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AP Govt allocates Land to Cognizant

Hyderabad, Feb 24 (UNI) Congizant Technology Solutions(NASDAQ:CTSH) top-tier IT services provider was alloted 40 acres of land in Adibatla on the city outskirts for its expansion in Andhra Pradesh.

In the presence of Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy and IT Minister P Sabita Reddy, Cognizant Vice Chairman Lakshminarayan and State IT Principal Secretary Ratna Prabha signed a Memorandum of Understanding(MoU), an official release here tonight said.

Cognizant with a market captailisation of Rs 58,000 crore planned to invest Rs 330 crore, add over twenty lakh Square feet for over 12,000 new employees by 2012. It committed to strive to employ students of Jawahar Knowledge Centres started by the State Government to train freshers for jobs in the IT industry.

The State Government aspired to transform the state into Knowledge Society and make available benefits of IT to the last mile in the State as part of its strategy to achieve balanced socio-economic development and provide gainful employment to educated rural youth, the release added.

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ESC appoints Sanjiv Narayan as Chairman

New Delhi, Feb 25 (UNI) Mr Sanjiv Narayan has been appointed as the Chairman of the Electronics and Computer Software Export promotion Council (ESC). A leading industrialist having a strong presence in the electronics industry, Mr Narayan was unanimously elected at the meeting of the Committee of Administration of the council held here recently. ''Mr Narayan can give the proactive leadership to the industry to achieve the competitive edge for taking the IT exports to 60 billion dollar mark by 2010,''.....

Ramachandran appointed vice-chairman of ITU-APT Foundation

New Delhi, Feb 25 (UNI) Mr T V Ramachandran has been appointed as vice-chairman of ITU-APT Foundation of India, a non-profit and non-political society. The forum works towards active involvement of industry and private sector in the activities of International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT). Mr Ramachandran is also director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and chairman of ITU forum of the regional working group (RWG) on private sector issues for Asia and Pacific.....

Cognizant to ring NASDAQ opening bell remotely from Chennai

Mumbai, Feb 26 (UNI) Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation will ring the NASDAQ opening bell remotely from the company's Chennai Techno-complex on March 5. In addition, Cognizant and NASDAQ will co-host another ceremony at NASDAQ MarketSite at Times Square, New York, a company release said here today. Cognizant was listed on NASDAQ in June, 1998. Since then, the company has become one of the top-tier global IT services firms, surpassing US 1.4 billion dollars in annual revenue in 2006......
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