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  • Research is not a luxury, but a necessity: Infosys founder NRN Murthy

    Infosys Science Foundation announced the Infosys Prize 2025 laureates, honoring scholars for their extraordinary contributions to scientific research in India across six categories.

  • Infosys asks staff to focus on work-life balance, countering Narayana Murthy's 70-hour workweek pitch

    The IT major sent mails individually to all its employees, saying they should stick to regular working hours, a report said

  • Fear that AI will take away jobs not right, very positive about IT industry: Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy

    Murthy said his own usage of OpenAI’s Generative AI tool ChatGPT has boosted his productivity by five times.

  • Which area has India invented? Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy defends IT services, says it should be saluted

    India’s culture of oral rather than written knowledge has limited the development of large data repositories, which are crucial for LLMs, according to Murthy.

  • PM Modi should consider if India needs more managers over administrators in governance: Infosys' Narayana Murthy

    Murthy believes that while an administrative approach focuses on maintaining the "status quo," a management approach would be more towards ambition, competitiveness, and efficiency

  • Indian mindset not oriented towards problem definition and solving: Infosys founder Narayana Murthy on why building an LLM doesn't make sense

    Murthy spoke to Moneycontrol on the sidelines of the Infosys Prize, where it announced the winners in economics, computer, humanities and social, life science, mathematics and physics categories

  • Parents should walk the talk, can’t watch movies and ask children to study, says Infosys founder Narayana Murthy

    His wife, Sudha Murty, and he dedicated more than three and a half hours each evening to reading with their children during their school years, the Infy founder said

  • 'I Don’t believe in coaching classes,' says Narayana Murthy of Infosys amid Kota crisis

    Murthy criticised India's focus on rote learning, saying it limits critical thinking and the ability to solve real-world problems.

  • Narayana Murthy shares the one book every child in India should read

    Speaking exclusively to Moneycontrol, NR Narayana Murthy said he was currently reading Paul G. Hewitt's Conceptual Physics and hoped that the author would give permission to translate the book into all Indian languages.

  • Infosys founder Narayana Murthy urges overhaul in archaic rules on donating shares to education institutions

    Murthy noted that entrepreneurs possess shares rather than ample capital in their startup's early stages.

  • 'Angry Rantman' slammed Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice in last Instagram video

    In the Instagram video, Abhradeep Saha also known as Angry Rantman could be heard being critical about NR Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice to improve India's overall work productivity, speaking scathingly about the lack of hikes offered by firms.

  • Bengaluru startup's twist to Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice wins the internet. Watch

    Bengaluru-based furniture startup Wakefit has come up with a interesting twist to NR Narayana Murthy's suggestion about working 70 hours every week to improve work productivity and urged everyone to focus on rest and recuperation, by asking them to sleep for 70 hours every week.

  • NR Narayana Murthy reveals his proudest moment

    Speaking at the India Today Conclave 2024, NR Narayana Murthy said that his proudest moment was when Infosys became the first-ever Indian company to be listed on Nasdaq in 1999.

  • How Sudha and Narayana Murthy were brought together by books, music, and dosa

    Infosys Co-Founder NR Narayana Murthy and his philanthropist-wife and former Chairperson of Infosys Foundation Sudha Murthy were speaking at the launch of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's book, An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy.

  • Naukri.com's Sanjeev Bikhchandani backs NR Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice: 'You can't push off at 5 pm'

    Sanjeev Bikhchandani was the latest to support NR Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week suggestion, saying that one cannot leave the workplace at a certain period of time or demand for leaves on weekends to succeed.

  • NR Narayana Murthy: 'Azim Premji told me that one of the biggest mistakes he made was not to hire me'

    NR Narayana Murthy recently revealed that Wipro's Azim Premji told him that not hiring him was one of the biggest mistakes he made.

  • Narayana Murthy supports his 70-hour work week advice: 'Used to be in office at 6:20 am'

    NR Narayana Murthy came out in support of his views from a few months ago where he had said that if India's work productivity needed to improve, then the youth must work 70 hours every week.

  • Sun Microsystems' Vinod Khosla backs Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice: 'Need mental health therapy'

    In an X (formerly Twitter) Q&A session on Saturday, Vinod Khosla was asked by a user about what he thought of Narayana Murthy's suggestion and said that those who felt 'attacked' by his views needed mental health therapy.

  • Congress MP Manish Tewari backs Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice: 'Don't recall when I last took a Sunday off'

    Writing on X (formerly Twitter), Manish Tewari said that he did not understand why there was such a big issue created about NR Narayana Murthy's words that Indian youngsters should work 70 hours every week.

  • Tech Mahindra's CP Gurnani on Narayana Murthy's 70-hour work week advice: 'Not limited to the company'

    Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday and gave a detailed explanation of what Narayana Murthy might have meant when he said India's youngsters needed to work 70 hours a week.

  • JSW's Sajjan Jindal backs Narayana Murthy on 70-hour work week: ‘PM Modi works for 14-16 hours every day’

    In a statement released on Friday, Sajjan Jindal said that the country's biggest strength was its young population and the time to spend on leisurely activities would come in future.

  • Ashneer Grover on Narayana Murthy’s 70-hour work week advice: ‘junta got offended because…’

    Ashneer Grover said that the general public may not have taken NR Narayana Murthy's comments too well as the measure of work done still gets notified based on the hours spent at a workplace.

  • Betterment of both Karnatakas, urban and rural, as important as just Bengaluru: NR Narayana Murthy

    NR Narayana Murthy and Sudha Murty stressed on people getting out to vote, particularly youngsters.

  • When Infosys just had a one-room office: Co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan's throwback

    In an interview with Moneycontrol, Kris Gopalakrishnan talked about early days at Infosys and the close bond between the founders.

  • Sudha Murty on why she gave Rs 10,000 to Narayana Murthy to start Infosys

    Infosys, which today has a market capitalisation of around $80 billion, started with a loan of Rs 10,000 that Sudha Murty gave her husband Narayana Murthy in 1981.

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