Over 400 evacuated after fire at Chandigarh's PGIMER hospital; no deaths

More than 400 patients were evacuated to safety after a major fire broke out in PGIMER-Chandigarh's Nehru Hospital block late last night, officials said on Tuesday. IMAGE: A policeman inspects the......

The A-W Of Desi Guests At the White House Dinner

The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Prime Minister Narendra D Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments,......

Full Text: PM Modi's address to US Congress

Here's the full text of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to a joint session of the United States Congress, delivered on Thursday. IMAGE: US Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the......

In-house hiring test only in Hindi-English, never in regional languages: CRPF

The Central Reserve Police Force on Wednesday said its in-house recruitment process for hiring constables in various categories has always been conducted in Hindi and English languages "only" and......

Covid-19 impact: 10,000 IT professionals may have lost jobs in Q1

The appraisals being done by most companies this year are harsher than past ones with higher threshold in many metrics. Reduction in headcount has been done across most tier-I and tier-II IT firms......

HSBC axes 840 IT jobs in Britain in first big wave of planned cuts

Many of the jobs will now be offshored to lower income countries such as India, China and Poland HSBC, Europe's largest bank, started laying off 840 information technology workers in Britain on......

Hit by leaks, wary finance ministry blocks non-government sites

Officers up to director rank have access only to ‘.nic.in’ and ‘.gov.in’ websites The finance ministry has blocked all non-government websites, including email services,......

Why trade unions have failed to make inroads into the IT sector

With plenty of jobs available in the sector, workers, even if mistreated, choose to keep quiet rather than risk spoiling their careers by organising themselves.   Recently, when Tata......