Of the 3.9 million the sector employs, HR experts say at least 100,000 are likely to lose their jobs by the end of this financial year. Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan report.
Reskilling and online certification are the biggest earners in the Indian online education market
Frauds can have immediate impact on the banks' financials and can also cause a systemic risk in extreme cases
This is an effect of general slackening in economic growth; however, this is not true of digital media, where business is booming.
Office space on mill land in central Mumbai expected to reach 16 mn sq ft by 2021.
With the Rio Olympics less than three weeks away, the IOC on Monday promised "the toughest sanctions available" after a report found Moscow had concealed hundreds of positive doping tests in many sports ahead of the Sochi winter Games.
What's hot? What's not? What's next? C P Gurnani shares his highlights of the World Economic Forum Annual Summit in Davos.
John Chambers, executive chairman of Cisco, can talk about new age technology, artificial intelligence and crickets - insects being used as super food - all in the same breath.
In 2017, absorption in co-working/serviced offices was 2.83 million sq ft, about 186 per cent higher than that of 1.52 million sq ft in 2016.
Y V Reddy argues that while the merits of the proposal to hold simultaneous elections to Parliament and all state assemblies appear self-evident, the reality might be very different.
Keshav Murugesh, CEO of the Nasdaq-listed WNS, discusses the impact of the Trump administration on BPO and BPM industry with Ayan Pramanik.
Whatever happens to WPP, the marketing communications business will no longer be the same again, says Sreekant Khandekar.
These skills will give you an edge over the competition.
'As the world goes digital, we cannot afford to be left behind.'
Consolidation is happening because of a prolonged slowdown in residential sales which has also brought down the business of brokerages.
Darryl D' Monte, the distinguished enviromental journalist, discusses how the media covers floods in Mumbai or Texas, but ignores Assam or Bangladesh.
A government report revealed that fake companies floated with fake addresses, issued fake GST invoices and generated fake e-way bills, with fake vehicle registration details without supplying any goods causing huge loss to the exchequer.
Why Dalit leaders cross over to the BJP
'More than 1,000 start-ups are created from colleges, and more start-ups are coming up every year.'
Social media teams ensure there is something new around the movie every few days and as the release date nears, every few hours.
'We have great demographics, and are the fastest growing large economy. And we save.' 'All of which is great for financial services,' Aditya Birla Capital CEO Ajay Srinivasan tells Niraj Bhatt.
'What we need is right skilling, re-skilling and up-skilling.'
Happiest Minds expects revenue to touch $100 mn in 3 years, the fastest in India's tech services sector.
Technology market research firm Tech Market View said the contract, which is one of Wipro's largest deals group-wide, signals the growing influence of offshore-centric IT-BPO players in large scale UK outsourcing market.
'30 to 40% of the industry needs to be reskilled as existing jobs will go to automation.' 'Reskilling is required as some existing jobs will not be required in the future.'
'If your loan application gets turned down by one bank, do not apply immediately to several others.' 'This makes you appear credit hungry and possibly in some form of financial distress.' 'Multiple enquiries affect your credit score adversely,' advises Mohan Jayaraman.
Facebook enabled users to mark themselves safe in Chennai since Thursday morning
PE firm True North's investment model is to take 51% stake in mid-sized companies and make them large, says Niraj Bhatt.
He said India has a rich tradition and a long history of both discovery and use of science and technology.
'The scope of social networking as a form of journalism is limited. Yes, you can tweet a photo or write about, say, a policemen beating a protestor somewhere. But a real news story is complicated and analytical and it needs to be worked on... Journalism is not that simple,' Jonathan Franzen, arguably the greatest American novelist of his generation, tells Rediff.com's Sanchari Bhattacharya in a fascinating interview.
With its free listing of goods and services, Facebook could disrupt the paid model adopted by classified players in the country, say Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan.
Online marketplace majors, e-grocers, Internet of Things firms, app-based companies and transport service aggregators are among those that have had to shut shop or scale down operations. Now, survival skills like upskilling and retraining will determine who makes it.
The jury is still out on whether this will lead to re-skilling.
India Inc is facing threat from non-traditional sources.
The upcoming general elections will be the focus and the economy and market performance will pivot around that event. The general consensus is that the India stock market should be up around 10 per cent by the end of the year.
Improving economy and investment in Indian carriers and hotels by global companies is likely to lead to hiring for aviation and hospitality sectors witnessing up to 40 per cent growth in 2015, according to experts.
The United States National Security Agency collected almost 200 million mobile phone text messages a day from around the world that allowed it to extract contact networks and credit card data of users, according to the latest leaks from whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
'The rule for millennials is: You can have a career for life.' 'You have to constantly adapt to the needs of the industry to stay relevant.' 'The jobs will be the same, but the skill sets required will be different.' 'Technology will dominate the nature of jobs available in the future.'
