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Akanki Sharma (IANS) 22 August 2016
Happiness knew no bounds for 18-year-old Aditya Pratap Singh Rathore and his family when he was named the winner of the IndiaSkills 2016 competition held here last month.   Hailing from the city of the Taj, Rathore won the first prize in the "Automobile Technology Skill" category at...

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IANS 16 August 2016
Global software major Infosys Ltd. will soon lay off about 3,000 techies since the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has cancelled the contract for setting up a new bank (Williams & Glyn).   "Subsequent to this (RBS) decision, we will carry out an orderly ramp-down of about 3,000 persons,...

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Dr Abhijit Gosavi 08 August 2016
As someone who grew up in India, getting his high-school and part of his college education there, and as someone who has been an engineering professor in the U.S. for the last seventeen years, I have had the opportunity to observe students from multiple nations. Students from India have key...

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IANS 02 August 2016
The first meeting of the committee appointed to look into the allowances recommended by the 7th Pay Commission is scheduled this week while the payment of arrears will commence from this month, Finance Secretary Ashok Lavasa has said.   "The decision to defer the decision pertaining...

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While more young women are enrolled in higher education than ever before -- and apparently more successful in clearing 10th-standard board exams than young men -- they are either marrying early or not finding or not looking for jobs, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of various...

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Jaideep Sarin (IANS) 27 July 2016
Chandigarh : Burning the midnight oil were not the only stress factor this year of candidates aspiring for the limited number of seats at the country's medical colleges.   These were compounded by a dress code, a long list of banned items and strict do's and don'ts.   From...

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The top human resource priority for organisations in the second half of the year will be the retention of talent, a survey revealed on Tuesday.   In the survey conducted by India's leading C Level executive search firm Executive Access, 37 per cent organisations said that given the...

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The Central government employees will get fatter paychecks starting from August salaries, according to a gazette notification issued by central government on the Seventh Finance Commission report here on Tuesday.   The central government has decided to implement the seventh pay panel...

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The latest Monster Employment Index (MEI) showed the online recruitment activities saw a 17% growth over last year, a top company official said on Monday.   "The overall growth rate, even though lower than the past months, has continued to chart a double digit growth with certain...

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Indian IT bellwether Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) on Saturday announced that its non-executive director Phiroz Vandrevala had resigned from the company for personal reasons on Friday.   "Phiroz Vandrevala has relinquished the office of non-executive director of the company, due...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 June 2016
The union cabinet cleared the Seventh Central Pay Commission (7CPC) recommendations, which would boost consumption to the economy by Rs45,110 crore or about 0.30% of gross domestic product (GDP) and increase savings by Rs30,710 crore (0.20% of GDP), says India Ratings and Research...

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New Delhi : The cabinet on Wednesday approved the Seventh Pay Commission Report's recommendations for central government employees, official sources said.   The recommendations will impact the some 47 lakh central government employees and 52 lakh pensioners.   Disclaimer:...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 June 2016
The Union Cabinet is likely to discuss and take a final call on the recommendation to implement the seventh Central Pay Commission. This follows a report submission by the Committee of Secretaries, which has recommended a little less than 20% average hike as against an earlier media report of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 June 2016
Nikesh Arora, one of the highest paid executives in the world, has resigned from Japan-based Softbank Group Corp (SBG). He will continue to remain as an advisor to Softbank. According to Softbank, Arora's resignation from the position of Representative Director and Director of SBG will become...

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Beleaguered tycoon Vijaya Mallya resigned as chairman of Bayer CropScience Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of the German pharma major Bayer AG, the company said on Tuesday. "We regretfully accept the voluntary resignation of Vijay Mallya as our director and chairman with effect from June 30,...

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Japan's Toyota Motor is planning to introduce a telecommute system, which will allow around 25,000 employees to do most of their work from home, to improve work-life balance, the company announced Thursday.   The world's leading automaker is at present negotiating the plan with trade...

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The union cabinet under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave ex post facto approval to a proposal to enable central public sector enterprises to hire talented and experienced persons from states and private sector.   The decision essentially confers ex post factor...

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As President Pranab Mukherjee signed an ordinance on the NEET exams on Tuesday, Health Minister J.P. Nadda said this will provide it statutory status.   The ordinance exempts certain state boards from the ambit of National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for a year.   The...

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The government on Friday cleared an ordinance to defer the implementation of NEET, the common entrance test for under-graduate medical courses in India.   The ordinance, which puts on hold a Supreme Court May 9 ruling ordering the implementation of National Eligibility cum Entrance...

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Moneylife Digital Team 09 May 2016
Mrugank Paranjape is the new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) of Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX). Paranjape’s appointment has been approved by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), for a period of three years, according to a release from...

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