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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. As environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have become a growing focus for companies and their shareholders, financiers, employees and other stakeholders, they have also become increasingly important to the success of M&A transactions. ESG factors are now seen as important value drivers for dealmakers, as well as being essential to corporate values and reputational expectations. Ef...

2 cops who refused to budge from BDA suspended 2 cops who refused to budge from BDA suspended ByY Maheswara ReddyY Maheswara Reddy / Updated: Jan 11, 2021, 06:00 IST police constables, who were reluctant to let go of work at the Bangalore Development Authority ( BDA) despite their deputation period having come to an end, finally conceded and reported to their new role at the Home Department. However, their adamance has cost them dear as the constables have been placed under suspension. The co...

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CALOOCAN CITY, Dec. 31 (PIA) – A dry-run to alleviate the heavy traffic flow along Commonwealth Avenue starts today, December 31, 2020 until January 03, 2021, from 6AM to 11AM. The Quezon City government and Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) are studying the implementation of a zipper lane and road diversion to ease the traffic in the area resulting from the various infrastructure projects being undertaken by the national government. The projects include MRT-7 partly along Comm...

SunStar Image from Google Maps December 30, 2020 A HIGH-ranking Davao City health official said the city will intensify the monitoring of its borders, especially the southernmost part of the city, following reports of a discovery of a new strain of the Covid-19 in Sabah, East Malaysia. Davao City Covid-19 focal person Dr. Ashley Lopez told SunStar Davao in a phone interview on Wednesday, December 30, this is in response to the recent directive of the national government to intensif...

ABC Columbia Dec 28, 2020 1:26 PM EST Courtesy: Lexington County Sheriff’s Department COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– According to South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, a Lexington County man has been charged with criminal solicitation of a minor. Authorities say 31-year-old Brandon Scott Moore, of Leesville, was arrested by investigators with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force on December 23, and faces up to 10 years in prison for...

One more COVID-19-related death was reported in the KMMO listening area on Monday, December 21. According to the Saline County Health Department’s COVID-19 Dashboard, one more death raises the county’s total to 41 since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, 40 more positive cases were added since the last update on Friday, December 18, to 2,099. With 41 deaths and 1,948 recoveries, there are 110 active cases in the county. During the meeting of the Pettis County COVID-19 Task Force on...

During the meeting of the Pettis County COVID-19 Task Force on Monday, the Pettis County Health Department reported an increase of 233 new cases of COVID-19 in the past week, bringing the total to 3,908. There has been an increase of 346 case in the past two weeks. The positivity rate for the week of December 8-16 is 14.43-percent which is an improvement over the 20.25-percent the previous the week. Hospitalizations have decreased, but the county has still had deaths this week. Pettis County is...

With growing scepticism about the rapid approval of COVID-19 vaccines, Immunologist and Chairman of the University of the West Indies (UWI) COVID-19 task force, Professor Clive Landis, has moved to explain the rationale for the speed at which the vaccines are being approved. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given its approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, resulting in the launch of vaccine programmes in the United States and parts of Europe. But with the introduction of...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In line with a global push towards greater diversity and inclusion in corporate leadership, Glass Lewis recently update policies with respect to board gender diversity and board refreshment, among other things. Glass Lewis will generally recommend voting against a chair of a nominating committee where the board has less than two female directors beginning in 2022, provided that the board has ...