India has become the number one source of foreign skilled professionals working in Norway, with fellow colleagues from other countries faring way behind. According to Norwegian Immigration Department figures for 2007, Indian skilled professionals constitute one-fourth of the total foreign qualified professionals inducted in Norwegian firms in the given year.

Accusing the Indian government of "abandoning" them to their fate, Indian dock workers from Mississippi who claim to be victims of modern day slavery have now sought the help of the United Nations.

American Employers buffeted by talk of recession slashed 80,000 jobs in March, the most in five years and the third straight month of losses. At the same time, the national unemployment rate rose from 4.8 percent to 5.1 percent, the clearest signal yet that the economy might already be shrinking.

Twenty shortlisted students of BTech and MBA have been offered a salary package of Rs 36 lakh per annum by US-based IT Company Outline Systems Inc at a job fest here. The final selection of the candidates will be subject to H1B visa clearance from the US embassy, a release said today.

A former employee of a health centre in Howrah district here continues his "job" even after 14 years of his retirement, and that too without remuneration, due to his passion to work. Rabindranath Bhadra, a former employee of Jagatballavpur Block Health Centre, still gets ready and set off to work by 6.00 am daily as was his routine before his retirement in 1995.

The US has barred employers from filing more than one H-1B visa application for a worker in a fiscal year, amid a growing clamour to raise the cap to allow more skilled professionals from India and other countries to work here.

The call center employees in India are the most frequent job-hoppers among their Asian peers with an average job tenure of as low as nine months, a new survey says.

The Canadian government has tabled a sweeping immigration legislation in Parliament that would give it authority to fast-track the entry of certain types of applicants while refusing to even look at others, a move that could impact Indians willing to go there.

Medical sonography, also called ultrasonography, is an ultrasound-based diagnostic imaging technique used to visualize muscles, tendons and internal organs. There are several ways in which to become a sonographer, the most common route is through formal training programs offered through ultrasound technician school.

Job-seekers who wish to come to the UAE to look for employment opportunities can opt for a ‘Mission Visa’, instead of a visit visa, Talmiz Ahmad, the Indian ambassador to the UAE, said at a Press conference held on the embassy premises here yesterday.

The Mission Visa, he said, will be valid for three months, during which the job-seekers can scout for jobs, Ahmad said.