This September, Sachin Bansal picked 94 per cent stake in microfinance company Chaitanya Rural Intermediation Development Services. His immediate plan is to scale up the company's operations as quickly as possible without making much investment in physical infrastructure and by leveraging technology.
In this weekly self-help series, mental health and life coach Anu Krishna tells you how to take control of your life.
Adapting to the new hybrid normal of remote and office work, cautiously optimistic corporate are looking to hire more people and provide better appraisals in the new year as they step out of the pandemic-ravaged 2020. The coronavirus pandemic emerged as the biggest inflection point for the Indian job landscape. For the corporates, work-from-home and remote workers became the new normal and for the professionals, online learning and digital skills took centrestage.
"Confinement is fostering the tension and strain created by security, health, and money worries. And it is increasing isolation for women with violent partners, separating them from the people and resources that can best help them. It's a perfect storm for controlling, violent behaviour behind closed doors," UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said in a statement calling the violence against women and girls 'a shadow pandemic'.
Zain, which operates across West Asia and North Africa, provides mobile services to over 41.4 million customers and has commercial presence in eight countries.
According to sources, Chambers has led the $5-million funding round via his investment firm JC2 Ventures
Business process outsourcing company vCustomer Corporation will acquire all the eight call centres of global telecom giant MCI, sources said on Friday.
Reliance Globalcom, a leading global provider of international wholesale telecom services with a presence in high growth emerging and developed markets, on Tuesday announced that it is upgrading its European Network with coherent 100G technology.
India's total online shopper base at 30 per cent of its internet population is low when compared with 78 per cent in China and 70-plus per cent in the US.
'Cracking the exam is 99 per cent hard work and persistence and maybe 1 per cent luck.'
Vijaya Bank assured employees that the service conditions 'will remain unaffected and staff benefits retained'
The alacrity with which regional States responded to Delhi's invite signals that expectations are high regarding an Indian role in the efforts to stabilise the situation in Afghanistan, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
In this event, it is the IAF that showed true professionalism, telling the boss they weren't going to fly in that weather. You can see what professionalism and moral courage it takes to say no to your prime minister. Only things like that can keep him safe, observes Shekhar Gupta.
Considering that Qatar is a trusted ally of Washington for decades, it is expected to be a steady influence on the Taliban leadership, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Foreign banks set the template in consumer banking in its infancy, but have almost vacated this booming space.
One reason is that airlines have ramped up capacity and expanded their presence in tier-II markets. The first of a three-part series analyses how the aviation industry is an outlier in the midst of an overall economic slowdown.
India's second-largest IT services company, Infosys, on Wednesday said it was planning to offer an apprenticeship programme with the National Apprenticeship Scheme (NAS) in the United Kingdom (UK). Through this programme, the company will provide apprenticeship in fields like marketing, human resources, among others, Infosys said in a release.
Apart from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, the codeshare agreement with Lufthansa will cover Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi and Pune.
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India is a $180-billion automobile market, including vehicles and services. Of this, only $1 billion is online.
The Taliban knows that Washington holds the key, points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The new online store, which will be launched on September 23, will provide customers with the same premium experience found in Apple Store locations around the world, delivered by online team members who are ready to offer their expertise, Apple said in a statement.
Six Army personnel including Col Santosh Babu, Nb Sub Nuduram Soren, Hav K Palani, Hav Tejinder Singh, Nk Deepak Singh and Sep Gurtej Singh, who lost their lives in the Galwan valley clash, have been awarded Chakra series wartime gallantry medals posthumously.
Experts have said the food delivery space is likely to see exponential growth this year.
The court has also questioned Epic's assumption that Tata Consultacy Services used the information for the creation of a competitive product
'We must not forget that the virus will continue to adapt itself to live with us.' 'The vaccine is the only one way we can prevent mortality.'
Beijing's growing assertiveness as kingmaker in Kabul has suffered a setback with Washington quietly moving in, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
The air defence command is to be rolled out by the beginning of next year and the Peninsula command by the end of 2021, Gen Rawat told a select group of journalists. The Indian Air Force will helm the air defence command and all-long range missiles as well as air defence assets will come under it, he said.
Following the order, the Peace and Harmony Committee of the Delhi Assembly deferred its proceedings, and said it would notify the further course of action and the next date of sitting in due course of time.
Indian policy-makers must see the choices before them as economic, not moral, ones, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
The Nexon has received a stellar 5-star safety rating from Global NCAP, making it the first car from an Indian manufacturer to score so good on the safety front.
Private carrier Paramount Airways, which has a strong presence in South India, would enter the Western Indian skies by the end of this year and add 15 more aircraft to its kitty in next three years.
Increase in surcharge will adversely impact fund managers planning to shift to India. As a matter of fact several fund professionals based in India could also relocate to other jurisdictions, resulting in a brain drain.
'We have to plan for whatever the new normal is.'
State Bank of India plans to open its office in Dubai International Finance Centre in a few weeks, a move which will boost India's largest bank's presence in the Gulf region.
Niyo is also offering bonuses and ESOPs, taking the total stock grants to over Rs 100 crore for all eligible employees.
'The news about the new virus strain in the UK provided them with an opportunity to take money off the table.'
'If the Russian forces do capture Kyiv and set up some sort of provisional government, they might run into an insurgency, for which the geography is just right, it could prove costly for them.' 'In that event, the whole exercise could turn out to be counter-productive -- and costly in both foreign policy and domestic terms.'
Reliance Money, India's comprehensive financial services and solutions provider, has tied up with Chicago-based Alaron Trading Corporation, a global, full-service commodity futures brokerage firm.
Following the World Cup, companies queue up to sign Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur.
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