Tough issues for Murthy successor BS Reporter | Bangalore
With the firing of Phaneesh Murthy as chief executive officer, iGate has the uphill task of keeping the herd together, as well as making sure to generate enough cash to service the huge debt it had...
View ArticleHow deep is the malaise in the Indian Railways? Samar Jha BS
The recent appointments scam in the Railways brings back into focus the inadequate and ineffective management of the nation's most important infrastructure sector. That the arrest of Mahesh Kumar, the...
View ArticleRajat Gupta challenges insider conviction, US use of wiretaps Bloomberg/ BS
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc director Rajat Gupta is set to ask a federal appeals court in New York today to overturn his insider-trading conviction by arguing the US shouldn’t have been allowed to...
View ArticleBharat Desai's recipe for success Shalini Kathuria Narang BT
Bharat Desai, chairman and co-founder of Syntel, at TiE Conference 2013Bharat Desai, Chairman and Co-Founder of Syntel, opened the second day of the TiE Conference 2013 on May 18 at the Santa Clara...
View ArticleEssar Energy signs $1 billion loan deal with China PTI New Delhi
Domestic and Chinese firms signed as many as 20 trade and trade finance pacts on Tuesday totaling $1.5 billion with Essar Energy topping the deal sheet with a $1-billion loan agreement with China...
View ArticleIndian housing aid to be used for demographic genocide in East
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 23:53 GMT]A part of the 50,000 housing aid promised by New Delhi for the war-affected people in the North and East is planned to be used for demographic genocide in...
View ArticleColombo brings 1500 Sinhalese from South to Mannaar
[TamilNet, Tuesday, 21 May 2013, 22:11 GMT]Stepping up the process of colonisation of the country of Eezham Tamils, the occupying Sri Lanka has brought in 1,500 Sinhalese in buses to Musali DS...
View Article‘Reconciliation with Sri Lanka is fake, Tamil Eelam only solution’: Los...
[TamilNet, Monday, 20 May 2013, 23:03 GMT]The Mu’l’livaaykkaal Genocide Remembrance event in Los Angeles, USA on Sunday stated emphatically that asking the Eezham Tamil nation to reconcile with...
View ArticleFormer Saab Automobile chiefs arrested for accounts fraud
The three are "suspected of aggravated attempts to avoid tax controls".Three former top executives from carmaker Saab Automobile have been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of accounting fraud.The three...
View ArticleYahoo offers Flickr revamp with 1TB of 'free storage'
The Activity Feed and other pages now present less blank white space on Flickr's siteYahoo has redesigned its Flickr photo-sharing service, offering users up to 1TB of storage without a fee.The revamp...
View ArticleWhy is India's Dr Kotnis revered in China?
Dr Kotnis is revered in China for treating wounded Chinese soldiersEvery time a Chinese leader visits India, he usually meets the family of an Indian doctor who died while treating wounded Chinese...
View ArticleClock ticks on Swiss banking secrecy
By Imogen FoulkesBBC News, BernMany Swiss believe banking secrecy cannot be sustained (Chappatte in NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich - www.globecartoon.com) Switzerland is facing mounting pressure finally to...
View ArticleAfrica 2013: Your questions to George Alagiah
BBC correspondent and presenter, George AlagaiahAs the Organisation of African Unity celebrates its 50th anniversary, the BBC is looking at the changes the continent has undergone over the past...
View ArticleBahrain digs unveil one of oldest civilisations
By Sylvia SmithBBC News, Manama, BahrainThe Saar site was effectively a modern city with restaurants and shops, say archaeologistsExcavations at an archaeological site in Bahrain are shedding light on...
View ArticleChennai event challenges ICE complicity in Tamil Genocide
[TamilNet, Monday, 20 May 2013, 08:29 GMT]Articulating right demands and slogans in Genocide Remembrance events is crucial at a time when the Eezham Tamils in their homeland are barred from even...
View ArticleReconciliation with Sri Lanka is fake, Tamil Eelam only solution’: Los...
Monday, 20 May 2013, 23:03 GMT]The Mu’l’livaaykkaal Genocide Remembrance event in Los Angeles, USA on Sunday stated emphatically that asking the Eezham Tamil nation to reconcile with genocidal Sri...
View ArticleDiaspora Tamils observe Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal Genocide remembrance events
[TamilNet, Sunday, 19 May 2013, 17:16 GMT]Events remembering the internationally-abetted genocide in May 2009 were held in several countries in the West by the Tamil diaspora on Saturday. While over...
View ArticleTake Katchatheevu back from Sri Lanka and redraw IMBL, Tamil Nadu Chief...
Tue, May 21, 2013, 06:43 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 21, Chennai: The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J. Jayalalithaa today reiterated her call to take Sri Lanka's Katchatheevu...
View ArticleControversial Buddhist movement in Sri Lanka opposes 13th Amendment and...
Tue, May 21, 2013, 08:27 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 21, Colombo: The controversial Buddhist movement in Sri Lanka, the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) has opposed the 13th Amendment to...
View ArticleDaughter of Sri Lanka's Marxist party founder remanded for assault
Tue, May 21, 2013, 12:31 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. May 21, Colombo: The eldest daughter of Rohana Wijeweera, the late leader and founder of Sri Lanka's Marxist party Janatha...
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