HR sends an email saying I absented myself from a Zoom conference and the boss is pissed. I take the clothes out of the washing machine, sighs Kishore Singh.
Indian-origin activist Shami Chakrabarti has grabbed a top spot on the list of Britain's Most Influential Women, just behind Queen Elizabeth II.
'Most of the cases in Mumbai are asymptomatic -- 85 per cent you can say.' 'Only 10 to 15 per cent are symptomatic.'
Leading hotels are taking all precautions but the unusual service the staff has been pressed into puts them at the forefront of COVID fight.
It is staggering how the Indian social system subverts well-intentioned policy steps. Girl students from working-class families are not charged a fee from Class V onwards -- a great step to encourage them to stay on in school. But they are then socially pressured into paying tuition fees that take up 30 to 40 per cent of their parents' income.
Global hotel firms and domestic realty firms come together to market the latest in high living in the country.
'Since it was the last day of flights, the feeling was weird. There were hardly any aircraft on the ground or in the air.'
Naukri.com's Hiring Outlook Survey for 2020 reveals the jobs and sectors that saw a surge in demand during the pandemic.
Agriculture implements that are currently taxed up to 18 per cent may come under the 12 per cent or the 5 per cent bracket.
International Monetary Fund's former boss Dominique Strauss-Kahn on Monday pleaded not guilty in a brief court appearance to charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid here last month.
Fitness expert Namita Jain says that stress levels amongst women are high today. She tell us how you can identify the warning signs and beat stress.
Movie theatres may reopen around the second week of July.
'All my life I've walked into hotel rooms and headed straight to the tea tray to make myself cup after relaxing cup of tea in that kettle, never once considering that somebody may have boiled their undies in it,' says Mitali Saran.
Queen Elizabeth is posting job vacancies at Buckingham Palace through her revamped Web site.
From Costa Rica to Sweden, destinations where the night sky is a major attraction.
A multi-millionaire Indian-American couple, found guilty of virtually enslaving two Indonesian maids, has been ordered to pay nearly $1 million in back wages to their former housekeepers by a US court. The court declared on Friday that the workers are entitled to double the amount of unpaid wages they were owed by their employees, Mahender and Varsha Sabhnani.
A SMS-based coach cleaning system has been introduced by Northeast Frontier Railway in 35 pairs of trains.
Under the plan, there will be 151 private trains covering 109 routes which may entail investments worth Rs 30,000 crore.
'It is a ticking time bomb if the authorities don't come forward to help these hapless people.'
Hard decisions have to be taken when a baby is on the way, says Geetanjali Krishna.
The Oberoi Centre of Learning and Development invites applications for its two-year Post-Graduate Diploma Programmes in Guest Service, Housekeeping Management and Kitchen Management.
A passenger should not have to wait for more than five minutes to buy a ticket from stations.
As several premium hotels such as ITC, Taj and Oberoi reopen after the lockdown in cities such as Bengaluru, Kolkata and Hyderabad, many changes have been made for the safety of guests and staff including temporary closure of spas, bars, gyms, and swimming pools.
After a three-week trial, a jury had convicted the multi-millionaire couple, which has a world-wide perfume business, on all 12 charges brought against them by the prosecutors which included forced labour, involuntary servitude and harbouring illegal aliens.
GMR-Fraport consortium has hired two international consultants for planning and architecture and is roping in a Tata group company for training employees in housekeeping functions.
Cyrus Mistry undertook quite a few significant initiatives at the Tata Group in the past two years.
NYPD sources are reported to have said sleeping pills were found at the scene, but no suicide note.
A New York Police Department spokesman said the Australian-born actor had an appointment for a massage at the Manhattan apartment, which is believed to be his home. The housekeeper who went to let him know the masseuse had arrived found him dead at 3:26 p.m.
Just who is Seema Pahwa? Find out more about this amazing actress in this video interview.
Wimbledon's courts are playing as well as ever and there is nothing unusual in the slipping and sliding that disrupted some matches in the tournament's first week, the head of All England Lawn Tennis Club said on Monday.
Expenses incurred by mutual funds are a critical factor because they eat into the returns which would otherwise be available to investors
Ramchandra Gandhi, a grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was on Wednesday found dead in a room at the India International Centre in Delhi.
Last year, his family forced Kishore Singh not to write anything about them...
As part of a series of weekly chats on cricket, Prem Panicker appeared on the rediff Chat at 1300 EDT/1000 PDT on December 8.
Amid the crisis has risen an outpouring of empathy from ordinary people across India led by the civil society, who have stepped up to help migrant labourers, domestic helps, construction workers, and small scale workers who were left jobless because of the nationwide lockdown.
A new study has revealed that shortage of sleep can rapidly reduce the size of people's brains.
'Mr Kejriwal has played it cool in distancing himself from Delhi's hotspots, adroitly pandering to the BJP's Hindu vote.' 'He neither visited the scene of JNU violence nor has he dropped by at Shaheen Bagh,' notes Sunil Sethi.
Trump's verbal barbs directed at Alicia Machado, who won the Miss Universe title in 1996, started after the first presidential debate Monday when Hillary Clinton mentioned her and claimed that Trump used to call her "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping."
'Are we too close as well-off Indians, all with servants and drivers and tuition teachers ourselves, to be able to understand why it is all so awful?', asks Aakar Patel.
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