Outsourcing

Telangana Civic Body Staff Shifted For Using TikTok During Office Hours

Telangana News | Press Trust of India | Tuesday July 16, 2019

As many as 11 outsourced employees working in the Khammam Municipal Corporation (KMC) inTelangana's Khammamhave been shifted and their salaries reduced for allegedly filming videos on mobile app TikTok and chatting on different social media platforms during office hours, a senior official said on Tuesday.

"Unfortunate," Says Sunny Deol On Row Over Appointing Representative

India News | Reported by Neeta Sharma, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Tuesday July 2, 2019

Actor and BJP lawmaker Sunny Deol, accused of "outsourcing" his parliamentary duties by naming a representative to take care of his constituency, said today that it was "extremely unfortunate to see a controversy being created out of nothing at all."

Maharashtra-Based Firm Alleges Confidential Data Of US Company Stolen

Cities | Press Trust of India | Wednesday June 19, 2019

In a case of suspected corporate espionage, a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm has approached police claiming that confidential data of its US-based client was illegally accessed.

At Facebook, Second-Class Workers Who Do The Hardest Job Are Paid Less

World News | Elizabeth Dwoskin, The Washington Post | Thursday May 9, 2019

The thousands of people who do the bulk of Facebook's work keeping the site free of suicides, massacres, and other graphic posts are not Facebook employees. As contractors employed by outsourcing firms, these content moderators don't get Facebook's cushy six-month maternity leave, aren't allowed to invite friends or family to the company cafeteria,...

Toyota And Suzuki Collaborate To Strengthen Their Alliance

CarAndBike Team | Wednesday March 20, 2019

A couple years after signing an MoU to jointly explore opportunities and share technologies, Toyota Motor Corporation and Suzuki Motor Corporation have announced a collaboration and have figured the role each manufacturer will play in the partnership. Information about both carmakers sharing cross-badged models- Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, Maruti ...

Government Open To Review GST In Education Sector: Shiv Pratap Shukla

Business | Indo-Asian News Service | Tuesday January 15, 2019

Services like transportation and admissions are generally outsourced so that institutions can focus on providing quality education.

IIT Kharagpur To Run Course On Outsourcing Practices In India

Education | Indo-Asian News Service | Thursday January 3, 2019

This is the first of its kind course being introduced in India on the advice of the Central government.

Trump Wants H-1B Visas In Highly-Skilled, Not Outsourcing Jobs: Official

World News | Press Trust of India | Friday November 9, 2018

The Donald Trump administration wants to make changes in the existing H-1B provisions for it to play a better role in attracting highly skilled foreign workers as opposed to the what it has now evolved into an "outsourcing" role, the White House said Thursday.

TCS Faces US Jury Over Why It Fires So Many Americans

India News | Robert Burnson, Saritha Rai, Bloomberg | Monday November 5, 2018

India's IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they're not South Asian. The company is set to go on trial Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at TCS offices ...

ISRO Keen to Outsource PSLV, SSLV Manufacturing to Concentrate on Human Spaceflight

Press Trust of India | Thursday August 30, 2018

ISRO and its commercial wing Antrix on Wednesday said they are willing to outsource manufacturing of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle and the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle.

ISRO Keen To Outsource Polar, Small Satellite Launch Vehicle

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday August 30, 2018

ISRO and its commercial wing Antrix today said they are willing to outsource manufacturing of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) and the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) so that the space agency could focus on the proposed human space programme.

Italian DJ Alleges She Was Slapped At Hyderabad Airport, Airline Denies

India News | Press Trust of India | Saturday August 25, 2018

Olly Esse, an Italian DJ, has alleged that she was manhandled by an Air India outsourcing staff at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport on August 19, a charge denied by the national carrier.

Amazon India Chief's Leaked Note: No Work Email After 6 pm

India News | Saritha Rai, Bloomberg | Monday August 20, 2018

The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s India business has a radical idea for his troops: Log off, get a life. In a memo to his team this month, Amit Agarwal counseled colleagues to stop responding to emails or work calls between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. in the interest of "work-life harmony."

Samsung Galaxy S10 to Offer In-Display Fingerprint Sensor in 2 Variants; Ramp Shipments to 40 Million: Report

Jagmeet Singh | Friday July 27, 2018

In the overall shipments of the Galaxy S10, the AMOLED-based 6.1- and 6.4-inch variants are said to be accounted for 34-36 million units.

ISRO Signs Contracts With 3 Vendors to Assemble 27 Satellites

Press Trust of India | Thursday July 19, 2018

The Indian Space Research Organisation has signed contracts with three vendors to outsource Spacecraft Assembly Integration and Testing (AIT) activities.