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Aug242020 by adminNo Comments

Miami Dolphins to allow 13,000 fans, require masks at Hard Rock Stadium

Sports

Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The Miami Dolphins announced Monday that they will allow a maximum of 13,000 fans for their first home game this season at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Fans will be required to wear masks when not drinking or eating. The announcement comes after the Kansas City Chiefs announced last week they will allow about 16,000 fans for the first game of the NFL season Sept. 10 in Kansas City, Mo. Advertisement The Dolphins will host the Buffalo Bills in their first regular-season home game Sept. 20. As of Monday morning, the Chiefs and Dolphins were the only NFL teams to announce allowing a specific number of fans at their first home games this season amid the coronavirus pandemic. Hard Rock Stadium also serves as the home stadium for the University of Miami football te...

Jul262020 by adminNo Comments

PNB Housing Finance expects to disburse Rs 13,000 crore loan this fiscal: MD and CEO Neeraj Vyas

Finance

New Delhi: PNB Housing Finance hopes to disburse around Rs 13,000 crore loan in current fiscal, and expects demand to pick up around October-November with the onset of festive season, its MD and CEO Neeraj Vyas said. Demand from mass housing statement has started picking up post relaxations in coronavirus-induced lockdowns and gradual reopening of economy, he said. "Demand in a particular segment (mass housing) is picking up, which generally in the market is called green shoots (of revival). We were expecting that we would be touching sometime in September disbursements of Rs 500 crore, but we have already crossed that mark," Vyas told in an interview. PNB Housing Finance, promoted by Punjab National Bank, disbursed loans of about Rs 694 crore (Rs 674 crore retail loan and Rs 20 crore co...

Mar12020 by adminNo Comments

UN says 13,000 migrants mass at Turkey’s border with Greece

World

KASTANIES, Greece -- The United Nations said Sunday that at least 13,000 people were massed on Turkey’s land border with Greece, after Turkey officially declared its western borders were open to migrants and refugees hoping to head into the European Union. Turkey's decision to open the borders with Greece came amid a military escalation in Syria's northwest that has led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces. In Syria, the government said it was closing its airspace for any flights or drones across the country's northwestern region. It said any aircraft that penetrates Syrian airspace will be treated as hostile and shot down. The announcement came after two days of Turkish drone attacks in Idlib province that Syrian activists said caused heavy losses to Syrian govern...

May102018 by adminNo Comments

BT cuts 13,000 jobs to slash costs

Business

BT is to cut 13,000 jobs over three years, about 12% of its workforce, as it seeks to slim down its management and back-office roles.The telecoms giant said that the job cuts and other measures would help it to reduce costs by £1.5bn.It added that it would be hiring about 6,000 employees to "support network deployment and customer service".A third of the job reductions will come from outside the UK in its Global Services division.Last year, BT was forced to write down the value of the Italian part of Global Services after an accounting scandal that cost the firm more than £500m.The company also said it intended to move out of its existing central London headquarters and into smaller premises. BT forecast a fall in revenue of about 2% for the 2018-19 financial year. It also said...