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Over 90% of tech employees continue to work from home: Azim Premji

IT czar Azim Premji on Sunday said more than 90 per cent of the workforce in the technology industry of the country continue to work from home, and lauded the hybrid model of work.

CSR shouldn't be legally mandated, charity must come from within: Premji

He added that it is important that individual and personal philanthropy is separated from a company's CSR efforts

KreditBee concludes $75 mn funding round from Premji Invest, others

The fintech lending firm's objective is to provide credit to over 180 million new-to-credit customers who were not provided formal credit earlier

Azim Premji, Dr Devi Shetty chosen for Press Club of Bangalore awards

Azim Premji and the founder chairman of Narayana Health Dr Devi Prasad Shetty are among those who have been selected for the annual awards given by the Press Club of Bangalore

India's super-rich club sees 10 new entrants in 2020; wealth up 33%

Ramdev, partner see biggest jump in wealth in percentage terms

Top headlines: India loses Cairn arbitration case; Honda shuts Noida plant

Business Standard brings you top news of the evening

Azim Premji, SBI MF invest Rs 350 cr in Tube Investments preferential issue

The money will be used to fund TII's organic and inorganic growth, including acquisition of CG Power and Industrial Solutions and TII's proposed capex

SC stays criminal proceedings against ex-Wipro chairman Azim Premji, others

SC on Friday stayed criminal proceedings against former chairman of Wipro, Azim Premji, and his wife on their plea seeking quashing of the summons issued by a Bengaluru trial court

Azim Premji calls Covid-19 a magnifying glass for structural injustices

Says the pandemic has been a sharp reminder that the economy is a part of society and that human well-being matters in all its dimensions equally

Azim Premji tops EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy list 2020

The preferred cause of India's top philanthropists over the past seven years has been education and 2020 was no different as most of the donations were made for this purpose

Top headlines: NDA leading in Bihar polls, Oaktree revises bid for DHFL

The Election Commission says counting of votes will take longer than usual in Bihar.

Wipro's Azim Premji emerges as most generous Indian in FY20: Report

Premji's generosity pulled the total donations up by 175 per cent to Rs 12,050 crore in FY20

Lockdown blues over, economy improving: Winners of Business Standard awards

Larsen & Toubro won the Company of the Year award and Wipro founder Azim Premji won the Lifetime Achievement award

Book excerpt: Wipro's CEO conundrum and a chronicle of Azim Premji's life

Why have so many otherwise fine CEOs failed to lift the IT major's performance? In their new book, Sundeep Khanna and Varun Sood tell the story as they chronicle Azim Premji's life

The family way

Dynastic governance constrains India Inc

End of an era at HCL Tech: Nadar challenged global giants at their own game

He was the last founder chairman in the Indian IT services industry to step down.

Wipro's outgoing CEO Abidali Neemuchwala sees 12% rise in pay package

In comparison, Infosys' CEO Salil Parekh drew a pay package of $6.15 million (around Rs 40 crore) in the last financial year, a rise of 27 per cent over the previous fiscal.

Covid-19 crisis: Wipro sees short-term impact on gross profit margin

In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the Bengaluru-headquartered firm, however, said that the impact couldn't be accurately predicted as the pandemic is yet to recede.

Labour Ministry to object to states' Ordinance plan on labour laws

UP, Gujarat govts are seeking to suspend major labour laws via this route; ministry firming up its response

Wipro to repurpose its Pune facility into a 450-bed Covid-19 hospital

The process will be completed in four weeks and the IT firm will hand over the facility to the Maharashtra government by May 30