In the age of robots and automation, skills such as people management, coordination and negotiations will be relevant, says Babita Shekhar.
Xi does not want to risk any political or economic crisis complicating his bid to remain in office, observes Ambassador Shyam Saran, the former foreign secretary.
Over 5 million alumni from the Indian Institutes of Technology, Mumbai University and Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, plan to raise Rs 21,000 crore to start the world's largest infection testing lab in Mumbai.
The terrible beauty of Doval's initiative is that it is all about a new journey rather than about a set compass pointing toward a pre-determined destination, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
One key suggestion is to be mindful to practise respect and empathy consciously.
Sabeer Bhatia may not have hit bull's eye with his recent ventures, but he loves the challenge of setting up new businesses.
'If you yourself don't believe in the product, you will never be able to sell it.' 'If you have got the basics right, if you have understood the consumer needs well, success will always follow.'
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to send solar-powered airships to explore Venus' atmosphere and to eventually establish a permanent human colony in a floating cloud city above the Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.
Convergence of online and offline is the new mantra which is changing the education map of the country.
Most large companies have curbed their hiring plans in 2018-19 because they continue to invest in digital technologies.
Job cuts in Indian IT companies will be 1.75 -2 lakh per year in next 3 years, due to under- preparedness in adapting newer technologies, says Head Hunters MD
People were busy, rushing from one panel to the other to grab some knowledge on Cloud, Mobility, Social Media, Energy, Women Entrepreneurship and the newly formed Youth Panel.
It is unfortunate that a section of politicians holding policy-making positions are disregarding peer-reviewed scientific opinion on GM crops and are, instead, falling for disputable dissenting viewpoints.
In one of the biggest deals in the outsourced product development (OPD) market, audio and infotainment systems maker Harman International Industries will buy Indian-born serial entrepreneur Romesh Wadhwani's Symphony Teleca for $780 million (about Rs 4,800 crore at Friday's exchange rate of 61.4).
Modi highlighted the importance of assimilating technology with governance to ensure equitable growth and prosperity for all.
Global IT major IBM CEO Ginni Rometty on Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The future of Hawkeye, the ball tracking technology used to review leg before decisions, is under a cloud following an incident in ongoing first Test between Sri Lanka and Australia.
TCS is setting up a large BPO operation in Varanasi next year, some staff could be absorbed there
Some of them include Spider G, NeuroTags, Genrobotic Innovations, AI Aeronautics, Synersense, Dealshare and NanoHealth. 'Highway to a Hundred Unicorns,' the Microsoft for startups initiative, works closely with local governments to strengthen the startup ecosystem in each state.
Taizo Son, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's youngest brother, is also planning to enter India.
The Nobel Assembly on Tuesday said in a tweet, 'The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.'
Service sector and employees alike are embracing the gig economy in India.
Taking a step further in eGovernance, the Andhra Pradesh state Cabinet has now gone paperless.
Less than 50 per cent respondents admit that their company has sufficient security controls, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Major carmakers in the country are loading barrels for the coming battle in the field, reports Arnab Dutta.
Top officials in key ministries, including finance and IT, are of the opinion that a sensitive payments system such as UPI should not be on a platform whose security is possibly compromised.
ITC Infotech looks to buy 'sub-$50 mn' firms
The Microsoft chief's comments come in the wake of Bill Gates' call for levying taxes on robots that take away jobs from people.
'Lakhs of engineers graduate every year in India and the IT industry used to be the primary recruiter. That is going to end.'
The latest survey is based on a sampling of 565 executives.
The Micosoft CEO is scheduled to have a breakfast meeting with Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister.
It had reorganised its India business by carving out public sector undertaking and government businesses. Besides the company had also split its India and West Asia businesses.
Vehicles would be able to offer advice during challenging driving or parking situations, while also providing company to drivers on long, solitary trips
Hewlett Packard and Microsoft Corporation on Thursday announced a three-year agreement to invest $250 million to significantly simplify technology environments for businesses of all sizes.
22 bodies, 13 from Kottayam district and 9 from Idukki were recovered from various rain-hit areas while National Disaster Response Force teams continued their rescue operations.
What makes Nagaraj's achievement significant is the fact that there have been only about 80 Intel Fellows globally in the 50 years of the company's operation.
Tech Mahindra is building 5G use cases with US-based hospitals to help manage devices remotely and eventually manage remote surgeries that will require seamless network connectivity.
Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook are both a boon and a bane for angel investors, VCs as well as start-ups. If the Big Tech companies get broken up and their powers to acquire get significantly curbed therefore, the whole ecosystem will need to change, says Prosenjit Datta.
Tata Consultancy Services TCS) said it has bagged a Rs 85-crore three-year deal for implementing smart card-based Financial Inclusion Solution (FIS) for Indian Bank.
Undeterred by the pandemic, Deep Narayan Nayak, a school teacher in a village in Bengal, changes countless lives for the better. Payal Singh Mohanka reports on this Extraordinary Indian.
