A new AIDS threat is rising in India's numerous call centres, where young staff are increasingly having unprotected sex with multiple partners in affairs developed during night shifts, a top AIDS expert has warned. While India has made great strides in bringing down its HIV infection rate, the promiscuity among ''call centre Romeos'' is a great concern, Dr Suniti Solomon, who detected the first HIV case in India in 1986, told an international medical conference on Saturday.
Indian salaries rose 15.1 per cent in 2007 and the momentum will continue in 2008.
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Three mugging cases have been reported in the city in two days.
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Jay Leno said Sanjaya Malakar had survived yet another expulsion as his father is from India, "where they have all the call centres".
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Among the new proposals to be implemented will be the advent of call centres to help in smooth functioning.
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Want to make the most of the next generation boom in the IT and BPO industry? Learn a European language.
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The strike affected the 'normal' life of a leprosy-afflicted woman Kerala’s Kozikode town.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/beggar-strikes-it-rich-on-strike-day/28492-13.html
ILO also made clear that the decision of siding with any of the trade unions must lie with the employees.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bpos-can-unionise-ilo--your-say/28408-7.html
In West Bengal, IT is being used as a powerful tool to unionise the people working in the IT sector.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bpo-workers-now-have-an-agony-aunt/26307-7.html
The CITU-sponsored union, called IT Services Association, is aimed at call centre employees.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/debate-do-bpos-need-trade-unions/26306-7.html
The CITU-sponsored union, called IT Services Association, is aimed at call centre employees.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/citu-forms-first-it-trade-union/26304-7.html
Trade unions have recently acquired a new agenda. They want to bring India's BPO industry under their realm.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/bpo-workers-say-no-to-trade-unions/23817-3.html
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