The Minister of IT for India’s Telangana state, Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, better known as KTR, received a warm welcome at alliantgroup’s Houston headquarters to discuss job growth and further investment in Hyderabad. KTR and alliantgroup CEO, Dhaval Jadav, hosted an exuberant conversation about expanding the consulting and management engineering firm’s already strong presence in the Hyderabad region, the ‘Silicon Valley of India.’ alliantgroup has rapidly grown their workforce in the Indian city to 1,000 and plans to expand that to more than 5,000 workers.

In a decision that is being regarded as a major win for U.S. business owners, in the case of Suder v. IRS, the U.S. Tax Court has reaffirmed recent judicial precedent with respect to the R&D tax credit, reaffirming that businesses that are building on the work of others or performing applied research may be eligible to claim the incentive.