Continuing in its campaign of populist, pseudo-development and so-called reforms-with-a-human-face measures, the Congress it seems is bent upon imposing quota's in the private sectors.

Flashing the law ministry’s stand that the Centre can extend job quotas to the private sector even without amending the Constitution, the ministry of social justice has started pushing reluctant corporates to act on their own to ward off state intervention.

The point is learnt to have been conveyed by social justice minister Meira Kumar to Infosys chief NR Narayana Murthy and Thermax boss Anu Agha.

IndiaTimes reports.

Business week is running a story citing a Duke university study which rubbishes the claim that the U.S. will soon loose its high-tech edge due to a higher number of engineering graduates coming out of India and China.

researchers at Duke University have determined that some of the most cited statistics on engineering graduates are inaccurate. Statistics that say the U.S. is producing 70,000 engineers a year vs. 350,000 from India and 600,000 from China aren't valid

However, a recent study by NASSCOM clearly mentions 350,000 engineering graduates.

Repeated intelligence warnings about terror striking India's tech havens have finally come true.

Suspected terrorists opened fire at a gathering of scientists at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Munish Chandra Puri, professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi died immidiately and four others were injured. The injured includes Professor Vijay Chandru who was involved in developing the Simputer, the low cost Linux-based handheld.

Read more at DNAIndia and WebIndia123.