'As the demand for transferable skills that can be remotely applied increases, the need for tech-based courses is on the rise/'
Recent defaults have made a section of traders contemplate moving towards promissory notes.
India Inc has weathered many a storm during Covid-19: from supply chain disruptions to demand dips, steep increase in input costs to shortage of key raw materials. As most companies navigated unprecedented challenges on multiple fronts, realisation dawned also about the criticality of employee welfare in the survival of the business. And it was the human resources (HR) department that faced the greatest test on this front.
According to a PTI report, in the latest '2012 Global Outsourcing 100', compiled by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, three Indian firms have found a place in the top 10, with Accenture heading the list.
Infosys has been in the eye of the storm on alleged violation of H-1B and business visa norms on several occasions in the US
With over 1.7 million vacant cloud computing jobs, the future is bright for candidates with the right skills and experience, says Bhavesh Goswami, founder and CEO, CloudThat Technologies.
The spread of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus has made Indian companies persist with their policy of banning overseas trips and allowing only essential travel within India. The IT services firms, which had planned to ask their employees to return to the workplace, are also waiting and watching the Covid-19 situation before fully opening up their offices. Large conglomerates like the Tatas, Birla, JSW and Reliance are continuing with the mandatory social distancing and masking policies within their office premises.
Analysts say the impact on Indian entities would not be immediate
There will be a huge market for healthcare professionals, data and security experts and digital marketers, says Navneet Singh, founder, Avsar HR Services.
What connects P S Jayakumar of Bank of Baroda, V Vaidyanathan of Capital First Ltd and Chandra Shekhar Ghosh of Bandhan?
'The pandemic helped me to shift my focus to the medicinal qualities of food.'
An Indian American Silicon Valley entrepreneur has launched a unique initiative designed to get techies to volunteer their time to develop software and applications that will benefit people in India and other developing countries.
It emphasised that agricultural infrastructure needs considerable investments and hence Section 80IA benefits must be extended to all such investments like IT infrastructure, computers, VSAT, solar panels, water harvesting facilities, storage etc.
'It is important that students not focus on the remuneration that the job fetches in the first year, but look at the next 5 year journey with that job role.'
Nasscom set up a task force last year, to position India as a global hub for providing cybersecurity solutions
Shringla last served as India's envoy to the US. He will be serving a two-year term. In the course of a diplomatic career spanning 35 years, Shringla has held a variety of positions in New Delhi and abroad, and is considered an expert on India's neighbourhood.
The company has been developing donor-derived stem cell platforms.
The Biden administration has announced that it is delaying the H-1B policy of the previous Trump administration on allocation of the popular foreign work visas by continuing with the lottery system until December 31, 2021, to give the immigration agency more time to develop, test and implement the modifications to the registration system. On January 7, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced to do away with the traditional lottery system in deciding the successful applicants for the H-1B visas. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
Stricter regulations in US forces industry to look at these countries with a market size of $300 billion
A reception often reserved for rockstars came the way of mining mogul Anil Agarwal when he started revealing nuggets of his ascent from a scrap-metal dealer to one of India's most prominent self-made industrialists on social media. And now he has been flooded with booking writing proposals and has even been offered money for a biopic. In February this year, Agarwal, 68, started tweeting his journey from Bihar to Mumbai first and then to London to head a globally diversified natural resources company with interests in zinc-lead-silver, iron ore, steel, copper, aluminium, power, oil and gas.
Amid Trump's expected action against employment visas, India's bellwether IT firms reveal they have been preparing for this eventuality for years.
Though e-commerce opens a new world for the handicraft industry, empowering craftspersons still remains a real challenge.
Growing protectionism in their main markets - the US and the UK - has forced them to hire local workers, upending the cost arbitrage model they had built their business on.
India needs to come up with new ideas to make the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas more appealing to overseas Indians. The Diasporas talents should be used for the country's development, says Thomas Abraham, founder of the Global Organisation of People of Indian Origin
This doctor couple put their faith in India. And in return India has put faith in them.
The job placement rate for students trained by NIIT in China is over 90 per cent.' A revealing excerpt from Saibal Dasgupta's Running With The Dragon: How India Should Do Business With China.
Apart from IT and pharma, the lead spenders in travel are construction, automobile and metals and mining companies and together these sectors accounted for 82 per cent of business travel spend in India in 2015, up from 78 per cent in 2013.
From market leader HP and premium player Apple to China's Lenovo and Asus, all major brands in the market are witnessing rapid surge in the demand for notebooks.
Four years after entering Formula E racing, Mahindra comes out with a racing car designed for the e-racing circuit. Rajesh Karkera/Rediff.com reports.
By 2030 India will be among top three countries in science and technology: PM
A large number of large and small businesses process EU data, have customers from the EU or have access to data of EU citizens in one way or another.
'It is time India thought big not only about its global clout politically and diplomatically, but also act its size against pin-pricking by anti national elements,' says Group Captain Murli Menon (retd).
Amid headwinds across global markets, US issues fresh restrictions on H-1B visas. Ayan Pramanik & Raghu Krishnan list out the many ways in which this impacts the Indian IT industry.
In most cases, the payback on energy saving projects offered by GIBSS are between one and three years.
India's growth, he said, remains resilient with low inflation, fiscal prudence and low current account deficit, talking about robust structural reform measures.
With future prospects being difficult to predict, hiring for a short period is proving to be cost-effective
50 years ago, on April 1, 1968, Tata Consultancy Services -- now India's leading IT company -- was born. The foundation for TCS was laid by Faqir Chand Kohli whose life touched directly or indirectly many, many, Indians, says Shivanand Kanavi.
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
The final inspection will take place later this year following which the venue of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup India 2020 will be named.
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