The Karnataka government has moved to deepen its role in startup financing by encouraging state public sector enterprises (PSEs) to invest in government-backed venture capital funds, such as Karnataka Information Technology Venture Capital Fund (KITVEN).…

The Karnataka government is weighing steps to rein in the rapid expansion of computer science (CS) and allied engineering seats across the state, amid growing concerns that an unchecked supply of graduates in the stream could worsen unemployment among young…

Tech Mahindra’s recent disclosure of an Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) order has reignited a wider debate on corporate compliance, delayed regulatory enforcement, and the security of employee savings, drawing pointed reactions from legal, finance…

At a time when much of the technology industry believes artificial intelligence will shrink the need for junior engineers, EPAM Systems is taking a different view.  The US-headquartered, engineering-led IT services firm has opened a 60,000 sq ft. fresher…

HCLSoftware, HCLTech’s enterprise software products arm, made two acquisitions this year to sharpen its focus on data, analytics, and generative AI-led enterprise software. The company said the acquisitions of Wobby, which builds AI data analyst agents, and…

India’s technology sector welcomed the new year on a sombre note, with hiring demand at its weakest in four years, underscoring a prolonged slowdown that began in late 2022 with barely any signs of a broad-based recovery.  According to Xpheno’s Active Tech…

Indian IT services companies are expected to report a moderate performance in the December quarter—traditionally a seasonally weak period due to furloughs—with demand remaining stable but largely driven by cost optimisation rather than discretionary technology…

Indian IT services companies are training at an unprecedented scale to prepare their workforces for an AI-led future. Yet even as hundreds of thousands of employees are reskilled in data and generative AI, the sector continues to chase a much smaller pool…

Indian IT firms are often first in line to implement enterprise AI, but a closer look at delivery reveals constraints rooted more in data governance than in algorithms. Practitioners working hands-on with AI systems say data readiness across the sector is…

There’s an industry-wide rush to adopt artificial intelligence and automation, but the real battle is on skilling. It’s all about which programmes suit the workforce, how fast they must evolve, and which capabilities will remain indispensable even as algorithms…

Despite the ‘AI job-killer’ hype, campus recruitment in India is not disappearing; rather, it is being fundamentally redesigned. As skill requirements evolve, recruiters are moving beyond resumes and written tests toward problem-solving formats that assess…

The argument that AI agents will trigger massive layoffs and restructuring is being challenged by a different reality. Rather than being replaced by agentic AI, Indian IT firms are serving as a crucial integration layer, making these agents operational and…

Tata Consultancy Services turned months of AI talk into hard metrics in the third quarter of FY26, showing that the company’s aggressive pivot toward AI is now starting to move the topline, the order book, and even margins in the right direction. For the…

Indian IT’s next phase of growth will not come from adding thousands of engineers to delivery teams, but from fundamentally reshaping how technology services are built, sold and scaled in an AI-first era.  That was the central message from industry leaders…

Three earnings reports. Three approaches to artificial intelligence. And one clear signal that Indian IT has moved beyond experimentation.  In the December quarter, TCS, HCLTech and Infosys all show that AI now drives real business. The difference lies in…

In the third quarter of FY26, AI quietly influenced every aspect of Tech Mahindra’s growth, even as the company opted not to disclose AI revenue figures, unlike Infosys and Wipro. The results show the IT firm rebuilding momentum through execution, margins…

The government is yet to make the new labour codes fully effective, but they are already impacting the bottomlines of Indian IT giants. During the third quarter of FY26, TCS, Infosys and HCLTech together incurred Rs 4,373 crore as additional cost.  The new…

India’s top IT services firms entered the December quarter carrying the promise that AI would lift growth, protect margins, and pump momentum into a sector that had been slowing for the past two years. That promise was delivered.  Revenues rose across the…

Mid-cap IT delivered the only real surprise of the December quarter. While the big five crawled through yet another soft season, talking up AI at every turn, LTIMindtree and Persistent Systems ran ahead of expectations. Revenues beat estimates, and growth…

India’s top IT services companies are showing a visible disconnect between revenue movement and workforce expansion. December-quarter disclosures from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys, HCLTech, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra indicate that changes in revenue…