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(Reuters) - The board of JPMorgan Chase & Co is expected to make changes to its risk-policy committee after the bank's trading losses of more than $2 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources.

Jerome Powell was sworn in as a member of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, the central bank said in a statement.

THE CREDIBILITY of South Africa’s police leadership was dealt a significant new blow yesterday by reports that a board of inquiry investigating the actions of suspended police commissioner Gen Bheki Cele has recommended his dismissal.

LAHORE – Intermediate Part I Annual Examination will start from May 28 under the Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education.     –Reporter

The board of Bankia SA is planning to ask for €19 billion in financial support from the Spanish government, in what could represent the largest ever bank bailout in the country's history.

The ChiNext Index, tracking China's Nasdaq-style board of growth enterprises, fell 9.85 points, or 1.38 percent, to close at 702.72 points on Friday.

Suspended police commissioner Bheki Cele intends to challenge the validity of a board of inquiry report that recommends his dismissal.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will next week travel to Turkey and Saudi Arabia for a number of engagements in the two countries, including attending a meeting related to the Alliance of Civilizations, a conference on the future of Somalia and a meeting of the advisory board of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Centre.

More and more people are calling for Jamie Dimon, CEO of troubled JPMorgan Chase, to resign from the Board of the New York Federal Reserve....

Suspended national police commissioner Bheki Cele should be fired because he is not fit to hold office, the board of inquiry that investigated his conduct has recommended.

Transportation officials plan to soon lock the gates to Los Angeles subways and force all commuters to pay for their ride. The subway system has operated without locked gates for years, allowing an open secret about taking a trip: you don’t really have to pay the fare. But on Thursday the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority board of directors voted to lock the gates on the...

The president of the Vatican bank has been dismissed by the board of directors, the Vatican announced today, blaming him for a deterioration in standards of governance.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, a current Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin, has accepted the board chairmanship at a Florida pharmaceutical company. TherapeuticsMD, a Boca Raton-based drug company and parent company of vitaMedMD, announced Thompson's appointment to the board chairmanship last week, touting his background at HHS, including his work in addi...

CLIVE Palmer will oppose the appointment of Richard Cottee to the top job and board of explorer Central Petroleum.

The Federal Appeals Court agreed to hear Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz’s appeal of a declaration that he broke the law by stripping the board of its monopoly over western wheat and barley sales

Danish health care fund wants to replace board of biotech firm with dissident slate of directors

Danish investor in Canadian biotech seeking to replace company’s board of directors

We've discovered that Airtime, the video startup founded by famed Napster alums Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, has allegedly made its first acquisition -- before truly exiting stealth mode. The target? Erly, the Kleiner Perkins-backed startup aimed at letting people create social experiences around their experiences. Update: We've confirmed the acquisition wit...

THE BOARD of Irish Life & Permanent Group Holdings considered closing its banking subsidiary during talks on the restructuring of the group with the troika, chairman Alan Cook told shareholders at its annual meeting in Dublin yesterday.

A day after the government cited participatory notes (PNs) and market manipulation as one of the sources for generation of black money, the Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has said that it has records for the past several months on the instrument but the finance ministry has not bothered to check these details.

KARACHI - The Board of Directors, Karachi Fisheries Harbour Authority (KFHA) in its 17th meeting held on 22nd May 2012 under the chairmanship of Minister for Fisheries Sindh & Chairman KFHA Zahid Ali Bhurgari, has approved the KFHA Employees (Service Rules) 2012, Method of Recruitment and Organisational Chart. Earlier Abdul Ghani Jokhio Managing Director KFHA briefed the board about the ...

KARACHI - The Board of Directors, Karachi Fisheries Harbour Authority (KFHA) in its 17th meeting held on 22nd May 2012 under the chairmanship of Minister for Fisheries Sindh & Chairman KFHA Zahid Ali Bhurgari, has approved the KFHA Employees (Service Rules) 2012, Method of Recruitment and Organisational Chart. Earlier Abdul Ghani Jokhio Managing Director KFHA briefed the board about the ...

Dmitry Medvedev said he had instructed Rosneft’s Board of Directors to appoint Sechin as its new CEO.

A high-level panel headed by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) chief has suggested limits on cash held by individuals besides mandating a no-objection certificate from the tax department on immovable property transactions.

The board of beleaguered telecoms group Cable and Wireless Worldwide has urged shareholders to accept the £1bn offer from Vodafone after revealing it does not expect to hit its own market growth assumptions.

Is there a conflict of interest when bankers like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon serve on the board of the same institution that regulates them?

The times are a changing! Two weeks after President Barack Obama announced his support of gay marriage, the NAACP has followed suit, and announced that their board of directors voted to endorse the civil right yesterday! NAACP President & CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement: “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of [...]

Voting 62 to 2, the association's board of directors passed the resolution affirming opposition to effort that 'seeks to codify discrimination or hatred into the law or to remove the Constitutional rights of LGBT citizens.'

THE BOARD of directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has retained a prominent law firm to conduct an independent investigation into a development proposal involving Ward 1 D.C. Council member and former Metro board member Jim Graham (D). Read full article >>

The NAACP’s board of directors voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage rights – adding the influential voice of the country’s leading black civil rights organization to a debate that has divided the African-American community. Read full article >>

We have just observed the anniversary of the groundbreaking court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, and yet desegregation is effectively dead.

Public schools in Oregon must discontinue the use of Native American names, symbols or images as mascots following a State Board of Education vote.

The Oakland A's made their case to move to San Jose before the Major League Baseball Board of Governors, while the San Francisco Giants argued against it.

World Boxing Council sides with British Boxing Board of Control over the David Haye v Dereck Chisora grudge match.

(Reuters) - Networking gear maker F5 Networks said former Yahoo Inc CEO Scott Thompson has resigned from its board of directors, effective immediately.

The Senate’s votes to approve Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell bring the seven-member Federal Reserve Board of Governors to full strength for the first time since 2006.

Received the official letter from the Provost--the Board of Regents approved my application for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. The process here started last summer. My dossier (with my course syllabi, statements on teaching/research/service, student and peer evaluations of my teaching, copies of academic papers and funded grant applications, my CV, and a few other random bits an...

The board of Tallaght hospital has said it accepts without reservation the recommendations made by the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) in a report released this morning.

A day after being stunned by a television sting that has raised serious concerns of possible corruption and underhand dealings, particularly in the Indian Premier League, senior Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials tried to link the conduct of the players caught in the row to the now-defunct Indian Cricket League.

Yahoo employees who have weathered multiple rounds of layoffs have also had to adapt to the frequently changing leadership tides created by the revolving door at the top of the company.

GINA Rinehart has stepped up her push to secure representation on the board of Fairfax Media.

FAMU's president told the school's board of trustees on Monday that he will keep The Marching 100 off the field for the upcoming school year ...

Reading, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Didier Bench wird als Vorstandsvorsitzender dem Board of Investors von Acision beitreten, um die internationale Marktposition und das neue Geschäftsmodell im Enterprise Messaging voranzutreiben. Acision, der weltweit führende Anbieter im …

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After Coty increases its merger offer -- and engages the support of Warren E. Buffett -- the board of Avon Product says it will review it and issue its response in a week.

Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, North Carolina 10:44 A.M. EDT   MRS. OBAMA:  Good morning, everyone.  (Applause.)    AUDIENCE:  Good morning.   MRS. OBAMA:  You all, rest yourselves.  (Laughter.)  First of all, let me thank Chancellor Martin for that very kind introduction.  I also want to thank Davonta and everyone from the Board of Governors, the Board of Trustees, the faculty, and...

Diana Banati (pictured) was chairman of the management board of the European Food Safety Authority, which is responsible for vetting GM crops and food.

The British Boxing Board of Control have condemned the proposed fight between David Haye and Dereck Chisora. The two heavyweights will take to the ring on July 14 at Upton Park.

He is the owner of Harrods and developed one of the most luxurious apartment blocks in the UK, but it seems that the Prime Minister of Qatar's money cannot buy a home in one of New York's most exclusive buildings.

The Yahoo director in charge of vetting CEO Scott Thompson is planning to resign from the board after questions emerged about Thompson’s r…

Associate director of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies David Saks weighs in on Kevin Bloom's views on the mentality around Israel.

ICANN’s board of directors has approved full refunds for any new gTLD applicant that asks for one – something that the organization has already been offering for over a month. At its two-day retreat in Amsterdam this weekend, the board’s New gTLD Program Committee resolved: to offer to applicants a full refund of the New [...] Related posts:How to get a $180,000 new gTLD refund Six hot topics...

NEW YORK/CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 7 (Reuters) - In the fall of 2009, the board of GMAC, one of the largest U.S. auto and home-loan companies, gathered in New York to discuss whether to put its troubled...

If you want a perfect example of why government has become dysfunctional, look no further than the Board of Supervisors of Loudoun County, Va. A majority of the newly elected, all-Republican board has threatened to derail the extension of Metrorail out to Dulles Airport and beyond because of a requirement that the general contractor for the project negotiate a “project labor agreement” with lo...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) -- The alumni election for three seats on Penn State's Board of Trustees has drawn more attention across the commonwealth than last month's Pennsylvania presidential primary....

(Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's board of directors will review a discrepancy in the educational record of its chief executive, Scott Thompson, a spokesman told Reuters, after activist hedge fund Third Point accused Thompson of padding his academic credentials.

The board of General Electric (GE) appears to be getting more bullish on the company’s stock. They’ve been reaching into their own pockets to buy some. Alan Lafley bought 30,000 shares for $584,700 on Monday, according to a filing made public today, and Rochelle Lazarus bought 4,000 shares last week for $79,000. It’s the first [...]

Yahoo! set the stage Wednesday for a battle with an activist investor intent on winning seats on the struggling Internet giant's board of directors.

Canadian consular official will read a statement asking the Board of Pardons and Parole to spare Ronald Smith’s life

The chairman of the board of St Patrick's Centre in Downpatrick is to resign, the BBC understands, as doubt remains about the attraction's future.

The brother of ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai steps down from the board of China Everbright International, a Hong Kong-listed company.

Maura Pozek, 17, from Reeds Spring, Missouri, went to her prom this year in a frock made from corrugated cardboard and paper bags held together with glue.

Mark Zuckerberg. Marc Andreessen. David Sze. Jim Breye. Peter Thiel. Notice anything about these names? They're all attached to penises! The advocates at womens' group UltraViolet are not pleased with Facebook's board of directors—and they're protesting this afternoon. More »

"The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle."

(Reuters) - Embattled Wal-Mart vice chairman Eduardo Castro-Wright has resigned from the board of MetLife, the largest life insurer in the United States, the company said on Tuesday.

The BBC's Susannah Streeter on whether a new board of directors at Olympus will help draw a line under its accounting scandal - and France's presidential candidates focus on the economy.

Board of Trustees of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary votes to accept gay and lesbian students for ordination.

Olympus shareholders approve the appointment of a new board of directors at an extraordinary general meeting.

Captital market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Friday said that companies will have to increase public shareholding to a minimum of 25% by August 2013 and there will be no relaxation of the guidelines.

The New Orleans Saints owner is expected to get approval today at a meeting of the NBA Board of Governors.

Headline Title:  Nigeria: End police intimidation of National Human Rights Commission 13 April 2012 The Nigeria Police Force must immediately stop investigations into statements made by the head of Nigeria’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) accusing the police of extraj...

Environmentalist quits board of the foundation he created to avoid its being targeted for his personal views

Former chief executive of Morgan Stanley to join the board of the Lending Club, a group that aims to bypass banks, as a non-executive director

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jim Yong Kim, the U.S. nominee to head the World Bank, on Wednesday told the bank's board of directors that he would not hesitate to question the status quo and do his best to help the world's poorest.

Bishop of Alcalá de Henares made comments about homosexuals and abortion during broadcast that went out on La 2

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, one of three candidates to lead the World Bank, said Monday that she would focus on an issue that affects both developed and developing nations: job creation. After what she called a “marathon” 31/ 2-hour interview with the World Bank board of directors, Okonjo-Iweala spoke at an event Monday hosted by Washington Post Live and the Center for Global Development. Dressed in t...

The board of Chilean state copper producer Codelco is expected to make a decision on the construction of its US$3.83bn Chuquicamata underground project in northern region II by year-end, CEO Diego Her...

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US authorities sentenced 63-year-old Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai to imprisonment. The head of the American Board of Kashmir is at fault for lobbying the interests of Islamabad in the US. The evidence is considerable sums of money he received from Pakistan. His Russian "colleagues" are not only free but also enjoy the high title of human rights defenders

ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- The governing board of the Greece's track and field federation has suspended all athletic operations after an emergency meeting....

ROWING AGM:THE BOARD of Rowing Ireland were forced into an embarrassing climbdown at the body’s agm in Dublin on Saturday. A proposed major change to the articles of association to bring them into line with the Companies Act had to be withdrawn en bloc after Ruadhán Cooke, from the Gráinne Mhaol club, pointed to a provision in the 15-page document which would allow the board “in its sole discre...

The board of loss-making European carmaker Opel meets today under pressure from US parent General Motors to stop the rot, with thousands of workers in Germany and Britain fearing the closure of their plants.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Internet company Yahoo has appointed three members to its board of directors, gearing up for a proxy fight with one of its largest shareholders....

Chisora faced the British Boxing Board of Control on Wednesday in Cardiff to explain why he fought with Haye.

London (dpa) - Der britische Boxverband hat Dereck Chisora die Lizenz entzogen, teilte Promoter Frank Warren nach einer Anhörung des British Boxing Board of Control in London mit. «Wir überlegen nun,...

DERECK CHISORA has his British Boxing Board of Control licence withdrawn

Updated at 4:38 p.m., with Paterno family statement The Penn State Board of Trustees has issued a statement to re-iterate what its members have said before: they chose to fire Joe Paterno as football coach because of an alleged failure to follow up on a report of alleged child sex abuse by former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky. Read full article >> ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Televangelist Robert Schuller and his wife have left the board of the California megachurch that they founded and made famous for the "Hour of Power" broadcasts, amid a financial dispute with its leaders. The resignation of Robert and Arvella Schuller from the Crystal Cathedral board follows the $57.5 million bankruptcy sale in February of the towering, glass-walled chur...

(Reuters) - Sealy Corp's second largest shareholder, H Partners Management, sought a seat on the board of the mattress maker.

The Times Editorial: The board of inquiry into suspended National Commissioner of Police Bheki Cele has started sitting - four months after it was announced by President Jacob Zuma.

Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also told the IAEA's 35-nation board of governors about the lack of progress in two rounds of talks between the Vienna-based UN agency and Tehran this year.

The diagrammed deal was the second board of the final of the Top 8 team event at the 10th Slava Memorial Cup, played in Moscow last month.

THE entire board of Olympus Corp is resigning, and a new president and chairman have been tapped to lead a turnaround.

Alibaba Group and its Hong Kong-listed unit Alibaba.com have jointly announced that Alibaba Group has proposed an offer to the board of directors of Alibaba.com to take the company private. If the privatization is completed, Alibaba.com, the flagship subsidiary and the only listed unit of Alibaba Group, will terminate its listing. According to the report [...]

Next time someone says they're going to 'head down to the shops', they might be talking about the Board Of Imagination - a motorised skateboard controlled by the power of thought.

The British Boxing Board of Control is looking into Dereck Chisora's behaviour prior, during and after his WBC contest.

The British Boxing Board of Control says heavyweight Dereck Chisora's press conference brawl with David Haye could see him banned from the sport.

Samsung Electronics moves a step closer to spinning off its LCD unit after its board of directors approve the plan.

FAISALABAD - The University of Agriculture, Faisalabad will establish farm market to provide outlets to the farmers for selling their products directly to the consumers. The decision was made at a meeting of the UAF Endowment Fund’s Board of Directors on Tuesday. It was presided over by Vice Chancellor Dr Iqrar Ahmad at Syndicate Room. The VC said that the initiative would improve the ...

The president of Egypt's soccer federation and his board of directors resigned Saturday, having already been sacked by the country's prime minister following the riot at a game that left more than 70 dead.

Frustrated by speakers who try to commandeer the podium, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has called for trimming the amount of time given to each speaker. But regulars see it as an attempt to muzzle them.The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors oversees a vast operation: It incarcerates thousands of inmates; it cares for children whose parents have abused or neglected them; it runs hospitals, cli...

Producers cut scenes, redubbed dialogue and rewrote scripts because the British Board of Film Classification objected to some of the spy’s more risque exploits.

Current CEO Sir Howard Stringer will become chairman of the Board of Directors in June

The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors voted overwhelmingly to approve a plan to merge with its sister union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.The Screen Actors Guild national board of directors voted overwhelmingly to approve a plan to merge with its sister union, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

Blog post by TatianaCarnegie Art Awardhttp://carnegie.seThe contemporary art scene is polycentric, but Scandinavia stands aside of it: the art critics seem to be not too much interested in it and this region itself seems not to be eager to be the world art center being absolutely self-sufficient. What is a pity as both the history of art and the current art scene of this region are very diverse...

It takes a lot of work for George Clooney to look so good! Or so he joked at Tuesday night's National Board of Review of Motion Picture Awards, held at Cipriani 42nd Street

Mit der "National Board Of Review Awards Gala" läuteten die Stars in New York die Zeit der Preisverleihungen ein und boten einen guten Vorgeschmack auf die Oscars. Das gilt auch für die Preisträger

Montreal (ots/PRNewswire) - Dr. Lorenzo Rossi di Montelera, Chairman of the Board of Birks & Mayors Inc. ("Birks & Mayors" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Jean-Christophe Bédos, previously of the international jewellery house Boucheron, has been named successor to the ...

YAHOO named Scott Thompson as its new CEO and member of its board of directors today, effective January 9.

This has gotta hurt.  Dr. Conrad Murray has been ordered to turn over the medical certificate that hangs on the wall of his medical office.TMZ has just obtained documents filed by the Medical Board of California, notifying the incarcerated doc… TMZDr. Conrad Murray -- Medical Board Makes Him Turn in Medical Certificate

HONOLULU/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will nominate Harvard economist Jeremy Stein and Jerome Powell, an investment banker and former Treasury official, to the two empty seats on the Federal Reserve's policy-setting board of governors.

President Obama announced his picks on Tuesday for two vacant seats on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.

Contentious politics have left the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors operating without a full roster for more than five years. Now, President Obama will again try to fill the board's two open seats.

Bruce Arthur: The night they fired Joe Paterno, the Penn State Board of Trustees sent an envelope to the iconic football coach’s house with a phone number in it and instructions to call in 15 minutes

OUR STAFF REPORTERWAZIRABAD - The secretary of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Gujranwala urged students to select science and technology as subject at intermediate level instead of Medical and Engineering subjects. Addressing the welcome party of male section held in Wazirabad Campus of the Punjab Group of Colleges, Prof Amanullah Khan stated that performance of female stude...

Board of world's largest drugmaker also authorized a share buyback program for up to $10 billion.

"Hugo," Martin Scorsese's 3D drama about an orphan boy in 1930s Paris, was named best film of 2011 on Thursday by the National Board of Review, which also named Scorsese best director.

Film director Martin Scoresese's 3D animated tale Hugo is named best film by the National Board of Review in the US.

The critics of the National Board of Review just sent the Oscars a message: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 was a good film; it's OK to honor it.  And so...

The former chief executive of Japan's disgraced Olympus Corp, Michael Woodford, launched a campaign on Thursday to oust the board of directors, reclaim his old job and install his own team to save the firm from a big accounting scandal.

Deputy FM of Islamic Republic sits on board of esteemed cultural foundation despite having called for destruction of Israel.

University board of directors terminates contract in wake of more child molestation allegations

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's parliament will review relations with the UN nuclear watchdog over its latest report that said the Islamic state's nuclear activities appeared to have military dimensions, speaker Ali Larijani was quoted as saying on Sunday.The 35-nation governing board of the IAEA passed a resolution on Friday voicing "increasing concern" about Iran's N-program after IAEA report. Iran...

New board member granted stock and restricted shares worth $84,000 and change Iger. Photo: Josh Hallett via Creative Commons According to forms filed with the SEC this week, Disney (DIS) CEO Robert Iger received as part of his new position on Apple's board of directors 75 shares of common stock and 142 restricted shares that vest next February. At Apple's (AAPL) closing price of $388.83 Tuesday...

DENNIS WISE rejoined the board of Chelsea Pitch Owners, which owns Stamford Bridge

The 60-year-old Dutchman will return to the Amsterdam Arena next year as he joins the board of directors, which will include former midfielder Danny Blind

Despite the Cook County Board of Commissioners’ intention, most men entering the Cook County Jail in Chicago are not being tested for H.I.V. and AIDS due to insufficient medical personnel.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.--Last night I witnessed the aftermath of the brief, angry riot at Penn State: an overturned news van being righted by a bulldozer, debris from battered cars and upended trash cans littering the street, college kids in “Joe Knows Football” t-shirts stumbling away from College Avenue with pepper sprayed red eyes and tear-stained faces, courtesy of the police. The students had r...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa (Reuters) - Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and university President Graham Spanier were fired over their handling of a sex abuse scandal, the Penn State board of trustees said on Wednesday.

Penn St.'s Board of Trustees announced legendary coach Joe Paterno has been fired in the wake of Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal. PSU president Graham Spanier was also fired.

Conrad Murray may be a convicted felon, but his days as a doctor aren't necessarily over—not by a long shot. Jennifer Simoes, a spokeswoman for the Medical Board of California,...

Left of the Dot Media Inc., fresh off a nice geodomain deal with Oahu.com last month, is back in the news with word that they have added two domain industry veterans to their Board of Directors. Left of the Dot provides an alternative to domain parking by leasing sub-domains of premium generic domain names.