Top Careers & You™ Economy/Business Wipro Tied up with Kana Software to Service Global Insurers General Knowledge GK Notes - September 1 Wipro Ltd. signed agreement with the US-based Kana Software to provide customer service solutions to its global insurers through a joint development centre. The agreement provides Kana with systems integration scalability, as Wipro has presence across 57 countries worldwide. Kana Software has its headquarters in California. It provides customer service
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1. Analyze the reasons why the Chinese government hired a Western public relations firm to work on the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The Chinese government felt it was necessary to hire a Western public relations firm for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in an effort to create a positive country image. Creating this positive image also included reducing human rights concerns that were being addressed by groups such as Darfur and Tibet. The public image of China could have negatively influenced international
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`·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.·Document 1`·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· Source: Unknown, 1st Modern Olympic Opening Ceremony, Athens, Greece, 1896 `·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.·Document 2`·.¸¸.·´´¯`··._.· Source: CBCSports, cbcsports.ca (Canadian News Network), article about the 1908 London Olympics. “Controversy flared during the opening ceremony, when athletes walked into the Olympic stadium behind their national flags for the first time in an official Olympics. To begin with, the Swedish and American contingents felt slighted
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When I ask my grandparents about their life. They told me of their childhood in Nationalist China, their difficult teenage years during the Japanese occupation and War Lords era, and their adult life in Communist China. They lived through roughly 4 governments (depending on the source), 3 decades of civil war, 8 years of Japanese occupation, 30 years of Communist China and 30+ years of modern Communist China. You would think that my grandparents should be in their 120’s. Well no. Their almost 80
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Pakistan Supreme Court annulled New Law Protecting the Prime Minister Supreme Court of Pakistan on 3 August 2012 annulled the new law called Contempt of Court Act 2012(COCA 2012). Pakistan’s Supreme Court 3 August 2012 struck down a law designed to protect the new prime minister from being charged with contempt and thrown out of office like his predecessor. The court ousted the previous prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani, from office in June by charging him with contempt of court for failing to reopen
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Ans.1 In Athens, the 31st of August 2004, Atos, as Worldwide Information Technology (IT) Partner of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), announced the successful completion of its IT operations for the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games. “Today the Olympic Games could not happen without the use of Information Technology, and Atos has played a crucial role in the success of the ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games. We are extremely pleased to have them as our partner” said Jacques Rogge, President of the
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athletes is allowed in Olympic competition. It is my belief that the use of professional athletes in Olympic competition ruins the pride and glory of the games. Prior to 1952 only amateur athletes were allowed in the Olympic Games, both winter and summer. Then the Soviet Union and its 14 Communist allies entered the games. They trained 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. They won most of the gold, silver and bronze during the 1970s and 1980s. None of these athletes were amateur, and yet they were allowed
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Olympics through present day. The first drug tests began in February 1968 at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France. "The IOC instituted its first compulsory doping controls at the Winter Olympic Games in Grenoble, France in 1968 and again at the Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City in the same year. At that time the list of banned substances issued in 1967 included narcotic analgesics and stimulants, which comprised sympathomimetic amines, psychomotor stimulants and miscellaneous central nervous
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The word hockey itself is of unknown origin, although it is likely a derivative of hoquet, a Middle French word for a shepherd's stave.[3] The curved, or "hooked" ends of the sticks used for hockey would indeed have resembled these staves. History bas relief c.600 BC, in the National Archaeological Museum of AthensGames played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures. In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates
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