New Delhi - With business shrinking in face of a global economic downturn, Indian outsourcing major Infosys has sacked 2,100 employees, and described them as "poor performers," news reports said Saturday. "Some of these employees have been asked to go while some have left on their own," V Balakrishnan, chief financial officer of Bangalore-headquartered Infosys was quoted as saying by the PTI news agency.

The company put the employees on a performance improvement courses and those who showed no change were asked to leave, while some quit, Balakrishnan said.

New Delhi, Apr. 11: In the run-up to this year’s general elections, India has many challenges confronting it, but all of them can be tackled with a balanced approach, feels Cabinet Secretary K. M. Chandrasekhar.

In an interview to gfiles, a magazine focusing on the workings inside the government, Chandrasekhar, a 1977 Kerala cadre Indian Administrative Service officer, says that among the many challenges that the government has to deal with are reducing the impact of the global recession and ensuring that the rural and urban sectors of the country evolve and develop at the same pace.

New Delhi - As the decibel level rises in the run-up to India's general elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in his sharpest reaction to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader LK Advani's charge that he was a weak premier, said Friday that he should be judged by his actions and not his speech. "One cannot be judged strong or weak by merely talking loudly," Singh told journalists in Delhi.

New Delhi, Apr 10 : Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has lashed out at the Indian Premier League (IPL) organisers for taking the cash-rich Twenty20 tournament out of the country.

"We could have done it, but only if the IPL organisers had reflected on the concerns of the police and not tried to pressurize the State chief ministers," he told the CNN-IBN television channel in an interview.

New Delhi - A Mumbai-based businessman is the richest candidate in India's general elections so far with declared net assets worth 103 million dollars, news reports said Friday. Politicians in India have to declare their assets in a legal document when filing papers formalizing their intention to contest elections. Candidates for the first three phases of India's month-long five-phase elections have filed their nomination papers.

New Delhi - As India gears up for general elections, politicians in India's southern Tamil Nadu state are hyping their rhetoric regarding Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamils, news reports said Friday. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Karunanidhi, who has never supported the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the past, appealed to the Sri Lankan government to treat LTTE leader Prabhakaran with dignity even if he was defeated, the NDTV television channel reported.