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Struggling to diversify the delivery footprint to take advantage of low-cost centres, India's BPO industry is currently losing 70 per cent of all incremental voice and call centre business to competitors like Philippines and countries in Eastern Europe, says a report. "It is estimated that in...

(Reuters) - Kemrock Industries and Exports (KEMR.NS) owns a golf course near its plant in western India and its chairman, Kalpesh Patel, talks of the high salaries he pays employees. Still, the company has defaulted on payments for about $250 million (152.9 million pounds) in loans and Patel's...

In a new Gallup poll designed to show the change in levels of "suffering" between the periods of 2006-2008 and 2010-2012, one region clearly stood out. Gallup According to Gallup's Jan Sonnenschein, the "massive increase in suffering among South Asians is largely attributable to negative...

A new report puts India among 12 high burden countries like South Africa, Nigeria and Tanzania that are home to the 2.1 million adolescents living with HIV in 2012. A UNICEF report says that AIDS-related deaths amongst adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 increased by 50% between 2005 and...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has spotted a good number of fake universities in India. The commission has posted on its official website a list of 21 unrecognized institutions located in nine states of India. These fake educational premises are functioning against the provisions of the...

None of India's universities appear in the top-200 lists of the leading world university ranking surveys, compiled by Times Higher Education, Quacquarelli Symonds and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Indian institutions fare worse than their counterparts in South Korea, Turkey and Israel, not to...

A UN report has described India’s water pollution situation as a “time-bomb.” In a stinging remark on water administration in India, the report says India is able to treat just 10 % of its city sewage and industrial waste discharge, the most polluting source for rivers and water bodies...

The murder of a Nigerian last week is threatening not only to snowball into a diplomatic row, but is also developing into a worrying situation in the tiny tourist state where angry posters have sprung up as locals single out Nigerians and say they will not rent homes to them. There has been...

Security officials stated that they have seen up to 5 major contract killings take place in Delhi during the course of four decades. The lastest killing in the capital of India took place in 2013, where a politician was killed. Police reported that the contract for the hit on the man was...

45 people trapped inside a burning bus died in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday morning. The bus, reportedly speeding, hit a road divider and burst into flames. All but seven of the passengers perished within minutes, including an infant. This grievous loss of life on India's...

DUBAI: Three Indians have been accused of confining 19 Filipino hotel workers inside a villa for over a month, not allowing them to go out even during their free time or holidays. The three men — 41-year-old electrician SS, 61-year-old supervisor KM and 54-year-old cook KA — who were identified...

India is an underperformer compared to other emerging market economies when it comes to making its growth more inclusive, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said on Wednesday. The Manila-based multilateral lending agency, releasing its country partnership strategy for 2013-17 for India, said...

Confronting a slowing economy and a large budget deficit, India has significantly reduced its planned expenditure on fighting tuberculosis, the airborne disease that kills more adults here than any other infection and has become increasingly more drug resistant, a review of government plans and...

The driver and cleaner of a truck transporting onions were murdered on a highway in Uttar Pradesh after a gang looted the consignment, police said on Friday. A 10-member gang has been robbing trucks carrying vegetables from neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, police say. Jaunpur's Superintendent of...

NEW YORK: An estimated 14.3 crore accounts on the popular social networking site Facebook may be false or duplicate, with a major chunk of them coming from developing markets like India and Turkey. Facebook, which boasts of 119 crore accounts globally, in a US Securities and Exchange...

"I can't believe we have our own child at last," said Patel, 42, gazing in wonderment at five-day-old Gabrielle. "We are really grateful to our surrogate mother who managed to get pregnant and kept our little daughter healthy. She gave nine months of her life to give us a child." It is the...

Price of staple food has quadrupled in recent months; government hopes to up supply ahead of November elections. India has become so desperate for the fresh stocks of the onions it uses in spicy curries that it is trying to import them from neighbors, and is even considering airlifts to ease...

MOSCOW: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh failed Monday to strike a long-delayed nuclear power deal with Russia during talks with President Vladimir Putin that also focused on big arms and energy deals. Singh is using one of his last major foreign trips as prime minister before 2014 general...

A nationwide enquiry into illegal mining in India was aborted before it completed its investigation into the failings of the country’s mining industry. The study had prompted the government to ban mining in two states and arrest high-ranking politicians. The government’s Oct. 16 decision to...

Although a brutal gang rape in Delhi last December grabbed national headlines and caused a public outcry, sex trafficking in India has not provoked the same degree of outrage. It is hard to know how many women and girls are trafficked in India, but the United States State Department, the United...