TCS completed its highest ever hiring of over 90,000 new employees globally during the year.
Quite a few large- and mid-cap stocks are yet to recover from the note ban, pharma, banking and rural demand-based industries among laggards.
The record in net addition from the top four was in 2016-17, of 59,427 employees.
N Ganapathy Subramaniam further said TCS has signed deals worth over $6 billion in a matter of just 2-3 weeks
The founder of the e-commerce firm, which specialises in procurement of industrial products, believes if he plays his cards right, his company could become a unicorn with a valuation of $1 billion in 5 years.
TCS' brand value grew 286 per cent from $2.3 billion in 2010 to $9.04 billion in 2016
4 MNCs among top 10 companies with dividend-earning promoters in FY15.
The Delhi-based airline currently has 13 Airbus A320 aircraft in the fleet and it plans to take another seven (A320 Neo) planes by June 2018.
The five private DTH operators (Dish TV, Tata Sky and Sun Direct being the other three) are expected to add over six million new subscribers by the end of December, to take the overall subscriber base to over 17 million, a 57 per cent growth over December 2008.
A career Citibanker, 'Selva' came into the spotlight as the person who rewired the financial behemoth's Indian retail operations.
The industry is looking at a promising 2016, though experts and even the investors anticipate correction on the valuation side
Omkeshwar Singh, Head, Rank MF, a mutual fund investment platform, answers your queries.
Key events that rocked India Inc in 2014 and one of them is Vishal Sikka taking over reins at Infosys.
Can we make high speed 4G Internet available at 10 cents per GB, and make all voice calls free of cost -- that too in a large and diverse country like India? Can we make high-quality but simple breast cancer screening available to every woman, that too at the extremely affordable cost of $1 per scan? Can we make a portable, high-tech ECG machine which can provide reports immediately and that too at the cost of 8 cents a test? Can we make an eye imaging device that is portable, non-invasive and costs 3 times less that conventional devices? Can we make a robust test for mosquito-borne dengue, which can detect the disease on day 1, and that too at the cost of $2 per test? Amazingly, says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, all this has been achieved in India, not only by using technological innovation but also non-technological innovation.
Reliance Retail has tied up with Microsoft to launch the concept of connected homes.
ignio has more than 75 patents filed in the artificial intelligence, machine-learning and intelligent-automation space
"India is one of our focus markets, where we have crossed $500 million in (annual) revenue. Our India business has been growing in double digits for the last few years and we expect to continue this, as IT spending in the country is expected to rise further," said N Chandrasekaran, executive director and chief operating officer of the company. India contributed close to 8 per cent to the company's Rs 278.13 billion turnover in fiscal 2008-09.
While most analysts remain positive on TCS and Infosys, they are cautious on Wipro.
The combined weight of IT companies in the benchmark Nifty 50 index is now at a five-year high of 15 per cent as these companies continue to outperform the broader market.
While there has been an improvement in the overall demand environment, the other reason expected to trigger this growth is the absence of a bench strength in most companies
The combined assets of the top five - Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys Technologies, Wipro, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra were down one per cent to Rs 27,7400 crore at the end of 2017-18, from Rs 28,0100 crore a year before.
Street may be ignoring TCS headwinds as the stock's peak valuation doesn't seem justified by BFSI weakness, likely higher US tax rates and stronger rupee, reports Ram Prasad Sahu.
AI, cloud computing, data analytics are a few areas companies are looking for proficiency in
Analysts now expect India Inc to report a decline in both top line and bottom line for the September quarter.
First time in 13 years the company has declined payment of dividend.
Commercial vehicles witnessed a fall of 15-17% in November as buyers struggled to meet margin money requirements, reports Swaraj Baggonkar.
TCS is confident of bringing in industry-leading numbers, despite soft third quarter results
Among key stocks, Tata Motors, Hero MotoCorp, L&T, Wipro, ICICI Bank, Dr Reddy's Labs and ICICI Bank, all up between 1%-3%
Profitability and cash reserves have halved since the global financial crisis.
Did you know that India is among the top five countries in food processing?
The country's biggest carmaker is now more valuable than the combined market cap of the three leading automobile companies in the country: Tata Motors (Rs 1,18,684 crore), M&M (Rs 86,336 crore) and Ashok Leyland (Rs 34,700 crore).
"Protectionism is not new. The attention that is given is because there is a political and emotional element to it." TCS COO N G Subramaniam on why his company is optimistic despite global headwinds.
The expansion into smaller towns is coming at a time when the online retail space has not only seen consolidation but is actually looking to collaborate with physical stores. Abhineet Kumar reports.
Deal to help RCom reduce debt, Sun gain subscribers in new markets
"The Board in its meeting... has considered, approved and recommended a bonus issue of one equity share for every equity share held and a stock dividend of one American Depositary Share (ADS) for every ADS held, as on a record date to be determined," the company said in the regulatory filing.
'Young people are digital natives.' 'Hence, their ability to learn coding and to become a full stack engineer is far more.' 'The demand for such people is more as we feel that if we hire people from campuses, we can train them to become what we want.'
'I reached Bhopal the day after the gas tragedy; the smell was still in the air. It was a professional hazard but I was not scared.'
He will be in Mumbai for a day to deliver a keynote address at Future Unleashed.
There was an uptick in clients' spends in the digital segment.
