There's a churn in Infosys' highest paid senior executives' list for financial year 2007-08, with Nandan Nilekani, S Gopalakrishnan and S D Shibulal conspicuously missing from the top five.According to a filing by IT bellwether to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, B G Srinivas, Ashok Vemuri and T V Mohandas Pai were the highest paid executives in FY08.
The software major has plans to invest Rs 500 crore at Kolkata campus that will create employment for 5,000 professionals. The company is yet to get possession of 90 acres of land assured by the state government. West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Thursday said that Infosys had shown apprehension about investing in the state following recent incidents in Singur where Trinamool Congress has been agitating against acquisition of farmland by the state governme
Twitter said it is a platform where "marginalised voices can be seen and heard, but we also have a public commitment to being apolitical. We realise that this photo may not accurately represent that commitment".
Infosys, the country's third largest software firm, on Thursday said it was undecided on going ahead with investment plans in West Bengal, where socio-political opposition has thrown Tata Motors' Nano project into uncertainty.
Three youths from Tamil Nadu, working for an Italian petroleum ship company in Nigeria, were abducted on October 26 by armed militants demanding $50 million for their release.
Forty-six years after the late iconic civil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King--who was inspired by Mohandas Gandhi-- delivered his 'I have a dream' speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Barack Hussain Obama, whose campaign theme was 'Yes, we can," was sworn in at 11.56 am on January 20th as the nation's 44 president and the first ever African American chief executive on the steps of the west front of the Capitool in the presence of over an unprecedented crowd.
Reacting strongly to the Satyam fiasco, IT major Infosys has said the fraud is a deliberate act and should be treated under criminal provisions.
'The focus for IT companies will shift from adding scale to building a smaller, more specialised, talent pool with specific domain expertise,' says Shyamal Majumdar.
Darshan Jariwala talks about his role in Gandhi My Father.
Pai, a highflier in the software giant (he is still just under 50), has a zen for cities. As human resources head of Infosys he is constantly scouting around in India for newer destinations where the company can set up shop to beat rising costs. And he is all the time benchmarking these against the worlds great cities to develop an agenda for change and betterment.
Although internet users face restrictions under Emergency, bloggers are having a free run denouncing the General for imposing Emergency and sundry other anti-democracy sins, while invoking Gandhi and Martin Luther King in order to steer the people's growing frustration on a non-violent path.
"I think the people, who have been joining in the last one-two years, have a feeling of restlessness among them," T V Mohandas Pai, who is in charge of human resources at the Bangalore-headquartered Nasdaq-listed firm, said.
IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd on Thursday said that it would invest Rs 800 crore more during the current fiscal.
In an apparent dig at his rival and Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said people talk about history without proper knowledge of the subject.
Aseem Chhabra picks the finest Indian films in the 2010-2019 decade.
The IT major has earmarked $4 million for this purpose.
Infosys is boosting its investments in training by more than two-and-half-times to Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion) besides adding to the seating capacity, as scramble for talent in the industry gains further momentum.
Wage hikes in both information technology and BPO sector is not likely to see any moderation from next year but would continue to grow at the current rate of 12-15 per cent annually, a senior Infosys Technologies official said.
In conversation with the creator of Yamadonga.
The company said in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission that in addition to the salary, Pai earned a bonus/incentive of $117,336, other annual compensation of $21,779 and $15,287 as long-term benefits.
Hyderabad has possibly the best infrastructure for IT in India today, says Infosys chief financial officer T V Mohandas Pai.
'Nowhere amidst the efflorescence of 13 military bands, 16 marching contingents and 22 tableaux was there any hint that far from being a rich country of poor people, the closely guarded secret is that India is a poor country of extremely rich people,' notes Sunanda K Datta-Ray.
The op-ed ends with a call to the world to work shoulder to shoulder to end hate, violence and suffering.
Infosys on Wednesday came down heavily on the special economic zone concept, stating that it is against small companies and this can stifle innovation.
Infosys directors - N R Narayana Murthy, Nandan Nilekani, T V Mohandas Pai (head of HR) and five others - have collectively offered 1.3 crores
'His working style differs from his father as he is a quick decision-maker.'
Newly formed Goa Forward party has opposed the release of a book on Mahatma Gandhi's killer Nathuram Godse scheduled for Saturday.
IT major Infosys Technologies is all set to expand its operations in Hyderabad with a second campus that would come up in 550 acres with an investment of Rs 1,250 crore (Rs 12.50 billion) over the next ten years.
'We have gathered the ECG details from different stages of Gandhiji's life and recreated his heartbeat on the digital medium. This will be a very interesting feature for the public,' says museum director A Annamalai.
The last two months of 2015 have some big Malayalam movie releases coming up.
