White House salaries: Who's making the top pay cheques?
New York, July 4 -- She earns $10,000 or about Rs 4.65 lakh each month but that makes Sonal Shah, a Deputy Assistant to US President Barack Obama and the Director of the Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, the highest paid Indian-American in the White House, according to salary details released by the White House on Friday. Shah is among the seniormost Indian-Americans in the Administration and she came to the White House from Google, where she headed global development for the Silicon Valley giant's philanthropic arm.
Shah had a tested track record in the non-profit sector having helmed Indicorps and led Godman Sachs' environmental strategy. Shah leads a group of 14 Indian-Americans in the White House when it comes to getting paid by the Administration.While these amounts may not appear particularly impressive to this group of Indian-Americans, many from elite US universities, a tenure at the White House or even the Administration is considered a step towards a strong political and professional future. And since most of them are in their 30s and 40s, they could expect higher positions (and possibly more money) in the future.
Surprisingly, the highest paid within the White House are actually two "detailees", or employees of another federal agency who have been assigned to the White House. These are Michael Hash and Timothy Love, both making $179,700 annually.
Overall, the White House listed 469 employees (down by 18 since a year ago) with the combined annual salary bill coming to $38.7 million
Oil spill hit Mumbai port to restart by Sunday
The collision, which triggered an oil slick, has hit operations at the Mumbai port and the neighbouring Jawaharlal Nehru Port after containers fell into the shipping channel used by the ports.
"I have been told normal traffic is to be resumed by Sunday... There is no oil spill as of now," Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh told parliament on Tuesday.
Earlier, V.R. Joglekar, chief public relations officer of the Mumbai Port Trust had said operations would remain suspended for at least two days.
"No ships are coming or going from here. Whatever cargo is there on the berth, we are handling that. This situation is likely to continue for another 2-3 days," Joglekar said before the minister's statement in parliament's upper house.
Ramesh said 32 ships had been stranded at the Jawaharlal Nehru port, a major hub for container traffic, and the Mumbai port.
These include ships that will deliver 1.5 million barrels of crude oil for one of the biggest refiners and a stranded naphtha cargo for export.
Several ships carrying vegetable oils, steel, crude oil and naphtha are unable to berth or sail out, but industry officials ruled out any significant market impact unless the port remained shut for many days.
"I am trying to seek details from individual edible oils importers but I do not see any impact even if operations start again by Sunday. There will be no problem at all," said B.V. Mehta, executive director of the Solvent Extractors' Association of India,
India, the world's biggest edible oil importer, buys the cooking fat from Malaysia, Indonesia, Brazil and Argentina.
According to trade and shipping sources, about 31,400 tonnes of edible oils are at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, while 158,000 tonnes were expected to arrive on Tuesday.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust handled more than 60.7 million tonnes of container traffic in 2009/10, a 6 percent rise compared with the previous year.
Authorities hope to clear the harbour of the containers within two to three days, the Ministry of Shipping said on Monday.
TCS BPO bags six awards for HR leadership
MUMBAI: TCS BPO Services, the business process outsourcing arm of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has won six awards for outstanding HR leadership at Asia's Best Employer Brand Awards 2010, in Singapore.
TCS BPO was nominated across six different speciality areas of HR excellence and was recognised among the frontrunners across Asia Pacific in all six of these categories, receiving the award for talent management, excellence in HR through technology, continuous innovation in HR strategy at work, innovation in recruitment, innovative retention strategy and excellence in training, the company said in a statement in Mumbai on Sunday.
"The entire industry has witnessed some difficult times during the last six to seven quarters, with the BPO sector facing its own unique set of challenges. Against this backdrop, receiving not one but six honors at Asia's best employer brand awards 2010 bears testimony to our successes in talent acquisition, retention and development strategies, as well as innovation and technology adoption within our HR function," TCS BPO Services' Global Head, Abid Ali Neemuchwala, said.
TCS BPO Services had recently won the Best Employer Award at the BPO Excellence Awards 2009-2010 in Mumbai, it said.
TCS BPO was nominated across six different speciality areas of HR excellence and was recognised among the frontrunners across Asia Pacific in all six of these categories, receiving the award for talent management, excellence in HR through technology, continuous innovation in HR strategy at work, innovation in recruitment, innovative retention strategy and excellence in training, the company said in a statement in Mumbai on Sunday.
"The entire industry has witnessed some difficult times during the last six to seven quarters, with the BPO sector facing its own unique set of challenges. Against this backdrop, receiving not one but six honors at Asia's best employer brand awards 2010 bears testimony to our successes in talent acquisition, retention and development strategies, as well as innovation and technology adoption within our HR function," TCS BPO Services' Global Head, Abid Ali Neemuchwala, said.
TCS BPO Services had recently won the Best Employer Award at the BPO Excellence Awards 2009-2010 in Mumbai, it said.
Infosys murty to wed TVS lakshmi
BANGALORE: A big fat South Indian wedding is in the offing with Infosys mentor N R Narayana Murthy's son Rohan set to marry Lakshmi Venu, only daughter of TVS Motors chairman Venu Srinivsan. Rohan, a Microsoft fellow, who is doing his PhD in computer science from Harvard University, has an engineering degree from Cornell University.
He earlier schooled at Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore. Lakshmi, who studied economics at Yale Univeristy, later got a PhD in manufacturing management from Warwick Univesity in the UK. In Chennai she did her schooling at Shishya.
Lakshmi is mandated to steer strategy at both Sundaram Clayton (an auto component maker) and TVS Motor (India's third largest two-wheeler company).
Said Narayana Murthy, who is on a visit to Mantralaya, home of the revered saint Sri Raghavendra Swami, "We are very happy. Lakshmi is such a wonderful person." He said that the marriage date was left to the couple. "I don't want to get into the details. It is left to the couple.
They are both mature, intelligent people and will decide these things on their own." Rohan is currently in Chennai meeting members of Lakshmi's family.
He earlier schooled at Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore. Lakshmi, who studied economics at Yale Univeristy, later got a PhD in manufacturing management from Warwick Univesity in the UK. In Chennai she did her schooling at Shishya.
Lakshmi is mandated to steer strategy at both Sundaram Clayton (an auto component maker) and TVS Motor (India's third largest two-wheeler company).
Said Narayana Murthy, who is on a visit to Mantralaya, home of the revered saint Sri Raghavendra Swami, "We are very happy. Lakshmi is such a wonderful person." He said that the marriage date was left to the couple. "I don't want to get into the details. It is left to the couple.
They are both mature, intelligent people and will decide these things on their own." Rohan is currently in Chennai meeting members of Lakshmi's family.
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