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Cabinet approves Bill to raise HC judges retirement age
The Union Cabinet on Friday approved the recommendation of increase in the retirement age of High Court judges from 62 to...


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Retirement from Test cricket not due to team differences: Afridi
Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has denied speculations that his decision to quit the Test captaincy and retire from the longer version of the game was due to problems with his...
Tokyo's `oldest' man dead for 30 years
Police are investigating whether the family of Tokyo's 'oldest man' - who appears to have been dead at home for decades - fraudulently received pension money paid to him, news reports said...
Calcium supplements 'increase heart attack risk'
Calcium supplements, commonly taken by older people for osteoporosis, increase the risk of a heart attack, according to a new...
Britain to scrap retirement age at 65
At a time when one in five 16-24 year olds in Britain are unemployed, the government has decided to scrap the default retirement age of 65 years from October. This means employers cannot tell workers attaining the age of 65 to leave their...
Retirement age for High Court judges to be raised
NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Friday gave its nod for legislation to raise the retirement age of High Court judges from 62 to 65. There are about 630 judges in the 21 High Courts in the country. ...
Vases 'transform' couples' retirement
Wedding vases sold for £500,000 A retired couple say they are "delighted" after a pair of Chinese vases they were given as a wedding gift sell for...
Royal Mail pension plan in doubt
The regulator's concerns and its formal investigation have been revealed in a letter to all Royal Mail pension scheme members from Jane Newell, chairman of the...
Baby boomers risk youth revolt
London: Young Britons may emigrate or withhold taxes if they are asked to pay the bills in an age of austerity while an affluent older generation hoards the rewards of a more prosperous time, a...
CalPERS puts hold on Bell officials' pensions
The California Public Employees’ Retirement System is putting an administrative hold on the pensions of the former executives of the city of Bell, whose outrageous pay forced them to resign...
Christie: NJ might not make next pension payment
(AP) — TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the state might not be able to make a half-billion dollar contribution to the public worker pension system next year, as a new law...
Pelosi on 45th Anniversary of Medicare: 'Democrats Will Stand With Seniors to Protect and Strengthen Medicare'
WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today to mark the 45th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid being signed into law. To mark the...
Boy, 4, shoots dead girl aged 3
A four-year-old boy shot dead his three-year-old friend in the US with a pistol left lying on a table.Police in Indianapolis said that he picked up the loaded .45-calibre handgun in Fiona Lee's house...
Vancouver woman charged in death of elderly friend
VANCOUVER — Vancouver police have arrested a woman in the 2009 murder of her elderly friend in the Vancouver suburb of New Westminster.Nirmala Arjun, 52, was arrested at her Vancouver home early...
O&G UK Welcomes HSE's Inspection of Aging Installations
Commenting on the launch of the HSE's new inspection program, Malcolm Webb, Oil & Gas UK's chief executive, said, "We welcome the HSE's latest inspection program into aging offshore...
White House taps 'Matlock' to convince seniors of health care reform benefits
The Obama administration has launched a $700,000 ad campaign featuring actor Andy Griffith to convince seniors about the benefits of the new health care reform law, Politico reported Friday.In the...
Top News: L.E. Explorers Could Help Fill Retirement Void
ATLANTA -- Shoot or don't shoot? Eighteen-year-old William Bryant takes a deep breath and gulps before he aims his pistol and shoots a passenger in a van who appears to be reaching for a weapon. ...
New Jersey May Not Make 2012 Pension Payment, Christie Says
July 30 (Bloomberg) -- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said the state may not be able to make a pension payment in the next fiscal...
Call for awareness and respect for the elderly
In the framework of the European Year 2010 for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, the National Implementing Body as the Ministry of Education, Employment and the Family, held the third Press...
Century-old steamers inspire nostalgia in Stockholm's waters
Sitting in an armchair on the sun-soaked bridge of the vintage Stockholm steamer SS Storskaer, 84-year-old Stieg Dingertz, dressed to a tee, savours a special day out on the Baltic sea. Some 60...
Royal Mail pension plan opposed
The regulator's concerns and its formal investigation have been revealed in a letter to all Royal Mail pension scheme members from Jane Newell, chairman of the...
Mugabe's sister dies, aged 80
ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe's sister and political ally Sabina Mugabe has died aged 80 after years of failing health, state media...
Poll: Opposition To Health Reform Declines; Seniors View New Law More Negatively Than Adults Overall
: "Opposition to the landmark health care overhaul declined over the past month, to 35 percent from 41 percent, according to the latest results of a tracking poll, reported Thursday. Fifty percent of...
BMA Challenges NHS Pension Misconceptions, UK
The NHS pension scheme is sustainable and represents value for money for the public, the BMA says today (Friday 30 July, 2010) as it challenges some of the misconceptions about pensions for public...
Aged Care Policies Must Include Medical Care, Australia
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that the AMA was pleased to hear Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, announce this morning that the Coalition's aged care policy would be released 'in the next...
83-Year-Old Woman Survives Pit Bull Dog Attack
Glynda Hulsey recovers in her home north of Tyler from a pit bull attack. Her own dog Badger guards his injured owner. --> Saved After Husband Shoots Dog 4...
Prices for older flats and semi-detached houses rose gradually throughout the country during the April-to-June period, according to Statistics Finland. Meanwhile prices for new homes declined slightly.
In the second quarter, prices paid for older apartments and rowhouses nudged upward by 1.8 percent compared with the previous quarter. Compared to a year earlier, prices leapt up by 10 percent. ...
Nuns in Mass. loan retirement savings to school
WORCESTER, Mass.— Roman Catholic nuns who were the alleged victims of a fundraising swindle have loaned their own retirement money to a school renovation project in...
REPEAT-BMO Retirement Institute Reveals Why Canadians Aren't Saving for Retirement
Report Identifies Psychological Disconnect Impeding Canadians from Effective Retirement Planning - Behavioural Finance Research Provides Clues to Canadians Tendency to Procrastinate - Almost 90 per...
Mugabe's sister died, aged 80
ZIMBABWE President Robert Mugabe's sister and political ally Sabina Mugabe has died aged 80 after years of failing health, state media...
Retirement Board to appeal ruling on DiMasi pension
The State Retirement Board voted yesterday to appeal a judge’s order that restored the pension of former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, whose $5,000-a-month payments were suspended while he...
Cabinet clears HC judges retirement age raise: Sources
Though no official announcement was made about the decision taken on the issue, the proposal is understood to have been cleared by the Cabinet.The step would bring the High Court judges on par with...
Vital stats reports says British Columbians are living longer than ever before
How does our health system do when it comes to treating people with serious psychiatric illnesses? Very poorly, according to Vancouver forensic social worker Tracey Young, who says B.C.'s ...
65% of U.S. Baby Boomers Unhappy with Comfort & Support of their Mattress, Says New Sleep Studio Sponsored Survey
NEW YORK, NY, July 30, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- A newly released study of 2,043 U.S. consumers with an average age of 45 reveals that 65-percent of the respondents were unhappy with the current...
H. Bradley Bertrand of Bertrand Retirement Strategies Gets off the SOFA to Build Financial Awareness
H. Bradley Bertrand recently joined the Society of Financial Awareness (SOFA), a non-profit organization comprised of financial professional volunteers, offering free financial education to...
Australian Dream Arthritis Pain Relief Launches New Website
Australian Dream , an arthritis pain relief product produced by Natures Health Connection, Inc., has launched a new Wordpress-based website, at...
HC judges' retirement age raised to 65
NEW DELHI: A proposed legislation paving the way for increasing the retirement age of High Court judges from 62 to 65 years was approved by the Union Cabinet today. The measure will help...
Aging and Longevity researches make headway
Jul 30, 2010 - 11:10 - WAM New York, Jul 30th, 2010 (WAM) -- Researchers watched two groups of mice, both nearing the end of a two-day fast. One group was quietly huddled together, but the other...
Triad hosts picnic in Elgin for area seniors
By JANELLE WALKER For Sun-Times Media ELGIN -- Burgers, brats and bingo might have been on the official agenda for the Doug C. Johnson Triad picnic, but the 13th annual event is about more than...
The Bay Citizen: In Mission, Aging Hospital Is Seen as a Bargaining Chip
A nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization providing local coverage of the San Francisco Bay Area for The New York Times. To join the conversation about this article, go...