'63 years on, nobody thinks UN is perfect'

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated the need to improve the efficiency and the credibility of the organization for which the member States and the secretariat......

Mumbai celebrates Ganeshotsav with gusto

Mumbai celebrated its first Ganeshotsav in the aftermath of the 26/11 terror  attacks, under the looming shadow of swine-flu. Devotees thronged to the various mandals and celebrated the......

Meet India's own Spiderman

You could call him India's Spiderman, but he prefers calling himself Kothi Manusha or Monkey Man. Jyoti Raju, who originally hails from Tamil Nadu, attempted to end his life by jumping off the......

'Replicating the LTTE is near impossible'

They looked upon him as a freedom-fighter. They looked upon him as a terrorist. In the same country. This was how Velupillai Prabhakaran, who took to the gun to erase the grievances of the Sri......

TCS aims to make BPO a $3 billion business

Tata Consultancy Services aims to make its business process outsourcing business worth $3 billion in the next five years. TCS' revenue from the BPO segment for the first quarter of financial year......

TCS to open BPO centre in Ahmedabad

India's largest information technology (IT) services provider, TCS, is setting up a greenfield business process outsourcing (BPO) centre in Ahmedabad that can house 2,000 people. The centre would......

TCS eyes BPO units in Europe

Tata Consultancy Services is close to acquiring a couple of business process outsourcing outfits in Europe. "We are finalising acquisitions in the banking space and have zeroed in on a few......

Indian BPO exports cross $4.6 bn mark

India's (third party) business process outsourcing (BPO) exports reached $4.6 billion (Rs 20,890 crore) during 2006-07, registering a growth of 47 per cent says Dataquest's 20th annual survey of......