Westpac team in India to discuss outsourcing plans

A team of experts of leading Australian financial firm Westpac is reportedly in India to discuss their future offshoring plans with about eight Indian business process outsourcing firms, including......

Westpac denies reports of job outsourcing to India

Australia's leading bank Westpac Banking Corporation has denied media reports of outsourcing its 3,000 back office jobs to India during next three years. "I haven't seen any piece of paper with......

The billionaires' wives

Billionaires usually have their pick of brides and often chose to marry some of the world's most beautiful and glamorous women. Canada's richest man, media baron David Thomson, recently announced......

Aussie bank outsources 76 jobs to India

Amid raging controversy over outsourcing of jobs, Australia's leading bank, St George's Bank has said it is sticking to its decision to send 76 computer services jobs to India due to......

Olympics PIX: St Lucia's Alfred storms to women's 100m gold

IMAGE: The world's fastest woman Julien Alfred created history by winning Saint Lucia’s first-ever Olympic medal at the Paris Games on Saturday. Photographs: Edgar Su/Reuters Julien Alfred......

Enhanced prize purse for Mumbai Marathon 2012

Indian tennis legend Vijay Amritraj was named event ambassador of the 2012 Mumbai Marathon on Tuesday. His association with the event is in line with the organisers' efforts to bring to India some......

Devers scrapes into 100m semis

Twice Olympic champion Gail Devers of the United States and Ukrainian former world champion Zhanna Block scraped through to the semi-finals of the Olympic women's 100 metres on Friday.Sprint......

Abeylegasse shatters world 5,000 record

Another world distance record fell to an Ethiopian-born athlete on Friday when Elvan Abeylegasse shattered the women's world 5,000 metres record.Abeylegasse, who now runs for Turkey, ran a largely......

Mutola on course for sixth title

Mozambique's Maria Mutola, the leading women's 800 metres runner for more than a decade, aims for a record sixth gold medal at the world indoor championships this weekend.Mutola, the Olympic and......