honored by the BKK Federal Association

The electrical steel manufacturer ThyssenKrupp Electrical Steel GmbH was today presented with the special “German Business Award for Health” (industry category) in Berlin by the BKK Federal Association. The award honors the efforts made by the company, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe with 1,350 employees, to prevent chronic illnesses as part of its corporate …

Indira Gandhi remembered on her birth anniversary

The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Smt. Meira Kumar, the Union Home Minister, Shri Sushil Kumar Shinde, the Chairperson, National Advisory Council, Smt. Sonia Gandhi, the Chairman of BJP Parliamentary Party Shri L.K. Advani and other dignitaries after paying floral tributes to former Prime Minister, Late Smt. Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary, at Parliament House in …

Response by Prime Minister at the 10th ASEAN-India Summit

“I sincerely thank you for your support for India-ASEAN partnership and your commitment to further strengthen and broaden it. I am also grateful for your valuable thoughts and suggestions on the future direction of our relationship. I also look forward to meeting you bilaterally here and in Delhi. I also thank the ASEAN-India Eminent Persons …

Opening Remarks by Prime Minister at 10th India-ASEAN Summit

Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh`s remarks at the 10th India-ASEAN Summit, in Phnom Penh today: “It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to join you for the 10th India-ASEAN Summit. I thank Prime Minister HUN SEN and the people of Cambodia for their warm welcome and generous …