Bald Coot Som Mittal of Nasscom Loses H1B Battle

Som Mittal, chief of India’s software association Nasscom, has lost the battle to prevent the Obama administration from going ahead with a Border Security bill funded by imposing higher fees on H1B Visas used by Indian IT companies. U.S. President Obama signed the $600 million bill Friday. The bill is expected to fund an additional […]

IT Veteran Som Mittal is New NASSCOM Chief

Som Mittal will take over as President of India’s premier software and services trade organization National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) in January 2008. Som Mittal succeeds Kiran Karnik, who assumed the reins of NASSCOM after the untimely death of Dewang Mehta in April 2001. Currently Senior VP of HP services for Asia-Pacific […]