Siddaramaiah Goes Backfoot On Local Quota Bill

Sources within the Congress, including those who have been members of the teams that drafted its 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha poll manifestos, said the Karnataka government decision lacked any empirical......

Personal Data Protection

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking person’s guide. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Last week, I was sitting in the rear seat of my car, deeply immersed in my Kindle, reading......

Use tech to scale up COVID-19 vaccination: Nilekani

'We are the only country in the world where everybody gets a digital vaccination certificate immediately... Then as we open up, as they did yesterday, which I think is a welcome move, you will have......

The Huge Call Centre Scam

An industry of scamsters is operating in the guise of call centres in India, report Ranjita Ganesan, Dhruv Munjal and Nikita Puri. How the Rs 500 crore scam was busted For the last few months,......

India added 1,300 active tech start-ups in CY2022, taking tally to 27,000

India added over 1,300 active tech start-ups to its ecosystem in calendar year 2022, taking the total tally to between 25,000-27,000, according to a recent report. Illustration: Dominic......

Cost of H-1B fee hike? $500 mn for 5,000 new filings

The magnitude of the new H-1B visa application fee for fresh petitions - math of which works out to $500 million in case of 5,000 filings - may nudge IT companies to expand offshore delivery or......

Costly Mid-Layer Faces IT Layoff Axe

More than 7,700 senior professionals with over 15 years of experience have exited India's IT services firms -- TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCLTech, Tech Mahindra, Cognizant, and LTIMindtree -- over the......

India's BPO Industry Gets AI Makeover

Call centres, once the engine room of India's BPO exports, are evolving too. Depending on the complexity, 30 to 50 per cent of voice and chat volumes are now handled by conversational AI.......