Five Infosys employees die in Karnataka road accident

October 9th, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies Ltd, including its subsidiaries, hired 6,069 people during the second quarter (July-Sep) of this fiscal (2009-10), increasing the total headcount to 105,453 employees, the IT bellwether said Friday. With the exit of 4,521 employees in the quarter under review (Q2), the net addition is 1,548 as against 5,927 in the same quarter year ago.

October 9th, 2009 BANGALORE - Four co-founders of IT bellwether Infosys Technologies collectively contributed Rs.10 crore to rebuild houses for the victims of flood havoc in north Karnataka recently, a top official said. "The company has pledged Rs.20 crore while four co-founders have volunteered to contribute Rs.2.5 crore each to the effort to build 3,000 pucca (permanent) houses for the flood-affected people," Infosys chief executive S.

October 8th, 2009 BANGALORE - India's IT bellwether Infosys Technologies Ltd and biotechnology major Biocon Ltd pledged to re-build around 6,000 houses at a cost of Rs.60 crore for the flood-affected people of north Karnataka, Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa said Thursday.

September 15th, 2009 MYSORE - Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's ruling Congress Party, today inaugurated a world-class corporate global education centre of Infosys Technologies in Mysore. The facility is an extension of the IT major's Global Education Centre (GEC), which was inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in February 2005.

August 19th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 16 people, including four children, were killed Wednesday when the passenger bus in which they were travelling veered off the road and fell into a gorge in northwest Pakistan, TV reports said. The accident occurred in the Mansehra area.

August 17th, 2009 ANANTAPUR - Six persons were killed and ten others injured in a road accident in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district late on Sunday night. According to police, accident took place at around 11:00 p.m.

August 1st, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies (Infosys) has availed the security cover facilitated by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) for its vast complex located in Bangalore. A formal function to herald this service was held at the Infosys campus here on Friday.

July 31st, 2009 BANGALORE - The ceremony to welcome the latest "entrants" to IT bellwether Infosys Technologies at its Electronic City campus here Friday was a grand one, with the company's co-founder, chairman and chief mentor N.R. Narayan Murthy himself doing the honours.

July 10th, 2009 BANGALORE - Undeterred by the impact of the global meltdown on its revenue and profits, IT bellwether Infosys Technologies and its subsidiaries hired 3,538 people in the first quarter of this fiscal. With retention remaining high, the company and its subsidiaries saw a net decline of 995 employees during the quarter under review as against a net addition of 1,772 in the previous quarter and 3,192 in the year-ago period.

May 21st, 2009 BANGALORE - Five employees of the Infosys were killed and eight others injured when their bus overturned in Belgaum District of Karnataka on Tuesday. The incident occurred when the driver of the bus in which they were travelling lost control while negotiating a sharp curve.

April 20th, 2009 PUNE - At least 19 people were killed and more than 15 others were injured in a road accident that took place around 40 kilometres off Pune on Monday. Among those killed in the accident, six were women and eight were children.

April 15th, 2009 BANGALORE - The impact of global recession has forced Infosys Technologies, India's second largest IT bellwether, to freeze wage hike and fresh hiring in new fiscal 2009-10, a senior official said Wednesday. 'Employees will not get salary hike or promotions this fiscal.

April 12th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh narrowly escaped in a road accident here Sunday. Singh was travelling in an Ambassador car when a tractor trolley rammed into it.

March 23rd, 2009 BANGALORE - Congress President Sonia Gandhi will launch her party's campaign for the Lok Sabha elections from Davangere in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Karnataka today. The launch of the campaign from Karnataka is seen significant as Karnataka was once seen as a Congress stronghold and where the BJP is considered to have made inroads.

January 20th, 2009 URUMQI - Five people were killed and 14 others injured Wednesday in a road accident in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uygur region, officials said. The accident occurred at 1.05 p.m.