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India Inc leader in global hiring trail

India continues to be the most optimistic nation in terms of hiring plans for the next three months, driven by strong job opportunities across all sectors, including finance and real estate, Manpower India, the Indian arm of the global staffing services firm Manpower Inc, said on Tuesday. According to the quarterly Employment Outlook Survey, India Inc's hiring outlook for the April-June, 2010 quarter has improved by four percentage points compared to the previous quarter. With Net Employment Outlook of 39 per cent, Indian employers reported the most optimistic forecast among all 36 countries and territories that participated in the survey, it said. ''Employers remain optimistic on account of strong domestic growth. We are witnessing improved opportunities for job seekers across all industry sectors with employers indicating that hiring in India's services, finance, insurance and real estate sectors will accelerate in the months ahead,'' said Sanjay Pandit, ma...

We tell you how you can de-stress yourself

With stress levels reaching alarming levels, more experts are encouraging people to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Although you may find yourself dealing with stress on an everyday level, there are several ways that you can unwind and de-stress yourself unless you want to head for a nervous breakdown. Here’s how...   - Too much stress is known to cause headaches, depression, insomnia and digestive problems among others. Put some time aside just for yourself and do something that will relax you.   - Never bring work back home. It’s bad enough that you’re stressing about assignments during work hours that you carry the stress home as well. If it is really unavoidable, bring it home only once a week. Make a list every morning about what you need to accomplish during the day and stick to it.   - Even if you can put aside just 20 minutes daily to sit down and read a chapter or two of a book, it helps to put your mind at rest. Find a quiet place in your house where no one w...

All about changing the rules of eating

Some believe that food combining is the basis of good health. But is there any scientific validity to this idea? It's our mothers and grandmothers who stopped us from eating fish and dahi at the same time, or cautioned us against drinking milk after we had eaten melon. Old wives' tales apart, various theories about food and eating abound. Some suggest that combining different food groups has an adverse impact on the digestion and health, and even promotes weight gain. The idea of appropriate 'mixing' is reinforced by modern diet theories that stress the right mixing of food and eating of certain foods at certain times of the day. Some nutritionists and health experts have gone one step further and broadened the definition of a 'balanced' diet to include the appropriate mixing of foods: Trophology is the study of combining food based on its energetic and nutritional properties, and advocates simple principles on mixing foods according to their important constit...

Sonia Gandhi, Nooyi in Asia's 8 top power women

Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Pepsico's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi and ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar figure in CNN's list of eight of Asia's top power women. Taking a 'look at the key women who are shaping Asia's political and economic landscape' on the occasion of 100th International Women's Day, the CNN's list is headed by China's 'Paper Queen' Zhang Yin. Indra Nooyi, in the second place, 'lords over some 185,000 corporate minions in close to 200 countries', notes CNN. 'Nooyi's hard-as-nails leadership and her sense of fun (one-time lead guitarist in an all-girls rock band still performs regularly at corporate functions) has earned her spots on many 'best leader' lists in the US,' it adds. 'Converted Indian Sonia Gandhi's story reads like a soap opera,' says CNN of the third-placed Italy born president of the Indian National Congress and chairperson of ruling United Progressive Alliance. 'B...

List of Oscar Winners and Videos

Motion Picture: "The Hurt Locker." Actor: Jeff Bridges, "Crazy Heart." Actress: Sandra Bullock, " The Blind Side." Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, " Inglourious Basterds." Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique, "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." Director: Kathryn Bigelow, " The Hurt Locker." Foreign Film: "El Secreto de Sus Ojos," Argentina. Adapted Screenplay: Geoffrey Fletcher, "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire." Original Screenplay: Mark Boal, "The Hurt Locker." Animated Feature Film: "Up." Art Direction: "Avatar." Cinematography: "Avatar." Sound Mixing: "The Hurt Locker." Sound Editing: "The Hurt Locker." Original Score: "Up," Michael Giacchino. Original Song: "The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)" from "Crazy Heart," Ryan Bingham and...