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      <title>[IT and Offshore Outsourcing] Offshore Outsourcing Software In India</title>
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      <author>hanusoft</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The foremost priority for any Outsourcing company is to set an offshore center which has the best of technology and talented manpower to execute software development. In this context, India has established its hold on Offshore Software Outsourcing along with Russia and China. But she has countries like Philippines eyeing for competition in offshore outsourcing. It is proposed that the competition is due to rise in English speaking community in Philippines. What can be the other reasons for stringent competition and how can India reach the number one slot in Offshore Software Development?
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:37:43 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>[Careers and Professional Development] hair steamers</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?14,4576,4576#msg-4576</link>
      <author>emma</author>
      <description><![CDATA[does anyone know how to use a hair steamer safely?]]></description>
      <category>Careers and Professional Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:56:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4575#msg-4575</link>
      <author>Patricia James</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Railways, however, does not want to be directly involve in the business and hopes to transfer the trade to the 14 private container operators. The Suzuki deal is set to bring in about Rs 250 crore annually to the transporter.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 00:00:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4574#msg-4574</link>
      <author>Steven Hill</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Another major customer is Suzuki Motors, which has asked the railway ministry to design special containers for transportation of its vehicles. The auto major wants customized double or triple stack containers for the purpose.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:59:33 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4573#msg-4573</link>
      <author>Sarah Walker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Currently the Indian Railways are making about Rs 50 crore annually from the business. Their major customers include Maruti, Hyundai, Tata Motors, Mahindra and Mahindra and Hero Honda.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:59:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4572#msg-4572</link>
      <author>Sheron</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Indian Railways currently are the only operator transporting automobiles. It is moving only 35 to 40 rakes every month. Railway officials should not consider it a side business but they must untap the vast potential of the market.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:58:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4571#msg-4571</link>
      <author>alexey60</author>
      <description><![CDATA[PRCL and Adani Logistics have received the principle approval for rail container operations. Container Corporation of India is also keen to make an entry into the auto transport business]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:57:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4570#msg-4570</link>
      <author>harold</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The company has been asked to revise its production costs and haulage rates.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:57:20 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4569#msg-4569</link>
      <author>vana</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Container Corporation of India (Concor) has also been keen to make an entry into the auto transport business. They had signed a memorandum of understanding with NYK, a Japanese shipping company, in January. But, the venture seems to have hit a temporary roadblock with the railway ministry asking it to rework its business plans.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:56:49 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Re: Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4568#msg-4568</link>
      <author>s_smith</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Pipavav Rail Corporation Limited (PRCL) and Adani Logistics are the two players that have received the principle approval for rail container operations, are in the process to finalise their plans to jump into this business.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:56:20 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Sourcing Infrastructure Development] Rail operators plan to enter auto transport business</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?23,4567,4567#msg-4567</link>
      <author>deborah</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The automobile transport business in India is heading for a jumpstart with all major automobile companies setting up manufacturing plants in the country. Railways, which currently carries about 25% of automobiles, is hoping to cash in on this boom.]]></description>
      <category>Sourcing Infrastructure Development</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:55:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Re: Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4566#msg-4566</link>
      <author>Julie Richardson</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The key to all of this is to make sure that the company is dealing with the latest FLSA regulations. There were many substantial changes, and anything written before that date may be hopeless now and, for an employer, expensively obsolete.]]></description>
      <category>HR Outsourcing</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:49:15 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Re: Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4565#msg-4565</link>
      <author>James Moore</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The overtime calculations have to be reviewed. If there is something owed to the employees, it’s better to pay up immediately. That is likely to be a bargain compared to the cost of a settlement.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:48:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Re: Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4564#msg-4564</link>
      <author>Helen Baker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[What the employees are doing have to be checked, because jobs change over time while the paperwork never seems to catch up. The tasks or the job descriptions have to be modified until they match up.]]></description>
      <category>HR Outsourcing</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:47:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Re: Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4563#msg-4563</link>
      <author>Donald Wright</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The job descriptions have to be checked. Be sure positions that are classified as exempt really do fall within the administrative, executive, professional, computer, or outside sales exemptions.]]></description>
      <category>HR Outsourcing</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:46:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Re: Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4562#msg-4562</link>
      <author>Sarah Walker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Its better not to find information from the government cause that information may come with a bill for up to 3 years of back wages and other penalties. It’s better to find out for yourself.]]></description>
      <category>HR Outsourcing</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:43:23 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Re: Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4561#msg-4561</link>
      <author>Donald Wright</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Whether your workers are in the office or operating out of sight, you might be misclassifying as exempt employees who shouldn’t be, or not paying overtime when you should be, even inadvertently.]]></description>
      <category>HR Outsourcing</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:42:22 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Re: Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4560#msg-4560</link>
      <author>alexey60</author>
      <description><![CDATA[It is partly because of failure by certain major corporations to pay overtime that was due to their lowest wage workers. Violations are now the top target of government investigators. All it takes is just one employee complaint, justified or not, to launch an investigation of your company.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:41:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[HR Outsourcing] Want to Avoid FLSA Problems? Do a Self Audit</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?26,4559,4559#msg-4559</link>
      <author>parker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[FLSA violations are now the Department of Labor’s top enforcement target. Here’s how to use a self audit to stay out of the bull’s eye. With workers geographically outside the employer’s control, there often is no way to accurately supervise the hours put in. It becomes the employee’s word against that of the boss. And frequently, the courts have taken the employee’s word.]]></description>
      <category>HR Outsourcing</category>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:39:41 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: No Mayday for growth, core scores another 8.7%</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4553,4558#msg-4558</link>
      <author>Helen Baker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[But the production of crude oil has gone down to 1.6% in May 2007 compared to a 1.2% growth registered in the same month last year. The growth of coal production has declined to 0.9% from 8.3 % in the same period of previous year.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:36:49 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: No Mayday for growth, core scores another 8.7%</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4553,4557#msg-4557</link>
      <author>summit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Electricity production has also gone up to 9.3% in May this year against 5.1% in the corresponding period last year. Finished steel production was up 11.8%. The growth displayed by the sector in May last year was 10.7%.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:36:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: No Mayday for growth, core scores another 8.7%</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4553,4556#msg-4556</link>
      <author>maria</author>
      <description><![CDATA[In April, the index had risen 7.4%. Production in the cement sector grew 9.4% in May 2007 against 6.8% in the same month in 2006. Petroleum refineries registered a production growth of 14.9% compared to 12.1% in May last year.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:35:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: No Mayday for growth, core scores another 8.7%</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4553,4555#msg-4555</link>
      <author>s_smith</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The performance in May 2007 has also helped the overall growth figures in the first two months of 2007 to 08 to touch 8.1%.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:33:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: No Mayday for growth, core scores another 8.7%</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4553,4554#msg-4554</link>
      <author>Lilly</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The performance of the four sectors has made up for a decline in the production of crude oil and a drop in the growth rate of coal in May this year. It has also helped the index of key infrastructure industries climb to 234.1 from 215.3 in the same month last year, when the growth was 7.2%.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:29:39 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] No Mayday for growth, core scores another 8.7%</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4553,4553#msg-4553</link>
      <author>parker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The country’s infrastructure sector’s output grew 8.7% in May 2007 compared to a 7.2% growth registered in May 2006. The higher growth was due to better performance by the steel, cement, petroleum products, and electricity sectors.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:28:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: Sebi relaxes IPO norms for core PSUs</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4543,4552#msg-4552</link>
      <author>Julie Richardson</author>
      <description><![CDATA[While making the changes, Sebi has amended the Sebi (Disclosure &amp; Investor Protection) Guidelines 2000. The regulator has given a detailed list of sectors that qualify as infrastructure in its website.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:25:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: Sebi relaxes IPO norms for core PSUs</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4543,4551#msg-4551</link>
      <author>Steven Hill</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The relaxations will not only enable many public sector infrastructure entities to tap the market with minimum dilution, but will also give the government more room to structure SPVs which can quickly mop up funds.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:23:53 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: Sebi relaxes IPO norms for core PSUs</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4543,4550#msg-4550</link>
      <author>Helen Baker</author>
      <description><![CDATA[The public shareholding in government controlled in structure companies can now go below even 10%. Under the present rules, the public shareholding in most companies other than banking and infrastructure) has to be a minimum of 25%. It can be even 10% for companies which have issued 60% shares to qualified institutional buyers such as banks, mutual funds, FIIs etc.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:23:22 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: Sebi relaxes IPO norms for core PSUs</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4543,4549#msg-4549</link>
      <author>summit</author>
      <description><![CDATA[An easy exit may encourage institutions and financial investors to join the government as co promoters in infrastructure ventures.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:22:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>[Business &amp; Finance ] Re: Sebi relaxes IPO norms for core PSUs</title>
      <link>http://forum.sourcingtoday.com/read.php?11,4543,4548#msg-4548</link>
      <author>maria</author>
      <description><![CDATA[Today, if promoters are issued shares in an unlisted company, they cannot sell the shares to the public before one year. However, an SPV formed by the government or any of its entities can offer the shares for sale along with the IPO of the SPV in less than one year.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:22:00 -0400</pubDate>
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