IANS Hyderabad, April 7 The word ‘Moonlighting’ has been used and heard across India a lot in recent months. Broadly, moonlighting is working for a business of the same niche while being a permanent employee of another. Post the Covid...
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ANI Washington, March 20 Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said Monday he was cutting 9,000 more jobs from the online retail giant’s workforce, following the 18,000 that were axed in January. The latest cuts come after the company announced earlier this...
IANS San Francisco, March 19 Entertainment giant Disney has directed managers to propose budget cuts and compile lists of employees who will be laid off in the coming weeks, the media reported. It is unclear whether Disney will start laying...
IANS San Francisco/New Delhi, March 5 Top chief financial officers (CFOs) have warned about job cuts across the board in the education market over the next six months, as tech and media sectors bear the brunt of global economic slowdown....
Mumbai, March 1 The USD 245-billion Indian technology industry on Wednesday flagged the “employability gap” in engineering graduates, saying that the education system is not focusing on building strong foundational and professional skills. Debjani Ghosh, the president of the technology...
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IANS New Delhi, February 24 Air India has planned to hire over 4200 cabin crew trainees and 900 pilots in 2023 as the airline adds new aircraft and rapidly expands its domestic and international operations. Earlier this month, Air India...
IANS New Delhi, February 16 About 92 per cent of Indian recruiters express optimism about hiring in the first half of 2023 while only 4 per cent of recruiters predicted layoffs during the first six months, a new report said...
IANS New Delhi, February 10 India will need 30 million digitally skilled professionals by 2026, and about 50 per cent of the current workforce would require to re-skill themselves in areas of emerging technologies, a new report said on Friday....
IANS New Delhi, February 7 Not all IIT graduates are lucky to grab lucrative salaries as a new report on Tuesday revealed that students obtaining jobs with a higher CTC (Rs 50 lakh and above per annum) constitute only 5.5...
IANS Washington, February 6 Raj Thakur is stressed, anxious and, above all, angry. A Seattle-based IT engineer, Thakur was among the 18,000 employees Amazon laid off in what has been the largest single-shot cut by any company since Meta set...
New Delhi, January 30 Unicorn edtech firm Physics Wallah plans to hire 2,500 employees in the ongoing quarter across different roles, the company said on Monday. The development comes at a time when massive lay-offs have been announced by several...
IANS San Francisco, January 24 Deeper layoffs are coming in 2023 as most business economists have predicted that their companies will cut payrolls in the coming months, media reports said. According to a report in CNN citing a new survey,...
New Delhi, January 11 Easing the eligibility criterion, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has allowed top 20 percentile students of all education boards, including those of states, for admission to various national institutes. Earlier, only students securing 75 per cent...
Karam Prakash New Delhi, January 9 As India has invited top international universities to open their campuses in the country, educationalists fear further privatisation of higher education and collapse of the state universities. The entire exercise of creating room for...
Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 26 Budding animators, gamers and visual effect artists will soon find their hobbies mainstreamed in the Indian educational and job systems with the government readying school curriculum and dedicated undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in the...
New Delhi, December 25 A mixed bag of opportunities is likely to greet job aspirants in the New Year as telecom and services-oriented sectors are anticipated to accelerate hiring after recent gloomy months of pink slips in the technology segment...
Chandigarh, December 20 Anshu Sood of Hoshiarpur, a student of the University Business School (UBS), Panjab University, has bagged the highest package of Rs 58.48 lakh per annum from Tolaram Group for a managerial post. This marked an increase of...
New Delhi, December 19 The Supreme Court has asked the Centre and IITs to follow the reservation policy for admission to research degree programmes and recruitment of faculty members at IITs as provided under the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation...
Chandigarh, December 14 Getting skill-based jobs will now be just be a click away. In a New Year’s gift to the job-seekers, the Technical Education and Industrial Training Department will soon launch a mobile-based app to bridge the skill gap...
New Delhi, December 8 Amid reports of mass layoffs by several firms, including in the IT sector, Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Thursday said any retrenchment and layoffs are deemed to be illegal if not carried out as...
New Delhi, December 6 IT company Microsoft will train and certify over 1 lakh software developers in India in a month under its pan-India “Future Ready Champions of Code” program, the company said on Tuesday. The month-long programme will be...
New Delhi, December 2 During the first in-person mode of placement drive after the pandemic, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) recorded an increase in international offers for its students with several of them bagging packages exceeding Rs 1 crore...
New York, November 9 Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 people, about 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to employees Wednesday. The job...
New Delhi, November 6 The Union health ministry is working to finalise guidelines to do away with the bond policy for doctors based on the National Medical Commission’s recommendations in this regard, official sources said. According to the bond policy,...
IANS New Delhi, October 30 Most of the toppers in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (Advanced) are taking admission in Computer Science and related engineering courses. The craze of ‘Computer Science engineering’ is so much that many students are not...
Online Ph.D programmes offered by EdTech companies with foreign varsities not recognised: UGC, AICTE
New Delhi, October 28 Online Ph.D programmes offered by EdTech companies in collaboration with foreign educational institutions are not recognised, the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) announced on Friday. This the second...
Mumbai, October 10 The country’s largest IT services exporter TCS on Monday said moonlighting is an “ethical issue” and against its core values but has not taken any action against any staff. The company, which employs over 6.16 lakh people,...
Ravi S Singh New Delhi, September 24 The Centre is understood to be concerned about sweeping punitive action taken by major companies against employees for their alleged moonlighting or taking up dual employment. Well-placed sources said the government is presently following...
New Delhi, September 16 As several students, disappointed with the results of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET-UG), took to social media to express “lack of clarity” and “confusion” over their percentile, UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Friday...
Chandigarh, September 11 Chinmay Khokar has emerged as the tricity topper by securing all-India rank 42 in the JEE Advanced, results of which were announced on Sunday. Harsh Jakhar from Sector 35 came second, securing AIR 48, while Anirudh...
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