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Nandan Nilekani, the former head of the leading technology firm Infosys Technologies has been given more responsibilities in the government works.

Mr. Nilekani is heading the innovative unique identity card (UID) project which aims at providing an identification card to every Indian. He will now also be in charge of a technology advisory group for projects "to ensure effective tax administration and financial governance" so that the IT projects are tamper-proof and reliable.

On Thursday, Infosys Technologies announced that it is looking to hire about 15,000 people in the coming days, and the process has already been started, with company officials already visiting campuses, even as the firm looks for takeover opportunities in Europe and some countries which are predominantly non-English speaking.

India's IT giant, Infosys Technologies is most likely going to offer some 13,000 jobs to students during campus recruitment. These jobs will be offered to fresh engineering graduates who will then be joining the firm during the 2011 financial year.

The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, according to Business Standard, has picked India based Infosys Technologies as one of the 3 IT vendors for contracts worth a total of $600 Million, which will run for quite a number of years. Although no official confirmations have been made yet, the speculations are very strong, and list Cognizant Solution and UST Global as the other two vendors.

On the back of an improving IT job market, and the fact that the world is out of recession, although the hurt lingers in bouts, Infosys HR Director Mohandas Pai has confirmed that over the coming months, as many as 2-2.5 lakh IT sector related job opportunities will be emerging, and Infosys is planning on hiring nearly 20,000 employees as the 2010 fiscal year rolls-in.

Infosys Technologies, India's second major software services firm, has informed that its outsourcing arm Infosys BPO has decided to purchase US-based McCamish Systems.

The acquisition deal will entail an investment of $38 million (approximately Rs 176 crore).

In a declaration, the company said that it will give another $20 million if US-based firm meets certain objectives in the future.

The country's second largest software exporter, Infosys Technologies, is working to bag 15 deals worth $1 billion in the second quarter, amid hopes of a surge in global outsourcing demand which was adversely hit on accounts of global slowdown.

The home ministry has picked out 10 corporate houses, including Wipro, IBM and TCS to provide them Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) cover, in view of the menace perception and exposure of these corporate houses.

Infosys Technologies Limited, the country's second-largest software exporter, on Tuesday proclaimed that it has been granted a 10 year eBiz project by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India.

Infosys Technologies Ltd, a leading consulting & IT Service Solution Provider, has announced that its standalone net profit has witnessed 16% growth during the three month period ended June 30, 2009.

During the reporting quarter, the company’s standalone net profit stood at Rs 1,464 crore as compared to Rs 1,262 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.