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Topic: NASSCOM

IT sector as India’s ‘growth engine’: Budget boosts tax certainty with safe harbour revisions

One of the major bonanzas is tax holiday till 2047 to foreign companies providing cloud services from Indian data centres. NASSCOM welcomes govt's decisions.

Nasscom to FICCI—women are leading India’s industry associations

Leaders like Rekha Sethi at AIMA and Debjani Ghosh at NASSCOM brought about transformational changes in the organisations as leaders.

Siddaramaiah govt backtracks, puts Karnataka jobs reservation bill on hold for more ‘deliberations’

The draft bill proposing reservation of private jobs for Kannadigas has drawn flak from the business community & Opposition. Neighbouring state Andhra Pradesh asks companies to 'relocate'.

Govt panel recommends a digital competition law for big tech, pre-emptive regulations

The panel has submitted its recommendations along with the draft bill. Companies like Apple, Google, Flipkart & Zomato have opposed pre-emptive regulations, say it would curb innovation.

Science communicators in India need to be turbo-charged. Govt must ensure its legitimacy

Science Communication education in Indian universities lags far behind others globally due to lack of funds and expertise.

Nasscom defends IT minister Vaishnaw, clarifies he didn’t state Data Protection Bill had been ‘approved’

After Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said the Bill hasn't been formally sent to the panel for discussion, Nasscom clarified the Union minister hadn't said that it has been 'approved'.

Technicians in villages to ophthalmologists in cities—Deep-tech startups can help them all

In 'Against All Odds: IT Story of India', S. Kris Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu, Krishnan Narayanan write about the history of India's IT sector over the last six years.

NASSCOM realised brand India Inc. was the real problem. Then it changed the India story

In 'The Maverick Effect’, Harish Mehta writes that India was just not ready to do business with the world – it was a branding disaster till NASSCOM stepped in.

Harish Mehta’s book shows why NASSCOM is a catalyst in India’s start-up world. It’s a treat

Thanks to the IT industry, India is no longer about wandering cows and fakirs. Harish Mehta's 'The Maverick Effect' tells that story.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.