"Private investment comes when you have infrastructure development," Mitra says in an interview to CNBC-TV18, adding that capital expenditure has risen more than six-fold to Rs 13,325 crore since the time Trinamool Congress came to power in 2011
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Mitra discussed a whole host of issues: the state's economy, policy and well as the TMC government's stand on contentious issues such as the land bill.
According to V Balakrishnan, the only way Infosys can truly transform itself and achieve higher growth rates is by disrupting its existing model.
Appearing on CNBC-TV18's special edition from Bengaluru, Chairman of Manipal Global Education TV Mohandas Pai says the world has changed since it has got a very stable IT platform.
While agreeing that there is heightened competitiveness, Rajesh Gopinathan, CFO and Vice-President, TCS, is confident of achieving growth better than industry. He also adds that the company saw a currency tailwind of 70 basis points on margins.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18's Menaka Doshi, N Chandrasekaran, chief executive officer and managing director, Tata Consultancy Services, says analysts should not read a lot into the weakness seen in the company's consulting business.
Speaking to CNBC-TV18 Kailash Lalpuria, ED, Indo Count Industries says that stable cotton prices will be helpful for the company's exports in US and the other developed nation markets like European Economic Communities (EEC), UK, Melbourne, Australia and Canada.
American companies are benefiting from the Indian outsourcing in the IT sector,Sarabjit Kaur Nangra of Angel Broking told CNBC-TV18.
According to Pai, management transformation is the key to success for the IT companies now.
Cognizant CEO Francisco D'souza wants to bolster consultancy and digital business through acquisitions. He says the company has a healthy acquisitions pipeline.
TCS vice-president and CFO Rajesh Gopinathan believes the company is entering FY16 in a positive business environment.
The company‘s fourth-quarter revenues fell 1.1 percent to Rs 24,220 crore with EBIT falling 0.5 percent to Rs 6,591 crore while net profit (adjusted for one-time employee bonus) rose 8.4 percent to Rs 5,906 crore.
According to R Chandrashekhar, President, Nasscom, digital has been the fastest-growing business for the industry, growing by 15 percent for the past 2-3 years.
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Thakur says he expect the coming financial year to better than the current one as the US market is recovering
In an interview to CNBC-TV18‘s Kritika Saxena, Chandrasekaran said the company has been seeing growth across markets and will be able to beat 13.1 percent growth guidance for FY15. He feels the government‘s push to digital will boost revenues.
Gopinathan said it was early to talk about client budgets, but that it has been a positive start to the calendar so far
Speaking exclusively to CNBC-TV18‘s Menaka Doshi, N Chandrasekaran, managing director and chief executive officer, Tata Consultancy Services says the company faced a number of headwinds in the form of working days and furloughs in Q3.
Nasscom president R Chandrasekhar says it is very important for the government to take a balanced view on what can be done by the private sector and what is best done by the private sector and leave it to them but there will be areas where the government has to step in to supplement this.
The TCS New York Marathon is more than just a marketing and advertising effort by the company. Having broken into the top 10, it ranks as the 6th largest global IT firm by revenue. By profit and headcount, it is the 2nd largest. But geography-wise it is 8th largest in North America, 15th in Europe, 8th in UK and 25th in Japan.
A day before New York Marathon, TCS CEO N Chandrasekaran takes pride in the achievement of the company. He says in order to serve its clients holistically TCS will need to venture into new territories ahead of time, venture into new markets, venture into new industries and venture into new service lines.
TCS today ranks amongst one of the best companies with the way we partner with clients, said N Chandrasekharan.
The IT bellwether is hopeful of achieving its attrition target for the current year. The company said it had already hired 36,000 out of its 55,000 target for the year.
Discussing the earnings details, N Chandrasekaran, CEO and MD, TCS, said the second quarter has been good in terms of volume and robust utilisation rates, but the company "typically does better in Q2â€.
India‘s largest software-services firm, TCS, believes it faces a large business opportunity in Japan and China -- Asia‘s largest- and second-largest economies, respectively – even though it admits it faces challenges in scaling up operations in the latter.
Rostow Ravanan of Mindtree sees maximum opportunities coming from the US. Sounding extremely confident on the days to come, he says customer confidence is at its highest in the past 15 years.