Indian Outsourcers Move Up Value Chain

InfoWorld: Although some American executives have begun to express reservations about offshore outsourcing, confidence abounds here as Indian technology leaders see burgeoning demand for increasingly sophisticated services. "It's unlikely that anything can go wrong for the Indian outsourcing industry," said...

Technology Jobs Moving To Asia

Yahoo! News: Technology companies are seeing a rebound in business, but top executives this week said any jobs added to meet growing demand will likely be in countries where labor is cheaper than the United States. Executives speaking at the...

Outsourcing Jobs To India: Meet The Zippies

New York Times (Op-Ed): "The Zippies Are Here," declared the Indian weekly magazine Outlook. Zippies are this huge cohort of Indian youth who are the first to come of age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into...

Upwardly Mobile India

Reuters: Dinkar Marla is just thirtysomething but he already has everything his father still dreams about: a house of his own, a snazzy car and a state-of-the art laptop. Though part of a very small slice of India, the upwardly...

As India's Economy Rises, So Do Expectations

New York Times: Though business is booming at the software company he founded here, Bit by Bit Computer Services, expenses for his traditional Indian wedding, planned for the end of February, are slowly spiraling beyond his budget. First, he has...

Relations Between India and Pakistan Improve

Rediff: Washington's quiet, persistent diplomacy and a clear assurance from Islamabad on ending terrorism eventually helped to change New Delhi's perception of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf as a troublemaker and the villain of Kargil and Agra ... The two attempts to...

'Historic' Kashmir Talks agreed

BBC NEWS: Pakistan and India say they will start talks next month to resolve their differences, which include the bitterly divisive issue of Kashmir. The countries' leaders are "confident" the talks will bring peace - "History has been made," Pakistan's...

Moving to India Not A Luxury. A Necessity.

Salon.com: "Moving to India is not a luxury. It is a necessity" American workers won't like what venture capitalist Ravi Chiruvolu says about why his tech start-ups are built using Indian workers. But they'd better listen. Xalted Networks, a router...

BSP ONElink Launches First Internet-Based Travel Distribution & Settlement Service in India

BusinessWire: SAN FRANCISCO--Dec. 10, 2003--BSP ONElink, Inc. (OTCBB:BSPO), the world's first internet-based integrated distribution and settlement service for the global travel industry, is accelerating its business plan with a planned launch into India next year. The company has named The...

A Consumer Class Emerges in India

New York Times: After growing just 4.3 percent last year, India's economy, the second fastest growing in the world, after China, is widely expected to grow close to 7 percent this year. The growth of the past decade has put...

India opens largest-ever trade show in China

Asia Times.com Launching the largest-ever Indian industrial exposition in China, India's Commerce and Industry Minister Arun Jaitely said that a dynamic India, enjoying political stability and economic growth, is ready to join hands with China to accelerate trade ties to...

Bank of America to shift jobs to India

Fine Extra.com: Bank of America (BoA) is to set up an Indian subsidiary in April next year, enabling it to cut costs by moving more jobs offshore, according to a report by Reuters. The move will result in job losses...

Oracle to Shift 6000 Jobs to India

Inquirer WHILE ORACLE is to send 175 jobs to India from its Rocklin site, it appears this is the thin end of the wedge and eventually 6,000 jobs will be relocated there. That's according to a report in the Sacramento...

India to achieve 7% GDP growth this yea

HindustanTimes.com India's $550 billion economy is on an upward trajectory and its gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to record "close to seven per cent" growth this year, External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha said on Tuesday....

India will have the largest number of diabetes, cardiac and stroke patients in the world

Economic Times - India Times In another 22 years India will have the largest number of diabetes, cardiac and stroke patients in the world. It is estimated that India will have 57 million cases of diabetes, which is an increase...

I.B.M. Explores Shift of White-Collar Jobs Overseas

New York Times With American corporations under increasing pressure to cut costs and build global supply networks, two senior I.B.M. officials told their corporate colleagues around the world in a recorded conference call that I.B.M. needed to accelerate its efforts...

India: Transformation and Its New Wine Economy

Food Production Daily: NASIK, India — Educated in Silicon Valley but seduced by Sonoma Valley, Rajeev Samant decided to come home to these dry hills northeast of Bombay to try making wine in India, a nation where annual wine consumption...