It Professionals Union

India is engaged with the US administration and its Congress on issues related to the movement of Indian professionals including those pertaining to the H1B visa programme, said Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan on Thursday.

With attacks increasing on healthcare workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, the government has brought in an ordinance to protect doctors. Attacks on health care workers have been made a non-bailable offence and will carry an imprisonment from six months to seven years, union minister Prakash Javadekar has announced.

A team of private public relations professionals will soon drive the railways' publicity campaign both at the Union ministry in the national capital as well as in each of its zones, with the national transporter for the first time issuing a set of guidelines to hire such private agencies to manage its publicity.

The student elections in Patna University became a flashpoint today between the Bihar BJP and its ally, Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United, in which party vice president Prashant Kishor allegedly bore the brunt of the BJP attack. The BJP did not name Mr Kishor, but its press release attacking the police, the administration and "certain event manageme...

The UK government is set to ease its immigration cap blocking professionals such as Indian doctors from being brought in to tackle shortages in the state-funded National Health Service (NHS).

Following reports of layoffs and fears about further retrenchment in the slowdown-hit IT industry, there had been some talk in recent times about forming a union.

A week after employees complained against IT major Cognizant for pink-slipping them, techies in Tamil Nadu are forming a union. More than 100 software professionals have signed up as members. The union, to be called "Forum for IT Employees, Tamil Nadu " will lobby for women's safety and protect members' rights by holding IT firms to labour laws, sa...

The European Union today said it is ready to accommodate more Indian IT professionals and denounced any form of protectionism in global trade, amid anxiety over the Trump administration's possible clampdown on H1B visa. Pushing for deeper trade ties with India, a delegation of European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs also expressed "regre...

Union minister Nitin Gadkari today urged the Silicon Valley professionals of Indian-origin to participate in India's Start-up Movement to help make it a success.

Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday asked software exporters not to get "perturbed" too much by the visa issue for sending professionals to the US, their largest market, saying American companies cannot "survive" without their help.

The situation at Patiala House Court was handled very "tactfully" and in a "professional" manner when JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar was produced in court, Delhi Police said in its report to NHRC.

Companies in the UK hiring non-European Union workers like Indians are expected to face a new 1,000 pound annual surcharge per employee.

Former union ministers, Congress party spokespersons and now back to being high-profile lawyers. As former Congress ministers head back to the courtroom, many of them have to tread a thin line to avoid getting caught between party loyalties and professional commitments.

Nearly 8000 IT professionals in the IT City have volunteered to be a part of the National Disaster Management Authority or NDMA's Civil Defence Wing, which is witnessing a gradual rise in enrollment. An initiative of the Union Home Ministry, the Wing aims to recruit at least one percent of a city's population as part of the volunteer force.

The David Cameron government on Friday defended its decision to introduce an interim limit on skilled workers from India and other countries outside the European Union, despite concerns raised by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and others.

India is engaged with the US administration and its Congress on issues related to the movement of Indian professionals including those pertaining to the H1B visa programme, said Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan on Thursday.

With attacks increasing on healthcare workers amid the coronavirus pandemic, the government has brought in an ordinance to protect doctors. Attacks on health care workers have been made a non-bailable offence and will carry an imprisonment from six months to seven years, union minister Prakash Javadekar has announced.

A team of private public relations professionals will soon drive the railways' publicity campaign both at the Union ministry in the national capital as well as in each of its zones, with the national transporter for the first time issuing a set of guidelines to hire such private agencies to manage its publicity.

The student elections in Patna University became a flashpoint today between the Bihar BJP and its ally, Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United, in which party vice president Prashant Kishor allegedly bore the brunt of the BJP attack. The BJP did not name Mr Kishor, but its press release attacking the police, the administration and "certain event manageme...

The UK government is set to ease its immigration cap blocking professionals such as Indian doctors from being brought in to tackle shortages in the state-funded National Health Service (NHS).

Following reports of layoffs and fears about further retrenchment in the slowdown-hit IT industry, there had been some talk in recent times about forming a union.

A week after employees complained against IT major Cognizant for pink-slipping them, techies in Tamil Nadu are forming a union. More than 100 software professionals have signed up as members. The union, to be called "Forum for IT Employees, Tamil Nadu " will lobby for women's safety and protect members' rights by holding IT firms to labour laws, sa...

The European Union today said it is ready to accommodate more Indian IT professionals and denounced any form of protectionism in global trade, amid anxiety over the Trump administration's possible clampdown on H1B visa. Pushing for deeper trade ties with India, a delegation of European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs also expressed "regre...

Union minister Nitin Gadkari today urged the Silicon Valley professionals of Indian-origin to participate in India's Start-up Movement to help make it a success.

Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday asked software exporters not to get "perturbed" too much by the visa issue for sending professionals to the US, their largest market, saying American companies cannot "survive" without their help.

The situation at Patiala House Court was handled very "tactfully" and in a "professional" manner when JNU students union president Kanhaiya Kumar was produced in court, Delhi Police said in its report to NHRC.

Companies in the UK hiring non-European Union workers like Indians are expected to face a new 1,000 pound annual surcharge per employee.

Former union ministers, Congress party spokespersons and now back to being high-profile lawyers. As former Congress ministers head back to the courtroom, many of them have to tread a thin line to avoid getting caught between party loyalties and professional commitments.

Nearly 8000 IT professionals in the IT City have volunteered to be a part of the National Disaster Management Authority or NDMA's Civil Defence Wing, which is witnessing a gradual rise in enrollment. An initiative of the Union Home Ministry, the Wing aims to recruit at least one percent of a city's population as part of the volunteer force.

The David Cameron government on Friday defended its decision to introduce an interim limit on skilled workers from India and other countries outside the European Union, despite concerns raised by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and others.