A Nasscom report estimates that the outsourcing industry will face a shortage of 262,000 professionals by 2012.
Large companies are targeting niche players in the market to add to their portfolio.
Karan Gupta, overseas education consultant, discusses international MBAs with Get Ahead readers.
Supply side issues may yet trip up the growth story at the high end of the off-shoring business.
Narendra Modi's vision to see Gujarat being counted a major IT hub of the country received a boost as 19 companies signed MoUs to total an investment of Rs 11,067 crore (Rs 110.67 billion) on Friday.
Retail, logistic, educational services and fast moving consumer goods and durables alone will add around 1.66 lakh, 1.49 lakh, 1.17 lakh and 1.10 lakh jobs respectively.
The estimated 10 per cent average hike in 2019 is at par with the actual rate of increase in the previous three calendar years in India
The biggest loss of jobs among salaried employees was of 'white-collar professional employees and other employees'. Among these are engineers including software engineers, physicians, teachers, accountants, analysts and so on, who are professionally qualified and are employed in some private or government organisation All the gains made in their employment over the past four years were washed away during the lockdown, reveals Mahesh Vyas.
The total wealth of top 100 real estate barons accounted for Rs 2.37 trillion ($32.7 billion) in 2018, up 27 per cent against 2017's cumulative wealth of Rs 1.87 trillion ($28.6 billion).
Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) and Knowledge processing Outsourcing (KPO) firms are covered by the retirement fund body EPFO, Parliament was informed.
Deal to bolster firm's position in healthcare IT.
An ambitious long-term vision to ensure economic connectivity between India and the rest of Southern Asia is critical to India's trade policy objectives.
'India could become the newest Asian tiger under Modi's dynamic leadership. Modi could become the Nehru of the 21st century, and re-establish a new Tryst with Destiny, by stating once and for all that Mera Bharat Mahaan is and will always be a truly secular and inclusive democracy in the best spirit of Bharatiya-tva,' says Ram Kelkar, offering an NRI view of the Modi triumph.
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