'There Was Chaos At Every Gate'

Flyers faced a double blow as air fares on Air India flights out of Delhi and those of SpiceJet soared past Rs 1 lakh one-way on some routes, and even those showed 'sold out' despite the airlines......

Shakti Dubey tops 2024 civil services exam; women dominate top 5

Shakti Dubey has topped the civil services examination 2024, with Harshita Goyal and Dongre Archit Parag getting the second and third ranks, the Union Public Service Commission announced on......

Chennai rains: Over 600 people rescued, 2 foreigners flown to Delhi

Over 600 people including more than 130 university students and an old French couple were taken to safety on Friday by a coordinated team of defence and NDRF personnel. Army personnel carrying an......

Tales from a flooded Chennai: 'Water entered from beneath the doors and suddenly started rising'

Eighteen-year-old Abhik Thapa, a Nepalese student at a private university in Chennai, had come to India as one of the lucky survivors of the killer April earthquake and now he is heading back to......

Fewer jobs, flat salary blues for techies in campus hiring

'Over the next two to three years, hiring will come down further.''You will see the industry intake of freshers go down to 150,000 from the current 200,000.'Vinay Umarji, M Saraswathy and Shivani......

Campus recruitment: IT cos to go slow

For the past two years, Cognizant Technology Solutions and Vellore Institute of Technology, Tamil Nadu, have been figuring in the Limca Book of Records for the highest placements done by a......

Laptops at Rs 420 may be a reality!

The Human Resources Ministry is seriously attempting to manufacture laptops at almost half the price of the cheapest mobile -$10 or just Rs 420. If the target is achieved, it plans to churn out......

Wipro opens door to non-science graduates

These recruits, after going through training, would be sent in areas like infrastructure management services and application support and services. In what could well become a larger sectoral trend,......