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IT major Infosys Technologies Ltd on Thursday said that it would invest Rs 800 crore (Rs 8 billion) more during the current fiscal. “Total investment during the current year would be Rs 1,600 crore (Rs 16 billion) and during the last two quarters Rs 800 crore had already been pumped in,” Infosys member of the board, T V Mohandas Pai said on Thursday.

Pai said that the company was building the country’s largest educational complex at Mysore with an investment of Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion) and it was likely to be completed by March. The company is expanding its centres it operates and Pune will become larger than Bangalore centre.

“By June, Pune workforce capacity would be about 24,000 whereas Bangalore strength is 23,000 people,” Pai said. During the current fiscal, Infosys aims to add 30,000 headcount.

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An Infosys employee in US involved in a dowry related bodily injury case. Please register your protest in the Comments column for legal prosecution of the Infosys employee.

Infosys is a top ranked Indian outsourcing and off-shoring company.

New Delhi: Twenty-three-year-old Samlin Jenita lies in Chennai’s Mehta hospital battling for life. Twenty-eight weeks pregnant, seriously bruised and nursing a severe brain injury, Jenita is a victim of dowry harassment.

She was flown to Chennai from the US on Sunday night in a special air ambulance after her family got a frantic call informing them of her accident and urging them to take her back.

Jenita was allegedly beaten up by her husband Christy Daniels - an Infosys employee in the US - who reportedly threw her out of a moving car.

She was rescued by Sardar Inamullah, a Pakistan-origin pathologist and was sent home.

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