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  • Dr. Kavuru Sambasiva Rao takes over as Textiles Minister

    Dr. Kavuru Sambasiva Rao took over here today as the new Union Minister for Textiles. After assuming office, Sambasiv Rao said the Ministry will do everything possible to provide employment to poor sections of society, increase exports and do justice to cotton growers and handloom weavers. He also hoped to raise textile exports to 50 billion dollars by the year-end from the present 34 ...

  • Serena Williams shows off glamorous side for Burberry fashion show

    Serena Williams was spotted looking absolutely stunning at the Burberry fashion show on June 19. The tennis star flaunted her toned athletic physique in a figure-hugging dress as she arrived at Kensington Gardens in London to attend the menswear show, the Daily Express reported. The five-time Wimbledon champ donned a hot pink outfit, which she teamed up with a trench coat, a signature Burberry ...

  • Helen Mirren new face of Marksamp Spencer

    Award-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren is said to be the new face of lifestyle and fashion brand, Marks amp; Spencer. The 67-year-old was spotted shooting for brand's new ad campaign at London's St Katharine's Docks, here, Sunday, alongside TV personality Katie Piper, who is also believed to be starring in the advertisement, reports femalefirst.co.uk. It would be the first fashion campaign ...

  • 50pc fashion industry workers unhappy with jobs

    More than half of the workers of the fashion industry are dissatisfied with their jobs, a new survey has revealed. More than 1,300 workers in different disciplines with various degrees of seniority and expertise, were surveyed in a poll conducted by recruitment firm 24 Seven, only 48 percent of the employees have said that they are satisfied with their current position which is 51 percent last ...

  • Australian fashionistas mourn closing of Lisa Ho boutiques

    Australian fashionistas are mourning the closing of the Lisa Ho fashion house, which has dressed stars such as Olivia Newton-John, Jennifer Lopez and Elle Macpherson over the past three decades. Lisa Ho Group, which has total debts of some A$10.47 million ($9.91 million), handed over control of its operations to receivers earlier this month as part of its bankruptcy filing. The Lisa Ho ...


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Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) [Blu-Ray]

Waltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) [Blu-Ray]

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  • Visitor faces missing clothing crisis

    explained that he and his wife were here for a friend's wedding. When he had removed the dry cleaner bag from his black suit at his nearby hotel, he discovered his pants missing, and the wedding was to start in 25 ...

  • Psychological distress may explain ‘ghost’ sighting at Bangladeshi garment factory

    As AFP reports , 3,500 workers stopped work at the plant in Gazipur, north of Dhaka on Tuesday. They smashed furniture as they protested and demanded action to remove the ghost. "The agitating workers refused to join duty and vandalised the factory after the management did not take any steps to drive out the ghost," Gazipur industrial police inspector Showkat Kabir told AFP. ...

  • Brazils manufacturing confidence at lowest level since August

    Confidence among Brazil's manufacturers dipped to the lowest level since August 2012, according to a report released Wednesday.Brazil's National Industry Confederation (CNI) said in the report that the manufacturing confidence dropped from 55.4 points in May to 54.8 points in June."The downward trend in confidence among manufacturers clearly shows the competitive difficulties ...

  • Chinese Manufacturing Contracts Further

    from 49.2 in May. A reading below 50 indicates contraction. "The HSBC China Flash Manufacturing PMI dropped to a nine-month low of 48.3 in June, following on the sequential reduction in both production and demand, wrote HSBC's Hongbin Qu in a press release. "Manufacturing sectors are weighed down by deteriorating external demand, moderating domestic demand and rising destocking ...

  • China manufacturing slowing further in June HSBC

    LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- China's manufacturing sector has slowed further in June, according to HSBC's preliminary results from its monthly survey, released Thursday. The "flash" version of HSBC manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to a nine-month low of 48.3, down from May's final reading of 49.2. A reading below 50 indicates contraction. The subindex ...

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