International consultants Hewitt Associates has said it is helping two foreign firms in bidding for PSUs put up for divestment and is engaged in due diligence for four private companies for M&As in financial, IT and commodities sector.
Manpower shortage in India's high potential, high-growth ITES-BPO industry by 2009 is estimated to be 2.62 lakh people, officials said on Tuesday.
In what could result in a complete overhaul of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), the insolvency regulator has sought public comments on the regulations it notified under the code to date. The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has given a window of eight months ending December 31 to all stakeholders to share their views on its regulations. IBBI has called the exercise "crowdsourcing of ideas".
the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday said the country's IT industry is slated to grow by 26 per cent this year driven by strong economic performance.
India's information technology industry is estimated to cross Rs 1 lakh crore in 2004-05 and employ over 10 lakh knowledge professionals, according to Nasscom.
India's IT industry will seek an increase in the number of H1-B (non-immigrant) visas and a mechanism to refund social security taxes paid by Indian professionals in the US, when President George W Bush visits India early next month.
The export of software and information technology services to Japan could triple to $1,500 million in the near future if Indo-Japan double taxation avoidance agreement is renegotiated.
Personal computer sales crossed 17.1 lakh (1.71 million) units during the first half of the current fiscal, showing a growth of 37 per cent over the same period last fiscal.
The Centre for Management Education invites applications for its Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology and Management.
Forty per cent businesses have realised productivity benefits through the usage of information technology while more Indian companies are steadily increasing the use of IT for Return on Investment.
Marking a significant turnaround in personal computer sales, the desktop PC market clocked 23 lakh (2.3 million) units, registering a 37 per cent growth during 2002-03, compared to a negative growth of 11 per cent last year.
NRI steel baron Lakshmi Niwas Mittal's LNM Foundation announced on Wednesday the launch of Rs 36 crore (Rs 360 million) IT institute near Jaipur in association with the Rajasthan government.
An order, issued last year, makes it mandatory for certain electronic products being sold in the Indian market to comply with BIS specifications
A local court, while granting bail to businessman Raj Kundra, a key accused in a pornographic films case, noted that the element of inducement, which is the prime ingredient in cheating offences, appears to be missing from the case presented by the prosecution.
Personal computer sales in the country are likely to grow 40 per cent during 2004-05 touching 4.2 million units, the Manufacturers Association of Information Technology said on Thursday.
The number of active Internet subscribers in terms of entities increased marginally to 1.30 million in September 2002 against 1.29 million in March 2002.
Sharjeel Usmani, the son of Assistant Professor Tariq Usmani of the AMU's Department of Geography, was picked by the Uttar Pradesh's anti-terrorist squad (ATS) sleuths from his uncle's house in Azamgarh on Wednesday and was subsequently produced in a court in Aligarh which remanded him in judicial custody, they said.
Amid demands for expulsion of arrested West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee by Trinamool Congress leaders, the party convened a meeting on Thursday evening.
According to the police, one of the accused had made IEDs and later tested them at several places in Delhi, Rajasthan and Haldwani in Uttarakhand.
The US move to reduce the number of H1B visas to 65,000 from 195,000 will affect the Indian information technology industry in the long run, Kiran Karnik
Google LLC has contended that the information technology rules for digital media are not applicable to its search engine, and urged the Delhi high court on Wednesday to set aside a single judge order which applied the rules on the company while dealing with an issue related to removal of offending content from the internet.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has asked the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange to provide data of scrips traded on April 10 to analyse the reasons for the crash of the information technology scrips on that day.\n\n\n\n
...current industry models will soon fade out, notes Ajit Balakrishnan.
The US tech major is planning to begin local production of its upcoming iPhone 12 by next April - within six months of its launch.
A powerful senatorial committee on Wednesday is set to consider a bipartisan resolution to recognise Arunachal Pradesh as an integral part of India, pushing back against China's military aggression to change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control.
'Looking at the speed at which changes were made post the Franklin Templeton issue, we are awaiting more stricter norms in the months to come.'
'My understanding is that by the time President Xi Jinping came for the Chennai summit [2019], he had already instructed his army to undertake the action in Galwan in the summer of 2020.'
The American influential IT and telecom industry sought intervention of the Obama Administration against what they alleged are "discriminatory" Indian policies, which they claimed has resulted in several hundred millions of dollars of losses in the last quarter.
The recent ruling by the Authority of Advance Rulings making back-office services provided by a company to global firms taxable under GST, has sent shockwaves through the information technology and business process outsourcing industry.
The submission was made by the UN Special Rapporteurs on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan; on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association Clement Nyaletsossi Voule; and the right to privacy, Joseph Cannataci.
TMC and other opposition party members rushed into the well of the House as Vaishnaw was called to make a statement over the issue.
The first state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the US is likely to be a defining moment for Indo-US relationship and both sides are working on a robust outcome document that may take up matters that would decide the contour of the bilateral ties for decades to come, according to people familiar with the planning of the high-profile trip.
