Security incident at eMudhra can have significant implications

The Company has disclosed that ‘weak’ private cryptographic keys linked to eight ‘intermediate certificates’ were compromised. As per the Company’s press release dated October 21, 2026, the private keys associated with the eight intermediate certificates were created on April 30, 2025. During the key generation process, a flaw produced a second set of weak keys, … Read more

Tata group profit jumps 5x in six years as market value triples amid big bets on Air India, semiconductors & digital

Tata Group companies tripled in market value and profit rose more than fivefold in six years as the country’s biggest conglomerate funded India’s biggest private-sector bets in aviation, semiconductors, batteries and digital commerce – businesses that together still lose nearly Rs 30,000 crore annually. Group holding company Tata Sons reported a 22% increase in FY26 … Read more

India’s IT model is out of date. Can the industry reinvent itself?

For decades it seemed Indian IT could only grow. The Y2K bug turbocharged their initial expansion in the late 1990s, and though later waves of changing technologies brought down other companies (remember Nokia), the Indian IT sector surfed to success. With every new technology, they pivoted. From SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) to SaaS … Read more

Persistent eyes $5 billion annual revenue by 2031 with mega Nagarro buyout

Persistent Systems Ltd is looking to anchor its long-standing European ambitions and hit a $5 billion revenue target by March 2031 through its largest-ever acquisition, German digital engineering firm Nagarro. The deal is expected to propel the company up two spots to become India’s seventh-largest IT services firm, boasting a combined revenue of about $2.9 … Read more

Freshworks to cut 11% jobs as AI reshapes software sector

Freshworks said on Tuesday it would cut 11% of its workforce, or about 500 jobs, as the business-software company grapples with an industry being reshaped by artificial intelligence. The cuts are the latest tied to AI in the software sector as companies race to automate work and reshape products around the technology while trying to … Read more