India - TheStar.com - Unassigned - Q&A: Doing business with India

TheStar.com - Unassigned - Q&A: Doing business with India
Toronto Star - Vikram Nair is the co-founder and Vice President of Arackal, a Toronto-based IT services company with its main development office in Kerala, India. With its staff of 80 Indian employees Arackal handles a wide range of IT services for its clients

WIPO HOSTS COLLOQUIUM ON "FLEXIBILITIES IN THE PATENT SYSTEM"
World Intellectual Property Organization - Gopalakrishnan, HRD Chair on IPR, School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India - will address various issues related to the flexibilities embodied in the national and international patent systems from

Local Initiatives for Better Hygiene: Four case studies from Asia
IRC - In Kerala, India, a pioneering programme involving neighbourhood groups successfully trained 100 women masons, who proved to be highly effective change agents in improving hygiene behaviours. But, Beena Kumari notes that failure by the local

Denial of Paid Vacation Leave
Human Rights Watch - 91] Najeeb also paid a manpower agent in India 45,000 rupees ($995) for his employment visa to Saudi Arabia. Human Rights Watch interview, Nagarikunnu, Kerala, India, November 28, 2003. [92] The total deduction equaled the 2,000 riyals

Portrait of the Hugging Saint
Belief.Net - Based at her main ashram in Kerala, India, Amma is renowned for spreading her compassion, acceptance, love, and spiritual energy through a unique, yet very human, form: hugs. When she tours throughout the world, legions of followers, devotees, and