Tag: IT

British Airways aims to resume most UK flights

British Airways (BA) said that it is aiming to run a "near normal schedule" at Gatwick and the "majority of services" from Heathrow on Sunday after a "major" IT failure resulted in the cancellation of all flights. Serious problems with BA's systems led to thousands of passengers having their plans disrupted on 27 May, the...

May 28, 2017

Layoffs in Indian IT may continue for 1-2 yrs: Experts

As digitisation and automation become the new normal, IT biggies like Infosys, Cognizant and Tech Mahindra are seeing a spate of layoffs and this trend may continue for the next 1-2 years, say experts. The pink slips are being handed out to thousands of employees as part of their performance appraisal process, but it is...

May 14, 2017

Finding strategic ways

One of the recent bills reintroduced by the US Congress aims to tighten the existing H1B Visa norms that has shaken the Indian IT industry. These amendments are in line with President Donald Trump’s “America First” strategy that would potentially jeopardise a good number of the IT sector jobs which are currently outsourced to India....

May 11, 2017

‘All states should have at least one national institute of electronics, IT’

Aiming to make the nation digitally more vibrant, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday urged that all states should have at least one National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT). The NIELIT is an autonomous scientific society under the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology to carry out human resource development and related...

May 6, 2017

Did apex court clear Aadhaar for I-T, PAN?

Did the Supreme Court on Monday direct that the government can ask for the UID or Aadhaar for income tax and PAN card or is that just plain misinformation?   For one, what transpired was during a “mentioning”, that is, where the lawyer mentioned the matter to the court to ask only that it  actually...

March 29, 2017

Did apex court clear Aadhaar for I-T, PAN?

Did the Supreme Court on Monday direct that the government can ask for the UID or Aadhaar for income tax and PAN card or is that just plain misinformation?   For one, what transpired was during a “mentioning”, that is, where the lawyer mentioned the matter to the court to ask only that it  actually...

March 29, 2017

Infosys joins Open Invention Network

Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community with well over 2,000 members, on Tuesday said Indian information technology (IT) giant Infosys has joined it as a community member. "We appreciate Infosys's leadership in joining OIN, and believe that those that look to the company for inspiration, both in and outside of India, will...

March 28, 2017

By 2021, 4 out of 10 jobs would be lost to automation: Experts

Automation is the new norm across sectors and will affect the bottom of pyramid so much so that four out of every 10 jobs globally would be lost due to this by 2021, experts say. Automation is the new normal in sectors like engineering, manufacturing, automobiles, IT and banking. As automation adoption increases, all high...

March 26, 2017

GST’s IT infra firm under scrutiny for tax evasion

The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) that is creating the IT backbone for the new indirect tax regime, is under scrutiny for probable tax evasion. The service tax department, which comes under the Central Bureau of Excise and Customs (CBEC), is probing the GSTN. An assessing officer of the department issued a summon against...

February 18, 2017

GST’s IT infra firm under scrutiny for tax evasion

The Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) that is creating the IT backbone for the new indirect tax regime, is under scrutiny for probable tax evasion. The service tax department, which comes under the Central Bureau of Excise and Customs (CBEC), is probing the GSTN. An assessing officer of the department issued a summon against...

February 18, 2017

Raid ends in TN Chief Secretary’s house

Income Tax (IT) officials on Thursday ended their raid at the house of Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary P.Rama Mohana Rao. The raids began on Wednesday morning and continued all night. On Wednesday, searches were also conducted in Rao's office in the state secretariat and in several other places connected to Rao, his son and others....

December 22, 2016

A dose of realism

At 47, Anna Tan has gone through at least five career shifts and worked in sectors as diverse as charity and IT. Her kith and kin have had doubts about her decisions, but that has not stopped her from taking the plunge each time. Neither has she been concerned about being labelled a job hopper....

November 18, 2016