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 17:40 | 20/Jun/2009 |
| Talent Valley in J&K | |
| Friends It all began a few months ago when a chance meeting with the young and dynamic Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and understanding his vision of building high quality resources in the state encouraged us to put together a small NASSCOM delegation to visit the state. The speed of progress – in talent assessment, training needs analysis for a rang...
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| 18:51 | 7/Jun/2009 |
| Green Shoots of Recovery | |
| Friends Its amazing how a couple of weeks of “feel good” can transform a recession of sentiment that we have been experiencing in our country into a revival of the halcyon days of a couple of years back. A rampaging stock market, a revival in the fortunes of many domestic industries and a strong new Government promising all the right investments an...
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| 07:27 | 23/May/2009 |
| A new mandate | |
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| FriendsThis is a time of reckoning for India - will the newly elected Government with one of the strongest mandatres in recent history deliver on its promises or will this prove to be one more opportunity for good governance and economic progress get sacrificed at the altar of political compromises and expediency ?India has done well in the last fi...
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| 18:07 | 26/Apr/2009 |
| The Visa issue | |
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| The H1B and L1 Visa issue - the gathering storm ! The introduction of the H1B and L1 Visa reforms bill in the US Senate by Assistant Majority Leader Democrat Dick Durbin and Republican Charles Grassley has caused the predictable shock wave to spread across the Indian outsourcing industry. The consolation is that this is not an unexpected developme...
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| 17:00 | 14/Apr/2009 |
| The Satyam saga ends | |
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| Friends, The curtains have come down on what has probably been the most exciting act ever played out by the IT industry on the stage of the Indian corporate sector. It all started for me personally when an irate investor from the US called up on the evening of 16th December to complain about the wanton hijacking of the Board by Ramalinga Raju in pu...
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| 12:22 | 12/Apr/2009 |
| China Inspired ! | |
| Why China will succeed! The tale of two couples describes the picture of success that the Indian middle class have been able to paint on the Chinese landscape. Lakshman and Hetal Hemnani who started life managing a small APTECH centre in Pune are now running a successful chain of GANGES Indian restaurants in the capital city of Beijing, ensuring a ...
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| 14:48 | 28/Mar/2009 |
| Recession thoughts | |
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| And on a weekend where a booming stock market is giving us the illusion that the slowdown period is over here are some sobering thoughts Ganesh Wisdom from Lee Wei Ling, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew's Daughter [Mr. Lee Kuan Yew is the Minister Mentor of Singapore]By Lee Wei LingIn 2007, in an end-of-year message to the staff of the National Neuroscience Instit...
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| 16:50 | 19/Mar/2009 |
| Creating jobs in India | |
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| Friends, The issue that concerns most Indians working in the high tech industry is the tightening of immigration and the flow of visa holders particularly to the US. Two pieces of legislation that were introduced in the 110th Congress (the previous one) in the US and did not pass were the comprehensive immigration bill and a more specific one that ...
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| 08:36 | 2/Mar/2009 |
| Protectionism | |
| Friends,After a week meeting movers and shakers in the USA one thing is clear - the economic realities are truly sombre and the bottom has yet to be reached in terms of slowdown, unemployment and Wall Street.In such a situation it is natural that politicians are being seen as more reliable than business leaders and the ugly head of protectionism is...
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| 22:41 | 11/Feb/2009 |
| Perspectives for Indian IT | |
| Perspective 2020 - the NASSCOM-Mckinsey study The preview of the report presented today at the NASSCOM Leadership forum by the Mckinsey team has clearly spelled out the numerous benefits that the growth of the industry in the last ten years has delivered to the country. Tertiary education in the key IT states has grown over six times, the opportuni...
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