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Moneylife Digital Team 27 January 2026
Indian professionals seeking H-1B visa stamping appointments are facing an unprecedented delay, with not many regular interview slots available across US consulates in India for the entire 2026 calendar year and many appointments are now reportedly being pushed into 2027. The situation has...

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A few days ago, a friend shared a link with me. His son had received it while applying for a job with MahaMetro. At first glance, it looked like a routine recruitment form. The kind job-seekers see every day. But something did not feel right.   From experience, one rule is clear. Genuine...

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Arthur Middlebrooks, a management consultant from the US, wrote an article a long time ago titled “Be better, without getting caught up in novelty.” The article's theme is that many companies have kept chasing higher quality. The bar of quality is raised higher and higher with Kaizen. The theme...

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Vedika, a 22-year-old engineering graduate, has been searching for her first job. She was contacted on LinkedIn by someone claiming to be a recruiter from a well-known IT services company. The profile of the recruiter looked authentic and referenced her qualifications which immediately built...

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The media today is filled with news about artificial intelligence (AI). Newspapers have not just columns on AI but full pages, sometimes two full pages on the same day.  These are on AI and various aspects of learning AI and applying AI in various industries. A new technology has arrived on the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 December 2025
The directorate of enforcement (ED) has facilitated the restitution of ₹311.67 crore towards long-pending workmen dues of the defunct Kingfisher Airlines Ltd, marking a significant step in the restoration of proceeds of crime to affected stakeholders under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act...

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When I look at the buildings in Hong Kong or the roads in Dubai, the uniform architecture of buildings in different parts of London or on the islands of Greece and then return to India and compare the scenario, I wonder why there is such a great disparity. Except for a few patches in this vast...

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KBS Sidhu 24 November 2025
New Labour Laws Come into Operation On 21 November 2025, five years after the Industrial Relations Code and the Code on Social Security received presidential assent, India finally made its four Labour Codes effective. The wait was long, the path protracted, but the destination—a consolidated...

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Moneylife Digital Team 17 October 2025
The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has triggered widespread outrage with its newly-approved withdrawal rules which many see as a blow to India’s salaried class. Under the revised framework, employees who lose their jobs will have to wait 12 months instead of two to fully access...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 October 2025
In a landmark reform for India’s banking sector, the government has, for the first time, opened senior leadership positions in public sector banks to professionals from the private sector — including the prestigious post of managing director (MD) at State Bank of India (SBI). The move marks a...

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We always become aware of the new professions that are emerging in the new environment.  There are opportunities in the IT sector; in the ITES sector; in BPO; in the tourism and hospitality industry; in the financial sector; in infrastructure; in biotechnology; in solar energy and many...

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Has the Nagpur office of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) appointed some of its employees who allegedly provided fake caste certificates to get the jobs? Since a requites filed under the Right to Information (RTI) Act did not provide the required information, a second appeal has been filed with...

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On 19th September, the US president Donald Trump dropped a new bombshell. He ordered that all new petitions for H-1B visas filed on behalf of workers outside America would now carry a US$100,000 fee. The measure, which will last for a year unless renewed, is aimed at deterring firms from...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2025
In a sweeping overhaul of the H-1B visa programme, the US department of homeland security (DHS) has proposed a weighted lottery system that would give higher chances of selection to foreign workers in higher salary brackets, while also imposing a steep US$100,000 one-time fee on new visa...

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From the beginning of my working career, 60 years ago, I had been observing two kinds of people, especially in corporate life. Those who live their own lives—very private—and with the least connection with people lower down the rungs. And then some were up there—but had not forgotten the law of...

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Ganesh Chavan, a third-year law student of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), who had sought access to his fourth semester marks ledger through the Right to Information (RTI) Act but was denied the same by the university’s public information officer (PIO), is now victorious with the...

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This is in continuation of the article I wrote earlier, where I expressed concern that many innovations reported in the Indian media –innovations with the potential to transform lives in this country (and sometimes far beyond) –simply do not see the light of day in the marketplace. For all of...

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Moneylife Digital Team 28 July 2025
The Supreme Court on Monday expressed deep concern over a series of student suicides at premier educational institutions, including Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT KGP) and Sharda University, raising serious questions about the role and responsibility of campus administrations. A...

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Moneylife Digital Team 25 July 2025
In a significant order addressing both justice and student welfare, the Supreme Court while directing central bureau of investigation (CBI) to take over the probe into the suspicious death of a 17-year-old national eligibility-cum-entrance test (NEET-UG) aspirant in Visakhapatnam, also issued...

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Recently, I came across a breakthrough from two young scientists in Bengaluru: a mobile-sized cancer detection device promising results much faster and at a fraction of the cost of the device used today – a mere 10%. It also claims a current accuracy rate of around 70%, aiming for 98%–not...

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