When Aptech and NIIT started training in software in the early 80s, there also arose a need for hardware engineers. Thus germinated the idea of a training institute for hardware professionals and Jetking was started in 1992.

It's been a good year for Indians abroad, with Bobby Jindal getting elected to the US Congress and steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal topping the UK rich list and many achievements by Indian scientists on foreign shores.

Siemens, the global leader in electrical and electronics engineering, inaugurated its new research centre, Siemens Corporate Technology India in Bangalore.

India is emerging as one of the most preferred destinations and the leader for outsourced product development, says Gowri Shankar Subramanian, CEO, Aspire systems.

US technological superiority, long taken for granted, may be slipping and 'the most serious threat' is coming from Asian countries like India, China, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, a media report says.\n\n\n\n

Apple Computers on Thursday launched the world's thinnest desktop computer, which features G5 processors and is only two inches thick.

'No two countries that are part of a global supply chain will fight ever a war against each other as long as they \n\nare each part of the supply chain.'

The software company has conducted 'mass recruitment' of entry level engineers from top Malaysian universities.

The three-storey building houses 421 students and was specially designed for a programme that will encourage students to study together.

The text of President A P J Abdul Kalam's address to the nation on the eve of the 58th Independence Day

The New York Times said US officials were concerned that Al Qaeda has enough information to conduct strikes in New York City, Washington, DC and Newark.

Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav presented the Railway Budget for 2004-2005 in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday (July 6, 2004).

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