While an estimated 3.3 lakh tonnes of e-waste is generated in India, about 50,000 tonnes is imported or dumped in the country. Only 40 per cent of India's total e-waste is recycled, and the rest is left in storehouses due to an inefficient collection system.
Kiran Karnik, president of National Association of Software and Service Companies day hinted on Thursday at a possible slowdown in the momentum of India's information technology exports after 2010,due to the recent tax impositions on the sector.
Krithi Krithivasan is the kind of person one might look to when the need is to calm things down and put things back on track.
Tokyo -- the songs Japan, Love In Tokyo and Sayonara from the 1966 Hindi film automatically pop up in the mind -- is buzzing and crowded like any other metropolis, discovers Deepa Gahlot. The modern apartment blocks are built cheek by jowl, so close together that one can open the window and borrow sugar from the neighbour in the next building. One of the fears of the Indian traveller is the unavailability of vegetarian food. Every city and town in Japan has an array of Indian restaurants that serve every variety of cuisine, right from Gujarati to Punjabi to Andhra and Kerala meals.
The high-tech industry in the US has opposed the immigration bill being debated in the Senate, saying the measure as currently drafted would harm the American technology industry.
Following the heavy downpour which crippled normal life, the state government has declared a holiday for educational institutions in Hyderabad on Friday and Saturday.
The industry has registered a 29-fold increase in patents over 2005-2008.
NavIC consists of a constellation of seven satellites and a network of ground stations and is touted to be more accurate than GPS.
Ahead of the state assembly elections due this year-end, Baghel made as many as 15 announcements in his address during the state-level Independence Day function at the Police Parade ground in Raipur.
A National Association of Software and Services Companies study done by McKinsey suggests that the industry has quadrupled its gross domestic product contribution to four per cent, contributed to 45 per cent of all incremental urban employment created in the last 10 years, employed over two million people and gave impetus to new entrepreneurs, and increased the number of tertiary education institutions in the country.
Nasscom, the information technology and BPO industry body, on Monday favoured a flexible work atmosphere for women engaged in raising their family to curb dropout rates and boost their numbers in mid-level and senior management positions in companies.
Kenneth Haywood, the US national who gave the Indian police a slip, remains a mystery. Rediff's Matthew Schneeberger investigates.
Browbeaten by recession and anxiety about mounting protectionism in key markets have led Indian information technology (IT) companies to extend their reach in the countries of Africa, the West Asia and Asia Pacific.
Revising its earlier projection of 27 lakh units, Manufacturers Association of Information Technology on Thursday said personal computer sales during the current fiscal would cross 30 lakh units.
'The idea is to have a separate and independent consultation on non-personal data, and decide the contours of how it should be regulated, whether as guidelines, rules, or a separate policy,' said a senior official at MeitY.
Key leadership hiring in different pockets -- a few from other companies -- to beef up the company's sales efforts is currently on.
Most of the Indian-origin CEOs and top executives, who have taken up blogging, are associated with Information Technology and internet sectors, a study conducted by the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad (IIM-A) has said.
Satyam, which incorporated its sports division in 2007, will offer value-in-kind.
National Association of Software and Service Companies chairman Kiran Karnik has said the Maharashtra government was not promoting information technology in a big way.\n\n\n\n
Businessman Raj Kundra on Tuesday walked out of a Mumbai jail, a day after a magistrate court granted bail to the key accused in a pornographic films case in which he was arrested two months ago.
'MNCs now recognise India's capacity for innovation and its pivotal role in substantive contributions to global product development.'
Anjali Ryot was killed along with another German tourist on Wednesday night in the crossfire, californianewstimes.com news portal reported.
Personal computer sales has crossed the five million-unit mark in 2005-06, registering a 32 per cent growth over the previous fiscal.
The reason: Less-than-expected sales to households and enterprises and the rupee losing value against the US dollar, says the latest report of the MAIT. Analysts say the personal consumption of notebooks has come down and enterprises have also stopped new purchases due to the slowdown in hiring. Educational institutes should be buying new machines, but that will happen when the new academic session begins.
Falling demands from household and corporate sector and a strengthening dollar has hit sales of desktops and notebooks in the country, registering a fall of 19 per cent in the October-December period, said MAIT, an IT industry body representing the hardware sector, on Monday.
A majority of the companies said the law, aimed at jobs with a monthly salary cap of Rs 50,000, will result in them leaving Haryana or growing their operations in other states and abroad.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday announced the adoption of the New Delhi Leaders Declaration, a significant victory for India's G20 presidency that came amid increasing tensions and divergent views over the Ukraine conflict.
'As the demand for transferable skills that can be remotely applied increases, the need for tech-based courses is on the rise/'
Low levels of communication services, such as Internet, telephone, fax and television, have impacted occupancies at three- and four-star hotels, a study conducted by the Federation of Hotels and Restaurant Association of India said.
Fresher hiring sentiment is highest in India, with 17 per cent employers keen on recruiting fresh graduates in the July to December 2021 period against 6 per cent globally. According to the Career Outlook Report by TeamLease EdTech, conducted across 18 sectors and 14 cities, the hiring sentiment in the country has registered a 2 percentage point increase over the February-April 2021 period. In terms of sectors, those that have been able to withstand the impact of the pandemic and witnessed a stronger hiring sentiment are information technology (31 per cent), telecommunication (25 per cent) and technology start-ups (25 per cent).
The Delhi Police and the Uttar Pradesh police have filed separate first information reports (FIRs) against filmmaker Leena Manimekalai over a controversial poster of her documentary Kaali even as the Indian government urged Canadian authorities to take down all the 'provocative material' in the film.
Suggesting that layoffs in the information technology and business process outsourcing industry are still less than 1 per cent of the total workforce, top National Association of Software and Service Companies executives have said that the industry has not yet come in the grip of large-scale layoffs.
With Indo-Pak relations entering a new phase, the first ever information technology delegation from Pakistan will participate in the National Association of Software and Service Companies' annual summit, starting next month.
The company is also looking at creating an algorithm-based talent marketplace and an internal gig workers' community. Talent Cloud will be powered by Algo Talent Development, enabling associates to move across different technologies and industry domains.
