The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) is adopting the idea of revamping the Content Code of television programs to suit the changing times. Media Experts strongly believe that there is an urgent need to revise it.
While addressing the News Television Summit 2008, Sushma Singh Secretary, Information and Broadcasting Ministry said, “We are contemplating a review of the existing draft content code as it needs to be at par with changing times.”
Singh further said that there should be an agreement between government and private broadcasters on content regulation.
The country’s second-largest IT services company, Infosys Technologies, is in negotiation with leading IT firms to jointly offer training courses in hope to produce more industry-ready graduates. Beginning with 1,000 colleges across the country, the company hopes to finalize such initiatives by December.
Today’s revenue of $1.4 billion would sharply increase the software product development business by approximately ten folds, if the Indian players not only look at the global opportunities, but also keep an eye for the domestic market.
The market researchers Zinnov, carried out a study for the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), and this is the core message of that study only. By 2015, the industry should aim to achieve product software business of $9.5 billion to $12 billion by 2015 according to the report.
Infosys Technologies, a multinational information technology services company, has decided to set up its single largest campus at Pocharam village on the outskirts of Hyderabad.
The proposed campus is company’s second campus, which is being constructed on a 447-acre special economic zone (SEZ) with a total investment of Rs 1,250 crore.
To be built in three phases, the campus will have a sitting capacity of 25, 000 people, and will be finalized over a period of ten years.