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Microsoft-owned GitHub has laid off 142 people in India, including the entire staff in its engineering division, people aware of the development said on Tuesday. Those affected by the decision were deployed across the company's offices in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Delhi. When contacted, a GitHub spokesperson said the decision was part of the company's reorganisation plan. "As part of the reorganisation plan shared in February, workforce reductions were made on Tuesday as part of difficult but necessary decisions and realignments to both protect the health of our business in the short term and grant us the capacity to invest in our long-term strategy moving forward," the spokesperson said. The spokesperson added that the company's focus is to ensure that GitHub is a fully-integrated platform powered by artificial intelligence (AI) for developers and customers. "With this focus, we are consolidating certain business operations, some of which happen to be based in India, and it has ..

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Nasscom on Sunday welcomed Joe Biden's win in the US Presidential election, and said the Indian IT industry looks forward to working with the new administration

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India is steadily working to become a pool of market-ready talent for the world at large, not just for domestic needs. Its ample intellectual and human capital will help it get there

The study, carried out by CARE Ratings, is based on annual reports of 969 medium and large companies

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Professionals asked to upskill themselves as the industry gradually turns to automation