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Despite certain progress, the OECD remains concerned with Russia’s compliance with key provisions of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

Russia has yet to address key provisions of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, which entered into force in Russia in April 2012. It has not yet fully implemented recommendations for strengthening its framework for combating foreign bribery and should be more proactive in detecting, investigating and prosecuting foreign bribery cases.




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OECD Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture

OECD Forum on Financing Democracy and Averting Policy Capture




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UK has made strong progress fighting foreign bribery, but uncertainty over Serious Fraud Office role remains

Foreign bribery enforcement in the UK has increased significantly since 2012 notably thanks to the pragmatic and effective approach taken by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) to investigate and resolve foreign bribery cases.




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Segundo Informe de Avances sobre el Desarrollo del Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México

Este documento reporta los avances logrados por el Grupo Aeroportuario de la Ciudad de México (GACM) y otras dependencias con respecto a las 16 recomendaciones realizadas por la OCDE en su informe de noviembre de 2016 “Primer Informe de Avances sobre el Desarrollo del Nuevo Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México: Hacia una Ejecución Efectiva”.




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Women leaders can break the mould, interview with Indira Samarasekera, PresidentUniversity of Alberta, Canada

Indira Samarasekera, President of the University of Alberta in Canada, was one of the keynote speakers at this year’s Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) Conference, held at OECD headquarters in Paris this past September. Marilyn Achiron, Editor at the OECD’s Education Directorate, spoke with her about a variety of subjects




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Reviews of National Policies for Education: Tertiary Education in Colombia 2012

In Colombia, the beginning of a new century has brought with it a palpable feeling of optimism. Colombians and visitors sense that the country’s considerable potential can be realised, and education is rightly seen as crucial to this process. As opportunities expand, Colombians will need new and better skills to respond to new challenges and prospects.




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Concerted Action Necessary to Address U.S. Adult Skills Challenge, says OECD

An OECD study published today says the United States should take concerted action to address the adult skills challenge, warning it could progressively fall behind other countries. The study argues that low-skilled populations face a bleak future, creating challenges both to equity and social cohesion.




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International Summit on the Teaching Profession (29-30 March 2015 Banff, Alberta, Canada)

ISTP 2015 will be held in Banff, Alberta, on March 29–30, 2015, and will bring together education ministers and leaders of teachers’ unions and associations from a number of high-performing and rapidly improving education systems.




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Education Indicators in Focus No. 41 - How much do tertiary students pay and what public support do they receive?

OECD countries differ significantly in the way spending on tertiary education is shared between public and private sources of funding, and in the financial support they provide to students.




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The effects of reform scenarios for unemployment benefits and social assistance on financial incentives to work and poverty in Lithuania

In 2015 the Lithuanian government launched an ambitious Social Model reform agenda aimed at balancing flexibility of the labour market and security provided through the system of social protection.




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Do labour markets welcome shorter tertiary degrees? (OECD Education Today Blog)

At the turn of this century, two different models of higher education programmes prevailed in the world.




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Education Indicators in Focus No. 53 - How have teachers’ salaries evolved and how do they compare to those of tertiary-educated workers?

The combined effects of policy reforms to attract and/or retain teachers, and financial constraints in the context of the economic downturn in 2008 may explain part of the recent trends in teachers’ salaries: decreases in statutory salaries and smaller salary gaps between levels of education.




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MP truck accident: Five migrant workers killed, 11 injured after truck overturns in Narsinghpur

The accident took place when the labourers were travelling from Telangana's Hyderabad city to Agra in Uttar Pradesh.




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Chennai bakery owner arrested over controversial advertisement: 'Made by Jains, no Muslim staff'

Bakery owner of 'Jain bakeries and confectionaries' in Chennai's Mahalakshmi Street in T Nagar, has been arrested for an advertisement of his store which read "Made by Jains on orders, No Muslim staffs".




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Measuring income inequality and poverty at the regional level in OECD countries

Statistics Working Paper N. 58 - 2014/3 - This paper presents a set of indicators of income inequality and poverty across and within regions for 28 OECD countries. These indicators were produced through a new household-level data collection based on internationally harmonized income definitions undertaken as part of the OECD project on “Measuring regional and local well-being for policymaking”.




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Social Impact Bonds: Promises and Pitfalls - Expert Seminar

This expert seminar aims to get a better understanding of the features, limitations and preliminary findings from the use of SIBs, and to a lesser extent, of DIBs in developing countries from a multidimensional and multi-stakeholder perspective.




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Report of the OECD expert meeting on the physical chemical properties of manufactured nanomaterials and test guidelines

This report includes the conclusions and recommendation of an expert workshop on Physical-Chemical Properties of Manufactured Nanomaterials and Test Guidelines organized by OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials. The workshop addressed issues relevant to the physical-chemical properties of manufactured nanomaterials from a regulatory perspective point with a view to the need for new or adapted test guidelines.




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Physical-Chemical Properties of Nanomaterials: Evaluation of Methods Applied in the OECD-WPMN Testing Programme

This new document focuses on the evaluation of test methods applied to determine the physico-chemical properties of different types of nanomaterials.




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Developmental neurotoxicity: OECD/EFSA experts discuss non-animal test methods

Participants from 15 countries attended the Workshop on Developmental Neurotoxicity: The use of non-animal test methods for regulatory purposes” on 18 October 2016, in Belgium. The event, co-organised by the OECD and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), focused on opportunities and challenges related to alternative methods for testing and assessing the DNT potential of chemicals.




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The Slow Lane: The secret garden with healing properties

Kew may be 70 times bigger than the Physic Garden, but historically Chelsea is the mother ship




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Publicis CEO on adapting to digital disruptions in advertising

Sadoun: “This is how I work: I go fast, I take risk, I learn, I correct if it’s not good”




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Hubert Sagnières, Essilor CEO, on an eyewear merger

The deal with Luxottica, worth €50bn, makes up for missed opportunities




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The Fast Lane: summertime, and the working gets easy

A summer office set-up reminds us that we don’t need gimmicks in the workplace to keep colleagues happy




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Top tips for landlords reinvesting in their properties

Effective ways to reinvest in existing buy-to-let property portfolio




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Top tips on how to add value to property

Five ways to improve your home




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Experts warn coronavirus will divert resources from killer diseases

Fears for prevention and treatment of other illnesses such as malaria and dengue fever




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The greenbelt can fix the property market

Let us build garden cities – but we cannot build enough to prevent a housing bubble






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ROBERT MUIR-WOOD: We're fighting covid the same way they fought the plague

ROBERT MUIR-WOOD: Containment - isolating those who are ill and infectious - is the oldest known response to mass infection, dating back thousands of years.




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China flexes its military muscle: Beijing exploits Covid crisis to assert control of South China Sea

Deeply worried about Beijing's insatiable desire for land and the way its military has occupied areas by stealth, Washington has sent three warships to the region.




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Royal Albert Hall is facing closure as bosses say only a THIRD of seats could be used

Chief executive Craig Hassal said the 2m social distancing rules would force the London venue to cut its capacity to just 30 per cent and close its bars and restaurants, adding the situation is 'desperate'.




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Boris Johnson will tell public to 'stay alert, control the virus and save lives'

Boris Johnson is expected to drop the 'stay at home' slogan during a televised address to Britain on Sunday at 7pm in an effort to reopen parts of the economy damaged during the coronavirus crisis.




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Qantas flight from Sydney to Perth is forced to turn back after cabin fills with smoke

 A Qantas flight has made an emergency landing at Sydney airport after the cabin started filling with smoke.




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Qantas reveals the most watched movies and songs on inflight entertainment this year

Australia's most popular airline Qantas has released the names of the most watched movies, box sets and comedies on its inflight entertainment system ahead of the new year.




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Qantas plane from Perth forced to make emergency landing after experiencing 'engineering issue' 

Flight QF642 from Perth to Sydney took off about 9.30am on Thursday and was in the air for 58 minutes before having to make an emergency landing.




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Boris Johnson will tell public to 'stay alert, control the virus and save lives'

Boris Johnson is expected to drop the 'stay at home' slogan during a televised address to Britain on Sunday at 7pm in an effort to reopen parts of the economy damaged during the coronavirus crisis.




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Multi Reach Media Pvt Ltd vs Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd on 24 January, 2020

2. The subscriber reports furnished by the petitioner since the introduction. of new regime from 01.02.2019 as per new Regulations and Tariff Order of 2017 were not in accordance with the legal requirement. In the notice, the respondent had alleged under-reporting of subscribers in respect of its channels and later also alleged that petitioner was redistributing Zee Bangla channel in unencrypted mode. As the earlier orders would disclose, technical audit held under the orders of this Tribunal was not a smooth affair. The audit report of KPMG is on record. The parties have filed their response to the audit report. Some of the initial difficulties in the audit and reasons for delay of several months will appear from orders passed on 23.07.2019 and also some of the subsequent orders. The initial shortcomings in the petitioner's system are clear not only from the facts available on record and in the order sheets but also from reports of technical audit of petitioner's system prepared 'at the instance of some other broadcasters. As an interim measure, provisional bills were directed to be raised by the respondent on the basis of subscriber reports of the petitioner but it has been made clear that this arrangement shall not prejudice the claim of the respondent for a higher amount, if justified.




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Indusind Media & Communications ... vs Lemon Entertainment Ltd on 20 March, 2020

2. Yhe petitioner company carries on the business of receiving signals from Pt gh ei ae broadcasters of various television channels and of redistributing the same thr franchisee cable network. The respondent company carries on business as a broadeaster/content provider. Both the purlies are service providers and as such amenable to the jurisdiction of this Tebunal,

3. Through this petition, the petitioner is seek dng recovery of Re.4d0 98 000/.

aid to be the oufstand) me dues inelusive of interest as on 1s 03 2016 along with os interest @ 18% till the date of realization from the re Spondent. The dues are a towards carriage fee for the services availed by the respondent trom the petitioner for carnage of its television channels.




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Need To Provide All Basic Certificates At Village Level Through ... on 6 December, 2019

श्री तीरथ सिंह रावत (गढ़वाल) : अध्यक्ष महोदय, मैं आपके माध्यम से माननीय पंचायती राज एवं ग्रामीण विकास मंत्री का ध्यान उत्तराखंड प्रदेश के ग्रामीण क्षेत्रों में परिवार रजिस्टर की नकल एवं जन्म मृत्यु प्रमाण-पत्र को प्राप्त करने में हो रही परेशानियों की ओर आकर्षित करना चाहता हूं, जिसके कारण स्थानीय ग्रामीण जनता परेशान है ।…(व्यवधान) पंचायती राज की नई व्यवस्था से पूर्व गांवों में ग्राम प्रधानों द्वारा अपने ग्राम सभाओं की जनता को परिवार रजिस्टर की नकल एवं जन्म मृत्यु प्रमाण पत्र दिए जाते थे, जिससे बड़ी सरलता और सुगमता होती थी । ई-डिस्ट्रिक्ट प्रणाली लागू होने में कठिनाइयां आई हैं । इसके कारण ग्रामीण जनता को इसे लेने के लिए विकास खण्डों में आना पड़ रहा है । विकास खण्‍ड स्तर पर परिवार रजिस्टर की नकल आवेदकों को सरलता से प्राप्त नहीं हो रही है ।




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BRITs 2020: Ashley Roberts wears glitter bra top on red carpet

The Pussycat Dolls singer, 38, flashed her sizzling washboard abs in a tiny dazzling crop top, which she teamed with a matching floor-length skirt.




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Health experts call for petrol pumps to have cigarette packet-style graphic images

Environmental health professors from the UK, US and India said images of lung damage caused by air pollution would be a cheap and effective way to encourage people to cut reliance on fossil fuels.




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More than 80% of fines for driving in bus lanes are overturned on appeal

Motoring organisations said the numbers are 'staggering' and called on councils to issue warning letters rather than fines for first-time offenders.




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Speeding motorists taking advantage of deserted roads since the lockdown

Since the lockdown was enforced on 23 March there has been a 'sharp deterioration in driving behaviour, with a noticeable increase in speeding', according to telematics data.




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Why police think Telstra trechnician Bradley Robert Edwards is the notorious Claremont serial killer

Accused serial killer Bradley Robert Edwards, now 51. was just 19 when he donned a woman's nightie, crept into a bedroom and climbed on top of a sleeping Perth teenager in 1988.




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NRL referees consider going on strike in protest of plans to revert back to one official

ARLC chairman Peter V'landys is hoping to finalise the seven year TV deal with Fox Sports and Channel 9 by Friday and give a much needed financial injection to the cash strapped NRL.




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Jessica Ennis-Hill coach blasts Nike link in decision to stand by Alberto Salazar

Jessica Ennis-Hill's coach hit out at UK Athletics, suggesting they may have been compromised by a lucrative sponsorship deal with Nike in their decision to stand by Mo Farah’s coach Alberto Salazar.




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ROBERT MUIR-WOOD: We're fighting covid the same way they fought the plague

ROBERT MUIR-WOOD: Containment - isolating those who are ill and infectious - is the oldest known response to mass infection, dating back thousands of years.




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China flexes its military muscle: Beijing exploits Covid crisis to assert control of South China Sea

Deeply worried about Beijing's insatiable desire for land and the way its military has occupied areas by stealth, Washington has sent three warships to the region.




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Royal Albert Hall is facing closure as bosses say only a THIRD of seats could be used

Chief executive Craig Hassal said the 2m social distancing rules would force the London venue to cut its capacity to just 30 per cent and close its bars and restaurants, adding the situation is 'desperate'.