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Former Telecom Secretary Backs M.Tech Fee Hike
R Chandrashekhar, who was conferred Distinguished Alumnus award of IIT Bombay in 2010, backed the fee increase, saying it would also exert pressure on the IITs to make their programmes more market- and research-orientated to keep abreast with the changing times.
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Angel Tax: Government, Babus Not In Sync With India's Start-Up Story, Says R Chandrashekhar
The purpose of the angel tax was ostensibly to weed out money launderers who could use undisclosed income to invest in start-ups.
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Artificial Intelligence Has Come of Age, Says Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar
As Saudi Arabia's decision to grant citizenship to a robot makes international headlines, a top official of the Indian IT industry body says it signifies that AI has come of age.
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IT Companies Didn't Lose Jobs, But Added 1.7 Lakh, Says Industry Body
India's IT companies added 1.7 lakh jobs in the last one year alone, 50,000 of them in Q4, or the first three months of 2017, industry body Nasscom announced on Thursday, calling media reports of mass layoffs in the sector as over-hyped.
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Layoffs At Indian Tech Companies: What We Know In 10 Points
Industry body Nasscom has described as "incorrect and misleading," reports of mass layoffs in India's IT companies, saying they are still hiring 1.5 lakh people every year. Nasscom president R Chandrashekhar has explained that tech companies are moving away from scale and towards skill. As tech giants make headlines for handing out thousands of pin...
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Singapore Visa Clampdown Seen As Big Worry For Indian IT
The tightening of the H-1B regime has grabbed a lot of spotlight but the visa issue should not be looked at as 'be all and end all' of the entire IT industry's growth, Nasscom President, R Chandrashekhar said.
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In A First, IT Industry Body Nasscom Defers Growth Forecast
The Indian IT industry is facing multiple headwinds - changing technology landscape, global events like Brexit and concerns over tightening of H-1B visa regime.
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Telecom Policy Of 1994 Was A Bit Disaster: Nasscom President
In 1999, new telecom policy was released under which it issued licence to company promising high revenue share to the government.
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Government, Industry Need To Tackle Challenges Of Globalisation: Nasscom
Nasscom has expressed disappointment with the UK government's decision to implement the proposed changes to its visa system that will affect skilled IT migration.
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India's Ease Of Doing Business Rank 'Worrying': IT Industry Body Nasscom
In the World Bank's latest 'Doing Business' 2017 report, India's place remained unchanged from last year's ranking of 130 among 190 economies that were assessed on various parameters.
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Big Data, Automation Will Create New IT Jobs: Nasscom
Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar says technology has always ended up creating more jobs than it destroys.
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H-1B Visas: 'Discriminatory Action', Not Rhetoric, Worries Nasscom
IT industry body Nasscom on Wednesday shrugged off pre-election political commentary in the US around work visas, but expressed concern over "discriminatory approaches" of the American authorities.
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NASSCOM, Facebook Ink MoU To Engage With India's Entrepreneurs
The trade body of Indian IT firms NASSCOM has signed an MoU with Facebook to build a product design initiative to engage the country's young entrepreneurs into becoming problem solvers and solution builders.
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Facebook, Nasscom Partner to Engage With India's Entrepreneurs
"This is a joint initiative to catalyse the innovation ecosystem and to help design thinking," Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar said.
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US Visa Fees Hiked: IT Firms Staring at Over Rs 25,000 Crore Bill
The US has doubled H-1B visa fee from $2,000 to $4,000, while L-1 visa fee has been hiked from $2,250 to $4,500. The 100 per cent hike in fees of two of the most popular non-immigration visas is generating a lot of controversy because the US is the biggest market for Indian IT companies with annual exports estimated at $60 billion.
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Former Telecom Secretary Backs M.Tech Fee Hike
R Chandrashekhar, who was conferred Distinguished Alumnus award of IIT Bombay in 2010, backed the fee increase, saying it would also exert pressure on the IITs to make their programmes more market- and research-orientated to keep abreast with the changing times.
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Angel Tax: Government, Babus Not In Sync With India's Start-Up Story, Says R Chandrashekhar
The purpose of the angel tax was ostensibly to weed out money launderers who could use undisclosed income to invest in start-ups.
-
Artificial Intelligence Has Come of Age, Says Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar
As Saudi Arabia's decision to grant citizenship to a robot makes international headlines, a top official of the Indian IT industry body says it signifies that AI has come of age.
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IT Companies Didn't Lose Jobs, But Added 1.7 Lakh, Says Industry Body
India's IT companies added 1.7 lakh jobs in the last one year alone, 50,000 of them in Q4, or the first three months of 2017, industry body Nasscom announced on Thursday, calling media reports of mass layoffs in the sector as over-hyped.
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Layoffs At Indian Tech Companies: What We Know In 10 Points
Industry body Nasscom has described as "incorrect and misleading," reports of mass layoffs in India's IT companies, saying they are still hiring 1.5 lakh people every year. Nasscom president R Chandrashekhar has explained that tech companies are moving away from scale and towards skill. As tech giants make headlines for handing out thousands of pin...
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Singapore Visa Clampdown Seen As Big Worry For Indian IT
The tightening of the H-1B regime has grabbed a lot of spotlight but the visa issue should not be looked at as 'be all and end all' of the entire IT industry's growth, Nasscom President, R Chandrashekhar said.
-
In A First, IT Industry Body Nasscom Defers Growth Forecast
The Indian IT industry is facing multiple headwinds - changing technology landscape, global events like Brexit and concerns over tightening of H-1B visa regime.
-
Telecom Policy Of 1994 Was A Bit Disaster: Nasscom President
In 1999, new telecom policy was released under which it issued licence to company promising high revenue share to the government.
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Government, Industry Need To Tackle Challenges Of Globalisation: Nasscom
Nasscom has expressed disappointment with the UK government's decision to implement the proposed changes to its visa system that will affect skilled IT migration.
-
India's Ease Of Doing Business Rank 'Worrying': IT Industry Body Nasscom
In the World Bank's latest 'Doing Business' 2017 report, India's place remained unchanged from last year's ranking of 130 among 190 economies that were assessed on various parameters.
-
Big Data, Automation Will Create New IT Jobs: Nasscom
Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar says technology has always ended up creating more jobs than it destroys.
-
H-1B Visas: 'Discriminatory Action', Not Rhetoric, Worries Nasscom
IT industry body Nasscom on Wednesday shrugged off pre-election political commentary in the US around work visas, but expressed concern over "discriminatory approaches" of the American authorities.
-
NASSCOM, Facebook Ink MoU To Engage With India's Entrepreneurs
The trade body of Indian IT firms NASSCOM has signed an MoU with Facebook to build a product design initiative to engage the country's young entrepreneurs into becoming problem solvers and solution builders.
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Facebook, Nasscom Partner to Engage With India's Entrepreneurs
"This is a joint initiative to catalyse the innovation ecosystem and to help design thinking," Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar said.
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US Visa Fees Hiked: IT Firms Staring at Over Rs 25,000 Crore Bill
The US has doubled H-1B visa fee from $2,000 to $4,000, while L-1 visa fee has been hiked from $2,250 to $4,500. The 100 per cent hike in fees of two of the most popular non-immigration visas is generating a lot of controversy because the US is the biggest market for Indian IT companies with annual exports estimated at $60 billion.
