A Bangalore-based software professional has been sentenced to one-year jail and fined for hacking a government website and gaining unauthorised access to broadband internet by ‘altering computer database.’

HCL Infosystems, the domestic business subsidiary of the $5-billion IT group controlled by billionaire Shiv Nadar, has emerged as thelowest bidder for providing computer hardware and software solutions to Bharat Sanchar Nigam’s western operations, the company’s third such win this year.

Tata Teleservices has inked a deal to share the mobile towers of State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam BSNL for 15 years.

Services of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd BSNL across the country are likely to be impacted as major employee unions are calling for a 2-day strike on various demands.

State-owned telecom majors Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) have discontinued the group dialling facility across all telecom circles in the country.