IS conspiracy: 5 techies planned to pursue robotics courses to carry out terror attacks in India

IS conspiracy: 5 techies planned to pursue robotics courses to carry out terror attacks in India

The site where some youths carried out a trial blast in Shivamogga district of Karnataka in September 2022. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The National Investigation Agency (NIA) filed its first supplementary chargesheet on June 30 against nine persons in the Islamic State (IS) conspiracy case of Shivamogga district in Karnataka. The accused had carried … Read more

Axtria plans to expand India operations, hire over 1,000 techies – ET HealthWorld

Axtria plans to expand India operations, hire over 1,000 techies – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: IT company Axtria Inc, which focuses on the life sciences industry, has plans to hire over 1,000 people in data science, software development, and data engineering in the next eight months, the company said on Sunday. The company is hiring for its offices in Gurugram, Bengaluru, Noida and new centres coming up in … Read more

Iqvia techies build AI avatar for remote healthcare, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Iqvia techies build AI avatar for remote healthcare, Health News, ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: The sixth edition of healthcare IT and clinical research company IQVIA’s India Hackathon held recently saw over 150 ideas and solutions being submitted by employees. Teams used technologies like AI, ML, natural language processing (NLP), and IoT to solve complex healthcare challenges. Solutions ranged from detecting and predicting diseases using AI to innovative … Read more

Trump admin proposes not to issue H-1B visas for speciality jobs, may affect several Indian techies in US

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The Trump administration has proposed to not issue temporary business visas for H-1B speciality occupations in a move to sharply limit visas for skilled workers from overseas. The US State Department in a federal notification on Wednesday proposed to not issue temporary business visas for H-1B speciality occupations, a move that is likely to impact … Read more

Nasscom welcomes latest H-1B visa exemptions, says cautiously optimistic

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PUNE: IT industry lobby group Nasscom said on Thursday that it welcomed the US administration’s move to exempt certain H-1B visa holders from a ban announced earlier by President Donald Trump, while remaining ‘cautiously optimistic’ about some of its caveats. On Wednesday, the US Department of State announced ‘national interest exemptions’ to the two Presidential … Read more