Hindustan Unilever (HUL) has topped the Perpetual Capital Hurun India Impact 50 - 2026 list with 53.9 points (on the scale of 0-100), reflecting a strong performance across key sustainable development goals (SDGs), including climate, water, circularity, gender and biodiversity.
Bengaluru-based IT major Infosys is growing its footprint in the Nordics by establishing a new proximity centre in Oslo, Norway, as part of its continued expansion plans in the region. The new centre is expected to enable Infosys to attract, re-skill, and upskill local talent to work on global opportunities through next-gen technologies like cloud, AI, IoT, 5G, and software engineering. The Nordic region consists of five sovereign states - Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden - besides the three autonomous territories connected to these states: the Faroe Islands and Greenland (Denmark), and land (Finland).
As a special gesture, Frederiksen received Modi at the airport. He arrived in Copenhagen from Germany.
Employees in Latin America (86%), the Nordic region (84%),North America (79%) and South EastAsia (75%) are most likely to get a pay rise in 2013.
In a statement, Modi said he will be visiting Berlin on May 2 at the invitation of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, following which he will travel to Copenhagen on May 3-4 at the invitation of his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen to hold bilateral engagements and also participate in the Second India-Nordic Summit.
The ripples of inflexible labour laws and active labour unions -- which affected information technology outsourcing by European countries, especially France and Germany -- are now being felt in the Nordic region, too. Recently, protests by the staff union forced Handelsbanken, a leading Swedish bank, to award the IT outsourcing contract to a local company after cancelling plans to award the contract to an Indian Tier-I vendor.
Infosys, the country's second largest information technology exporter, plans to sharpen its focus on specific segments for select regions as part of its strategy for expansion and servicing of new markets.
In a four part series beginning today Pushpinder Bhatia talks about various aspects of studying in Denmark.
i-flex solutions has entered into an agreement with Norway-based EDB Business Partner ASA to jointly offer retail banking solutions to financial institutions in the Nordic region, primarily in Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland.
The Norway-based firm, Telenor, entered India through a joint venture with Unitech Wireless.
iGate Corp, the Nasdaq-listed information technology (IT) services company, on Thursday posted better-than-expected numbers for the quarter ended September 30, backed by impressive performance by some of its key verticals such as banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI), manufacturing and health care.
The Volvo S60 Cross Country is a very capable car that can be handled across all weather and terrain conditions, says P Tharyan.
The Sensex ended 290 points higher at 29,095 mark and the Nifty gained 94 points to close at 8,806 levels.
The President said Indian economy grew at 5.7 per cent during the first quarter of 2014-15.