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  • IT firms eye newer markets.

    Economic downturn in the US and the unpredictability of its markets is compelling IT companies to venture into hitherto unexplored markets of Africa, Singapore, Sri Lanka and West Asia. ‘De-risking’ is the new mantra for diversifying business to different locations for reducing the risk. “The flip-flop situation in the US will have more of an indirect effect on the industry here. It is likely that the effect will not be severe on Indian IT companies. But since the US industry will have to cut down their expenses in the near future, there will be pressure for outsourcing,” said the FAPCCI secretary, Mr Rajeshwar Rao.

    “As the US accounts for 60 per cent of the IT business, the situation has triggered a new wave of caution and change in target destinations among Indian companies. The shift in focus, apart from being a survival action-plan by the IT companies back home, was also met with a growing need for developing IT infrastructure in developing nations,” said a member of the IT and ITES association.

    Source : DC

  • 1-yr internship for dentists.

    Students pursuing dental courses in the state will have to undergo a mandatory one-year internship from this year before getting their Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) degree. The internship will also include a three-month compulsory rural posting. This decision of the Dental Council of India (DCI) has been communicated to the state government. The four-year BDS course will have an additional one-year internship. Though the new rule comes into effect from this academic year (2011-12), it will be applicable for batches admitted in the 2008-09 session. But students of an earlier batch, admitted in 2007-08 and now in their fifth and final year, want the internship year to apply to them as well. On Monday, they took out a rally to Indira Park to press their demand.

    According to officials of the NTR University of Health Sciences, which governs the medical and dental colleges in the state, the Union health minister, Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad, has recently approved the re-introduction of a one-year rotational, compulsory and paid internship in the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) course. Internship for BDS courses was introduced in 1992 but abolished in 2007, when the BDS degree course was made a five-year ‘complete classroom course’, without any hands-on training with patients. There were allegations that the strong private dental colleges lobby had pressurised the government to drop the internship at that time.

    However, it has been found that students who completed the BDS course since 2007 lack practical knowledge because of the abolition of the internship. There are about 1,800 BDS seats in the state in 21 dental colleges.

    Source : DC

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