Indian software engineer shot at in South Africa

January 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - As police investigated the murder of a software engineer from Hyderabad in the US, the Indian consulate in Houston sent an official to Little Rock, Arkansas to help arrange the transfer of the body to India. The body of Akshay Vishal, an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Limited who was on contract with US company Jet Falcon, has been sent for autopsy.

November 14th, 2005 Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, Korea's two global electronics makers, have reduced their Indian workforce in India, opting instead to outsource its operations to India. "We work project-by-project, so we move between India and South Korea.

July 10th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Aegis Ltd, a Gurgaon-based business process outsourcing (BPO) provider and part of the Essar group, has announced the 100 percent acquisition of South African contact centre outsourcer CCN group. The acquisition, announced Thursday, is expected to boost South Africa's economy through a 500 million rand ($60 million) injection over three years and create 5,000 jobs.

January 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Akshay Vishal, a software engineer from Hyderabad, was shot dead by unidentified people in Arkansas in the US, his father said Thursday. Vishal, 26, was an employee of fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services Limited and was on contract with US company Jet Falcon.

July 2nd, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - The acquisition of the small but well-placed South African software company Cura by Softpro of Hyderabad has presented an opportunity to the Indian firm to become the multinational company that it aspires to be, Softpro chairman Bala Reddy said here. "Cura is an $8-million company which we want to build into a $200-million governance, risk and compliance leader within five years," Reddy told IANS Wednesday at a dinner to celebrate the $90-million buyout.

January 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Police in Little Rock, Arkansas, are questioning a 20-year old man 'strongly suspected' to be involved in the murder of a software engineer from Hyderabad, working with the scam-hit Satyam Computers. Police declined to release the name and other details of the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of Akshay Vishal, who was shot dead Tuesday in the seventh case of young students and professionals from Andhra Pradesh being killed in the US in last 14 months.

July 23rd, 2009 Africa-Europe fiber optic cable laidJOHANNESBURG — Telecoms companies SEACOM and Cisco Systems say an undersea fiber optic cable linking Africa to Europe has been laid and will help Africa develop better high-speed Internet services. The companies said in a statement Thursday marking the completion of the project — and the start of service — that the cable will make fast Internet cheaper and more accessible in places like Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique.

February 5th, 2007 Sunita Williams reached the record of spending most-ever hours on spacewalks on Sunday beating previous female spacewalking record of 21 hours created by former American astronaut, Kathryn Thornton, ISS Flight Engineer. Stepping out of the hatch with crewmate Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria to upgrade the International Space Station’s cooling system, the Indian-American astronaut, Williams recorded a new record of 22 hours and 27 minutes during her third spacewalk.

January 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Muthyala Purushottam, a 27-year-old software engineer from Andhra Pradesh, was found dead in his flat in Indianapolis in the US, family sources said Thursday. This is the second incident of the death of a techie from the Indian state in the US this month.

July 31st, 2009 Prosecutors won't seek death in office killingsSAN JOSE, Calif. — Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty in the case of a Silicon Valley engineer charged with fatally shooting three people at a Santa Clara high-tech firm.

January 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Jan 1 strike from an unmanned US drone in Pakistan killed four top al-Qaeda operatives, including a suspect in both last year's Islamabad hotel attack and the 1998 truck bombings against US embassies in Africa, the Washington Post reported on its website early Friday. The report cited US counter-terrorism officials with access to secret reports, speaking on condition of anonymity.

March 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, Tuesday confirmed reports that computers in his office were hacked and saw the Chinese government's hand in the cyber-spying. 'A communication from my office to the central secretariat of the elected government (Tibetan government in exile) about a person who wanted to see me fell into Chinese hands.

February 20th, 2009 NOIDA - A 22-year-old woman, wife of a software engineer, committed suicide at her home here, police said Friday. Kirti Nath, who was married to Manju Nath, a software engineer with IT firm HCL, was found hanging in her room at their house in Sector 20 in Noida Thursday night, a police official said.

January 11th, 2006 According to the latest list of the Top Travel Destinations by iExplore, an online seller of adventure and experiential travel, India ranks amongst the fifth choicest place to visit in the world in 2004 and 2005. Egypt, Peru, Galapagos and China are the first four top travel destinations.

December 3rd, 2005 Intel, world's largest chip maker, plans to make an investment of $1 billion for its Indian operations. The firm will spend $800m on boosting its research and development operation, with the rest of the cash being used to finance investment in firms.