Britain creating jobs faster than US: Report
Monday October 22, 2012 04:43:15 PM,
IANS
|
|
|
London: Britain is
creating jobs at a faster rate than the US, the latest government
figures show.
The number of those in work has risen by 1.75 percent, or 510,000
jobs, in 2011 to 29.59 million - the highest since records began
in 1971, the national statistics office said.
That increase outpaced the 1.37 percent gain in employment
registered in the US, the Daily Mail reported Monday.
It also shows that Britain's economic situation is far better than
troubled eurozone nations such as Spain and Greece, where 25
percent of the population is unemployed.
However, 1.4 million are working part-time but would like a
full-time job, the Mail said.
Gross domestic product figures due Thursday are likely to show the
economy has grown by between 0.4 and 0.8 percent.
Experts' estimates of growth in July, August and September range
from zero to one percent, with an average of 0.6 percent.
Consumer confidence has risen but there are fears over prices in
2013, when higher energy bills threaten to push up inflation, a
survey by business advisers Deloitte found, according to the
newspaper.
|
Home |
Top of the Page
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
I |
|
|
More Headlines |
Speculations rife over Khusrshid's fate in cabinet as he puts off
haj plans |
World War II Indian heroism recalled in Egypt |
Fasih Mehoomd deported to India, arrested |
Israeli premier vows to continue
constructions in East Jerusalem |
Bihar to revive Gandhian schools |
Shooting at US spa; 3 killed, 4 injured |
Fire in a Makkah building; all hajis
evacuated, 13 suffer minor burns |
Qatar launches Gaza building project, bypassing
Israel, PNA |
Of reviving Kerala culture and integrating
Gulf Malayalis |
Hip disorder cured using stem cells |
How brain senses location, direction decoded |
|
Top Stories |
Fasih Mehoomd deported to India, arrested
Fasih
Mehmood, suspected to have been involved in a conspiracy to set
off bomb blasts in Bangalore and Delhi, and an alleged member of the Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorist organisation,
has been arrested »
Fasih Mehmood's wife seeks fast track trial
Protest in Bihar against arrest of terror
suspects
|
|
Most Read |
Veteran filmmaker Yash Chopra passes away
Veteran
filmmaker Yash Chopra breathed his last at Lilavati Hospital
Sunday, a hospital spokesperson said. He was 80. Chopra, who was
suffering from dengue, died of multiple organ failure. He is
survived by wife Pamela a
»
|
Fire in a Makkah building; all hajis
evacuated, 13 suffer minor burns
At least 13 pilgrims suffered minor
burns while 179 others, from India and Bangladesh, were rescued
after a fire occurred in a nine-storey building in Saudi Arabia's
Makkah city Sunday evening, Xinhua reported.
Five firefighting teams and three rescue teams joined in the fight
against the blaze
»
|
|
News Pick |
Pakistan aiding terrorists' infiltration
into India: Shinde
India's
Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde Sunday targeted Pakistan for its
help to terrorists infiltrating from across the border into the
country. "We have information that Pakistan
»
|
Qatar launches Gaza building project, bypassing
Israel, PNA
In addition to Hamas, which wrested control of Gaza in 2007 from
President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah party, Qatar also arranges with
Egypt to deliver materials needed for the reconstruction through
its
»
|
Three
from Malegaon among 86 selected for free UPSC/MPSC coaching
Three students of Malegaon are among the 86 who have been selected
for a year-long coaching to be organised free of cost for targeted
preparation of the civil services exams to be held next year.
These students were selected based on the written tests and
personal interviews
»
|
Top
Indian star Aamir Khan on way to Haj with mother
Embarking on Haj was a
long-overdue wish of Aamir Khan's mother Zeenat Hussain who
belongs to the family of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad - the great
Indian Muslim scholar and freedom
»
|
|
Picture of the Day |
 |
Mrs
Mohsina Kidwai along with Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) VC
Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Zameer Uddin Shah
riding the traditional chariot on
her way to the Athletics Ground. Mrs Kidwai was the Chief
Guest of the Sir Syed Day special function organised at the
AMU on October 17. |
|
|
|
|