The government needs to make the right policies and further execute them properly if it wants to move towards this goal
While hybrids, CNG and biofuels found favour in 2018 among many carmakers including Maruti Suzuki, Mercedes-Benz, Toyota and Honda, others such as M&M and Tata Motors have shown full faith in electric vehicles.
N Ganapathy Subramaniam further said TCS has signed deals worth over $6 billion in a matter of just 2-3 weeks
The company, which has employed 950 people directly and another 1,500 indirectly at its store in Hyderabad, plans to hire 15,000 in the coming years as it expands operations in India.
The fields have reserves of about 89 million tonnes
The firm-level optimism derives partly from the state of the global economy.
Beijing blames climate change for wreaking havoc on scarce water resources.
Microsoft India on Wednesday launched its 'Women in Tech' initiative, which aims to double the number of women IT professionals in India from the present one million in the next few years.
Vishal Sikka's may be a formidable name in the global technology segment, but he isn't your average geek who has time only for technology labs and technical journals.
Sector is hopeful that the Telangana government would bring clarity on industry-related issues such as taxation, single-window clearances and incentives to start-ups.
The growth is a significant recovery for the industry, which recorded just 8 per cent growth in 2009-10.
Global financial crisis has created an adverse impact on the economy especially on the Indian IT industry.
The bigger worry is that the miss for FY19 is likely to be significant even after assuming macro factors such as crude oil prices, rupee, input costs, and interest rates, do not worsen from the current levels, reports Vishal Chhabria.
Four Tech Mahindra employees approached the labour commission in Karnataka
Ashok Soota, one of the co-founders of MindTree and a veteran of the IT industry knows what it takes to try and reach $100 million in five years -- his ambitious goal for his new company titled 'Happiest Minds.'
There is a dearth of talent in the Indian banking industry. A testimony to this is the two new CEOs in the private sector -- Sandeep Bakhshi in ICICI Bank Ltd and Amitabh Chaudhry in AXIS Bank Ltd -- have come from the insurance sector, says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Tell yourself clearly that if you have to be in the IT industry, you will have to do coding and testing; else you will be out of the industry. It will take some time, but you can adjust. It is a mind game. You have to play with your mind.
The money generated, expected to be more than a billion dollar per annum, would be used to fund a biometric entry and exit tracking system
'While we may aspire to be a democratic if smaller version of China, we may only manage to become a larger, more accomplished Indonesia,' says T N Ninan.
Once tipped to emerge as the biggest exporter, the pharmaceutical industry is yet to acquire the scale of those in software services, says Krishna Kant.
Will Infosys, which will announce its Q2 results on Tuesday, be able to break away from the single-digit growth rates the IT services sector has been seeing?
A new forest law gives people a greater say over how natural resources are exploited.
The government of Gujarat has been projecting its industrial growth as a model for other states but it does not appear so industry-friendly in the number of labour laws one needs to comply with, shows a survey.
The issue arose after TCS dismissed hundreds of employees in January 2015, leading to the formation of the IT Employees Wing supported by the NDLF.
Last year, Nasscom hired influential lobbyist, public relation and law firms to plead the case of Indian firms with Congressmen.
The Tata Group has close to 110 companies and Chandrasekaran plans to bring this number down to around five or six.
The CEOs round table is expected to be attended by Apple chief Tim Cook, Walmart head Doug McMillon, Caterpillar's Jim Umpleby, Google head Sundar Pichai and Microsoft's Satya Nadella.
He also said GST will take about a year to stabilise.
The Times Top 50 Employers for Women recognizes organisations that are spearheading gender equality in the workplace.
Companies are expected to firm up their business plans for the second half of the year.
President Obama is scheduled to arrive in India on November 6.
Rajesh Gopinathan, who took charge as chief executive of TCS on Tuesday, said he and his newly appointed team will ensure sustenance of the company's growth momentum and continuous evolution of its strategy.
'You will see more and more people working independently -- starting beauty parlours, driving cars, etc.' This is what we call the gig economy.' 'The same people who have been laid off in India or are unable to get visas to work in the US may be part of this gig economy.' 'India needs billions of jobs, and it can only be created by self-employment or the gig economy.'
The apex body representing Indian IT industry, Nasscom, on Wednesday said that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) would drive growth in the sector and help India maintain its lead globally.
Earlier in the year, Modi government had moved WTO against the US imposing higher fee for applicants seeking two categories of non-immigrant temporary working visas
Spend on IT in US is expected to increase by 6.1 per cent in 2014.
India's Rs 6 lakh crore-plus information technology (IT) industry is back on its high-growth path - led by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), which is ahead of other large firms in top-line numbers for the second quarter.
'It is important that employees are trained to acquire skills that would be needed in future, when the company sees disruption coming -- that is, much before the disruption occurs or the company plans to change the business model,' says Asish K Bhattacharyya.
It's not surprising that CEOs in IT companies are among the richest in India Inc.
The strategy of returning cash to shareholders through stock purchases could hinder their digital expansion plans
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