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2008-09-04 12:13:07AVANTA launches its first serviced office centre in India
New Delhi, Sept 4 ANI/Business Wire India: Avanta, professional leading provider of Serviced Office space throughout the UK - London, Thames Valley, Birmingham Manchester and Edinburgh today launched its first facility in Statesman House, Connaught Place, New Delhi.The building is ideally located in New Delhi's prime business district, half-an-hour from the domestic and international airports and just a short distance from the railway station. The main shopping area of Connaught Place is on the doorstep, along with a variety of popular restaurants and bars.Avanta India has acquired four floors 21,000 square feet of office space and will offer meeting and training rooms, a secure reception area and wi-fi enabled communal areas. The air-conditioned facility offers prime serviced office space for organizations looking for high quality, competitively priced business space in the heart of the capital city. The serviced offices range from two people, furnished executive suites to entire floors that are configured to meet each customer's needs. As with all Avanta Serviced Office centres, this facility features cutting edge communications technology, including VoIP telephone systems, scaleable internet access and dedicated client server rooms.Customers will be able to take advantage of the company's virtual office service - Avanta Virtual PA. Designed to offer businesses a complete package of office support but without the actual office space, Virtual PA can deliver a full range of business centre facilities to home workers, business start-ups, professionals on the move, or larger organizations seeking a market presence in India.Avanta also offers a meeting and training room facility. For companies who wish to hire space for a day to carry out a brainstorming session, conducting interviews or for seminars and training sessions, Avanta offers meeting rooms for flexible durations complete with audio and video conferencing. Also part of the package is catering, while specialist meeting co-ordinators are available to take care of the room layout as well as the day's smallest detail."Having established a strong reputation in London and key regions throughout the UK as providers of flexible, high quality, non-branded serviced office space, we are delighted to bring the Avanta brand to India. We are sure that Avanta serviced offices will rapidly set a benchmark in this category of business in India," commented Sean Morgan, Managing Director, Avanta India and Middle East.To celebrate the opening of the new centre, Avanta hosted a reception for their business partners and clients along with international and Indian commercial property consultants, who were given a guided tour of the new office space and facilities that Avanta India has acquired. Following this, Avanta held a launch party that included a performance by Ash Chandler, one of India's most popular stand-up comedians and performer and other entertainment.Avanta India's first centre, Statesman House in New Delhi, and two Mumbai centers that are still under development, have attracted many enquiries, underlining the fact that the Avanta model is compelling in any professional market where quality and value for money matter. Expansion of the network to other regions of India is expected in the near future.Avanta's mission is to provide organizations of all sizes and types with what they really want: well-equipped, non-branded and high quality office accommodation in prime locations; flexible services and contracts; transparent pricing and exceptional value for money. ANI
2008-09-04 08:00:00Khalilzad says he made no mistake by contacting PPP
New York, Sept.4 ANI: The United States envoy to the United Nations, Z. Khalilzad, has said he made no mistake in establishing contacts with PPP, adding that the interactions were purely of social nature.A former US envoy to both Afghanistan and Iraq, he said he had for years maintained friendships and relationships with many people in the broader Middle East, including Afghanistan and Pakistan."These contacts and relationships have been useful for the United States but at the same time I am experienced enough to know the difference between being a channel with these friends on behalf of the United States and having social contacts particularly with regard to the Bhutto family," The News quoted Khalilzad, as saying. He said he had had mostly "social contacts" with the Bhutto couple since Benazir, a former Pakistani prime minister, returned from exile to Pakistan in October 2007 and in the aftermath of her assassination two months later.Noting these contacts were "perfectly natural", he insisted that he had reported them to US Secretary of State "and relevant officials" whenever policy issues had been raised. And he strenuously denied having acted as an advisor to Zardari. ANI
2008-09-04 04:05:10Palin's son heads for military service in Iraq
London, Sept.4 ANI: Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's son, Track, will be heading for the Middle East next week to prepare for military service in one of the most dangerous corners of Iraq. A year after enlisting in the US Army on the sixth anniversary of 9/11, Private First Class Palin will fly to Kuwait next Thursday for acclimatisation, and will be deployed a few weeks later to an area of Diyala province teeming with al-Qaeda insurgents. It will not be an easy tour for the 19-year old, who is assigned to 1-1 Bravo Company, 52nd Infantry, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, reports The Times. Diyala remains a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency. American military intelligence estimates there are still around 150 hardcore al-Qaeda fighters in the province, backed up by between 200 and 400 armed bandits who will fight for whoever pays them most. Diyala is also littered with improvised explosive devices IED's - there were 82 bomb blasts in a particularly kinetic two and a half month period. The fact that Track Palin's mother is a potential vice-president could mean that he could be teased a lot, say soldiers already posted in Diyala."Will it be hard Yes. If it was me and my parent was a vice-presidential candidate or the vice-president, it would be hard. It gives you a celebrity status," the paper quoted Captain Stephen Thibodeau, 30, as saying.Thibodeau is on his second tour in Iraq, with the 2nd Stryker Cavlary Regiment, based in Vilseck, Germany. Private Palin will be one of about 4,600 US troops serving in Diyala and will be protected by some of the best armour money can by. He could also possibly meet up with Beau Biden, 39, currently serving as a Captain in the Delaware National Guard and will be in Iraq at the same time. His father is Democratic vice-president candidate Joe Biden. ANI
2008-09-04 03:00:00Doncaster girl masterminded Arab takeover of Manchester City
London, Sept.3 ANI: A 35-year-old modern languages graduate, and financier, Amanda Staveley, reportedly masterminded the daring takeover of Manchester City by an Arab consortium. Thirteen years ago, Amanda reportedly rose at 4 a.m. every day to cook and strip the meat from dozens of chickens, and she had little idea that her pre-dawn catering activities would open the door to the glittering world of high finance and the billions of dollars at the disposal of the Arabian Gulf's ruling sheikhs.After persuading a bank manager to lend her 180,000 pounds to set up a restaurant in rural Cambridgeshire, Amanda opened her Stocks eatery close to the British horseracing hub of Newmarket. It became popular among leading members of area's equestrian elite.The patrons of the restaurant, where the proprietor would muck in while also dabbling in her alternative career of dealing in shares worth thousands of pounds, included senior staff from the Godolphin stables owned by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai and the most powerful racehorse owner on the planet.It was the beginning of an association between Amanda, now 35 and a multimillionaire businesswoman, and the Middle East's wealthiest figures that reached a spectacular culmination yesterday with the news that English club football had gained a proprietor to outshine the riches of even Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich in Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan.The new owner of Manchester City FC, who is the brother of the ruler of Abu Dhabi, the biggest of the United Arab Emirates, and has access to an estimated fortune of 550 billion pounds to fund foreign acquisitions, and his advisers spent two weeks negotiating with the Yorkshire woman before tying up a deal.It was evidence of the growing status of Amanda Staveley - whose life has waxed and waned from turning down a proposal from Prince Andrew to becoming a non-executive director of a company marketing a cream similar to Viagra - in the testosterone-fuelled world of the Premiership, that she acted as the lynchpin in a sale that has the potential to transform European football.Although she was acting for City and its previous owner, the former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, it is understood that Amanda 's credentials among Middle Eastern royalty were key to the sale being completed. ANI
2008-09-03 18:00:00Mid-East group moves for Man City
Manchester City are in talks with a Middle East company which wants to buy the Premier League club....
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