Premji said, Wipro is not feeling the "effects" of the eurozone crisis.
A specialised force with 1,000 personnel to be formed in the state for the same.
Both are designed for safety of women.
The move will hit American companies more than India's $60-billion IT and outsourcing industry.
"People would come to India because they need to leverage talent wherever it is available. By 2025, the Asia Pacific economies will cross that of Europe."
The recent ruling by the Authority of Advance Rulings making back-office services provided by a company to global firms taxable under GST, has sent shockwaves through the information technology and business process outsourcing industry.
Despite a tough economic scenario, the Indian IT software and services sector will touch the $50-billion mark in 2008-09, though the indicated growth is lower at 21-24 per cent (currency-adjusted), according to Nasscom.
The DST has accepted a proposal of National Association of Software and Service Companies in this regard.
Nasscom president Kiran Karnik on Wednesday suggested the government should allow establishment of private higher and technical educational institutions on the lines special economic zones to provide quality education in the country.
Ayan Pramanik and Shivani Shinde Nadhe report on the uncertainties that have dragged down shares of TCS, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies.
The US move to reduce the number of H1B visas to 65,000 from 195,000 will affect the Indian information technology industry in the long run, Kiran Karnik
A study conducted by BSA estimates that a 10-point drop in piracy in India from 74-64 per cent over four years would add 115,847 jobs.
IT industry association Nasscom on Tuesday said the export revenue target of $50 billion by 2010 will be delayed by 3-4 quarters due to the global economic downturn, and warned of uncertainties in the near future.
India's roughly $150 billion outsourcing sector generates about three quarters of its revenue from the United States.
This provides for H-1B extensions beyond the 6-year limit.
The potential offshored engineering market in India could exceed $40 billion by 2020, which will catapult India's market share in the same category to 30 per cent from the current 12 per cent.
IDG Ventures India on Thursday announced that Kiran Karnik, former president of National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) and a recipient of the Padma Shri has joined the company, on their global advisory board. IDG Ventures India's advisory board includes icons like N Balasubramanian, K B Chandrashekar, Arjun Malhotra, Sridhar Mitta, Jagdish Sheth and V Sumantran. Kiran Karnik was president of Nasscom till January 2008.
The sector, including domestic and exports segments, is growing at an estimated 28 per cent in FY07.
National Association of Software and Service Companies advocated the creation of Special Economic Zones
The Satyam incident did not come as a bolt from the blue for the Bangalore-based IT-BPO union, who had written to the IT industry body Nasscom, the Prime Minister, IT Minister and Ramalinga Raju himself to conduct an inquiry into the affairs of the company in 2008.
After 100% FDI, DIPP has put a condition an e-commerce entity will not be permitted more than 25% of sales through its marketplace from one vendor or their group companies
The low-profile CEO started his new innings with the new year.
Information technology firms that announced a boycott of the city's annual IT exposition protesting poor infrastructure received support from National Association of Software and Service Companies
"There is a great deal of similarity between the advertising industry and the IT industry. One of them is that they both provide services," Kiran Karnik, former president of Nasscom, said during his address on the first day of Goafest 2008, the three-day meeting of the advertising industry.
There will be a huge market for healthcare professionals, data and security experts and digital marketers, says Navneet Singh, founder, Avsar HR Services.
"When I look at a product like Zune, or other path-breaking applications like software on demand, I always wonder why these products could not come from India," said Anand Mahindra, vice-chairman and MD, Mahindra & Mahindra.
Every rupee spent by the IT-ITeS sector (on domestically-sourced goods and services) translates into a total output of Rs 2 in the economy.
Stricter regulations in US forces industry to look at these countries with a market size of $300 billion
Corbus India has been named the most-lucrative emerging company to work for, in a new survey by information technology industry body Nasscom. In its first survey on the 'Top 15 Exciting Emerging Companies to Work for' in the IT-BPO sector in India, Nasscom identified the best small- and medium-enterprises that had a turnover of less than Rs 250 crore.
The Indian software and services exports are expected to touch the $40 billion mark in FY08 ($31.3 billion in FY07), contributing nearly 64 per cent to the overall revenue aggregate (including software exports, domestic and BPO segments), according to IT trade body Nasscom's Strategic Review 2008.
The problem, says Chandrasekaran, arises from the lack of access to services, including healthcare, education and financial services.
The herculean effort and complexity involved in getting IT-BPO employees and employers to register - coupled with the high costs incurred in the process - is likely to force IT industry body Nasscom to miss its March 2008 target of 500,000 registrations for its National Skills Registry (NSR) by a huge margin.
Corbus India, RMSI and Hytech Professionals may be lesser known companies IT space compared to peer group but they rank as the top three firms in Nasscom's 'Exciting Emerging Companies to Work for' list.The other companies in the list of 15 are Nagarro Software, VCustomer, e4e Business Solutions, Synergy India, Ajuba Solutions, Mindlogicx, Nucleus Software, Infogain, ValueLabs, Barry-Wehmiller, GlobalLogic and AgreeYa.
The government said on Wednesday there will be no unbundling of BSNL and MTNL's fixed line networks for laying of broadband lines by private operators.
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.
India's software export target of $60 billion by 2010 will not be revised despite rupee appreciation, but the profitabilities of small IT companies and BPO sector are bound to suffer, Nasscom said on Wednesday.
