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Hundreds of Bihar junior doctors strike work

Hundreds of junior doctors in Bihar went on an indefinite strike Monday, demanding action against a Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) legislator and his bodyguard who fired at three interns of a hospital in Gaya district. Three interns of the Anugrah Narain Magadh Medical College Hospital (ANMCH) in Gaya, about 100 km from here, were injured [...]

Hundreds of Banking Sites Vulnerable to RSA Security Flaw, Researcher Finds

Hundreds of banking Websites are still vulnerable to a patched vulnerability affecting certain versions of the RSA Adaptive Authentication platform. – RSA, EMCs security division, is advising customers to apply a
two-year-old patch for its Adaptive Authentication product after a
researcher discovered hundreds of banking Websites are still open to
attack.
RSA Adaptive Authentication is a risk-based fraud prevention and authentication platform t…


Citigroup to expand Singapore presence, to hire hundreds

Citigroup (C.N) said on Tuesday it planned to expand its Singapore presence by hiring a few hundred people in each of the next two to three years, further cementing its position as the city-state’s largest financial sector employer.

Citi currently employs about 8,800 in Singapore, more than the 7,000-plus staffers on the payroll of DBS Group (DBSM.SI), the Southeast Asian country’s largest homegrown lender by assets.

Singapore has the largest employee base for Citi in the Asia-Pacific region, exceeding the number employed in both Hong Kong and Tokyo, a Citi spokeswoman said.

Citi also said on Tuesday it will relocate its corporate office in Singapore to Asia Square, a new development by property investor MGPA in the city-state’s new downtown.

“Asia Square will also be home to Citi’s largest trading floor by headcount in Asia Pacific, given Singapore’s role as the regional hub for Citi’s global markets business,” the US bank said in a statement.

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Hundreds of Oracle/Sun and HP Customers Switched to IBM in Q3

IBM says about 400 Oracle/Sun and HP customers migrated to IBM servers and storage systems in the third quarter of 2010. – IBM has announced that nearly 400 customers moved
business workloads to IBM servers and storage systems from Oracle/Sun
and HP in the third quarter, a record high since the company began
tracking migrations more than four years ago.
In a Nov. 11 press release on the migrations, IBM
said custome…


Hundreds of pension protests in France

Nearly 300 protests were held in France in order to put a strong pressure on the French government to abandon the pension reform. The reform would raise the retirement age from 60 to 62.

France rounds up hundreds of Roma

Some 700 people have been removed from more than 40 illegal Roma (Gypsy) camps in France as part of a police crackdown backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy. The country’s Interior Minister, Brice Hortefeux, said the Roma would be returned to their country of origin on “specially chartered flights”.

DBS plans to add hundreds of staff for wealth management

DBS Group (DBSM.SI), Southeast Asia’s biggest bank, said on Friday it would add hundreds of people to its wealth management business, as it seeks to grab a greater share of the fast-growing Asian private banking market. 

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Hundreds held in Belgian anti-nuclear demo

Some 300 anti-nuclear demonstrators have been arrested in Belgium, trying to break into a military site they claim is home to a battery of U.S. atomic weapons. A spokesman for the Belgian group Action for Peace claimed 800 protestors had tried to storm the Kleine Brogel base in the north of the country close to the border with the Netherlands.

Violence leaves hundreds dead in Nigeria

Nigeria’s acting President Goodluck Jonathan is due to meet with security chiefs to discuss the recent clashes involving Muslim herders and Christian villagers. The clashes killed hundreds of people near the central city of Jos.

Tax evasion costs Serbia hundreds of millions

The Serbian budget has lost EUR 850mn over the last six years to tax evasion, Belgrade daily Blic writes. The tax police has filed over 9,000 charges against 11,850 individuals since October 2003.

Afghan avalanche kills eight, strands hundreds

At least eight people are dead and 40 others injured by avalanches in a mountain pass north of Kabul that have left hundreds stranded on the roads. Gen. Abdul Rahman Sayedkhail, Parwan provincial police chief, said eight people have been killed, while more than 40 other civilians were

DBS to add hundreds in China; Taiwan turns profit

DBS Group (DBSM.SI), Southeast Asia’s biggest bank, will grow its staff in China by several hundred this year, adding to the over 1,000 employees there now, its chairman said today.

“We’ll continue to grow our footprint in China,” Koh Boon Hwee told a media conference in Taipei. “We have sent in as many applications for branches and sub-branches as we can in China.”

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Hundreds feared dead in Haiti quake, as world gears up to help

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a massive earthquake struck the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, a local doctor told an AFP reporter in the city. “When we get an idea of the toll it will be measured in the hundreds,” said the doctor, who was covered in blood and nursing an

Dutch take to the ice in hundreds

As much of Europe sought refuge from the cold, hundreds of Dutch embraced the chill yesterday for the year’s first skating event on natural ice, held on the frozen Henschoter Lake in Utrecht. “It has been very busy, I expect that up to 1,500 people will have taken part by the end of the day,”

Hundreds rescued as Kashmir gunbattle continues

Separatist militants holed up in a hotel lobbed grenades and opened fire on security forces for a second straight day on Thursday in Indian Kashmir’s main city of Srinagar, prompting a mass rescue operation of residents. The armed militants forced their way into the hotel on Wednesday,

Hundreds of languages face threat of extinction in India

Classrooms at the Adivasi Academy in western India echo to the speech patterns of languages that may soon become no more than a meaningless jumble of noises. Kukna, Panchmahali and Rathvi are just three of dozens of tribal Indian tongues taught at the academy, set up in 1996 in an attempt toClassrooms at the Adivasi Academy in western India echo to the speech patterns of languages that may soon become no more than a meaningless jumble of noises. Kukna, Panchmahali and Rathvi are just three of dozens of tribal Indian tongues taught at the academy, set up in 1996 in an attempt to

‘Monster’ iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots

An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday. The 140-square-kilometre (54-square-mile) block of ice, known as B17B, was seen some 1,700 kilometres (1,054 miles)

FAA Flight-Plan System Crashes Again, Delays Hundreds of U.S. Flights

A software configuration problem in one of the routers within the FAA’s telecommunications infrastructure system in Salt Lake City shut down its flight-plan and traffic-flow system Nov. 19 for about 4 hours all over the United States, the FAA says. The routing problem also shut down the system’s second node in Hampton, Ga.
– IT problems are still affecting the Federal Aviation Administration’s
flight-plan system even after its multimillion-dollar system upgrade went
online earlier in 2009.

A software configuration problem on a card in one of the routers within the
FAA’s telecommunications infrastructure system in …


Hundreds of Australians urged to flee wildfires

Residents were urged to leave their homes on Tuesday as erratic winds brought wildfires dangerously close to hundreds of suburban properties in Australia’s northeast, officials said. Flames up to four metres high were rushing towards the suburbs of the city of Rockhampton, north of Brisbane,

Samoa tsunami toll may exceed 100, hundreds injured

A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday. A Pacific-wide tsunami warning was issued after a huge 8.0 magnitude undersea quake