An online event, hosted by Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences on Saturday with 52 experts discussing the issue, aimed to prepare the work force to prevent patients from falling prey to the infection while informing them about the relevant treatment protocols.
Pandemic, travel bans result in higher offshoring for IT firms
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The trend was likely to continue going forward, analysts and companies said, since clients have become more open to people working remotely and because of its positive impact on margins.
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The mid-tier IT services firm has hired around 900 people in India over the last few months – over 90% of its total hires.
Indian IT services providers have reported higher offshoring in the previous financial year as employees worked from home through the Covid-19 pandemic and as a result of travel bans by the United States, their largest market.
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Around a dozen bloated and decomposed bodies were on Tuesday found floating in the Ganga at Ghazipur district of Uttar Pradesh, a day after two dozen bodies were brought out of the river in a nearby area and many more were fished out in Bihar’s Buxar district.
Residents of Bara and Gahmar villages in Ghazipur said the five cremation ghats in the area did not have enough firewood at a time many people were dying of Covid-19. They said relatives, fearful of contracting the virus, could be dumping the bodies in the river.
Sudhir Singh, a villager of Gahmar, told
Mid-size IT firms gear up for acquisitions to use cash, boost skills
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Mid-size IT services providers are expected to step up mergers and acquisitions this year, as these cash-rich firms chase higher growth on the back of a robust 2020-21 financial year, led by increased client spends on digital transformation initiatives amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The mid-tier companies are looking to gain specific skills or geographic presence through acquisitions.
Pune-based
Persistent Systems is looking for potential targets in the $10-$50 million range, said chief executive Sandeep Kalra.
“We are looking at adding capabilities from an M&A perspective and go deeper in the areas of cloud, data, security or Salesforce, or into geographies like Europe,” Kalra said.