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India
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News Work & careers
HCLTech adds 6,450 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 230,339
India's third-largest IT services exporter reversed recent headcount contractions with 6,450 net additions in the September quarter as trailing attrition moderated to 12.8%.
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News Work & careers
TCS adds 5,726 employees in second quarter, bringing workforce to 612,724
India's largest software exporter recorded its second consecutive quarter of net hiring, reaching 612,724 staff as enterprise demand stabilized.
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News Work & careers
Staffing firm tracks 123,000 active tech job openings in India, an 18-month high
Openings rose 5% from September, driven by 66,000 active listings in IT services.
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News Chips & infrastructure
India telephone subscriptions reach 1.33bn as internet users pass 1.09bn
Audited figures for the year ending March 2026 show total telephone subscriptions rose 10.8% and wireless data usage climbed 24.7% to 285,376 petabytes.
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News Chips & infrastructure
India had 1.1 billion broadband subscriptions in August, and five providers held 98.58% of them
Fixed wireless access, much of it over 5G, grew fastest. Of 13.45 million 5G home-broadband subscribers, more than half were in rural areas.
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News Rules & courts
India's telecom regulator orders cheaper voice-and-SMS-only plans of 30 days or less
TRAI's new rule is for people who do not want mobile data. It does not say how much cheaper the plans must be.
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News Rules & courts
India makes telecom operators act on numbers their AI systems flag as spam, and regulates robocalls
Automated calls must now be declared in advance or be treated as spam. Action against a sender can start with 3 complaints instead of 5, if AI detection agrees.
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News Chips & infrastructure
India says 5 of the 12 chip plants it approved are now in commercial production, as it moves to Semicon 2.0
Two more assembly and packaging lines, in Mohali and Surat, started on 17 September, the government says. It puts Semicon 2.0's budget at $13.5 billion, up from $8 billion.
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News Chips & infrastructure
India approves Semicon 2.0, a ₹1,27,500 crore second round of support for its chip industry
It adds chipmaking machines and materials, more fabs, design and research to the first programme's plants. India's first fab is due to be commissioned in 2028.