Khakee: The Bihar Chapter: The picture is as ugly as it is grim, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Some of India's largest companies have seen a slowdown in the growth of temporary, contract and casual jobs, as compared to the increase in their total workforce. The absolute number of such jobs is up 30 per cent between financial year 2017-18 and 2021-22 (FY18-22), shows an analysis of data collated from the annual reports of S&P BSE 100 companies. Forty-eight firms were considered for the final analysis based on the availability of uniform data across the last five years. In comparison, the total workforce numbers are up 36 per cent in the same period.
IndiGo on Monday said it will refund all customer credit shells, which were created when flights were cancelled due to the coronavirus lockdown earlier this year, by January 31, 2021. The airline in a statement said it has already processed close to Rs 1,000 crore of refunds, which is approximately 90 per cent of the total amount it owed to its customers.
Nana Patekar sticks to his stand regarding Tanushree Dutta's allegations against him.
10 Indian celebrities and 100 artists are donating artwork to raise funds to produce hygiene kits for frontline workers.
'As Rana is not an Indian citizen, our leverage on the US system -- whether it's their judiciary or the executive -- is very limited in that sense.'
Farhan Akhtar, Priyanka Chopra, Twinkle Khanna, Swara Bhasker and Richa Chadha have come out in Tanushree Dutta's support.
Though the BJP failed in its effort to dislodge Banerjee from power, it's for the first time that it will be the main opposition party in the state assembly, rising from a measly three seats in 2016 to 77.
Middle Earth comes to OTT as does a spate of other offerings. Sukanya Verma gives you your OTT menu.
Tipra Motha has decided to go solo and hopes to sweep the 20 tribal-dominated seats that hold the key to power in the northeastern state that has a 60-member assembly.
Glimpses of how Harnaaz inched closer and closer to the Miss Universe title.
Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of WhatsApp, will partner with Reliance JioMart for a service where WhatsApp users can buy groceries on the messaging platform from the Indian retail firm. Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer (CEO) of Meta Platforms, said in a Facebook post, "[I am] Excited to launch our partnership with JioMart in India. "This is our first-ever end-to-end shopping experience on WhatsApp--people can now buy groceries from JioMart right in a chat." "Business messaging is an area with real momentum and chat-based experiences like this will be the go-to way people and businesses communicate in the years to come," he said in an announcement coinciding with the annual general Meeting (AGM) of Reliance Industries the parent company of JioMart.
The drive met with opposition in Tinsukia in upper Assam leading to lathicharge by the security forces, while in Sonitpur the alleged illegal settlers claimed that it was launched about a week before the stipulated date.
Director Anubhav Sinha's special screening of his new film Anek, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Andrea Kevichusa, Manoj Pahwa and Kumud Mishra, was a houseful affair!
Bhuyan Sarma filed the suit at the court of civil judge No 1 of Kamrup metropolitan district on Tuesday and it is likely to come up for hearing on Wednesday, her counsel Padmadhar Nayak said.
Days after Bharatiya Janata Party MP Arjun Singh rejoined the Trinamool Congress, at least 20 saffron party leaders in West Bengal's Jalpaiguri have tendered their resignation together from their party posts, accusing the district leadership of taking money in lieu of inducting members in a local panel, a party functionary said on Wednesday.
Ajay Devgn, NTR Jr, Ram Charan release the RRR poster. Pooja Hegde releases the Acharya poster...
The charge sheet was committed to sessions court in Kathua which has fixed January 24 as the next date of hearing in the case.
'We should have calmed down the child. We will do an internal analysis on that.'
Rediff readers tell us how they are celebrating Ganeshotsav this year.
Kareena wants a tan...Tiger misses the beach...
Quite a few big movies are coming your way in theatres this November.
Sunita and Anil Kapoor hosted their annual Karva Chauth party for friends and the ladies looked gorgeous in shades of red.
Bollywood actors celebrated Bhai Dooj -- called by many names like Bhau Beej and Bhai Tika as well -- on November 16 and posted lovely pictures on social media.
'We always want to pull down the other person.' 'All we need right now is sensitivity, not just in our industry, but everywhere.'
'Everyone says never waste a crisis.' 'When we went into Covid and we were in total lockdown, we were at work.' 'The planes were not flying and we wondered what to do.' 'We looked at each of our performance metrics -- what are customers complaining about, how do employees feel, how do investors feel?'
Sanju Baba takes the vaccine... What's Lisa doing with A R Rahman?
Gosh! the number of Bollywood folk who attended Producer Jayantilal Gada's birthday party, which also celebrated his back-to-back releases, Gangubai Kathiawadi, RRR, Attack Part I.
It's #ThrowbackThursday and the perfect time to look at some fabulous flashback pictures on social media.
A special screening of Ekta Kapoor's new Web series The Married Woman was held in Mumbai over the weekend.
Ranveer shoots with Anil Kapoor...Get Ready for Rajveer Deol...
While we still recover from her glitzy allure as a 10th century royal in all her Chola era bedecked glory, Sukanya Verma looks at the many times she made our jaws drop as silver screen's undisputed jewel queen.
The first edition of Filmfare OTT awards were held in Mumbai to honour Web series and films on digital platforms.
Lakhs of employees of public sector banks continued their strike on the second day on Friday as well to protest against proposed privatisation of banks by the government impacting normal operation across the country. Shutters of branches across many parts of the country on Friday were down following the strike call given by the United Forum of Bank Union (UFBU), an umbrella body of nine bank unions including All India Bank Officers' Confederation (AIBOC), All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA) and National Organisation of Bank Workers (NOBW). As a result, services such as deposits and withdrawal at branches, cheque clearance and loan approvals remains paralaysed due to the two-day strike ending later in the day.
Pics from the beauty pageant which was held at Eilat in Israel.
Kareena turns producer... Kajol's fashion advice...
Coming to the rescue of the critically endangered great Indian bustard (GIB), the Supreme Court on Wednesday mooted the idea of launching 'Project GIB' on the lines of 'Project Tiger', which was started in 1973 to save the big cats, and sought the government's view on the proposal.
