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  • Only 3-5% of Indian IT workforce is on H-1B; companies don’t expect significant impact of new visa fee

    Only 3-5% of Indian IT workforce is on H-1B; companies don’t expect significant impact of new visa fee

    Meanwhile, the H-1B setback weighed on listed shares of Indian large and midcap IT companies on September 22. Most fell between 2-5 percent to take the Nifty IT index down by up to 3 percent in early trade.

  • $100,000 H-1B visa fee alarms Indian IT sector, immigration lawyers expected to mount legal challenge to Trump's Executive Order

    $100,000 H-1B visa fee alarms Indian IT sector, immigration lawyers expected to mount legal challenge to Trump's Executive Order

    Immigration lawyers are advising impacted professionals to “wait and watch”, because the next step is going to be a litigation against Trump’s move

  • IT lobby Nasscom assessing impact of Trump’s proposed $100,000 H-1B fee

    IT lobby Nasscom assessing impact of Trump’s proposed $100,000 H-1B fee

    Moneycontrol reported that the Indian government too is assessing the situation and New Delhi is in touch with the Indian Embassy in Washington and is holding consultations with Nasscom.

  • $100,000 H-1B visa fee to hit US tech firms hardest: Govt sources

    $100,000 H-1B visa fee to hit US tech firms hardest: Govt sources

    Centre in talks with NASSCOM, Indian Embassy in Washington; fallout may push more global capability centres to India, said a senior government official

  • OPINION | Context Engineering: The next IT services frontier

    OPINION | Context Engineering: The next IT services frontier

    Models are the new microprocessors, and context is their raw material. This shift expands IT services from competing for IT budgets to addressing enterprise-wide budgets — a transformation that will redefine the industry and its customers’ leadership agendas

  • OPINION | The HIRE Act Hype: Why India’s IT advantage still holds

    OPINION | The HIRE Act Hype: Why India’s IT advantage still holds

    The proposed HIRE Act poses a political, not practical, threat to India’s IT sector. Real disruption stems from AI, not outsourcing bans, as economic logic still favors India’s cost advantage

  • TCS is just the start! Experts expect other IT firms to also cut jobs amid margin pressure and AI push

    TCS is just the start! Experts expect other IT firms to also cut jobs amid margin pressure and AI push

    TCS’ move to opt for job cuts will have a cascading effect on other IT companies, which have also been launching various programs to improve operating margins in the past two years amid growth slowdown.

  • Double Trouble: IT layoffs & loan slowdown – is there a storm brewing?

    Double Trouble: IT layoffs & loan slowdown – is there a storm brewing?

    Private banks, which have higher exposure to private sector employees, particularly those from IT, have witnessed an 8-12 percent contraction in their FY26 EPS estimates.

  • MC Interview: Had to take 'difficult call' to build stronger TCS, says CEO K Krithivasan after cutting 12,000 jobs

    MC Interview: Had to take 'difficult call' to build stronger TCS, says CEO K Krithivasan after cutting 12,000 jobs

    'It has not been an easy decision and one of the toughest I had to take', TCS CEO K Krithivasan said

  • HCLTech reappoints C Vijayakumar as CEO and MD for third term

    HCLTech reappoints C Vijayakumar as CEO and MD for third term

    Vijayakumar was first appointed as the company’s CEO back in 2016, when he succeeded former CEO Anant Gupta. Prior to that Vijaykumar was serving as the chief operating officer, and has been with the IT firm for over 31 years in various roles.

  • HCLTech bags 10-year digital deal from New Zealand's Dunedin city

    HCLTech bags 10-year digital deal from New Zealand's Dunedin city

    Through this agreement, HCLTech will transform the Kiwi city council’s IT services across cybersecurity, hybrid cloud, asset management and network services

  • Tech Mahindra CEO Mohit Joshi earned Rs 52.1 crore in FY25

    Tech Mahindra CEO Mohit Joshi earned Rs 52.1 crore in FY25

    There was a 6.52 percent reduction in the median remuneration of employees in FY25. Joshi’s earnings were 840.22 times the median employee salary

  • IT veterans secure 12–14% of C-suite positions in GCCs over the past three years

    IT veterans secure 12–14% of C-suite positions in GCCs over the past three years

    Industry experts said that these seasoned IT services leaders were not just drawn by elevated roles, but by the opportunity to drive enterprise-wide transformation rather than pure-play delivery.

  • Why betting on India’s affluent consumer over the masses makes sense despite challenges to job creation

    Why betting on India’s affluent consumer over the masses makes sense despite challenges to job creation

    Despite recent headwinds, income tax data suggests the number of high earners continues to compound at 15–20% annually.

  • TCS eyes public sector growth with the launch of AI-powered sovereign cloud, low-code no-code platform, cybersecurity suite

    TCS eyes public sector growth with the launch of AI-powered sovereign cloud, low-code no-code platform, cybersecurity suite

    CEO and MD K Krithvasan called this TCS' strengthen India focus strategy. 'A strategy that puts the power of AI to the service of our nation and at the edge of excess innovation,' he said.

  • Rattled to the core: Indian IT on shaky wicket after Trump tariffs

    Rattled to the core: Indian IT on shaky wicket after Trump tariffs

    Trump's tariffs could dash IT sector’s FY26 revival hopes.

  • Top Indian IT firms reduce bench time amid uncertain times; average duration drops to 35-45 days

    Top Indian IT firms reduce bench time amid uncertain times; average duration drops to 35-45 days

    The average bench time at present has come down to 35-45 days compared to an average of 45-60 days in FY20 and FY21, when the sector’s revenue growth for the sector was in the higher double digits.

  • Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | AI disrupts revenue outlook of IT companies

    Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | AI disrupts revenue outlook of IT companies

    In Moneycontrol's Pro Panorama March 4 edition: Congress looking for ways to fight back, the corporate performance report on India Inc's health, rising loans hint at recovery of private capex, Indian capitalism fuelled by family offices, and more

  • 25% of IT deal tenures are being cut short with AI, says McKinsey’s Noshir Kaka

    25% of IT deal tenures are being cut short with AI, says McKinsey’s Noshir Kaka

    Being able to deliver a project in a shorter timeline 'at speed' will become the competitive advantage for IT companies in an AI-driven world, Kaka has said

  • TCS bags AI-led IT transformation deal from Finland’s UPM

    TCS bags AI-led IT transformation deal from Finland’s UPM

    The programme also involves enhancing the digital experience of UPM's 15,800 employees by using AI to support better human-machine collaboration.

  • Venu Lambu's appointment as LTIMindtree CEO will drive sales, help bring larger deals: Experts

    Venu Lambu's appointment as LTIMindtree CEO will drive sales, help bring larger deals: Experts

    Industry analysts highlighted margin volatility, positioning of the brand along with other Tier-I rivals, top level exodus as concerns needing to be solved for.

  • Davos 2025: Strength of LLMs lie in training them with vast data, that’s what IT companies are good at, says TCS CEO

    Davos 2025: Strength of LLMs lie in training them with vast data, that’s what IT companies are good at, says TCS CEO

    Krithivasan contradicted the views of US tech companies like Meta and OpenAI, which suggest that AI and AI agents will take over engineering jobs. He believes that AI will only disrupt the way certain engineering roles function.

  • Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Decoding IT performance as Trump takes charge

    Moneycontrol Pro Panorama | Decoding IT performance as Trump takes charge

    In Moneycontrol Pro Panorama Jan 20 edition: The economic impact of geopolitical chaos on India, how RBI managed to counter forex volatility, markets buckle up as Trump takes the wheel, traditional Indian knowledge can help secure future of ‘economics’, and more

  • Tech Mahindra’s headcount declines by 3,785 employees in Q3FY25

    Tech Mahindra’s headcount declines by 3,785 employees in Q3FY25

    As of calendar year 2024, Tech Mahindra has added over 4,700 freshers, said CFO Rohit Anand.

  • HCLTech to roll out wage hikes for mid, senior management staff in Q4FY25

    HCLTech to roll out wage hikes for mid, senior management staff in Q4FY25

    This comes after the company’s management entirely skipped compensation review for the mid and senior management staff in FY24

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