Being driven to abandon Indian middle-class values, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
This was the second time this month that the Norwegian has surrendered games or pulled out from a tournament which also featured Niemann.
Christian Taylor of the United States retained his Olympic men's triple jump title on Tuesday, recording the longest jump of the year to claim the podium top spot.
'I've got good luck from millions from my country and will carry it wherever I go, like I always do.'
India's largest IT services player Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) saw its $2 billion, 10-year deal with Transamerica Life Insurance Company come to an end even before the period was over. Transamerica is the subsidiary of American arm of Dutch insurer Aegon NV. This is not the first time such a long-term deal has been called off. Earlier this year, UK's National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), ended a $1.8-billion deal with French IT services player Atos.
American accounting and medical billing firms are the latest to join the outsourcing bandwagon, transferring hundreds of thousands of jobs to India to take advantage of the low pay scales and educated workforce in the country.
Congressman Ami Bera, the only Indian-American lawmaker in the current Congress, has been invited by President Barack Obama to travel with him to India on Air Force One.
In 2012, JLR sales were up in every major market, driven by new model introductions and update programmes, the company said in a statement issued at the North American International Motor Show in Detroit.
Ajit Balakrishnan on how to arrest a worldwide decline.
The US has emerged as a preferred destination for Indian investment. In fact, India now ranks second, behind the UAE, in the list of fastest-growing foreign investors in the US, he argued in his article.
The economic downturn has wiped off thousands of jobs from hundreds of the American companies, but the same crisis has prompted the US administration to announce a massive hiring of 50,000 police personnel.
Firstsource was perhaps the first BPO that set shop in the US city of Buffalo in 2004 with 287 employees.
March and April payrolls were revised to show 32,000 more jobs.
The important criterion that you will have to meet for this is that you have to be an investor in the American economy.
Under increasing pressure to cut costs and build global networks, American corporate giants are planning to move about 3.3 million jobs, including highly-paid white-collar ones, to countries including India by 2015.
'We get to know secrets such as some of India's top-rated firms do not always make payments when due and many State-owned, listed, enterprises that borrow in bond markets default regularly.' 'Without naming the bank, he says that ever-greening of poor loans by a part of India's shadow banking lay at the doorstep of India's banking, notably 'one private bank'.' Viral Acharya's Quest for Restoring Financial Stability in India won't be music to many ears, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Through her non profit organisation Everybody Code Now! Swetha Prabhakaran, 15, has taught several students how to code and turned them into confident professionals.
The study titled, 'Indian Roots, American Soil: A Look at Indian Companies in the US Economy,' was released at Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Wednesday at a ceremony attended by several US lawmakers from both the Senate and House.
In an online chat with readers, NNS Chandra offers career advice.
Within weeks of being sworn in as the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama hopes to sign a bill that would create three million jobs in the US.
Among the plans for headcount reductions in recent times, banking behemoth Citigroup's decision to slash over 52,000 jobs is reportedly one of the largest layoffs in history. The Bank of New York Mellon is the latest to join the league of American companies which have announced massive job cuts in the wake of the ongoing financial turmoil.
US President-elect Barack Obama is a solid supporter of the growing Indo-US strategic partnership and backs the landmark bilateral nuclear deal, but has strong views about outsourcing of American jobs overseas, a cause of concern for Indian businesses.
Senior Democrat leader Chuck Schumer asserted that the president is not ready for "primetime".
US companies, hoping to save money during the recessionary phase, are likely to increase outsourcing of information technology services.
Signalling an improvement in the strained American labour market, US private companies added as many as 32,000 new jobs in April.
Sikandar Raza smashed the fastest ODI hundred by a Zimbabwean as his team pulled off a second big chase in succession for a six-wicket win over the Netherlands in the ICC ODI World Cup Qualifier.
Asking the Obama Administration and Congress to increase the cap of H-1B work visas, popular among Indian professionals, from the present 65,000 to 195,000 per annum, two eminent scholars from a US think tank have said such a move would help stimulate economic growth and generate tax revenue.
The charge is likely to lower the company's adjusted fourth quarter net income by 46 per cent from a year earlier.
While there were no surprises on policy issues from either side, there were far less interruptions and tense moments between Pence, 61, who comes from Indiana and his Democrat challenger Harris, 55, who is from California.
Dr Pranav Shetty, a prominent Indian-American doctor fighting the dreaded ebola disease in West Africa, was the lone representative of the community to be present in First Lady Michelle Obama's box during the State of the Union Address.
Newsweek quotes the author of the study Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik of the New Mexico University as identifying bullying as a "persistent intimidating, malicious, insulting and exclusionary behaviour". In a paper published in the Journal of Management Studies, Lutgen-Sandvik says not only victims but observers were more likely to report feeling stressed and dissatisfied with their jobs.
'I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I will just run the software and servers teams,' he tweeted Tuesday.
Sukanya Verma gives us a lowdown on all those wonderful movies she saw and movies you need to see as and when they arrive to a screen or streaming space near you.
US Ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer also sought to downplay concerns that President Barack Obama was targeting American companies having operations in India ever since he called such businesses tax evaders.
The rupee depreciated 39 paise to an all-time low of 82.69 against the US dollar in early trade on Monday as elevated crude oil prices and risk-averse sentiment among investors weighed on the local unit. Moreover, a negative trend in domestic equities and firm American currency sapped investor appetite, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 82.68 against the greenback, then slipped further to 82.69, registering a fall of 39 paise over its previous close.
The Pakistani Taliban on Thursday lauded the action of Faisal Shahzad, the Pakistani-American arrested for a botched car bombing in New York, but said he had no links to the banned militant group.
The first openly gay major presidential candidate in American history, and one of the youngest-ever to win a state primary or caucus, Buttigieg, 38, is a barrier-breaking public servant from the industrial Midwest with a track record of trailblasing, forward-thinking executive leadership.
