In an interview with Mahesh Kulkarni and Archana Prasanna, Wipro's joint chief executive officer Girish Paranjpe says the company expects uniform growth in information technology spends, despite flat to marginally positive IT budgets in 2010.
K Arvind Rao, a 1977 batch Indian Police Services officer, is the new director general of Andhra Pradesh police. He succeeded R R Girish Kumar, who retired on Tuesday.
The business environment is positive, with an uptick in demand, in both domestic and international markets.
'The missile mounted near Kailash-Mansarovar is called DF-21. It is a medium-range, 2,200 kilometres ballistic missile. Its advantage is that it can cover all cities of north India, including New Delhi'
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According to Girish Patel, human rights activist and senior advocate of Gujarat high court, Modi could easily avoid SIT till some time in April when the Supreme Court is likely to examine a proprietary and legal issue raised by Ram Jethmalani over the constitution of the SIT by the apex court. Ram Jethmalani is representing one of the accused in the Gulbarg Society case where Ehsan Jafri and 68 people were killed by the mob on February 28, 2002.
'"My Modi is in the role of Lord Ram and Congress president Rahul Gandhi is Ravana and his sister Priyanka Surpanakha'
Apart from the appointment of Lokpal at the national level and Lokayukta in states, Hazare has been demanding implementation of the Swaminathan Commission recommendations and some electoral reforms.
She came under the cloud of allegation of clearing contract worth Rs 206 crore for purchase of a host of items under the Integrated Child Development Scheme.
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
Some reports said the man was Siddaramaiah's personal assistant staying at his house in Mysuru, but the chief minister's media advisor clarified in a tweet that he was a relative.
Maharashtra government on Friday decided to put a ban on Maggi noodles after some samples were found to contain lead above the permissible limit.
The company plans to set up a new IT park near Kolkata and recently the company's Chairman, Azim Premji, had signed an agreement with the state government to acquire additional land.
Andhra Pradesh director general of police R Girish Kumar has appealed to the political parties and the media, specially the television channels to exercise restrain in leveling allegations of "partiality and bias" against the police officials as it can de-motivate and discourage the police officers.
The opposition on Monday created uproar in the Maharashtra assembly demanding tabling of the report of Ram Pradhan Commission, which probed the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, prompting the speaker to adjourn the House three times.
Wipro Ltd, a provider of IT solutions and services including systems integration, information systems outsourcing and IT-enabled services, says it has not been affected by the crisis in West Asia and will continue to invest in the region. Wipro already has a company -- Wipro Arabia, formed in 2007 through a joint venture with the Dar Al Riyadh Group -- providing IT solutions and services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
"Our strategy is to recruit non-engineering graduates, in addition to engineering and make them fit into the slot. We are still working out the details," Wipro Technologies joint CEO Girish Paranjpe said.
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Wipro, despite the 1.5 per cent drop on the volume front, has seen a positive uptake in terms of client additions and revenues.
The ancient Ganga-Godavari-temple on the bank of river Godavari was later closed till next Kumbh mela to be held in 2027-28.
Ashutosh Goiwariker decided to make the film a little shorter after movie goers and critics complained that the film was too long.
The national carrier on Tuesday cancelled 37 of the 177 domestic flights and nine of the 21 international flights as more executive pilots reported 'sick'.
According to an FIR filed by Harshad Jadav, 38, he was picked up by the police after he enquired about a commotion in his area with a police constable at the scene on the night of December 28.
New regulatory rules, softer freight rates and a liquidity crunch at non-bank lenders are among the reasons.
SRK and Aamir Khan lose out to Prakash Raj, among others.
The overall volume at India's top four M&HCV makers - Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Volvo Eicher, and Mahindra & Mahindra - fell 59.5 per cent to 31,067 units during the month.
A group of Maoists on Friday severely thrashed two Indian priests and tore their clothes and sacred thread at Nepal's famous Pashupatinath temple, marking a violent turn to the agitation over their recent appointment. Some 40-50 Maoists, posing as devotees, entered the fifth century Hindu shrine at around 1330 hrs and dragged out the priests -- Girish Bhatta and Raghavendra Bhatta, both aged 32,officials said.
"We found value in people being given flexibility instead of asking them to come to work when there is no work. We have also given them a choice of coming to office 10 days at a stretch in a month, rather than coming two days every week," says Girish Paranjpe, joint CEO of its information technology business.
Among Indian IT outsourcing companies, Wipro is the first company to give a flat to 2 per cent growth expectation for the July-September 2009 (third) quarter. Joint CEOs Girish Paranjpe and Suresh Vaswani spoke to Bibhu Ranjan Mishra on the company's growth path.
An MBA from Harvard Business School, Rishad, 32, joined the company almost two years ago as a business manager in the Banking and Finance division, which was then headed by Girish Paranjpe, the present joint CEO of the company's IT business. During his stint with GE Capital, Rishad was working in the treasury. Industry analysts say that Wipro is adhering to corporate standards, by treating the chairman's son at par with other employees.
Unless security is given paramount importance, it is difficult for real estate activity to pick momentum in J&K.
The real mover and shaker behind the development that grounded India's largest airline remained mostly out of the public eye. That was 63-year-old NAG President Captain Girish Kaushik who was doing the heavy lifting in Delhi and Mumbai.
It looks like IBM is betting on Vaswani to replicate the success he had with Dell
The year 2009 has been one of the most peaceful years, as far as Maoist violence in Andhra Pradesh was concerned. The state director general of police R Girish Kumar told a year-end press conference that Andhra Pradesh police had emerged as a role model for the other states in dealing with the Maoist problem.
Around 650 pilots of the private air carrier Jet Airways will go on an indefinite strike on midnight of September 7 to protest sacking of two of their colleagues.
Manish Sisodia is set to be Deputy CM, while four new faces are likely to join the AAP cabinet.
Videsh starts out as a disturbing account on domestic violence but loses all objectivity the minute it resorts to elements of mysticism, inspired by Girish Karnad's play Nagamandala. It's a dangerously incompatible mix and damages the possibility of a decent movie to an outright ridiculous one.
India is often viewed as an aggressive tax jurisdiction by domestic and overseas taxpayers, and making the charter as part of the Act may help restore confidence among taxpayers.
