LEAD: Indian anti-graft campaigner set to launch new protests

LEAD: Indian anti-graft campaigner set to launch new protests
Monsters and Critics.com
New Delhi - Indian activist Anna Hazare is set to launch renewed protests over an anti-corruption bill, even as Parliament was set to start work on such legislation. The lokpal bill, which has been introduced in Parliament, envisages setting up an ...
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Job market: Slow hiring but double-digit salary hikes in 2012

Job market: Slow hiring but double-digit salary hikes in 2012
Firstpost
New Delhi: The Indian job market is expected to see slower hiring activity, but double-digit salary hikes next year as employers are embracing a “cautiously optimistic” approach amid the economic uncertainty. Surviving overall global sluggishness ...
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4.5 percent sub quota for Minorities a grand betrayal by UPA Government

4.5 percent sub quota for Minorities a grand betrayal by UPA Government
Milli Gazette
Tamilnadu Muslim Munnetra Kazhagam will hold a black flag demonstration at Chennai and Karaikudi against Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh during his visit to Tamilnadu on the 26th of this month. This agitation will be conducted to protest the ...
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Man arrested for kidnapping girl by promising aid

Man arrested for kidnapping girl by promising aid
Times of India
Seven of Gopinath's neighbours also sought help to get jobs and Kannan arranged two cars to take them to Chennai. Gopinath's family was put in a Tata Indica and the neighbours in another car. At 10.30am on December 18, at Loganathan Street in ...
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Right to Reject an interesting possibility

Right to Reject an interesting possibility: SY Quraishi Daily News & Analysis Place: New Delhi | Agency: PTI Team Anna's demand for incorporating Right to Reject a candidate in Parliament and assembly elections is an interesting possibility, feels Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi. He, however, finds that their plea for ... See all stories on this topic »

Lokpal Debate: What will happen in Parliament

Lokpal Debate: What will happen in Parliament
NDTV
PTI, Updated: December 27, 2011 00:25 IST New Delhi: At 11 am today, the Lok Sabha will begin debating the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill. In Mumbai, the man who has pushed that bill to the top of India's agenda will begin a three-day hunger strike to ...
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How to reverse the politicisation of the CBI

How to reverse the politicisation of the CBI
Rediff
It was decided by the government to continue the SPE and give it a legal cover under the Delhi [ Images ] Special Police Establishment Act which came into force in 1946. The Central Bureau of Investigation's powers to investigate cases of bribery and ...
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DAVP hunts for media planning agencies afaqs (press release)

DAVP hunts for media planning agencies
afaqs (press release)
The empanelment will take place in Delhi. The annual spends on the media are estimated to be over Rs 800 crore. In the last financial year (2010-11), DAVP had spent a total sum of Rs 755.57 crore on advertising, which included a mix of print, ...
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How To Reverse The Politicization Of The CBI? - Analysis

India: How To Reverse The Politicization Of The CBI? - Analysis
Eurasia Review
It was decided by the Government of India to continue the SPE and give it a legal cover under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act which came into force in 1946. The CBI's powers to investigate cases of bribery and corruption are derived from ...
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Indian job market forecast to see slower hiring activity

Indian job market forecast to see slower hiring activity
Lanka Business Online
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (Asia Pulse) - The Indian job market is expected to see slower hiring activity, but double-digit salary hikes next year as employers are embracing a "cautiously optimistic" approach amid the economic uncertainty. ...
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Eye On Wars And Life

Eye On Wars And Life
Kashmir Life
And so, he moved to Delhi. He pursued a post graduate diploma in computer applications, and then began working for a US-based multinational company Combit as a system administrator. In 2000, the company faced financial setbacks, and as a result Altaf ...
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'Appe Midi', Julia Roberts and S. Bangarappa

'Appe Midi', Julia Roberts and S. Bangarappa
Churumuri
DP SATISH writes from New Delhi: Even though Sarekoppa Bangarappa spent almost 15 years in the national capital New Delhi as a four-time MP—he entered the Lok Sabha on a different symbol each time—he actually did not like the capital and its politics ...
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Give security to scribes: Katju

Give security to scribes: Katju
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Press Council chairman Markandey Katju expressed concern over the rising number of cases of assault on journalists in Maharashtra adding that the state government did not appear to be serious about the issue. "In view of the large number of ...
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It's official: 4.5% is for all minorities, not only Muslims

It's official: 4.5% is for all minorities, not only Muslims
TwoCircles.net
By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net, New Delhi: Since the Union Cabinet approved a sub-quota within the 27% OBC quota on 22nd December, a confusion (genuine or deliberate) has prevailed, with a section of media and Muslim leaders calling it a Muslim ...
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Time is running out for a respectable leader trapped in a bad government

Time is running out for a respectable leader trapped in a bad government
Sydney Morning Herald
Professor Bibek Debroy, from Delhi's Centre for Policy Research, believes succession is being planned, and the knives will come out for Singh. "As Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh is most likely on his way out, once the Congress figures out the exit ...
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Players' Abhishek's biggest action film

Players' Abhishek's biggest action film
indiablooms
New Delhi, December 27 (ANI): Abhishek Bachchan, who is busy these days promoting his soon-to-be-released action film 'Players', says that this film is his biggest action film till now. Bachchan, Jr. also added that Abbas-Mustan have added several ...
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Sibal attacks BJP's doublespeak on corruption

Sibal attacks BJP's doublespeak on corruption
Zee News
Delhi: The government on Tuesday categorically rejected the Opposition's charge of presenting a weak Lokpal Bill, saying the latter wants to block the anti-graft legislation for political gains. Taking part in the Lokpal debate in Lok Sabha, ...
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Sherlyn Chopra's Santa avatar

Sherlyn Chopra's Santa avatar
Daily News & Analysis
By Sujata Reddy | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Actress-turned-producer Sherlyn Chopra has a busy day planned ahead. The leggy lass, who has a roof top Naughty Santa theme party planned for her sister and friends today says that Christmas is usually a ...
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Layoffs & restructuring grapple investment banks like UBS, Nomura, Credit ...

Layoffs & restructuring grapple investment banks like UBS, Nomura, Credit ...
Economic Times
People familiar with Nomura's internal operations said around 100 people have been laid off in the wholesale banking division in the bank's backend Powai, Mumbai office. Nomura denied this figure. The bank said job losses amount to only around 2% of ...
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Protecting Taj Mahal Clean and Save Yamuna

Protecting Taj Mahal Clean and Save Yamuna
GroundReport
The order of Delhi High Court in 2005 ordered the removal of the building in an area of 300 meters of the river Yamuna. However, no natural limits specified. Then follow the DDA and other government agencies in flood plains and areas of groundwater ...
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SP, BJP, Congress welcome 7-phase polls in UP

SP, BJP, Congress welcome 7-phase polls in UP
Zee News
New Delhi: Congress, BJP and SP on Saturday welcomed the announcement of seven-phase elections in Uttar Pradesh but ruled out any more pre-poll alliances, each claiming it will come to power on its own steam. Samajwadi Party, which stood second in the ...
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Portland-based ad agency Wieden+Kennedy posts 20 percent revenue gain this year

Portland-based ad agency Wieden+Kennedy posts 20 percent revenue gain this year OregonLive.com Today, the agency also has offices in New York, Sao Paolo, London, Amsterdam,Delhi, Shanghai and Tokyo. Though all of those offices are in regions of strategic importance to Nike and its affiliate companies, each W+K office has a lengthy list of other ... See all stories on this topic »

Strangers bearing food, gifts give family a lasting memory

Strangers bearing food, gifts give family a lasting memory
Modesto Bee
Anna Marie Favors of Delhi remembers what life was like growing up in a single-parent household in the 1940s. "My mom was raising five kids by herself, working at a low-paying factory job," she said. "To get us a gift for Christmas, she would use the ...
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Naidu “steeped” in liquor syndicates

Naidu “steeped” in liquor syndicates
Deccan Chronicle
Pradesh Congress Committee president Botsa Satyanarayana's recent trip to NewDelhi had everyone guessing the purpose behind the visit. While some said he had decided to step up his campaign against Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy with the party ...
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Iraq war leaves pain, pride

Iraq war leaves pain, pride
Cincinnati.com
But there is a difference between David Callahan, who lives in Bridgetown, and his 26-year-old son Casey, who lives nearby in Delhi Township. It is a difference in how they were received when they returned home with their battle wounds, a difference in ...
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Bitter truths dawn as an icon heads towards sunset

Bitter truths dawn as an icon heads towards sunset
Deccan Herald
... Director soon after with the Dutchman given the job of changing the landscape of Indian football. Savio Medeira, Houghton's assistant for many years, was given the National team reins, and India went on to defend the SAFF Cup in New Delhi. ...
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Rent paid to mother is tax-exempt

Rent paid to mother is tax-exempt
Deccan Chronicle
Q: I am working in Ahmedabad but interested in buying a flat in Delhi/NCR. Should I approach banks in Ahmedabad or Delhi for home loan? You can get a home loan to buy a house in Delhi / NCR even if you work in Ahmedabad. The loan sanction will be ...
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Getting paid to teach how to speak

Getting paid to teach how to speak
Economic Times
For instance, the sessions I conducted for Delhi Metro and NTPC involved refresher training, such as some basic pointers to speak better, say, getting the tenses and articles right. Then there are projects where my job is to correct pronunciation and ...
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UP-2012 will be crucial for heir apparent Rahul, Akhilesh

UP-2012 will be crucial for heir apparent Rahul, Akhilesh
Times of India
NEW DELHI: The 2012 polls in five states will not be easy going for the Congress. The Akali Dal has repeatedly shown resilience, as in the 2003 assembly polls and again in the 2009 LS polls when it defied predictions of a rout. ...
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Amitabh Bachchan remembers early Kolkata days

Amitabh Bachchan remembers early Kolkata days
IBNLive.com
New Delhi: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan has gone down memory lane, recalling the days he spent in Kolkata while he was still looking for work. "But back to Christmas and Kolkata and the best place to be in around that time of the year! ...
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NCR's 2012 realty scene promising

NCR's 2012 realty scene promising
Hindu Business Line
After being confronted with flagging sales, successive rounds of interest rate hikes and land acquisition issues in pockets such as Greater Noida this year, will the tide turn for the Delhi NCR residential market in 2012? Most industry experts concede ...
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Assembly elections 2012: The big game hunt begins

Assembly elections 2012: The big game hunt begins
Times of India
Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi addressing at a press conference in New Delhi on Saturday to announce the dates for the assembly elections in five states - Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. NEW DELHI: Election Commission on ...
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NDMC's victory over vending committee

NDMC's victory over vending committee
Hindustan Times
The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) won a major legal battle with the Delhi high court ruling that the vending committee has no power to stay its order evicting hawkers, vendors or squatters. crackdown on illegal hawking in areas manned by it, ...
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Are Africans replacing Indian workers in the Gulf?

Are Africans replacing Indian workers in the Gulf?
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: In a trend that may work adversely on remittances to India and the region, Gulf nations are now increasingly hiring Africans over Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Nepalis, a move that can slow down the migration boom from the ...
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Seattle to Delhi, he keeps the Santa Clause

Seattle to Delhi, he keeps the Santa Clause Indian Express Devhaty's first job as a dental assistant in Mumbai turned his dreams into reality. In his spare time, he would imitate Chaplin on the streets of the bustling city. But life was difficult. “I once went a whole day eating nothing but a vada pao,” says ... See all stories on this topic »

36 Kingfisher air hostesses join Air India

36 Kingfisher air hostesses join Air India
Economic Times
NEW DELHI: He may be old and completely broke, but still has a heart of gold. Air India's Maharaja is now playing Santa to Kingfisher's unpaid crew. On Christmas eve, 36 airhostesses from Mallya's beleaguered airline joined AI. ...
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India has no shortage of aspiring hangmen

India has no shortage of aspiring hangmen
The Seattle Times
By Mark Magnier Pawan Kumar, 50, wants to be India's newest hangman. No comments have been posted to this article. NEW DELHI — Pawan Kumar is looking for a job. Not just any job; he wants to be India's newest hangman. Kumar, 50, an apparel salesman ...
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JK interlocutor says panel would have done a better job if given more time

JK interlocutor says panel would have done a better job if given more time
Newstrack India
New Delhi, Dec 25 (ANI): MM Ansari, one of the interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir, has said that that if this mission would have been given more time then the results would have been great. "If we would have been given more time to work then possibly ...
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Delhi court absolves youth of sodomy charges

Delhi court absolves youth of sodomy charges
IBNLive.com
... Dec 25 (PTI) A man charged with sodomising a teenaged boy has been let off by a Delhi court on the suspicion that he might have been falsely implicated in the case by the victim's uncle who allegedly wanted to take over the accused's job. ...
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Youth4work - Ray of hope for every student

Youth4work - Ray of hope for every student
India Education Diary
Delhi: With 7% of total world's population, the UN report shows the working Population of India being 2.25 times the Non-working class. Thus, we are talking about a population of 1.2 billion of which the total employable workforce in India is bigger ...
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Office at home Desk To get a Excellent ...

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By Mark Hole
If you're committed boss a home based job then you need an exclusive treatment if you are at work also it begins from a table. It has to possess the proper standards which will in shape the area from where you will operate. It isn't just yet ...
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Running At House Classifieds

Networked Politics » Blog Archive » Running At House Classifieds
By VandevenderGosa409
On-line work at home classifieds are also available as a way to ease your paintings of searching house primarily based jobs. You'll get the contact main points of the respective company from the classifieds so that you could follow for the post ...
Networked Politics

Home for the holidays ... finally

Home for the holidays ... finally
Mississauga
Toronto Star photo Some 349 passengers on an Air India flight to New Delhi were delayed for more than three days over the holiday weekend at Mississauga's Pearson International Airport. Ankur Hasija, 21, was in Canada for job training paid for by his ...
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Japan Turns Activist on Reserves as Its Global Rank Slips

Japan Turns Activist on Reserves as Its Global Rank Slips
BusinessWeek
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrives in New Delhi today, where he's likely to seal an agreement making about $10 billion of Japan's reserves available to India if needed, according to a Japanese government official speaking on condition of anonymity. ...
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Sonam Kapoor dons sexy look for Players

Sonam Kapoor dons sexy look for Players
Hindustan Times
Then, she donned the girl-next-door look in Delhi 6 (2009), followed by ultra glamorous avatars last year in I Hate Luv Storys and Aisha. But now, Sonam who played a simpleton in her last film Mausam has gone in for an edgy, sexy and uber cool look in ...
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MCD ready for 5-day rally

MCD ready for 5-day rally
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Having learnt from past experience, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is prepared for Anna Hazare's anti-corruption rally which starts from Tuesday. The civic agency gave permission to members of India Against Corruption to conduct ...
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They-scrutinise-assets-of-others-but-yet-to-post-own-returns-online

They-scrutinise-assets-of-others-but-yet-to-post-own-returns-online
Indian Express
New Delhi Six months after a circular went out to officers of central services to post their immovable property returns online, those still to do so include officers whose job involves scrutinising assets and accounts of both government departments and ...
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Schoolteacher 'rapes' former student, films act

Schoolteacher 'rapes' former student, films act
Hindustan Times
Ram Avtar was a Hindi teacher in a government run school in south Delhi's Ambedkar Nagar. Besides blackmailing the 27-year-old woman with the video clip, the accused was harassing her sexually by promising her that he will help her to get a job as a ...
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Full transcript of Salman Khurshid's interview with NDTV

Full transcript of Salman Khurshid's interview with NDTV
NDTV
New Delhi: On the eve of the debate in the Lok Sabha over the Lokpal Bill, an event coinciding with the start of Anna Hazare's three-day fast in Mumbai, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid said that the despite several voices of dissent, ...
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Reforms and rupee push for rural job plan

Reforms and rupee push for rural job plan
Newsbullet
New Delhi: A government panel has suggested an allocation of Rs 3.4 lakh crore for the rural job scheme during the 12th Plan period, while advising reforms to ensure that wages are paid on time and jobs allotted when families need them most. ...
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New technology doesn't always mean better, easier

New technology doesn't always mean better, easier
Washington Observer Reporter
I can't help but wonder, does anyone else have the same frustrating thing occur to them when dealing with automated systems or is it just me that these technological marvels hate? n For those interested in such things, the Pennsylvania Game Commission ...
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High stakes fueling patent wars

High stakes fueling patent wars
Boston.com
Technology firms like Google Inc., Samsung Corp., Microsoft Corp., and especially Apple - which is one of the most active combatants - are embroiled in about 100 patent lawsuits in at least 10 countries. The stakes are high: potential domination of the ...
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Biogas technology benefits S Africa's poor

Biogas technology benefits S Africa's poor
Al Jazeera
The new biogas project is still in its infancy but it is hoped this technology could one day be used across the African continent, where poverty and energy issues still plague the majority. Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reports from Cape Town, South Africa.
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Ala. woman to discontinue tornado Facebook site

Ala. woman to discontinue tornado Facebook site
Rome News Tribune
by JEFF MARTIN,AP This screen grab shows the Facebook page for "Pictures and Documents found after the April 27, 2011 Tornadoes". ATLANTA (AP) — In the weeks and months after tornadoes tore through homes across the South, pictures and documents rained ...
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News to know: Facebook privacy changes, Germany patent wars, iPhone suffers in ...

News to know: Facebook privacy changes, Germany patent wars, iPhone suffers in ...
ZDNet (blog)
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner has told Facebook to review its privacy policies for non-US citizens, including the social network stopping its practice of indefinitely retaining users' data pertaining to advertisements. ...
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Obulapuram turns into a ghost town

Obulapuram turns into a ghost town NDTV On an average, 400 trucks used to transport iron ore from Obulapuram to ports at Krishnapatnam in Nellore district, Chennai, Mangalore etc. every day. With brisk mining operations, several people had taken loans from private financiers and purchased ... See all stories on this topic »

Warner Bros Extends BPO Contract [Capgemini's Ability & Promises Made - A Great Year for HRO!]

Warner Bros has affirmed its faith in Capgemini’s ability to deliver on its promises by extending our current FAO contract. The new deal provides for scope expansion and a contract extension worth an incremental $79.5M USD (about €59.3 million) over the total life of the contract. The contract has been extended by a little over 3 years and will now run till 2017-end. The addition in scope is across three major towers (Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash and Purchase-to-Pay.) We are likely to add approximately 170 FTEs, taking the total to just under 400 staff serving the account. The work will be delivered from our global delivery centers in Poland, India, China and Guatemala.


Capgemini Acquires OTC Business from Vengroff, Williams and Associates

Capgemini has acquired Vengroff, Williams and Associates' Order-to-Cash business, known as 'VWA'. The move will boost our OTC capabilities while VWA will benefit from Capgemini’s global scale and reach. We will also welcome 300+ VWA employees across the US, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, Spain and Italy.

Bob Williams

BPO CEO Hubert Giraud says, "I am very pleased to welcome the 300+ VWA people that will join Capgemini, led by Robert ‘Bob’ G. Williams, formerly CEO and Chairman, VWA. Bob will head our new OTC service within the FAO Service Line under Christopher Stancombe."

A Great Year for HRO!

The Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO)  team was set up in 2006 and initially provided sourcing support for Capgemini NA. The team was 15-strong and operated out of Kolkata. The team has now grown to 250+ members, with 200+ employees in India and 50+ employees in Krakow. The India team serves Capgemini regions like NA and UK while the Poland team provides HR services to BPO, France and Germany and other non-native English speaking countries.  HRO provides a range of support services like recruitment, compensation and benefits administration, payroll to internal units like Capgemini Group HR, Capgemini North America (NA) and Capgemini UK.
The team has had a successful 2011, supporting key Group and BPO initiatives like the roll-out of MyPath and MyLearning. 



India only having such loyal & dedicated employee so comany can say confidently to achieve success because "it can happen only in India"

Blackstone, Bain Mulling Joint Yahoo Bid

BioLase Technology rises 2.1% on below average volume for a third consecutive ...
Dentistry IQ
BioLase Technology (BLTI.O) rose 6.0c (or 2.1%) for a third consecutive day on Wednesday bringing its three-day rise to 31.0c or11.9%. Compared with the NASDAQ-100 index, which rose 83.8 points (or 3.8%) on the day, this was a relative price change of ...
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Reports: Blackstone, Bain Mulling Joint Yahoo Bid
ABC News
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital are discussing whether to team up with two major Asia companies in a bid to buy Yahoo for more than $25 billion. The possibility was floated late Wednesday in media reports ...
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Technology Playing A Role In Keadle Case

Micron Technology
CNET
Micron Technology said today that demand is increasing for solid-state drives in the wake of the flooding in Thailand. Since late summer, the prices of traditional spinning hard disk drives have been steadily rising because of shortages due to flooding ...
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Technology Playing A Role In Keadle Case
WOWT
And we're learning technology is having a huge impact on how this case plays out. In the day and age where social media is becoming a common way to communicate, it's also a growing source for evidence in criminal cases. “Social media, people want to ...
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Technology Playing A Role In Keadle Case

Micron Technology
CNET
Micron Technology said today that demand is increasing for solid-state drives in the wake of the flooding in Thailand. Since late summer, the prices of traditional spinning hard disk drives have been steadily rising because of shortages due to flooding ...
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Technology Playing A Role In Keadle Case
WOWT
And we're learning technology is having a huge impact on how this case plays out. In the day and age where social media is becoming a common way to communicate, it's also a growing source for evidence in criminal cases. “Social media, people want to ...
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