Google CEO Sundar Pichai in India: Free Wi-Fi at railway stations, new campus for Hyderabad announced

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Wednesday underlined the search giant’s intention to push for more internet adoption in India, announcing free Wi-Fi in 100 railway stations as promised to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his visit to Silicon Valley earlier this year.

t a large-scale event of the company in New Delhi, Pichai, who was accompanied by other top executives of the company, announced plans to launch a “huge new” campus in Hyderabad and to recruit more Indians for business development too. Pichai said Mumbai Central will the first of the 100 railway stations, getting Wi-Fi connectivity by December 2016. The India-born CEO said the company wanted to connect Indians in their own languages and Android — the most popular mobile operating system in India — was already supporting up to 11 local languages. He said YouTube and Google Maps were already available offline in the country, while the “search team in India has made pages lighter and they now load faster”. 

Source - Indian Express

Placement Seasons Strat in IIT's - 400 placement offers in four days at IIT-Delhi

Over 400 offers were made in the first four days of placements at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The number of profiles considered in the first week of placement has also seen an increase of 10%. Owing to flood, companies from Chennai will be visiting at a later date.

Several technology companies came for placement in the first week "rolling out high packages of over $1,00,000 per annum as base pay for international positions, mainly in the US," says Anishya Madan of IIT-D's Training and Placement Cell.

Interestingly, several of these offers have been rejected by students "opting to accept offers from other firms with domestic offers." "Most foreign offers are of Rs 50 to Rs 60 lakh. Once you convert that into foreign currency, it won't allow you the kind of lifestyle you can have at Rs 30 to 40 lakh in India," explains an IIT-D student.

Madan says, "Most offers have been for India," and the average increase in packages for domestic profiles for the first week is in the range of 10% to 20%. There was a large number of Japanese companies at IIT-D this placement season. The largest number of offers have come, unsurprisingly, from information technology-43% of the total. The usual tech companies were present, but not Facebook even though Mark Zuckerberg visited the campus in October.

Source - Times of India