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Business Standard
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Standard
GenAI disrupts software ADM market, 10-15% of IT services revenue at risk
As the debate continues over the revenue-generating potential of generative AI (GenAI), one thing is becoming increasingly clear: its impact on the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) — and by extension, Application Development and Maintenance (ADM) — is already being felt in measurable ways. According to a report from Motilal Oswal Financial Services, ADM, which makes up an estimated 35–45 per cent of the IT services industry's revenue, is emerging as ground zero for GenAI's most immediate and tangible productivity gains. For IT services firms, this translates to a structural challenge. "Our research suggests an approximately 40 per cent productivity gain from enterprise-wide implementation of GenAI Copilot, putting about 10-15 per cent of IT services revenues at risk,' wrote the report's authors Abhishek Pathak, Keval Bhagat, and Tushar Dhonde. Another report from Kotak Institutional Equites also added that adoption of AI has increased in select use cases. The report also noted that efficiencies from AI adoption in use cases such as software engineering can be significant. 'Copilot with GitHub and Claude are commonly used tools for coding. Use cases are pretty high in application services (both development and maintenance), content generation and BPO services. Clients are not resisting usage of generative AI tools due to concerns around the technology; instead, they are encouraging vendors to adopt generative AI in such use cases,' the Kotak report pointed out. Some of the work within SDLC that is being immediately impacted includes low-level coding or routine feature work, code review and testing, debugging & incident response, and security fixes. In a recent story by Business Standard on impact of AI on testing, it was found that as more and more code is being written by AI, it has raised questions about the future of traditional testing engineers, establishing the need for them to reskill quickly to stay relevant. Motilal Oswal's analysis noted that GenAI tools like Copilot drive around 55 per cent efficiency in repetitive coding tasks, translating to 11 per cent of total ADM hours saved. Similarly, automated suggestions and AI-generated test cases reduce effort by about 40 per cent, resulting in overall time savings of 8 per cent. The findings were discussed in a recent industry session featuring Saurabh Gupta from HFS Research, who emphasised that the days of relying on anecdotal GenAI success stories are over. 'Large enterprises are encountering the law of diminishing returns. The limits of offshoring have been reached, and jumping into a new "S-curve" of value creation is increasing,' he said. In the near term, companies that fail to deploy GenAI internally at scale risk being undercut by more efficient rivals. But in the long run, the bigger question is how the industry can reinvent itself when one of its largest revenue pools becomes significantly less labour-intensive. Analysts also highlighted that the current shift towards AI is replicating the shift the industry went through from legacy to digital. The industry is facing productivity and pricing pressure in the ADM and core IT services, but the revenue uplift from GenAI is yet to happen.
India Today
12-06-2025
- India Today
Fact Check: 2023 Nepal plane crash video FALSELY shared as Air India AI171 tragedy
London-bound Air India flight AI17, carrying 242 passengers and crew, crashed minutes after taking off from the Ahmedabad airport on June 11. While no figures have been officially released yet, many are feared many on social media shared photos and videos of the crash site, some also began sharing a video, allegedly shot moments before the tragic incident. The video shows passengers inside a plane, with one of them filming the view outside. Moments later, the plane appears to lose control, causing panic among the passengers. The video likely ends with a crash, as flames and smoke are the video on X, one person wrote, 'Heartbreaking: A Facebook Live video has surfaced reportedly moments before the tragic plane crash near Ahmedabad, Gujarat involving Air India flight AI171. Prayers for everyone on board.' Its archive can be viewed here. India Today Fact Check found that this video is from 2023 and shows a Yeti Airlines crash in Nepal. It is unrelated to the recent Air India PROBEReverse-searching the keyframes of the viral video led us to the same video shared online in January 2023, making it evident that the video is unrelated to the recent Air India plane crash. The post claimed that it showed a plane crash that occurred in then found several news reports about the incident. According to a video report by Mojo Story, the footage was shot inside a Yeti Airlines flight that crashed in Pokhara, Nepal, on January 15, Yeti Airlines flight 691, which departed from Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport on January 15, crashed into the Seti River gorge, located between the old and new airports in Pokhara, a popular resort city. More than 70 people, including five Indians, died in the it is evident that an old and unrelated video from a 2023 Nepal plane crash is being falsely shared as footage of the recent Air India crash.(Written by Abhishek Pathak)Tune InMust Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
India Today
02-06-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Fact Check: Russia's retaliation for Ukraine's Spider's Web? This video is from 2024
In a massive attack, Ukrainian drones targeted five Russian airbases and reportedly damaged over 40 military aircraft ahead of the Istanbul peace talks. Calling the operation 'brilliant', Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the preparations for it took over a year and a this, a video claiming to show Russia's retaliatory attack on Ukraine has gone viral on social media. The video shows airstrikes in what appears to be a residential area, causing huge fireballs and plumes of Notably, Russian shelling and air attacks killed five people outside the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, while a drone attack on the Sumy region injured at least six early on the morning of June the viral video on Facebook, one person wrote in Hindi, 'Russia's counterattack begins. Russia has started launching missile attacks on military and defence bases in many cities of Ukraine. Let's pray Russia doesn't use nuclear weapons.' An X user wrote, 'Update: Russia launches counterattacks on Kiev. Ukraine's drone barrage reportedly destroyed 40 Russian strategic bombers on their home bases. Russia retaliates by launching attacks on Ukraine's capital and 100+ military bases.'India Today Fact Check, however, found that the video dates back to July 2024 and does not show a recent Russian strike on PROBEadvertisementReverse-searching keyframes of the viral video led us to a July 2024 post containing the clip. This makes it evident that the video is old and does not depict a recent Russian attack. The post claimed that it was a Russian cruise missile attack on the Ukrainian capital of then found a Daily Mail video report uploaded to YouTube on July 9, 2024, which featured the viral clip. The description of the video stated that Russia, using Kh-101 missiles, hit several targets, including a hospital, in Ukraine's capital on July 8, 2024. According to an Associated Press report from the time, Russia conducted a massive missile attack, targeting five Ukrainian cities and damaging the country's largest children's hospital, Okhmatdyt. However, Russia denied attacking the hospital and said that it had only struck military targets. Russia used Kh-101 missiles in this attack, and Ukraine claimed to have shot down 11 of it is evident that an almost-year-old video is being falsely shared as a recent Russian retaliatory strike on Ukraine.(Written by Abhishek Pathak)Must Watch Want to send us something for verification? Please share it on our at 73 7000 7000 You can also send us an email at factcheck@
Time of India
31-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Drone threat persists, sparks smuggling fears on Western border
Gandhinagar: While India thwarted more than 600 aerial attacks involving drones and missiles from Pakistan along the Gujarat and Rajasthan borders during the recent military conflict, the residents of the border areas are concerned that the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by Pakistan may eventually open up a new smuggling route for contraband. On Saturday, Abhishek Pathak, inspector general of the Border Security Force Gujarat Frontier, which covers the international boundary between India and Pakistan along Gujarat and Munabao, Barmer, in Rajasthan, told the media that the security agencies foiled more than 600 drone attacks from Pakistan during this period, out of which about 40% attacks were targeted at Gujarat. Significantly, drones continued to be dispatched from across the border after the declaration of ceasefire between India and Pakistan. A villager told ET on condition of anonymity that the movement of flying objects from Pakistan continued several days after the ceasefire. "These movements have been rather frequent," he said, adding that unless checked, it might open up a smuggling route for contraband in the area. Munabao and its adjoining areas have rarely reported smuggling of contraband in recent years as the border is well-guarded. On the contrary, there has been a spurt in narcotics smuggling through the sea route. Live Events Speaking from Jamnagar, a senior member of the state security apparatus said that a Pakistani drone had reached the coastal town during the recent clash. "Not just the Rajasthan border, the drones can reach here as well and there is every possibility that they would be used for dropping contraband sooner than later," said the person.
Indian Express
30-05-2025
- Politics
- Indian Express
India thwarted over 600 missiles, drone attacks on Gujarat Frontier; 40% of them in state itself: BSF IG
More than 600 aerial attacks in the form of missiles and drones were thwarted by security forces on the southern end of India's border with Pakistan, comprising Bhuj sector in Gujarat and Barmer sector in Rajasthan, earlier this month, Abhishek Pathak, the Inspector General (IG) of the Gujarat Frontier of the Border Security Force (BSF), said on Friday. The Indian forces either destroyed or forced the missiles and drones to turn back with no harm caused to civilians and no damage to infrastructure, the IG said during a press conference held by the BSF at the Gujarat Frontier Headquarters in Gandhinagar. The Gujarat Frontier of the BSF, part of its Western Command, is responsible for maintaining watch over the Bhuj Sector and the Barmer Sector. When asked by The Indian Express to share a break-up of the number of attempted attacks over the skies of Gujarat itself, IG Pathak said, 'About 40% of the attacks were in Gujarat while the rest were in the Barmer sector (of Rajasthan).' When asked about the type of drones and missiles deployed by Pakistan following Operation Sindoor, IG Pathak said the investigation was still underway into their make and type. IG Pathak said that Pakistan had even deployed tanks and heavy artillery at the border. He said everything was being analysed to 'improve our response next time'. 'We learnt that Pakistan had not only increased manpower along the border, but also deployed heavy artillery and tanks in forward areas. In view of this situation, the BSF along with the Army, the Navy and the Air Force completed its preparations and officials also visited border areas to brief the personnel and review the preparations,' Pathak said. Speaking about BSF's preparations, Pathak said Gujarat Frontier had deployed 'high-calibre weapons and surveillance equipment' at all the border posts after getting inputs about Pakistan army's mobilisation. Regarding the intruder from Pakistan who was shot and killed on May 23 while attempting to cross the international border, IG Pathak said that according to the Rules of Engagement (ROE), he was challenged and asked to stop his advance but he did not, leading to the BSF troops firing and killing him on the spot. 'We have shared his photograph with Pakistan. We did not find any identification documents on his person and we are still waiting to see whether they (Pakistan) will claim his body,' said Pathak. (With PTI Inputs)
