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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest software services provider, continued to grow during the quarter ended March, reflecting the improvement in the global economy. Growth drivers for the company included increased deal momentum in Europe, the UK and Asia-Pacific.   For the quarter, TCS reported better-than-expected profit, owing to higher other income. However, revenue growth was low due to slow growth in regions such as India and Latin America. Net profit rose 51.5 ...

NEW DELHI: Turnout in India’s multi-phase election is so far almost eight percentage points higher than last time, data showed today, reflecting enthusiasm for polls expected to bring the opposition Hindu nationalists to power. Polling in four of the ...

Addressing an election rally in Gujarat’s Kheda, he said, “India does not need a security guard, people of the nation need their rights.” The Congress MP from Amethi also took potshots at Modi over his pet project ‘Statue of ...

India has gone mobile and political parties don’t want to miss the opportunity to use the medium. While social media is the future and is attracting new faithful every day, mobile phones are the present and deliver the message right to the users. While phone call-outs was a weapon of choice for the Aam Admi Party in the 2013 Delhi elections, both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party and other national and regional parties are extending their reach to voters through mobile phones, ...

Congress candidate Ashok Chavan, BJP’s Gopinath Munde, NCP’s Padmasinh Patil and All India Youth Congress chief Rajeev Satav cash in on their charisma and image. Sanjay Jog Election campaigning this poll season in the 8 constituencies of Maharashtra's under-developed Marathwada region has been more about personalities than issues. Of Marathwada’s 8 seats, campaigning for Nanded, Beed, Latur, Osmanabad, Hingoli, and Parbhani ended on Tuesday, as polling there is slated for ...

Days after the Congress praised A B Vajpayee to target Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial Narendra Modi, the party did a U-turn on Monday, calling the BJP veteran "the weakest PM India ever had", a taunt often directed at Manmohan Singh by the opposition party. In his tweet, Congerss spokesman Sanjay Jha alleged that Vajpayee was the "weakest" prime minister as he had failed to protect India's border and country's interests while dealing with Pakistan. He said that Vajpayee had ...

India’s second largest software services firm Infosys has raised salaries of its employees in the country by 6-7 per cent and by 1-2 per cent for onsite workers, effective April 1. "We have increased salaries. We have given salary hikes of 6-7 per cent for offshore and 1-2 per cent onsite employees, effective April 1," Infosys CFO Rajiv Bansal said. The increase in salaries and promotions that have been rolled out and the investment in new visas is likely to impact the first quarter ...

Beijing: As India’s general elections began today from the northeastern states, Chinese official media described the remote region as the most “neglected” area in the country.“India’s northeastern states—which also include ...

Mirpur: India’s quest for a historic treble ended in heartbreak as a gutsy Sri Lanka produced a clinical display to win their maiden CC World T20 trophy with a convincing six-wicket victory here today.Sri Lanka thus became third time lucky in the World ...