The ICMR has approved over 200 labs (both public and private) for COVID-19 testing through-PCR machines.
Defence experts want defence expenditure to be at 3% of GDP, which they consider minimum to counter the two-front threat from China and Pakistan, internal insurgencies, and dominating a 7,500 km coastline and the Indian Ocean beyond. What Arun Jaitley has given India this Budget is 2.16% of GDP, observes Ajai Shukla.
With the gradual opening up of shops, hotels, restaurants and catering services with limited number of participants, milk consumption has improved by 5-10 per cent from the lowest level.
Manpower, a recruitment firm, is hiring Technical Support Officers, Technical Support Officers and Phone Bankers for US, UK and Australian processes.
Even as one bench of the Delhi High Court is for increasing the manpower of Delhi Police to segregate crime detection from law and order, another bench on Monday said the force is "overstaffed".
For instance, the size of a central ministry's annual outlay should ideally be a key factor in determining the number of people who need to be employed by it.
A bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde was informed by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the Centre, that a final decision would be taken in consultation with the Railways, Delhi Government and the Urban Development Ministry.
The power infrastructure and the farm sector have also suffered a considerable damage, Chief Secretary A K Tripathy said. However officials said the telecom infrastructure is largely intact.
Manpower Services India is recruiting Customer Support Professionals, Data Associates, Technical Support Agents and Senior Executives for its ITeS Division.
As India rides high on the current global outsourcing wave, experts warn it may not be entirely smooth sailing for the industry in the near future.
Although the hiring forecast has softened by about 13 basis points from the fourth quarter of 2005, it is still likely to stay the strongest of the 23 countries that the survey covers.
Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Jammu reported one case each, officials said.
Leading information technology services company Tata Consultancy Services would add a net of 13,500 people this year, chief executive officer and managing director S Ramadorai said on Saturday.
Indian employers are second most likely to hire more employees in the world after Japan in the second quarter of 2006, according to a survey by global recruitment consultancy firm Manpower.
11 categories of industries will be exempt from the Madhya Pradesh Industrial Relations (MPIR) Act of 1961. This includes textile, leather, cement, iron and steel, electrical goods, sugar, electricity, public motor transport, engineering including manufacture of motor vehicles, among others.
Manpower ITeS is looking out for Customer Support Professionals, Voice-cum-Data Associates and Technical Support Officers for its call centre and BPO clients.
Just 5 departments account for about 88 per cent of the Union government's civilian employees. A leaner bureaucracy will help Modi keep his promise of maximum governance with minimum government, says A K Bhattacharya.
Three senior executives - Pradeep Kumar (senior vice- president, cargo), Shrimanikandan Ananthvaidyanathan (chief information officer) and Praveen Iyer (vice-president, revenue management), have quit amid worsening financial situation
Income Tax officials plan strikes, stoppage of searches and surveys if their demands on vacant positions, infra aren't met.
The biggest worry is not the shrinking of the labour market, but the collapse of good jobs.
The agency's poor track record in convictions is the only light at the end of a rather long tunnel for the couple, observes Shyamal Majumdar.
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The operationalisation of the Air India Transport Services Limited, which would carry out ground handling activities, and Air India Engineering Services Limited that would be responsible for maintenance, repair and overhaul activities, would slash Air India's aircraft to manpower ratio by more than half.
'We must look at the entire question of military preparedness anew, taking into account the new realities,' says Vice Admiral Premvir Das (retd).
'We have been telling the government that we need handholding.' So, we sent a series of recommendations to the government, but nothing happened.' 'And the condition of industry became worse.'
Air India's earnings of one-two per cent of total air cargo business of Rs 900 crore per annum is almost negligible.
'Unless the living conditions change here, no amount of testing, screening, treatment would make a difference.'
'As of this moment, we have 1,173 ventilators, 2,695 ICUs and about 10,408 plus isolation beds.' 'But this number keeps changing with every passing hour as we incorporate more private as well as government hospitals in our fight against the pandemic.'
India may adopt norms similar to the US Federal Reserve model, which regulates conglomerate-led banks in the country.
Given the importance of equipment modernisation, the overall defence budget should rise at least at the same pace as salaries and pensions, so that equipment modernisation is not hit.
Despite its BPO edge of skilled manpower and low labour cost, India's 'Advantage BPO' position may not be sustainable in the long run as nations like China, the Philippines and Mexico are fast catching up, a ASSOCHAM-IDC survey says.
Indian Army planners find themselves contemplating the possibility of more Chinese intrusions along the contested 3,488-km border. That could lead to the army having to man a 'hardened LAC' round the year, like the LoC with Pakistan, reports Ajai Shukla.
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Highlighting the growing difficulty in attracting and retaining high quality scientific manpower, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said that to make India a scientific and technological powerhouse, the current system of administering scientific and technical departments should be changed.
'We are training people to learn AI, machine learning, robotics; it is just new programmes that teach them new things and the raw material, the people, are eager to learn.'
The second highest number of coronavirus cases in the country. The worst mortality rate among states. A none too impressive recovery rate. Surely this doesn't speak highly of the famed Gujarat model, so what went wrong?
Inordinate delays, difficulty in getting orders implemented put off litigants.
