...or just a Covid-era practice, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
Maruti has trained 450,000 people in seven years and plans to train 800,000 people in the next three years at its ITDRs, to be set up in other states. Within a year, one ITDR each will be opened in Bahadurgarh, Rohtak, Dehradun and Vadodara. The company will sign soon a memorandum of understanding with the Bihar and West Bengal governments to set up similar projects.
Be it for the organisation they work for, or for their own venture, if they believe in an idea, they work relentlessly towards it.
The jury is still out on whether this will lead to re-skilling.
Ms Usha may soon discover that winning four gold medals at the Asian Games and qualifying for the Los Angeles Olympics is a walk in the park compared with the challenges of stabilising governance at the IOA, observes Kanika Datta.
HR Guru Mayank Rautela offers practical advice.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to speed up setting up of a commando training centre in Rampur and also form a skilled team of women commandos.
Four years ago, Malvika Raj Joshi quit schooling to explore her love for different subjects.
Agniveers once enrolled into the Indian Air Force, will be governed under the Air Force Act 1950, for a period of four years.
Post graduate colleges are aggressively tying up with banks to introduce banking courses.
While West Punjab became part of West Pakistan, East Punjab was given to India, and Bengal's division saw a large swathe of its eastern territory forming part of East Pakistan.
If someone incompetent clears the system, it is probably intentional.
Head coach Thomas Dennerby was a witness to the 'incident' and it was he, who immediately informed the AIFF.
The party's research department team, which Rajya Sabha member M V Rajeev Gowda heads, has sifted through the suggestions received in the last five months, and the manifesto is slated to be released later this month, reports Archis Mohan.
Nirmala Sitharaman's messaging was clear when she presented a well-balanced Budget with an eye on state elections in nine states followed by a general election next year, observes Ramesh Menon.
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed two pleas challenging a Delhi high court judgment that upheld the Centre's Agnipath scheme for recruitment into the armed forces.
Abhishek Singhania left a career at PwC to work in a food security project as a research fellow.
Oracle, Google and Microsoft offered plum international offers to students at leading IITs in the country.
Shuvajit was confident of making a huge difference in the lives of people in rural India.
About 76,000 H-1B visas were issued to people in computer occupations in 2014.
Young, ambitious workforce learns skill degrees come with no guarantees.
Wadhwani joined the billion-dollar club in 1999, when he sold a venture for $9.3 bn to i2 Technologies.
Entrepreneurs, however, say they are unsure when the many obstacles in India will be cleared.
Public sector firms presented interesting offers on Day Zero placements at the IITs.
'Failure is success delayed. It teaches you to be patient and persevere so that you improve.'
These four entrepreneurs are motivated by a passion to make a difference in the society.
'What exists instead is a clear gap between skilled people and the work at hand.' 'Employers on most occasions find it difficult to find a match between the two,' Adi Godrej tells Viveat Susan Pinto and Niraj Bhatt.
A lowdown on how this career portal launched by the Government of India will change your search for jobs forever
The village in Maharashtra has continuously sent soldiers to the Army since World War I. Every other person you meet is a soldier or a retired soldier or is aspiring to be a soldier.
Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi of IIT-Madras discusses the disparity between academic vision and industry needs with Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com.
The lawmakers seem as uninterested as those who use the railways.
Experts believe adoption of AI in developing countries will be much faster than in developed nations, as the magnitude of change it will bring will be far larger.
There is huge potential for data analytics insurance sector in India which has over 40 crore life insurance policies.
Core sectors like manufacturing were the second largest recruiters at the newer IITs.
India believes in sabka saath, sabka vikas, sabka vishwas, sabka prayaas and walks ahead with it, Modi said.
It took a lockdown for us in India to even recognise that the plight of migrants needs to be addressed. They were faceless and unrecognised. They were unappreciated and even hounded. They were poorly paid and exploited, notes Ramesh Menon.
She spins Bollywood tracks when she's not doing her investment consultant job.
The Indian IT services sector is scrambling to retain talent since digitisation-led transformation has increased the demand for a digitally skilled workforce. As a result, the pull for jobs for tech professionals is also coming from non-IT sectors, leading to higher attrition among IT companies. The average number of tech jobs from non-IT sectors has seen a 41 per cent uptick in March-May'21 versus March-May'19, according to data from Naukri.com.
The P-8I, which is widely acknowledged to be the world's most deadly LRMR-ASW aircraft, is a derivative of the Boeing 737-800 airliner, onto which a plethora of sensors and weaponry has been fitted.
Veteran atomic scientist and former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission Dr Sekhar Basu succumbed to Covid-19 early on Thursday at a private hospital in Koklata, a health department official said. He breathed his last just three days after turning 68.
