Infosys, Coal India and Vodafone Idea to see some action today

Infosys has formed a consortium with pymetrics, Merit America, Per Scholas, Revature, and Woz Enterprise that will leverage its Wingspan solution to create a free online platform, connecting employees and employers, and provide training for job seekers. The consortium will leverage Infosys Wingspan and pymetrics' AI-based talent-matching platform to meet reskilling and employment needs raised by the COVID-19 crisis in America.

Coal India (CIL) has gained over Rs 3,125 crore from supply of improved quality coal over committed grades and supply beyond annual contracted quantity (ACQ). An amount of around Rs 1,365 crore provisioned under coal quality variance in the earlier years has been withdrawn, in the last fiscal, which is the net gain to the company on whole. The PSU's coal supplies, above agreed ACQ to its customers, having fuel supply agreement (FSA), also netted the company a substantial amount of over Rs 1,760 crore under performance incentive during the previous two fiscals combined.

Vodafone Idea has completed its postpaid consolidation exercise, by bringing all Idea postpaid subscribers under a single umbrella of 'Vodafone RED'. All Vodafone Idea postpaid subscribers can now avail benefits of the Vodafone RED plan, a uniform customer service, and an enhanced digital experience. The consolidation is a significant step towards its synergy realisations and has led to process standardisation for both the retail and enterprise customers.

Tata Communications has started offering internet services and solutions to enterprises directly in Saudi Arabia. The company has been operating in Saudi Arabia since 2004 in association with local partners, but now it has been given a new licence that allows the company to directly offer services to business organisations in Middle East nations and bill them in local currency. The company recently secured a Type B telecom license in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary -- Airtel Payments Bank has entered into partnership with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) to skill the youth in rural India and enable them to find employment opportunities in the financial services sector. The partnership will leverage NSDC's experience, training infrastructure and wide network with Airtel Payment Bank's industry insights, to design and conduct targeted skill development programmes for rural youth.

Alankit Group has collaborated with UTI Infrastructure Technology and Services, a Government Financial Services Provider Company. The company can now provide all the PAN card services to the citizens digitally PAN India at all its facilitation centers.

KPIT has opened a new software engineering center in Germany's Munich, which will house nearly a tenth of its overall workforce. The center will work in the area of electrification, autonomous driving, AUTOSAR and vehicle diagnostics and will also house expertise in other areas like digital cockpit.