Confident that automation and artificial intelligence will help businesses upscale and grow bigger, a top TCS executive says the job loss fears in the IT industry are highly exaggerated and it is the organisation’s responsibility to reskill and upskill its workers. Chief Operating Officer N Ganapathy Subramaniam, who has been with TCS for 35 years and is known as NGS among colleagues, said the ‘change’ is the only constant in the IT industry and internally his company uses it as an acronym -‘Change Has Another Name, Gaining Excellence’.

Indian Oil Corp Ltd said its third-quarter profit nearly doubled, handily beating estimates.

Net profit surged 97 percent to Rs 78.83 billion ($1.24 billion) in the quarter ended December 31, from Rs 39.95 billion a year earlier.

PARIS: Seventy years ago, a 12-year-old boy seething with resentment over his treatment in apartheid South Africa was sent to his grandfather in rural India on an anger management course.

The boy, who grew up in an Indian ashram near the city of Durban, had been getting into a lot of fights. White children picked on him because he wasn't white; black children picked on him because he wasn't black.

India’s market regulator is weighing options to direct stock exchanges to either stop offering securities-related data feed services to entities trading on bourses abroad, such as the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), or levy high additional fees on the traders.

Microsoft has acquired gaming start-up PlayFab for an undisclosed sum and will integrate its services into Azure platform to help developers build better games. PlayFab powers more than 1,200 live games and has served over 700 million players. “Together, Azure and PlayFab will further unlock the power of the intelligent cloud for the gaming industry, enabling game developers and delighting gamers around the world,” Kareem Choudhry, Corporate Vice President of gaming at Microsoft, said in a blog post.

Reliance Communications (RCom) announced on Monday that its planned exit from the consumer business has resulted in a sharp drop in the company’s consolidated net loss sequentially to Rs 130 crore for the three months ended December 31, 2017 from a net loss of Rs 2,712 crore in the July-September 2017 period.

Mortgage lender Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) on Monday reported a 233% year-on-year (y-o-y) jump in its standalone net profit for the December quarter at Rs 5,670.21 crore, driven largely by a one-time gain of Rs 3,675.31 crore from the sale of its stake in HDFC Standard Life Insurance Company. Adjusted for the one-time gain, the company’s performance exceeded expectations of analysts, based on Bloomberg collated data. HDFC’s net interest income (NII) for the quarter came in at Rs 2,929 crore against Rs 2,575 crore in the same quarter last year, a rise of 14%.

Yes Bank on Monday priced its five-year dollar bonds at 130 basis points over the five-year US Treasury yield, sources aware of the deal confirmed to FE. The bank is believed to have raised $600 million through the issue, which is the first foreign currency bond offering by the lender. The initial price guidance on the bonds was 150 basis points over the Treasury yield, according to sources. This means the spread narrowed by 20 basis points, which is considered a significant compression for a debut issuer, a banker said.

MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: The government's push towards a digital economy has been a sore point for one of its own and among the country's biggest ecommerce firms, the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC).

The government's decision in November 2016 to withdraw service charge on etickets, to promote digital payments, cost IRCTC a 26% drop in internet ticketing revenue to Rs 466.05 crore in financial year 2016-17.

NEW DELHI: India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki will start making its first affordable electric vehicle (EV) by 2020 based on technology from parent Suzuki Motor, ahead of products developed in partnership with Toyota.

The company and its parent are focusing on in-house capabilities but are also looking for partners to put in place the ecosystem for electric vehicles, Maruti Suzuki managing director Kenichi Ayukawa told ET in an interview. The Japanese carmaker will not rely solely on its partner Toyota's expertise to build EVs from the ground up.

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