Sushma U N

India’s technology and machine-driven IT services sector is in need of a human(e) touch.

More Indian women are enrolling at management schools. The postgraduate programme for 2017-19 at India’s best b-school, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), saw its ratio increase to 28% from 21% in the previous batch and 14% the year before.

Everyone’s talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data in India’s startup ecosystem.

With new-age IT jobs on the horizon, techie resumes are due for a makeover.

Update: V Nanammal died on Oct. 29, 2019 at her home near Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. She was 99.

An Indian software startup that doesn’t dig on IIT and IIM graduates, chase venture capital funds, or have an office in the country’s Silicon Valley, Bengaluru?

One of India’s best engineering colleges is working to prevent student suicides by pulling them out of loneliness and depression. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, wants students to interact more with each other instead of living cocooned lives on campus. And to nudge them towards this, hostel authorities simply switch off the power in the evenings.

The bench, the Indian IT industry’s resource bank, is thinning.

The Donald Trump administration has been getting a lot of flak from Indian techies for tightening immigration rules. But the US president shares only part of the blame. For, even since Barack Obama’s days in the White House, Indian IT companies have been applying for, and securing, fewer H-1B visas.

The sunny side appears up again in the Indian food tech sector.

Rajesh*, an employee of Cognizant in southern India, has a workday unlike most others in his company. The 29-year-old says he swipes his ID card at office, leaves the workplace, and spends time with friends all day, before returning, swiping the card again in the evening, and then heading home.

The first of any kind charms like none of what follows. The first ball of the first over of a cricket match, the first day-first show of a movie, the first date. And, of course, the first day at work.

Amid disquiet and panic in the $150-billion Indian information technology (IT) sector, the man in charge at industry bellwether Infosys has sounded a strong note of optimism and change.

The spectre of layoffs looms large over the Indian information technology (IT) sector. Human resource firms estimate that up to two lakh industry jobs will be lost annually over the next three years. Talk of Indian techies abroad being laid off, increasing local hiring, and re-skilling is rife, too.

The Indian Institutes of Technology, the country’s elite engineering schools, are finding it difficult to shepherd their graduates into good jobs.