'...since the pandemic, driven by the worlds of influencers and Bollywood.'
Experts at various HR consultancies feel New Year 2010, would be considerably better in terms of salary hikes and hiring, although firms will continue to tread cautiously.
The mobile wallet player plans to add more Chinese sellers to its e-commerce platform and boost technology for its soon-to-be-launched payments bank
Increasing levels of fatness around the world could have the same impact on global resources as adding an extra billion people to the planet, say researchers.
Hindi cinema's top actresses have finally broken the glass ceiling. With women-centric films doing well, leading ladies are being paid at par with their male counterparts.
The demand for chartered accountants in the corporate world has shot up with stringent income tax laws, which require compulsory maintenance of accounts by specified categories of taxpayers.
The New Year 2015, however, may see shares worth over Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) being put on the table by the government, including by way of part-sale of its holdings in PSUs and its residual minority stakes in some private sector entities.
Salaries offered to Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C) graduates have increased 15-20 per cent compared to last year, during the recently concluded final placements, with more than 70 students bagging international postings.
Led by fast-growing sectors such as telecom, consumer durables and real estate, HR experts feel that hiring is most likely to jump.
No less than 4.5 million government employees will soon have more money in their pockets. And they can thank Justice Bellur Narayanaswamy Srikrishna for it. Still, public records do not have much information on the man.
Any vegetable, when stuffed in a wheat covering and fried crisp with ghee and served with a dab of white butter, becomes fit for a king's banquet.
It has taken a pandemic to move the needle on the salary packages for greenhorn engineers hired by the Indian IT services sector. The country's third-largest IT services player, HCL Technologies, has decided to boost the entry-level packages from Rs 3-3.6 lakh to Rs 4.25 lakh for FY23, in a bid to attract fresh talent and keep them for longer to counter the impact of rising attrition. This new package would also be applicable to those freshers who joined the firm in FY22.
When size matters. Just as scotch bottles have become bigger, novels have also become fatter.
Runway 34 is a clumsy cocktail of Hollywood movies spiked with the Bollywood brand of God complex, sighs Sukanya Verma.
Pankaj Sonkusre from Mumbai tells us how he changed his lifestyle and lost 20 kg.
Mark Zuckerberg may be founder and CEO of Facebook, but it is the second-in-command and ChiefOperating Officer Sheryl Sandberg who gets a fatter salary package at the IPO-bound social networking giant.
Asian executives are taking home fatter pay-cheques than their peers in Europe and by 2013, they will go past the earnings of American top brass as well, says global staffing consultancy Mercer.
PSUs say with the economy back on track, the students are preferring private sector companies due to fatter pay packets.
Executives in India are likely to take home a fatter salary than their peers across Asia this year as average base pay for heads of organisations in the country are likely to rise by 8.3 per cent, says a report.
A decade on from their last driver's title, courtesy of Kimi Raikkonen in 2007, Ferrari emerged from eight days of testing in Spain with the fastest lap times coupled with impressive reliability.
We generally associate hot weather with lighter meals with more fruits and more salads. Naturally, you would expect summer to leave you trimmer, or at least no fatter than you were in spring. You could be absolutely right, unless you fall for some summer treats with hundreds of hidden calories.
An inevitable consequences of advanced and rich economy is a fatter population, says a health economist and co-author of a new book, 'The Fattening America'.
Government employees' pay packets will get fatter, with the Cabinet on Thursday approving three per cent hike in dearness allowance.
You cannot put a price tag on peace of mind during an event as huge and nerve-wracking as this.
Parliamentarians will have to wait for some more time to get a fatter pay packet as the Union Cabinet on Thursday decided to leave the proposal to the next Lok Sabha. The proposal, coming close on the heels of the report of the Sixth Pay Commission for Central government employees, was aimed at amending the salary, allowances and pensions of MPs Act 1954, and paving the way for establishing a permanent mechanism for the purpose.
Rulers are not monkeys to be paid peanuts -- do so and the alternative is perilous.
Set a timer on your computer for a stand-and-stretch break after every 30 minutes.
Mukesh Ambani makes close to Rs 1,000 every second for his flagship company Reliance Industries and, in turn, gets a reward of one per cent of this additional profit. The paycheck of Ambani India got fatter by over Rs 5 crore to Rs 30.46 crore.
With the industry growing at an average rate of 25 per cent per annum, the lavishness doled out by Indians on weddings is just getting larger this season as exhibitors and even designers from Pakistan entering the market.
Jahnavi Patel tells us how Bollywood gives RED whole new meanings.
The current cap on H1-B visas could lead to a situation where those having the visas demand fatter salaries, which, in turn
Make saving innovative. Readers suggest some innovative ways and means in which you can develop the saving habit.
According to a new study, the more attractive you are, the higher your paycheck will be!
The judges' committee recommended a pay hike of Rs 2.8 lakh for SC judges, Rs 2.5 lakh for HC judges.
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