The number of part time works in the UK has soared to a record high, as people in the Britian are forced to do more of part-time works as scheduled or no work at all.

About 7.82 million people are working on part time basis, and the numbers in jobless people has fallen tremendously, for people are stuffed into part time works. But there is a new worry, there has been a rise in long term unemployment. People are not able to find jobs that are full time or on long term basis.

The Office of National Statistics, showed that the there has been a good slip in the unemployment rates, as the figures show that it gone down by 7.8% for three months till the month of May, and it is also forcasted that it would remain at 7.9% for some time atleast. The UK labour market has gone up, from the past months, but its is still not sure whether the private hirings would increase ahead.

According to the Economist, Vicky Redwood, from the Captial Economics, stated that normal household in UK is still undergoing strong financial squeeze, which is due to heavy taxes, job cuts and low growth in income.

Axis Bank’s Internet Banking, ‘iConnect’ has been introduced for the convenience of global customers of the bank. The customers will not require to be physically present at the bank for every transaction.

The customers can check their bank account status, put forward their queries and can transact instantly from Axis/UTI Bank accounts with the help of the internet.

The central characters of Axis Bank’s online banking ‘iConnect’ facility are:
* Balance enquiry for savings account, current or corporate accounts, term deposits and loan accounts.
* Online transactions
* Ministatement of past six transactions
* Access to personal account information
* Cheque Book requests
* Direct credits and debits to your account
* Check status of the instruction
* Payment Gateway for online utility and other bill payments

Co-ordinated attacks have taken place on the Yemen National Security Officers, in the South of Yemen, which has resulted to death of at least two people, in the city of Zinjibar, and Al-Qaeda is blamed for these attacks. Heavy firing had taken place between the Security Officers and the Al-Qaeda attackers.

Both offices of General Security Agency and an Intelligence Agency who are responsible of the Political security were attacked precisely, during the morning hours, in the City of Zinjibar.

Accoding to the Police sources, the guards had fired on them and they are wounded and some are killed, and it is believed that people behind the attacks are from the terrorist group Al-Qaeda.

Several of the local people were injured and the two are pronounced dead, after the attacks. This is the second attack of the Al-Qaeda in the country of Yemen.

Previously they had attacked the same offices in the month of June, in the city of Aden, killing 11 people in the attack. This attack is stated as a revenge by Al-Qaeda on the Government.

Teheran had reported that the missing nuclear scientist, and according to them was kidnapped by the CIA, suddenly has emerged in the Pakistan’s US Embassy, taking refuge. According to the spokesperson of a the Foreign Office in Pakistan, he stated that Shahram Amiri, was seeking immidiate repatriation to Iran. It was during June, when controvertial videos of Amiri had surfaced, in which he stated, which place he had been.

The news media of Teheran, stated that, Amiri was working as a researcher in the University of Teheran, but some of the other sources state that he was working for Iran, controvertial nuclear program, had full fledged knowledge about the whole prorgram.

Then later in the month of March, ABC news stated that, Amiri had defected his job and agreed to help the CIA, providing them with vital information regarding the nuclear program. But this was not what Teheran felt, later in the year, Teheran confirmed, that they were having vital proof, that US had him held under them. The main reason that he has been flawed into controversy, is for the fact that three of his video had surfaced, in which he had made three different statements. One of the video stated that he was kidnapped by some people, second stated that he was staying happily in the state of Arizona and the third stated that he had escaped from his kidnappers.

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FullonSMS.com is the new website to join the brigade of free SMS providing companies. This website will require the users to register themselves for sending free unlimited SMSs to any mobile number.

The other features of FullonSMS.com are scheduling SMS sending in future, create and manage groups and sending SMS to a group at once.
To start using this service, the user will have to create an account for himself/herself.

The moment the account gets activated the user will be able to send free unlimited SMSs to any cellular phone in India via internet.

The receiver will get the number of the sender along with the message. The limit can not exceed more than 160 characters per SMS.

The service if works properly will give tough competitions to already existing websites of free SMSs- 160by2 and MyCantos.com

At least 60 people were reported to be taken the hospital, after a chlorine gas leak took place in the industrial area of the Mumbai city today, as per the emergency services. According to the Chief of the fire brigade, Uday Thakre, stated that the leak has been confirmed to have originated from the Sewri district in Mumbai, which comes under the authority of the Mumbai Port Trust.

The emergency services in the area stated that the leak had started by one of the three cylinders stored in the warehouses, which comes under the Mumbai Port Trust. For the moment the situation is under control and the leaking gas has been stopped. The sad news for the fire fighters, is that there were four men of the fire services who were hospitalized with the 60 people.

The people who have been admitted in the near by hospitals, are having suffocation and breathing problems along with nausea. The exact number of people who were hospitalized were 58. Among the 58, 8 are in critical condition and are kept in the ICU.

In a horrifying incident in the town of Merseyside, two sisters aged 3 and 4 were trapped in their house, with the body of their own mother for two days. It only when the police was called in after they saw the legs of the children dangling from the upper widow of the house.

Police have claimed to have found the body of, Debbie Caldwell, at her residence in New Brighton, Merseyside, England. The 29 year old mom was dead for two days in the house trapped with their daughters inside. Police Officer had to climb up through a window into the house, as they could not force in through the back door. The children were scared and were crying as they were brought out of the house, later they were put under some social workers care.

As the police have taken the body of the woman post mortem, it is still unclear what is the cause of her death, the toxicology results are still due to come. Her children are in the hands of the social services.

The ‘Barefoot Bandit’, Colton Harris-Moore, a 19 year old U.S. citizen will face charges for his two year long menace. Moore, was an escapee after committing crimes for almost two years now.

The Barefoot Bandit, for the first time, will be appearing in the court in Bahamas. There was lots of drama involved in the arrest of this fugitive as he almost tried to kill himself before the officials arrested him.

The arrest was done at the Harbour Island at around 02:45 am on Sunday.

The Barefoot Bandit was hiding somewhere in Bahamas for almost a week now. He was said to have been stolen a plane from an Indiana hangar to reach the island.

The FBI had offered $10,000 reward for any information that would lead towards the arrest of the fugitive. The FBI was after Harris-Moore since one year.

Three British troops were killed today by an Afghan soldier during patrolling jointly in the southern region of Afghanistan as reported by the officials. The news was confirmed by Mohammad Zaher Azimi, spokesperson for Afghan Defense Ministry.

Two more British soldiers are said to have been injured in this attack. There are no major details given regarding this up till now but the information is pouring in.

Hamid Karzai, spokesperson for the President of Afghan, expressed regrets for the attack.

According to the reports, three coalition service members have been killed in the same region but did not give further reports.

There were death reports of more than 1,000 civilians in Afghanistan. The year is being said as the most gruesome year in the history of their nine year war. An Afghan human rights group informed.

The Young Man’s Christian Association (YMCA) has officially changed its name to a simple ‘Y’. Y was a nick name that was being used since many years. The YMCA was founded some 166 years ago. Even their logo will have just a ‘Y’ now.

YMCA’s chief marketing officer and Senior Vice President, Kate Coleman said, “It’s a way of being warmer, more genuine, more welcoming, when you call yourself what everyone else calls you.”

The name change was not a sudden decision. Research regarding this was done for almost two years and was found that the people did not understand the real purpose or mission of the association which lies in youth development, social responsibility and healthy well being.

The President and Chief Executive of the association Neil Nicoll told that through their name change they are making things simple and want the people to know what exactly the association does.