Gurkha organisations criticise British pension announcement
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Groups that represent Nepal's famed Gurkha soldiers Thursday criticised a British ministry of defence plan to pay full army pensions to current regiments and exclude thousands of retired troops.
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French energy group GDF disagrees with all of the complaints raised by the EU anti-trust regulator about its proposed merger with fellow French group Suez, GDF trade union representives told AFP.
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Anti-nuclear groups have criticised plans for a new atomic power station to replace ageing plants in Switzerland.
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Controversial proposals to change the civil service pension and up the retirement age to 65 are published.
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A US rights group expresses concern at the move to deploy the army before elections in Bangladesh.
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Groups in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya condemn a decision to allow the mining of uranium.
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Jewish groups and lawmakers in Britain criticized the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II on Thursday for wearing a Nazi soldier's uniform to a fancy dress party.
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Adopting a Gandhian means of protest, workers of a Rajput organisation Sunday presented roses to cinema hall owners and appealed against the screening of Ashutosh Gowariker's film Jodhaa Akbar.
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Maoist activists in Nepal called for an end to the recruitment by Britain and India of Nepali youth for their legendary Gurkha regiments.
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The chancellor Alistair Darling has been met with a barrage of criticism after he delayed changes to capital gains tax.
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LONDON: British unions will strike to win a fair deal over workers' pensions, the leader of the nation's biggest labour grouping warned Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday, drawing the battle lines ahead ...
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Â· Brown threat to impose new conditions todayÂ· BMA attacks 'disgraceful method of negotiation'
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Britons may need to delay retirement to make up for a lack of pension savings, Work and Pensions Secretary Alan Johnson wrote in today&#39;s Observer newspaper.
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The British government's plan to issue work permits to 10,000 Bangladeshi, mostly residents in the United Kingdom has drawn flak from watchdog group.
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Large pension schemes fail to say how they manage the environmental and social impact of investments, a pressure group says.
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LONDON: Britain yesterday unveiled plans to shake up child access laws but an embittered fathers' rights group - notorious for its superhero stunts - called the proposals a whitewash.
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The government yesterday condemned a group of retired military officers who signed a petition opposing its arms procurement budget, saying that they were encouraging a &quot;defeatist&quot; attitude, and