"This was my first time at Boston Marathon, and to get into the race you have to qualify certain criteria. It's more of a challenge you set for yourself," Andotra told rediff.com. "It was very unfortunate to see what happened. The commotion, the way people were disturbed. My family and I did go through some trouble but obviously it's nothing compared to people who were injured and lost their life."
Should we not stop uncritically celebrating NRIs' elevation without regard to what kind of companies they are getting to run, and the nature of their products or business practices, asks T N Ninan.
A man was on Friday arrested for allegedly trying to mislead the police by claiming that information 'accessed' by him, using a specially developed software, indicated another terrorist attack in Hyderabad soon.
'Unfortunately, our political class is not interested in making this society equal. They just want to exploit the situation for their own benefit.'
An Indian software consultant, on a work visa in the United States, was convicted by a Chicago court on Thursday of groping a woman while they were seated next to each other aboard an airplane.
The bodies were discovered by N Hanumantha Rao, Sasikala's husband who is also a software professional, on Thursday evening after he returned from work.
Experts argue that it is a sign of maturity of the industry and of Indian techies working abroad.
They created MyCityWay apps on the mobile device that provides information for over 50 resource categories in the city.
Australian police on Friday released a new CCTV footage hoping to find the killer of a 41-year-old Indian woman who was brutally stabbed to death in Sydney, just 300m from her home on March 7 this year while she was talking to her husband on the phone.
"Venkat Reddy met a 23-year-old Mexican woman through Internet dating, had a meal at Wendy's restaurant, and drove to a nearby EZ Rest motel around 2 am. This woman's boyfriend and four other cronies who were already waiting at the motel robbed Venkat and shot him to death," said Prasad Thotakura, TANA executive vice president.
Gowadia (66) has pleaded not guilty to 21 counts, including conspiracy, violating the arms export control act and money laundering.The indictment accuses Gowadia of helping China design a cruise missile with stealth capabilities.
The alleged mastermind in the Kolkata techie kidnap case and his two other associates were arrested on Wednesday and Rs 1.90 lakh paid as ransom was also recovered by the police.
India and China's young working population has emerged as the world's most intensive users of corporate technology practices.
Nearly nine months after Devarajan Kalathat killed five family members before turning the gun on himself at their townhouse in Santa Clara, California, Aabha Appu is clueless about the reason behind her husband's murder spree.Aabha remembers nothing unusual about that night, when her brother and sister-in-law and their 11-month-old daughter came over for dinner. They had finished dinner when Devarajan went upstairs. He returned brandishing two .45-caliber handguns.
Father of a woman software engineer, whose burnt body was found on the outskirts of Mumbai, on Friday met Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde and demanded justice, saying no parent should have to face the trauma he had to face while searching for his daughter.
A software professional was arrested at the New Delhi airport on Sunday for allegedly making a hoax bomb call to delay the take-off of a Bangalore-bound GoAir plane, as he was late for the flight.
Prabha Arun Kumar, 41, was knifed to death in a Sydney park on Saturday night
Google has acquired Flutter, a San Francisco-based company founded by two persons of Indian origin - Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala.
'The reason why we have reached such depths is because of the breakdown of the rule of law, and not the political atmosphere.' 'Yes, the political atmosphere has aggravated the situation.'
The city has the highest vehicle density in the country
Madhura Sreedhar Reddy talks about his upcoming film It's My Love Story.
The logo of the terrorist outfit Indian Mujahideen -- depicting the silhouettes of two Kalashnikov wielding men in the background and a globe and a book in the foreground --was created by a Pune-based engineer, according to the prime suspects of the twin blasts in Hyderabad. The three accused in the case -- Aneeq Shafeeq Syed, Akbar Ismail Chowdhary and Ansar Sheikh -- are being interrogated by the officials of the anti-terror wing OCTOPUS.
Advertisement on mygov.in gets 8,000 applications and counting; govt to maintain bank of CVs for future use
It was amusing to hear Minister Jaishankar's argument of tech companies being influential non-State actors. If only he looked at his own party before saying what he did, notes Shyam G Menon.
Most of Cyber Command's new troops will focus on defence, detecting and stopping computer penetrations of military and other critical networks.
'If you impose Hindi, not just Tamil Nadu, no southern state will accept that. Many states in northern parts will also not accept that'
Meanwhile, the Bharatiya Janata Party's state unit staged a protest here demanding justice in the case.
Yahya Khan, arrested recently in Bangalore on charges of having terror connections, has said he had planned to start his own software firm and stolen data from various organisations that he worked for.
On March 8, Bengaluru techie Prabha Arun Kumar was stabbed to death while returning home in Sydney. A month later, the Sydney police are still struggling to solve the murder mystery.
For the first time, Chevron Corp of the US, one of the largest global energy companies, will be recruiting from Indian institutes for its global operations.
Four more persons with suspected links with a Hindu outfit have been arrested in connection with the murder of a 28-year-old IT professional in Pune, police said on Thursday.
A 28-year-old software professional was bludgeoned to death allegedly by seven persons with suspected links to a Hindu outfit near Pune, the police said.
Between April and June, 186,000 people started work in Britain, of which 145,000 were foreigners and 41,000 were British.
"I'm her husband and father of a young girl, who has lost a beloved mother," says Prabha Arun Kumar's husband in Sydney as police are still on a look out for her killers.
A 41-year old Sikh-American IT specialist was brutally attacked by some men, who knocked off his turban and allegedly cut his religiously-mandated unshorn hair with a knife, prompting a civil rights organisation to demand a hate crime investigation into the incident.
A 26-year-old Indian employee at an IT firm, who was accused of murdering an American woman, was found dead after he allegedly committed suicide due to suspected drug overdose at a New Jersey hotel.
Vallabhaneni, founder and chief executive officer, Luminix, had to wait for 12 years before getting a Green Card.
The state government had on Tuesday sought the court's permission to erect banners welcoming Modi and Xi Jinping, who are slated to meet at Mahabalipuram, for their second informal meet from October 11-13.
Furious with the United States tax agency Internal Revenue Service, a software engineer crashed his small plane into a seven-storey building in Texas housing nearly 200 federal tax employees, igniting a raging fire that sent workers running for their lives.
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