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Indian tech startups added a record number of unicorns in 2020: Nasscom

Remote work helped startups reduce burn and accelerated the growth of new tech hubs.

Ministry of skills development joins hands with Microsoft and NASSCOM for digital learning content at ITIs

Nearly 1,20,000 students in around 3000 ITIs across India can be benefited by this digitized e-learning module via the Bharatskills portal,...

Don’t limit data centre sops to location-based criteria: Nasscom

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) last month released a draft Data Centre Policy and invited comments from the industry and public...

Centre's new IT norms are set to further boost the WFH model, possibly making it permanent

Simplified guidelines for business process outsourcing and ITeS companies issued by the government last Thursday will encourage hybrid work...

Indian IT industry looks forward to working together with new US administration

Nasscom has projected a revenue growth of 7.7 per cent at USD 191 billion for the IT sector in the ongoing fiscal. The industry has added a...

Govt relaxes rules, facilitates work from home for tech industry

Under the Other Service Provider (OSP) guidelines of the Department of Telecom (DoT), the registration requirement for OSPs has been done a...

TCS wants more women leaders in top deck, sensitisation on caste issues also on cards

“Today diversity is among the centre points of focus for our CEO and leadership. I have upfront seen the board-level questions, board-level...

Indian IT firms see rise in engineering research and development deals from their global clients

Last week, Wipro received a multi-year global contract for providing automotive engineering services from Marelli. Analysts said the deal c...

Nasscom expects Indian ER&D sector to grow to $75 billion by 2025

The engineering research and development services or ER&D, including development centres of global companies and businesses of Indian compa...

New gen services, products to be half of HCL revenues in 3 years: C Vijayakumar

Right now, we are still in the middle of the pandemic and India is still at an intense phase. However, post this normalizing, we would expe...

Govt forms a committee to fast-track rules for work from anywhere

This working group is under the larger inter-ministerial group set up by the ministry of electronics and IT (MEITY) that has been coordinat...

How India's Silicon Valley saw its COVID-19 success come undone

Two and a half months on, Bengaluru, dubbed India's Silicon Valley for its tech firms and startups, has reported more than 110,000 cases. W...

IT companies step up reskilling of employees as they prepare for post-pandemic scenario

Companies such as Infosys, Wipro, Accenture, Zensar Technologies, among others, have embarked on a massive upskilling drive to make sure th...

Nasscom welcomes latest H-1B visa exemptions, says cautiously optimistic

On Wednesday, the US Department of State announced ‘national interest exemptions’ to the two Presidential Proclamations suspending entry of...

Shelf-life of skills now only 2-3 years, says NASSCOM Chairman U B Pravin Rao

​​As corporates are reinventing themselves, individuals also need to reinvent themselves to stay relevant, said the Chief Operating Officer...

Nasscom says Donald Trump's order on H1-B visa based on misinformation

The order directs the heads of each federal department and agency to review the use of offshore services as well as temporary foreign labou...

India has potential to be magnet for digital innovation: Debjani Ghosh, Nasscom prez

"It's not just leveraging the talent, it's about ensuring we have the right policy framework to take the risk, to try out new things, it's ...