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Indian outsourcing market is set to suffer due to high increase of labour cost ! Act Now or for sure be ready for sorry state !!

Posted by ekawaaz on March 5, 2008

Indian outsourcing market is set to suffer due to high increase of labor cost. Skills shortage and rising labor cost of India’s talents is driving away most of the big IT players towards East European countries and china to find out cost reduction.  India is no longer able to give cost cut to these big IT players.

Many companies who were opened their offshore center in last few years here in India are planning to move somewhere else or in process of moving out because high cost of Indian Labor Market.

Emerging nations like Morocco, Hungry and other SE nations will eat major chunk of Indian IT outsourcing market share if we still not sit down, do some brain stormy thinking and make workable long term strategy to keep this industry at par.

We desperately need that our government should sit down with outsourcing and off shoring corporate leaders to identify specific skills required for the industry, current market trend and how we can reduce the cost of products and solution without hurting the cost of labor market and in future how we can control labor rising cost. Government should also try to find out the way to decrease taxes to keep this industry growth for at least next decade.

Outsourcing industry gives India billions of Dollars every year; this is the main factor that our economy is growing so fast. If we don’t do major brain stormy session now and don’t come up with some long term strategy for this industry then be prepared for sorry state.

We are heading to lose our greatest strength - low-cost labor – Act Now or for sure be ready for sorry state !!

India no longer top outsourcing destination?

ndia’s dominance as a low-cost outsourcing destination seems to be on the decline, with countries like China, Morocco and Hungary fast emerging as the preferred choices by IT services providers, a recent study says.

Focused on UK’s top IT service providers, a study by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) showed that China, Morocco and Hungary are the new locations of choice to set up offshore sourcing centres.

Posted in BPO, Call Center Outsourcing, Call Center and Contact Center, Call centre, Current Affairs, Economy & Business, India, India Happenings, Indian Business, Indian Economy, Indian News, Indian Politics, Knowledge Process Outsourcing, Offshore, Offshore Outsourcing, Outsourcing, Outsourcing/BPO, bpo services | 5 Comments »

Kiss causes storm in India, A Kiss can be much more than a kiss

Posted by ekawaaz on December 4, 2006

India known as land of the Kamasutra, but public displays of affection remains strictly taboo in our country. Only few days ago many tabloids carry out the famous news about kissing between the Rajasthan CM and Biocon India Chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.

And now every tabloid is carrying out the news of Bollywood heartthrobs accused of obscenity for on-screen kiss. This sort of news has again showed India’s attitudes towards kissing and sexual equality.

A kiss is amazing thing and its one of best thing to show your affection towards other person which words can’t express and two hearts cant share between them. But if you kiss someone publicly in India means only one thing you in deep desire to have a running with the law.

In my opinion Kiss is just a simple expression of showing love and affection, I don’t understand why these some pathetic people says we can’t express our love and affection in the way we like too, why always we have to look over our shoulder?

Indian public who always pay attention and applauds when tourist people kiss in public or watch celebrity in movies or in plays kissing each other, why always goes for dual mentality?

A person who says Kissing in public is wrong I want to know why it is wrong. Why they always believe that kissing is always a close door thing? We live in free society and talk about freedom then at least for me we are talking of freedom in every aspects of life, if we can not practice this simple and harmless expression to show our love to some one whom we care, then its all rubbish talking about liberation and freedom.

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Posted in Bollywood, Bollywood Films, Bollywood News, Current Affairs, India, India Happenings, Indian News, Indian Politics, Indian Politics/Media, Kiss, Kissing, Love, News | 15 Comments »

Asia’s Hot Growth Companies: 2006

Posted by ekawaaz on December 3, 2006

India’s 5 companies made it into the list of recently published report by Business Week “Asia’s 100 Hot Growth Companies.

The top Indian companies, their overall rank and the nature of their industry are as follows:

22. Hexaware Technologies: IT Consulting & Other Services

29. Matrix Laboratories: Pharmaceuticals

33. Dabur India: Personal Products

50. MphasiS BFL: IT Consulting & Other Services

89. Wockhardt: Pharmaceuticals

For Full List Please Click following link:

Asia’s 100 Hot Growth Companies

Business week ranking of companies are based on companies three-year growth in sales, profits, and return on invested capital and companies were also required to have annual sales of more than US$50 million and less than US$500 million.

Asia’s 100 Hot Growth Methodology

 

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Has India Gone Nuts?

Posted by ekawaaz on December 3, 2006

Now quotas by religion? Remember Mr. V.P. Singh, who implemented the Mandal Commission recommendations as Prime Minister in 1990, is now come up with one more demand, Quota for Muslims too.

Hello? Wake UP…Has India gone nuts? What the hell is happening? Is our Democracy is dead? Why can’t one leader just one leader talk about equal opportunity? Why cant government and our so called leaders think of sorting out primary education system instead taking short cuts? Why they can’t provide the basic rights to all citizens of our beloved country equally? When our politicians get out of this caste & religion based politics and think for Indian’s and India. God Bless India.

 

V P Singh demands quota for Muslims

New Delhi: Seeking to revive the Mandal issue, former Prime Minister V P Singh on Saturday said Muslims should be accommodated in a sub-quota created within the 27 per cent quota earmarked in the Commission report.

“We are not demading a quota additional to the existing 27 per cent. We are seeking a sub-quota for Muslims,” Singh told reporter in Delhi.

“No Constitutional amendment is required. It is simple to implement. Since it will not disturb the existing reservation ratio, even BJP would not have any objection to it,” Singh said.

 

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India’s economy only getting stronger

Posted by ekawaaz on December 2, 2006

Posted in Business, Current Affairs, Global Investing, Globalisation, Globalization, India, India Happenings, Indian Business, Indian Economy, Indian News, Indian Politics, Indian Politics/Media, News | 5 Comments »

Campaign for a real Christmas: Religious leaders unite against political correctness

Posted by ekawaaz on December 1, 2006

Well Done. This make sense any attempts to suppress Christmas bring a backlash and Muslims get the blame. Like we heard earlier that some local authority attempts to stamp out Christmas include Birmingham’s decision to name its seasonal celebrations ‘Winterval’ and Luton’s attempt to change Christmas into a Harry Potter festival by renaming its festive lights ‘Luminos’ just appease particular community. Any more attempts similar to these will have bigger backlash. Christmas causes no offence to minority faiths, banning it offends almost everybody. Merry Christmas to all in advance.

A campaign to save the traditions of Christmas from the interference of politically correct town halls was launched by an influential coalition of Christian and Muslim leaders yesterday.

Leaders of the two faiths warned that attempts to suppress Christmas bring a backlash and Muslims get the blame.

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Posted in Christian, Christianity, Christmas, Church of England, Church of England News, Current Affairs, EU/Europe, Europe, Islam, News, News and politics, Religion, UK, church, united kingdom | 4 Comments »

India surprises with 9.2% growth

Posted by ekawaaz on November 30, 2006

Good News for Indian’s India’s economic growth unexpectedly accelerated to 9.2 percent last quarter. The expansion reported by the Central Statistical Organisation in New Delhi today was faster than the 8.9 percent predicted by economists for the three months ended Sept. 30 from a year earlier.There are 700 million Indians under the age of 30, This makes India an economic threat to all the other countries in the world. These 700 million young Indians will hopefully build India as the Economy Super Power of the world.

India put on an unexpected spurt of growth in the last quarter fuelled by sharply rising consumer credit and government spending, increasing the prospects that the central bank will raise borrowing costs for the fourth time in a year.

The economy, Asia’s second-fastest growing, expanded 9.2 per cent in the three months to September, according to provisional data released on Thursday by the Central Statistical Organisation.

It was the sixth quarter out of the past seven in which gross domestic product growth has exceeded 8 per cent and among the strongest quarterly rises India has recorded, adding to fears of overheating, particularly in the red-hot property sector

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Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Economist, Economy & Business, Globalisation, Globalization, India, India Happenings, Indian Business, Indian Economy, Indian News, Indian Politics, Indian Politics/Media, News, Social and Politics, South Asia | 5 Comments »

India’s Muslims feel unwanted, hurt by terror tag

Posted by ekawaaz on November 30, 2006

India’s minority Muslims feel they are seen as unpatriotic and need to constantly prove they are not “terrorists”, according to a study ordered by the prime minister said on Thursday.

Report said “They carry a double burden of being labelled as ‘anti-national’ and as being ‘appeased’ at the same time,”

So question has to be asked why even most secular people feels that time is running out for religious integration? Why Muslims in India loosing sympathies from non Muslims? Why non Muslims in India and also all over the world feel that Muslims are creating closed society for themselves? Why the Muslim community was “excessively sensitive to criticism” and “unwilling to engage in substantive debate”. Does it is all fault of government policies? India where 90% percent of Muslims are Hindu converts, why in recent years started feelings that they are unwanted in their own nation and motherland?

I know many Muslims who swear by India and secularism, not Islam; the truth is also that, worldwide, Muslims appear to be firming up in their belief that their faith is more important than their nationality. That Islam is more important than India or UK or Saudi Arabia or any nation.

Take recent example of some Imams statements, about National songs, fatwa for killing cartoonist; these are few reasons why people are losing faith. We need proper debate if we really want to create a pure secular society. Unless government and leading religious leaders of every community don’t make any right move and start debating about this issues then for sure one day we will have two societies left one is Islam believers and other Non Islam believers, like decade ago we had witnessed pro communist and non communist society.

 

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s minority Muslims feel they are seen as unpatriotic and need to constantly prove they are not “terrorists”, a study ordered by the prime minister said on Thursday.

“They carry a double burden of being labelled as ‘anti-national’ and as being ‘appeased’ at the same time,” the report, which was presented to parliament, said.

India’s ruling Congress party, which proudly flags its pluralist identity, has been accused by opposition Hindu nationalists of “appeasing” the country’s 138 million Muslims, who make up over 13 percent of the population.

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From Hero to Zero Downfall of Indian Cricket Team Continue!

Posted by ekawaaz on November 30, 2006

We seem to follow the path of self destruction instead of establishing a momentum of winning. What happened to our last world cup finalist’s heroes? We had showed our character at same place only few years ago where we reached world cup final without having any serious trouble. Indian cricket team who had does some fabulous things in past has now forgets how to win, and players are not showing the stomach to fight. Individual become shadows of their former shelves.

It’s hard to believe that Indian cricketers who reached last world cup finals changed so much from superb team to second rate team.

Watching recent loosing trends of Indian cricket team in South Africa is absolutely heartbroken. Finalists of last world cup were unrecognizable. It was a performance of haunting incompetence.

Many tabloids and media started blaming the Indian coach, but for me there is nothing wrong with coach or his cricketing technicalities but the problems were and are in the minds of the players. They have lost self confidence and lost the appetite for winning matches and trophy.

The character and confidence which we had showed few years ago has been lost. When we were on our peak we forgets established a pattern of self believe and winning appetite. We created a momentum of our own down fall.

For me it doesn’t have to be this way. Indian team at least on papers is one of the best team in world but on fields I can’t find words to describe. Instead of carrying a momentum and character we had showed in last world cup and established our dynasty and dominance in cricket stage we gone towards disaster.

The nightmare is unfolding and Indians players collectively need to put a stop to it. Blaming coach or back room staff is not going work or finding any other excuses for loosing matches will put more misery for Indian team as well followers of Indian cricketers. Indian players need to rebuild their own self believe and confidence and come out in field with an appetite of winning the match.

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Posted in Cricket, Current Affairs, India, India Happenings, Indian News, Indian Politics, Indian Politics/Media, Indian Sports, News, Sports, cricket - क्रिकेट | 5 Comments »

Qaeda says Pope wants to pull Turkey from Islam-Web

Posted by ekawaaz on November 29, 2006

Posted in Al-Qaeda, Christian, Christianity, Current Affairs, EU/Europe, Europe, Islam, Islamic, Islamism, Jesus, Jesus Christ, News, News and politics, Radical, Religion, Terrorism, War and Peace, War on terror, church, pope | No Comments »