Infosys to hire 2,000 people for innovation hub in US

Bengaluru: In a bid to expand its operations in North America, IT major Tech Mahindra on Thursday announced that it has hired more than 100 local, full-time employees at its Alpharetta office in Atlanta. The hiring initiative is in response to a new contract ...

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia sued the United States government to block President Donald Trump's plan to end protection against deportation for young immigrants.The lawsuit filed in federal court in Brooklyn sought the President's action involving the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, or DACA, struck down as unconstitutional.It called the move 'a culmination of President Trump's oft-stated commitments ... to punish and disparage people with Mexican roots'.The ...

Undeterred by the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend, states and cities have sped up their plans to remove Confederate monuments from public places. Violence erupted over the weekend after city officials voted for the removal of a statue ...

Antibiotic resistance can be passed between bacteria found in the soil, researchers, including one of Indian origin, have found.Researchers from North Carolina State University in the US studied antibiotic resistance and how it can persist and spread among ...

By Brendan O'Brien ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Protests in St. Louis over the acquittal of a white former policeman who killed a black man could impede the city's bid to attract Amazon.com's second headquarters, academics and business executives said. Marked by ...

Raja Chari is in training to go to space in 2019.Vaihayasi Pande Daniel presents the story of his journey from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to NASA.A Rediff.com Exclusive! IMAGE: Raja Chari is part of the NASA 2017 astronaut class. Photograph: Kind courtesy NASA Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari is a name you ought to remember. He is going to very soon be the next Indian, correction, half Indian in space. An Indian American, who grew up Iowan, in Cedar Falls, Black Hawk county, on the banks of the Cedar river, ...

US President Donald Trump hit back on Tuesday at business leaders who quit a presidential advisory panel in protest over his response to a rally by far-right groups that turned deadly in Virginia, calling the executives "grandstanders." Trump has faced a ...

Climate change is set to increase the amount of ground-level ozone and fine particle pollution we breathe, which leads to lung disease, heart conditions, and stroke. Less rain and more heat means this pollution will stay in the air for longer, creating more ...