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'India's cities highly segregated on the basis of caste and religion'

'India's cities highly segregated on the basis of caste and religion'

Rediff.com31 Jul 2023

'Government supplied public services are less likely to be found in neighbourhoods with high numbers of Scheduled Castes and Muslims.'

Is your start-up facing the Uber problem?

Is your start-up facing the Uber problem?

Rediff.com31 Jul 2017

'As they grow bigger, the trail of their pioneering success often leaves behind a causticity marked by deficient human resource practices, negligible focus on corporate governance and rife sexism.'

Six areas of reforms to expect from Modi's banking retreat

Six areas of reforms to expect from Modi's banking retreat

Rediff.com2 Jan 2015

The meeting will be attended by all heads and EDs of public sector banks

Holy cow! Now even India Inc spends money on them

Holy cow! Now even India Inc spends money on them

Rediff.com22 Nov 2018

41 listed firms made 73 donations to gaushalas (cow shelters) and other cow-related charities over the last four years. The donations range from a few thousand rupees to a million.

Tata-SIA's flying permit exercise progressing well: Official

Tata-SIA's flying permit exercise progressing well: Official

Rediff.com26 Jul 2014

Earlier, the JV company got a go-ahead from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board in October 2013 and was awaiting AOP for launching a full-service carrier.

'Sashi' has large shoes to fill as HDFC Bank's new boss

'Sashi' has large shoes to fill as HDFC Bank's new boss

Rediff.com13 Aug 2020

Apart from navigating the bank through the Covid crisis, Jagdishan may also have to deal with the latest development on the auto loan lending practice scam. He will be expected to deliver consistent profit growth of 20 per cent-plus quarter after quarter, irrespective of the operating environment.

Indians' love for things foreign

Indians' love for things foreign

Rediff.com22 Sep 2020

...Is this a virus more dangerous than Covid-19, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.

Tata Motors introduces VRS, cuts down hierarchy levels

Tata Motors introduces VRS, cuts down hierarchy levels

Rediff.com15 Mar 2017

From a 15-16-level hierarchy, the organisation is moving to a flat five-level hierarchy.

Fresher salaries peak as startups look for young talent: study

Fresher salaries peak as startups look for young talent: study

Rediff.com22 Oct 2015

About 120 start-ups, mostly e-commerce ones, have signed up on Hirees platform to recruit candidates who are actively seeking jobs.

India to share Co-WIN source software with over 50 countries: R S Sharma

India to share Co-WIN source software with over 50 countries: R S Sharma

Rediff.com28 Jun 2021

About 50 countries, including Canada, Mexico, Nigeria and Panama, have shown interest in having a Co-WIN like system to run their vaccination drive, a senior official said on Monday, adding India is ready to share the open source software free of cost.

Edtech, logistics and gig-economy to drive jobs

Edtech, logistics and gig-economy to drive jobs

Rediff.com25 Feb 2021

Fresher hiring is expected to more than double compared to last year.

TCS to hire 55,000 employees this fiscal

TCS to hire 55,000 employees this fiscal

Rediff.com17 Apr 2014

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said it will hire 55,000 employees this fiscal, including 25,000 freshers.

Campus placements: Infosys, TCS offer better salaries to freshers

Campus placements: Infosys, TCS offer better salaries to freshers

Rediff.com15 Oct 2018

Colleges are witnessing more offers, with better salary packages. Median salary packages offered have improved over last year.

Larsen & Toubro all set to launch its 'Nxt' disruption

Larsen & Toubro all set to launch its 'Nxt' disruption

Rediff.com30 Mar 2019

Honed and utilised in-house for over three years, the engineering major's new arm - L&T-Nxt - will focus on AI, IoT, vitual reality and cyber security among other fields of digitisation.

Private cos bend it in style, hop onto yoga bandwagon

Private cos bend it in style, hop onto yoga bandwagon

Rediff.com21 Jun 2017

Many across Corporate India seem to have taken a leaf out of Modi's endorsement of healthy living through yoga.

Covid redux: India Inc switches back to SOS mode from wait-and-watch

Covid redux: India Inc switches back to SOS mode from wait-and-watch

Rediff.com14 Jan 2022

With the dizzying rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the country, India Inc has transitioned from a wait-and-watch policy to full-on emergency mode, bringing back remote and flexi work, stringent safety protocols, and allowing only essential travel. Companies - especially in metros like Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata - that had adopted a hybrid work model during the last few months when the caseload remained low, are either switching back entirely to work-from-home (WFH), or calling skeletal staff to office on select days. Take the case of cigarettes-to-hotels major, ITC, which had been on a hybrid work model over the last few months.

Why RBI officers are peeved with the central bank

Why RBI officers are peeved with the central bank

Rediff.com29 Nov 2019

RBI's oversight cadre move creates HR trouble, officers threaten agitation.

Slowdown fails to stifle Indian banks' expansion plans

Slowdown fails to stifle Indian banks' expansion plans

Rediff.com25 Nov 2019

Backed by technology banks are expanding the branch network - and adding more to the workforce.

How Dravid can avert the conflict-of-interest charge

How Dravid can avert the conflict-of-interest charge

Rediff.com20 Aug 2019

What does Rahul Dravid need to do to be able to join NCA without carrying the blemish of perceived or potential 'conflict of interest'? Sudhir Bisht attempts an answer.

Under Stalin agriculture, environment get a new name; non-resident Tamils a new ministry

Under Stalin agriculture, environment get a new name; non-resident Tamils a new ministry

Rediff.com8 May 2021

Governor Banwarilal Purohit administered the oath of office and secrecy to 68-year old Stalin, for whom this would be the first stint as CM

Why reduce the bank CEO to a titular head!

Why reduce the bank CEO to a titular head!

Rediff.com4 Aug 2020

'The CEO will neither be able to guide the senior team in operational matters nor decide on their appointment, compensation or removal.' 'Yet, the CEO is responsible for the profit and loss of the bank!' 'Why would the senior executives listen to him?' 'Which self-respecting professional would want to be a CEO with these constraints?' asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.

IIT-M in controversy over 'derecognition' of students' body

IIT-M in controversy over 'derecognition' of students' body

Rediff.com29 May 2015

A senior official of the premier Central technical institute told reporters that the students had "violated" defined guidelines of IIT-Madras.

#CoolestJobEver: How companies are hiring Millennials

#CoolestJobEver: How companies are hiring Millennials

Rediff.com15 Jun 2015

Employers are laying the welcome mat for Gen Y -- from hiring videos to claims for the coolest interview ever.

Thomas Cook India realises there's plenty in a name

Thomas Cook India realises there's plenty in a name

Rediff.com7 Oct 2019

Over the last few days, as the fortunes of Thomas Cook Plc took a wrong turn, the Indian entity scrambled to distance itself from its erstwhile parent. Experts have said that the travel firm must not change its brand name.

Bank mergers cast shadow on wage negotiations

Bank mergers cast shadow on wage negotiations

Rediff.com5 Sep 2019

Bank unions - officers and workmen - had buried their differences and sat across the table on August 29 to work out a fresh deal with the IBA involving a 20 per cent wage hike.

Covid likely came from lab leak in China: Report

Covid likely came from lab leak in China: Report

Rediff.com27 Feb 2023

The new report highlights how different parts of the intelligence community have arrived at disparate judgments about the pandemic's origin.

How GoAir can become a thriving airline

How GoAir can become a thriving airline

Rediff.com24 Feb 2021

Many argue that the airline could achieve its full potential if Nusli Wadia were to run it the way he does Britannia.

Explained: How Covid got HR to relook its role in a changed world

Explained: How Covid got HR to relook its role in a changed world

Rediff.com17 Jan 2022

India Inc has weathered many a storm during Covid-19: from supply chain disruptions to demand dips, steep increase in input costs to shortage of key raw materials. As most companies navigated unprecedented challenges on multiple fronts, realisation dawned also about the criticality of employee welfare in the survival of the business. And it was the human resources (HR) department that faced the greatest test on this front.

No pay, it's all work for these Indian promoters

No pay, it's all work for these Indian promoters

Rediff.com19 Oct 2016

Around 300 promoters serve their company boards for free.

TCS Q3 net soars 7%; double-digit growth expected in FY22

TCS Q3 net soars 7%; double-digit growth expected in FY22

Rediff.com8 Jan 2021

The county's largest IT company TCS on Friday reported a 7.2 per cent jump in December quarter net to Rs 8,701 crore on a consolidated basis, and seemed to suggest the worst is behind by projecting double-digit revenue growth for FY22. The company, a cash cow for Tata Sons, saw a 5.4 per cent growth in revenue at Rs 42,015 crore for the quarter. Operating profit margin came in at 26.6 per cent despite implementing wage hikes, after consistently missing the 26-28 per cent aspirational band for many quarters.

How the government created Yoga Day euphoria

How the government created Yoga Day euphoria

Rediff.com23 Jun 2015

After the United Nations declared June 21 as the International Yoga Day in December last year at India's request, the officers in the Ministry of Ayush began ideating about how to celebrate it in the country.

Indrani quit most of her companies by mid-2011

Indrani quit most of her companies by mid-2011

Rediff.com28 Aug 2015

Her corporate footprint is fading fast.

Air India chief blames 'merger' with Indian Airlines for chaos

Air India chief blames 'merger' with Indian Airlines for chaos

Rediff.com21 May 2016

Ashwani Lohani said employees were wrongly blamed for woes of the organisation due to the merger that didn't happen

'Arrest Chitra, find others involved in NSE scam'

'Arrest Chitra, find others involved in NSE scam'

Rediff.com22 Feb 2022

'This issue is related to national security because they were compromising the entire capital markets's core infrastructure by leaking confidential information.' 'What would have happened if the servers had come down?' 'Or some confidential information leaked to terrorists who could have knocked out our capital market?'

Infosys to increase staff salary by up to 12%

Infosys to increase staff salary by up to 12%

Rediff.com16 Apr 2016

Restricted stock units can be an effective tool to curb employee attrition and retain key talent

B-schools offering PGDM seek parity ahead of IIM Bill

B-schools offering PGDM seek parity ahead of IIM Bill

Rediff.com2 Mar 2017

To meet this week on representation to HRD ministry for degree granting power, autonomy.

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

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

Rediff.com24 Jun 2023

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

The bizarre reactions to Kolkata flyover collapse

The bizarre reactions to Kolkata flyover collapse

Rediff.com1 Apr 2016

Here's a list of a few remarks which added to the anguish of people in the aftermath of the tragedy.

Meet the first CEO of all-women bank

Meet the first CEO of all-women bank

Rediff.com15 Jul 2013

Ananthasubramanian, 55, started her career in 1982 at Bank of Baroda as a specialist officer in the planning stream.

How Tech Mahindra-Satyam merger will help the company

How Tech Mahindra-Satyam merger will help the company

Rediff.com26 Jun 2013

The merger process started four years ago, with the acquisition of Satyam in April 2009.