Pakistan has a population of 200 million and its scientists and techies have the same high quality skills as India.  Pakistan has cutting edge nuclear technology and is highly wired with about half its citizens (approx 95 million) owning mobile phones.  Despite the recession, it had a growing IT/BPO industry. More...

It was hard enough to understand the language of love in the real world, and it becomes harder still on the internet.  A guy may present himself as Shah Rukh and may turn out to be Shakti Kapoor. Or Gtalk like Nilekani and turn out to be Satyam’s Mr. Raju. A woman may present herself demurely as actress and MP Jaya Prada and turn out to be strong like Mayawati. More...

Refer a job and earn money was a great business idea indeed. Thousands of rupees for just emailing a good job opportunity to a friend. But this idea didn’t come from any of the giants of Indian job portal market. Instead it was from a newbie called Yellojobs.com. This was Yellojobs first shot at fame, and also the last. More...

Sometimes getting payments on time for services rendered can be problematic in India. For some companies and individuals, it is the norm to make people jump through hoops before getting their dues.  When emails and phone calls fail, people go to courts.  Now a Kerala tech company has blogged about how it has not been paid. More...

NASSCOM is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT-BPO industries in India. NASSCOM is a global trade body with more than 1200 members, which include both Indian and foreign companies that have a presence in India. NASSCOM was set up in 1988 and says its vision it to maintain India’s leadership position. More...

Even as the world become flatter and the economy global in every sense of the word,  much of the power on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter still resides with a handful of people in USA. While Google may have granted its Indian offices the power to yank sites from Orkut when they deem fit, the fact is that Google HQ really calls the shots. More...

US-based Indian origin Tech firm Apex Technology Group had initiated legal action against American blogs EndH1B, Itgrunt and Guestworkerfraud. Apex Technology Group, which counts IBM, Microsoft, UBS and other blue chip companies as clients, wanted to protect its reputation after EndH1B published a post accusing it allegedly of mistreating Indians on H1B Visas. More...

Till January, 2010, Dr. RK Pachauri was a towering figure in Indian political, business and environmental circles. In 2002, the Indian Government had nominated Dr. Pachauri to head the UN IPCC.  The Nobel Prize came in 2007 and made him a household name in India.  But now Mr. Pachauri is under a cloud. More...

Even today, many of the best and brightest Indian students compete for a coveted place at IIT.  While in the past, an IIT education almost guaranteed a successful mainstream career, today IIT graduates like Chetan Bhagat have won fame and fortune in alternative careers like writing.  India’s new HR Minister Kapil Sibal is hell bent on fine tuning the IITs. More...

Even as the world become flatter and the economy global in every sense of the word,  much of the power on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter still resides with a handful of people in USA. While Google may have granted its Indian offices the power to yank sites from Orkut when they deem fit, the fact is that Google HQ really calls the shots. More...