Peak Day Blues

Whoever coined the term "Health is Wealth" is a genius... One will realize it only when one is down with high fever, as I realized it over the past 3 days... Thanks to a late night dinner @ Kairali Mess and Heat exhaustion when I went to Kerala, my body quickly responded and activated my immune system, only to make me suffer (had 105*c)!! Now as I'm recovering, I realize how important it is to remain healthy!! So, guys & gals, better start concentrating on your health and avoid food from hotels :-(

IT services firm Perot Systems has retrenched 100 employees in India, a move seen as part of the company’s recently-announced initiative to cut 650 jobs globally. However, Perot India officials termed it as a regular measure to get rid of poor performers. Announcing its 3Q earnings two weeks ago, it had said that it would cut 650 jobs globally to lower costs. The company had reported lower-than-expected Q3 results and said its contract with Triad Hospitals, which generated $20m revenue in the qtr., was being terminated as the healthcare company had been acquired by Community Health Systems. Read more Perot Systems Corporation provides solutions to clients in healthcare, insurance, commercial and public sectors. It reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 2006. It currently has about 7,500 employees in India across four centres in Bangalore, Pune, Chennai and Coimbatore. The company offers its complete portfolio of business process solutions, consulting & applications, and infrastructur

After making an indelible mark in providing online scoring services for the Japanese educational institutions, KG Information Systems (KGISL) now plans to extend its services to Chinese and Korean markets.Ashok Bakthavatsalam, director, KGISL, told buoyed by an explosive growth witnessed by the company on this front, it is now negotiating with some of the educational consultants in China and Korea. “We are also planning to introduce spoken English scoring services for the Japanese,” he added. The company, in 2004, started to provide online scoring services for essays written in English by students in Japan’s middle and high schools. It has tied up with over 75,000 schools. According to Mr Ashok, most non-English speaking countries were outsourcing the job of evaluating English essays. “Indians’ proficiency over the English language is definitely to our advantage. We started with 6,000 schools a year back. The numbers have swelled since.” Though the job involves assessment of essays, t

By: K. Gautam It is ironic that Pervez Musharraf has declared Emergency in Pakistan citing terrorism as one of the reasons – the very same terrorism that Pakistan has been abetting and spoon feeding for the last 2 decades. It is though debatable whether Emergency was declared for this reason or as a desperate move to stay in power. Terrorism has come to a full circle for Pakistan. What started off as state policy with the Kashmir issue as justification has now boomeranged on Pakistan. At the same time, it would not be correct to only blame Pakistan for the terrible state of affairs in the region. The United States has to take a major share of the blame. Pakistan was only an opportunist who came to the party and cashed in and is now repenting. How did it all start? It all started with the erstwhile Soviet Union supporting the Communist Party of Afghanistan against the Islamic fundamentalist forces in the late 1970s. This was superseded by a full-scale invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 by

288 weeks, 72 months, 6 years, 25 peak seasons & still rocking...!!

Photos by: Santosh PS: Videos will follow soon! Need to find another video service in place of YouTube which is not blocked ;-)

The Online Education team's JLT this time was @ TopSlip... Here's a few snapshots!

Shashi Tharoor, former UN diplomat has written a nice little piece on the indian BPO industry in Khaleej Times Weekend Magazine, a publication based in Dubai. A good read for all in the BPO industry.... Though many decry the fact that BPOs in India are nothing but back offices or glorified sweatshops providing cheap service to US and British firms, there is more to it than meets the eye. The backroom boys and girls, are in fact, calling the shots! IT HAS become fashionable of late, amongst India's bien-pensant classes, to sneer at the success of India's business process outsourcing industry — the call centres and the like which have become the visible face of globalisation in our formerly protectionist land. Some 700,000 Indians work in the BPO business, which contributes an estimated $17 billion to the burgeoning Indian economy. The call centre has become the symbol of India's newly globalised workforce: while traditional India sleeps, a dynamic young cohort of highly skil

With much fanfare, TamilNadu government announced its new Industrial policy yesterday. The new industrial policy is targeting to create additional 2m jobs by 2011 and raising the contribution of the manufacturing sector to 27% by then from the present 21% of state GDP. The policy focuses on employability-based incentives for new investments, rather than offering incentives using investments as benchmark. Considerable attention has been given in the policy to double exports from the state to Rs 1,40,000 crore by 2011!

It's music to ears for Coimbatoreans this Diwali... Radio Mirchi (part of the Times Of India group) and Hello FM (part of Malar Publications) have started their broadcasts in Coimbatore from today. Freebies And to get a kick start in Coimbatore, both these stations are doling out freebies. Hello FM is planning to give away 1,064 gold coins on the launch day, while Radio Mirchi is instigating listeners with a Treasure Hunt in and around the city. Competition Ahead It's going to be a tough market for both these players as already Suryan FM (part of the SUN TV group) has got a good marketshare. There's also Rainbow FM to fend off with, but due its lacklustre programming, it hardly finds a place among the audience. Going by the initial reactions of the public (including me), both FMs gives the listeners a set of new refreshing programs and good RJs. People who have gotten bored with listening to the same old programs in Suryan FM will definitely migrate. New FM channels are spr