Nobody bothered to articulate the upsides; instead, the four-year tour of duty and denial of life-long pensions got played up.
Job-seekers for government and related opportunities found that their future was at risk, points out Shreekant Sambrani.
Govt's decision to allow in-flight Wi-Fi doesn't take off with budget airlines, full-service carriers enthused
The footprints of Indian-origin corporate executives at multinationals is expanding, with Sandeep Kataria taking over the reins of footwear major Bata as its global chief executive officer. From FMCG majors to IT titans, Kataria joins the league of Indian-origin executives who have climbed the highest echelons of corporate across diverse sectors globally. From Nooyi to Pichai to Nadella, the list of such people at the helm of multi-billion dollar enterprises is long.
Uttam Ghosh on how rail passengers will benefit from the Railway Budget.
This provision is a very smart rule against fraudster and would not affect any genuine business entities or Ease of Doing Business in any manner, said a source.
Chaudhary conveyed the message to Shetty through an e-mail.
'My brave JCO managed to get to the gun, sit on top of the dead man and fired away at the attacking aircraft till they melted away into the darkness.'
England's players will wear the names of selected COVID-19 workers with cricketing backgrounds on their training shirts during the upcoming Test series against West Indies in recognition of their selfless services. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced that the three-match Test series, to be played behind closed doors at The Ageas Bowl and Old Trafford due to the pandemic, will be named "raise the bat" series as a tribute to those on the frontline.
Strict norms for arriving international passengers, especially from 'at-risk' countries, will come into effect from Tuesday midnight and authorities are stepping their vigil for effective surveillance amid mounting concerns over the emergence of the coronavirus variant Omicron.
Emirates has been voted as the world's best airline.
Five young women are getting ready to circumnavigate the world.
After news of KV Kamath stepping down as the non-executive chairman, Infosys is on the hunt for filling up the post.
To understand the problem with public examinations we need to understand the different objectives they serve and how they interact and conflict with each other.
The protocol aims to "democratise" lending, reduce costs of credit, and ensure accessibility of credit to small companies and street vendors, according to Nandan Nilekani.
'The PCA framework was revised and tightened in April 2017, but there was no discussion in any board meeting. The government does not know the rationale behind revising the framework and how the RBI arrived at it. Similarly, there was no discussion in the board meeting on the revised NPA framework,' said an official.
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The newly appointed CMD at Coal India has a tough road ahead.
Infy board gets law firm to probe 'lapses', appoints Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas to engage with founders.
Balakrishnan refused to react to the India Inc criticism of growing incidents of tax terrorism following Siddhartha's letter. Appearing unfazed, he said, "I only believe in doing my job well."
When the Delhi police served him a notice in May for a case involving tagging some political leaders' tweets as carrying manipulated media, a spirited Maheshwari said he was employed by Twitter Communications Private Limited, and not Twitter Inc, and, therefore, could not help them. The authorities were understandably not pleased.
Sanghrajka has spent 13 years in Infosys over two stints and has performed various leadership roles in the finance section.
'As engineers, as alumni and as Indians, we should be concerned about today's leadership that is making tomorrow's leaders at our IITs,' says Air Marshal P V Athawale PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Retd).
From South Korean treats to internationally acclaimed series to home-grown delights, here are Sukanya Verma's favourite OTT shows of 2021.
Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu announced new initiatives.
The chairman's post will soon fall vacant, but that's not the only one that needs to be filled.
Leading West Indian cricketers will prefer to play in lucrative Twenty20 tournaments around the world instead of representing the Caribbean side under the current administration, former captain Darren Sammy has said.
Indian Railways to bring on board ready-to-eat food companies
The pair are serving year-long bans for their part in the Cape Town incident in March and were barred from the 2018 IPL tournament.
Till such time that a new governance framework comes into being, the progress of reforms in health, education, land, labour, electricity and agriculture could remain fraught with problems, agitations and delays, observes A K Bhattacharya.
The government currently holds 87.40 per cent stake in IRCTC. To meet Sebi's public holding norm, it has to lower its stake in the company to 75 per cent.
With cash shortage and plans going awry, the AirAsia owner is looking to cash out of the venture he built with Ratan Tata in 2013.
William D Green, chairman and CEO of Accenture, the $20 billion global management consultancy and technology services company, is in India to chair a select meet of the board of directors. On global economy, he said that there are some pockets of challenges (slowdown) and other pockets of great success (accelerators). "Firms will continue to outsource and offshore as they aspire to become globally efficient and locally responsive," he said.
India is today the second-largest telecom market in the world with over a billion customers and close to 600 million Internet users. New connections are available on the tap, calls are virtually free and it's hard to imagine anyone without a mobile phone today. Globally, there would be few parallels to this success story that truly democratised telephony and empowered a billion-plus people, observes Airtel's Sunil Bharti Mittal.
Sacked Australia captain Steve Smith and David Warner have both been banned for 12 months for their roles in the ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town.
Microsoft Corp said on Friday that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer would retire within the next 12 months, once it has selected a successor, sending its shares up almost 9 per cent.
A consortium of Anil Agarwal-led Sterlite Industries and global financial services major Morgan Stanley has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to acquire a strategic 26 per cent equity stake in the troubled financial institution IFCI Ltd.Besides Sterlite, two other consortiums - Shinsei Bank-PNB-JC Flowers and Cargill Financial Services Corporation-Texas Pacific Group - had put in bids on December 14.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India's approach of win at all costs without looking at the bigger picture by refusing to play a Day-Night Test match against Australia is extremely disappointing, feels former captain Ian Chappell.
Vegetable, fruit prices to be on the rise over weak supply, crop damage
The Top Employers certification is awarded to a select group of employers.
It is unlikely Brigadier Raja Rizwan was working for RA&W, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
Does IAS officers' work go unappreciated, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
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