5000 employees quit TCS; reasons unknown

August 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Those Indians expatriates in Spain seeking extension to reside but could not extend their stay because they couldn't obtain "legislation" may soon be legalized. The Ministry of External Affairs and the Spanish Authorities have choked out a solution to a technical problem, which was proving to be a major obstacle in obtaining legality for some Indians in Spain.

August 20th, 2009 MUMBAI - The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday submitted a 5000-page chargesheet, in which it named suspended Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP Padamsinh Patil as the prime accused and conspirator in the 2006 murder of Congress leader Pawanraje Nimabalkar. "The charge sheet, filed in a Panvel court, includes the statements of 181 witnesses and over 200 documents alleging the involvement of Patil and others in the crime," said P Kandaswamy, the head of CBI's Mumbai Zone.

August 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - Nation observed the 67th anniversary of the Quit India Movement on Sunday and paid tributes to the martyrs and freedom fighters who had taken part in the movement. On the occasion, members of the Congress party, including Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, gathered at a function organised at the August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai to honour the freedom fighters.

August 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI / KOLKATA - Bank employees in the national capital took to streets on Thursday following the nationwide strike, which was announced after talks between the United Forum of Bank Union's (UFBU) and the Indian Bank Association (IBA) had failed on Tuesday. About one million employees of country's dominating public sector banks along with some private and foreign banks staff are on a two-day strike demanding the government to increase their wages by 17 per cent, as agreed to between bank unions and IBA earlier.

July 14th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Roadways employees have gone on strike since this morning. This is the second time in last five days that the employees have gone on strike.

July 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Air India employees will go on two hour-long strike on Friday between 1300 hrs IST to 1500 hrs IST. The employees are alleging that the management has failed to keep its promise to pay salaries to all lower grade employees by July 3.Nearly 20,000 employees throughout the country are expected to walk out for two hours.

June 6th, 2009 NABARANGAPUR - Farmers in Nabarangapur of Orissa are slowly giving up sugarcane cultivation due to pest problem, construction of dam on Indravati River and lack of marketing facilities. "We have been doing sugarcane farming for years.

May 21st, 2009 HYDERABAD - Praja Rajyam Party (PRP) general secretary Allu Aravind Thursday offered to resign from the post, owning responsibility for the humiliating defeat in the assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Aravind, brother-in-law of PRP founder and president Chiranjeevi, offered to quit during the meeting of political affairs committee of the party when some party leaders blamed him for the poll debacle.

May 13th, 2009 RANCHI - Maoist rebels abducted three railway employees from Jharkhand's Hazaribagh district, police said Wednesday. Around 30 Maoist guerrillas raided the Hendegiri railway station in Hazaribagh, around 140 km from state capital Ranchi, Tuesday night and abducted six employees at gun point.

May 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani Wednesday assured the government employees to meet their legitimate demands if voted to power, and appealed to them to vote for the party candidates.

May 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's leading private carrier Jet Airways handed over pink slips to 110 employees on the eve of May Day, the company said Friday. 'Jet Airways undertakes additional measures to streamline costs to improve the financial health of the company under the challenging economic environment.

April 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - The impact of global recession has forced Infosys Technologies, India's second largest IT bellwether, to freeze wage hike and fresh hiring in new fiscal 2009-10, a senior official said Wednesday. 'Employees will not get salary hike or promotions this fiscal.

February 26th, 2009 CHENNAI - R. Subramanian, managing director of the troubled retail chain Subhiksha, Wednesday said he was ready to quit if it would help in reviving the company.

January 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram isn't surprised at Javed Miandad's sudden resignation as Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) Director General. 'Whenever Javed bhai has been given some role, he has had some problems.

December 30th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The government has postponed by at least six months the implementation of the new ground-handling policy at airports, expected to come into force Thursday, an official said Wednesday. 'The implementation of the new ground-handling policy has been deferred by six months or until further order,' said a spokesperson of the civil aviation ministry.