Sons Of Fruit-Seller, Tailor, Farmer Top Agniveers

On the parade ground are sons of jawans, farmers, LIC agents, daily wage farm labourers, shopkeepers... all living their moment of triumph; their faces bright with the possibilities that lie ahead.......

Why Ram/Buddha, Tendulkar/Jayasuriya is hard to beat

If India follows smart cultural diplomacy in Sri Lanka, it has unmatched advantages over both China and Pakistan, says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd). Part 1: A soldier returns to Sri Lanka IMAGE:......

'My name is Umar Khalid, but I'm not a terrorist'

'This fight is not a fight for us, but for Jawaharlal Nehru University and for every university in India.' 'A university which does not allow dissent becomes a prison.' In dramatic scenes, Umar......

Study finds massive corruption in NREGA

A government-sponsored study on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has found large-scale corruption and irregularities in the implementation of the programme in several states with......

Powergen closure a bad omen for BPOs?

Barely six months after VV Giri National Labour Institute, the Noida-based government outfit, likened Indian call centres to 19th century prisons that reduced executives to 'cyber coolies', India's......

Indian BPOs covered under labour laws

The Indian government on Monday said that the booming business processes outsourcing units are covered under the existing labour laws and state governments could deal with violation of laws in the......

ILO to come out with norms for BPOs

The International Labour Organisation is planning to come out with a set of guidelines on working conditions in industries like call centres, ITES (Information technology-enabled services),......

BPO blues: Attrition goes down as hiring slows

Part I: BPO firms wake to red dawnEmployees in some IT-enabled services companies have cited instances of their passports being kept by their employers during training stints abroad.A growing tribe......