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...India needs 4,000 air traffic controllers, but has only 1,500," says D.S. Raghavan, president of the Delhi-based Air Traffic Controllers' Guild. He says Indian traffic controllers work without weekly breaks to make up for the shortfall, which is against international norms and poses severe safety risks. "Given how stressful the job is, traffic controllers are allowed to work no more than eight hours a day, and 110 hours a month. But we work 10-hour shifts round the year...
...Indian workers. Some 13% of all private, venture-backed start-up companies in the U.S. are founded by Indian immigrants, according to a study released this month by the National Venture Capital Association. Many of Silicon Valley's high-tech leaders are of Indian origin, among them Prabhakar Raghavan, 45, head of Yahoo!'s research division. After finishing college in India, Raghavan migrated to the U.S. and earned a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining IBM. "Indians are looked upon not only as technical wizards but, beyond that, as people who can make things...
Other finalists include Samantha Chatterjee and Sudarsan Raghavan, who reported on the problems of slavery in the Ivory Coast, Bob Drogin and team who wrote about terrorism activities and David S. Fallis and team who investigated the excess use of force by the police in Maryland’s Prince George’s County...
...didn't really surprise me when I awoke one day to see a front-page newspaper story on c225, an experimental drug aimed at colon cancer. Was it the next Herceptin? For some insight, I sought out a few experts. "I think [the drug] has promise," said Dr. Derek Raghavan, chief of medical oncology at the University of Southern California. "But my take on listening to the talk wasn't that it was the breakthrough of the meeting." Nor, he implied, was it really necessarily worthy of Page One. And if you know a little about the drug-approval ritual...
...disturbed by the constant threats and arrogant utterances directed at Iraq by the U.S. government. No one can be convinced of America's motives, especially since the entire world knows what the American-sponsored U.N. sanctions are doing to innocent civilians in Iraq. America is behaving like a bully. RAGHAVAN SHANKAR NARAYAN Ahmedabad, India...