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In an application filed with Trai, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd has sought regulatory approval to reduce prices on one of its premium connectivity modes, DS3, citing an increase in bandwidth on a submarine cable system.
'It was the hostility of the Yunus regime that made India careful and wary of dealing with them.' 'They gradually backed off and lowered the noise, but the damage was done.' 'Their true colours had been exposed.'
Indian private equity funds raised $1.5 billion up to June 2003 as against $1.60 billion in the entire 2002, indicating signs of a pick-up in venture fund activity.
The A V Birla group-owned TransWorks, a call centre and business process outsourcing player with operations in India and the US, is open to relocating its employees from Mumbai to Bangalore.
Indian software services firm Mascot Systems Ltd said on Wednesday it planned to acquire a division of Delhi-based IT&T Ltd for Rs 21.3 crore
US-based software company Infogain said on Friday that it would ramp up its India development centre with an additional 350 software professionals over the next 18 months besides foraying into BPO segment to diversify the services.\n\n
Wipro Ltd will be allotted 10-12 acres of land in Coimbatore for setting up a centre for its business process outsourcing division.
As part of its plans to ramp up back-end operations, Hughes Software's business process outsourcing division is planning to add about 120 people over the next three months.
Housing Development Finance Corporation is to raise the interest rate on its home loans across all maturities by 0.50 per cent after Diwali.
A delegation of venture capitalists from the East Coast, US, with a worldwide portfolio of $20 billion, will visit India next month as part of TiE event to explore the possibilities of investing in Indian IT
Business process outsourcing major 24/7 Customer has said it plans to hire over 4,000 people during this year to take its total employee strength to 7,000 and invest $15 million in its facilities across the country.
The business process outsourcing market is expected to touch $1 trillion by 2006, registering a compounded annual growth rate of 9 per cent.
Rating agency ICRA has picked up a 33 per cent stake in Online IndiaCapital.com, a Mumbai-based promoter of MutualFundsIndia.com, even as it is planning a special purpose vehicle for setting up a business process outsourcing unit.\n\n\n\n
Leading third party business process outsourcing player Daksh eServices Pvt Ltd plans to hire 900 people during the year to ramp up its total headcount to over 4,500, a top company official said on Friday.
HCL Technologies surged on Monday after the company said that it has won a BPO order worth $160 million from British Telecom.
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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has barred four non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), including two microfinance institutions (MFIs), from sanctioning and disbursing loans for charging exorbitant interest rates to the borrowers. These four entities are Asirvad Microfinance, Arohan Financial Services (also an MFI), DMI Finance, which provides personal, consumption, and micro, small and medium enterprises loans, and Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's Navi Finserv, which offers home and personal loans. The ban will take effect on October 21 to "facilitate closure of transactions in the pipeline", the regulator said in a statement.
The central government has for the first time allowed a private company, Bajaj Healthcare, to process opium to extract alkaloids used to make pain-killers, cough syrups, and even cancer drugs. Two government factories in Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh, and Neemuch, Madhya Pradesh, do the work yet, processing some 800 tonnes of opium gum annually to extract alkaloids. The government on Tuesday gave Thane-based Bajaj Healthcare an initial contract to process 500 tonnes of opium gum annually and wants production to be at 800 tonnes per annum (tpa) in the next five years, indicating the state's exit from the highly-regulated sector.
Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) and Knowledge processing Outsourcing (KPO) firms are covered by the retirement fund body EPFO, Parliament was informed.
Essar Global Fund, the Ruia company that invested $1.3 billion in telecommunications, towers and business process outsourcing over the years, made $6.5 billion, a five-fold return, when it flipped these businesses, according to discussions the group has had with merchant bankers.
The Mumbai-based firm is on a cost optimisation drive through outsourcing of network management services and call centre operations.
According to reports, Vodafone NZ had offered all its employees, other than call centre and retail staffers, voluntary severance package
In Hyderabad, it plans to hire in the areas of finance accounting, transaction processing and technology, among others
Indian IT major Wipro on Saturday announced the resignation of its CEO Thierry Delaporte and named Srinivas Pallia as the new chief executive officer effective immediately. Wipro's Board noted the resignation of Delaporte with effect from April 6, 2024, the company said in a BSE filing, and added he will be relieved from the employment of the company with effect from the close of business hours on May 31, 2024.
The former Infosys business process outsourcing head's visiting card for his recently launched start-up, Antworks, says he's the 'chief everything officer'.
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