HCL Technologies
HCLTech named Fastest-Growing Tech Services Brand among India’s Top 10 by Kantar BrandZ 2025
19 Nov 2025
Recognition among India’s Top 10 by Kantar BrandZ 2025 reflects HCLTech’s commitment to innovation, client focus and AI leadership.
HCLTech opens office in Calgary, expanding its presence in Canada
18 Nov 2025
Signed memorandum with Invest Alberta to strengthen technology leadership in the region
HCLFoundation steps up support for Indian para-athletic community
18 Nov 2025
14 elite para-athletes receive sports equipment and six budding athletes get scholarships as part of its ‘Sports for Change’ initiative.
HCLTech launches Physical AI Innovation Lab in collaboration with NVIDIA
17 Nov 2025
Dedicated facility in Santa Clara, CA, to help enterprises explore, incubate and scale industry applications of physical AI and cognitive robotics.
HCLFoundation and Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation announce collaboration to empower rural youth
12 Nov 2025
Aim to provide digital skills training and placement support to 2,500 rural youth in the Vilathikulam and Pudur blocks of Thoothukudi district
HCLFoundation celebrates 10 years of transformative impact across rural India through HCLTech Grant
09 Nov 2025
Through HCLTech Grant, the Foundation has backed 60+ NGO-led rural projects, driving inclusive change at the grassroots and revitalizing ecosystems.
HCLTech and Talents of Endearment to launch AI-powered learning framework
29 Oct 2025
Collaboration to equip the enterprise workforce with future-ready skills and empower professionals and organizations to thrive in an AI-driven world.
HCLFoundation furthers UP Government’s vision of quality healthcare for all
28 Oct 2025
Provides state-of-the-art medical equipment to GIMS, Greater Noida
DIB and HCLTech forge strategic AI innovation partnership
22 Oct 2025
HCLTech’s advanced AI capabilities and global alliances with hyperscalers and technology partners will help DIB deploy AI responsibly and at scale.
HCLTech and Zscaler expand partnership for AI-powered security and network transformation
16 Oct 2025
HCLTech's Cybersecurity Fusion Center integrated with Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange™ to provide AI-led network transformation and security services
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Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
