Reputed magazine Business Week is reporting that Indian computer programmer Vishal Goel has sued his former employer Patni Computer Systems for only paying half his promised salary when he was sent on a working visa to USA.  Vishal Goel has told an American court that he was given a base salary of only $23,310 in USA,  while he was promised $44,000 in India. More...

Vodafone, Airtel, Reliance, Tata Teleservices and Aircel have entered in a pact, wherein it has been agreed upon that if any of their employees or candidates bargains with the existing or prospective organization, on the basis of offer letters issued by any of these organizations, the organization that has issued the offer letter should be informed immediately, who, in turn, would withdraw the offer from the market. More...

Leading English newspapers in Kerala have carried a recruitment advertisement of Wipro this week. ‘Wanted Project Engineers’, Wipro requires Project Engineers across Kerala. There are 25 vacancies but only males can apply. Do we smell some gender bias here? Or is this Wipro’s way of contributing to the gender inequality in Kerala as part of their corporate responsibility? More...

A Software Engineer of a leading company UST Global in Technopark, Trivandrum has been harassing and intimidating his ex-girlfriends who are also his colleagues. In the last couple of months, two of them have resigned while the third has gone on long leave. The best part of this story is that this guy is still out scot-free, having a good time and looking for his next victim. More...

Techgoss had reported earlier that the HR Head of Reliance Communication's Orissa Circle - Mr. Deepak Lal Yadav is on his way out from his current role and in turn, the organization.  The tech grapevine says he has been offered the Chandigarh Circle at the same position. This movement is likely to happen at the end of February 2008. More...

“Beware of Aryans Infoway.  There is a company in Technopark called Aryans Infoway. For VLSI job there is a bond for 3yrs & security deposit of 1 lakh and they take freshers. Think twice before joining this company.” More...

Sumit kale represents all that is good with the young Indians who dare to dream.  Intelligent, honest and hardworking, Sumit started Indiagini with an innovative business model to cater to the recruitment industry.  After a few hiccups,  Indiagini procured funding from Mrs. Kalpana Bansal who was VP Human Resources of Mudra Communication before her current assignment as CEO of Beanstalk consulting.   Kalpana has had a distinguished background with successful stints at Tata Unisys and Star TV and is highly regarded by industry peers. When Sumit met Kalpana,  it seemed it was a business marriage made in VC heaven. Indiagini settled down as a business with regular revenue and a future looking brighter by the day. More...

Are some US social networking sites using Indian expertise and skills to increase their membership numbers? And consequently earning more street creed and revenue from American advertisers.  The ethics of paying Indians per sign-up, when membership is free in USA, raises many questions. More...

Techies in Trivandrum are mourning the impending loss of an invaluable resource for their knowledge hunt; Trivandrumites are now losing their second international culture symbol, the British Council Library. The proposed closure of the British Library is a bolt from the blue for several Trivandrumites who have been members since its inception in 1964. The attractive grey stone-block with just the right ambience has generously helped in promoting the reading habits of many a Trivandrumite. More...

A Lecturer of a Management Institute in Trivandrum and his Assistant have been arrested last week for making a fake profile of a Woman Students activist and posting defamatory remarks on the page while running a hate campaign against her. Ms. Sindhu Joy, the State Secretary of Students Federation of India (SFI), which is the student’s wing of a prominent political party, had filed an FIR about her fake profile and a hatred community on Orkut, being used to post derogatory statements about her. More...