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India stands at 44th rank among global IT competitiveness index

Posted in Business India, India Facts, tagged , , , , , on September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

HELSINKI:  India stands at 44th rank among global IT competitiveness index. The United States continued to lead the global IT industry competitiveness ranking in an annual survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, followed by Finland, Sweden and Canada.  The prominence of Finland, Sweden, Canada and the Netherlands in the index’s top tier was helped most [...]

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Kids exploited in India’s silicon valley

Posted in Hindutva, India Facts, Poverty, tagged , , , on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

It’s ironical that people who spend a good part of their lives serving food to strangers rarely get to enjoy a hearty meal. As exploitation of employees rapidly becomes the norm in the hotel industry, ineffective regulatory measures add to the problem.
Statistics tell a sorry tale. Last year, 16,592 children were identified as working in [...]

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Outsourcing groups battle India’s CV cheats

Posted in Business India, Corruption, Crime, India Facts, tagged , , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

India’s outsourcing industry is battling a rising number of “résumé cheats” – recruits who lie about their experience or qualifications – in a struggle that could be critical to the long-term prosperity of the business.
Recent high staff turnover at large outsourcing groups has been partly owing to the weeding out of résumé cheats who were [...]

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Fuel conservation is not for Bangaloreans

Posted in Business India, India Facts, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Even as the decibel levels on issues like Energy Usage, Emissions, Global Warming, Climate Change are on the rise globally, a survey among car-owning Bangaloreans has rather worryingly revealed that Fuel Conservation is not yet a focus area for many. In a survey where most of those surveyed earned between 20-40 Thousand Rupees per month, [...]

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The arithmetic of India’s poverty

Posted in Poverty, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Author of this article,  Praful Patel is an Ugandan national of Indian origin. He is currently working as the Vice President, South Asia Region of the  World Bank. He is sharing his views about poverty in India, which he witnessed during his recent visit to Gujarat, a state ruled by India’s extremist Hindu nationalists. Gujarat [...]

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