In a statement, Gandhi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the government to increase the number of testing facilities across the country and make public the details of hospitals and medical facilities through a dedicated portal.
Four Tech Mahindra employees approached the labour commission in Karnataka
The company has not detailed out the geographies that would be impacted by the reductions. However, given that India accounts for the biggest share of the company's headcount, the impact of these layoffs is expected to be significant.
'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?'
Images from Day 6 at the French Open, at Roland Garros, in Paris, on Friday.
Langer's side secured their spot in the last four with a 64-run win over hosts England at Lord's on Tuesday and return to the famous north London ground on Saturday to face neighbours New Zealand in their penultimate round-robin tie.
The layoffs will be restricted to the Indian business.
A round-up of Sunday's action in the Premier League.
The task force, to be headed by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, will look at measures to limit economic hardship caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, he said in his address to the nation.
The company, which is part of tech giant Microsoft, has about 1,200 employees in India. It, however, did not comment on the impact of the job cuts on its India operations.
Virat, Ishant set to return for England series starting Feb 5 as selection for first two Tests takes place on Tuesday.
Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and some other members sought that the bill be referred to a standing committee for scrutiny.
Anderson sustained a rib injury in England's 189-run win in the second Test at Newlands and underwent an MRI scan in Cape Town.
While you cannot avoid the delay in payments from your customers, you must come up with new ideas on building your internal cashflow system to ensure that the cash crunch within the organisation is minimal, suggests Naval Goel.
India's top tennis players Yuki Bhambri, Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Divij Sharan returned to the courts after over two-and-a-half months.
The layoffs will mainly be in the company's product and engineering functions.
Last week, the carrier had asked about 60 pilots who had resigned to leave after serving only half the six-month notice period.
Management guru Virender Kapoor tells you just what you need to do!
News of all that's transpired on and off the football field.
The Tiger Global-backed company says the layoffs would affect all teams.
In India, Accenture said it continues to hire, and as part of its ongoing compensation programs, it also recently recognised a number of its people with bonuses and promotions.
The company, which has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons, maintains that it was forced to rationalise the staff strength as improvements in technology resulted in certain redundancies in customer, merchant and delivery partner support teams.
The BCCI had on Monday announced that Indian women's cricket team will play a Test after more than six years in a one-off match against England.
Murthy also said this is not for the first time that the industry has faced the layoff problem and hence there should not be any extreme anxiety as the industry had dealt the issue and found solutions then.
With an aim to save costs in troubled economic times, just 10 companies together have announced nearly one lakh job cuts worldwide since start of 2012 and they include giants like HP, Google and Citigroup.
Companies in India are expected to dole out an average increment of 7.3 per cent to employees this year amid faster-than-expected economic recovery and revival in business and consumer confidence, according to a survey. The first phase of the 2021 Workforce and Increment Trends Survey by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP (DTTILLP) also said the average increment this year will be higher than 4.4 per cent seen in 2020 but lower than 8.6 per cent given by companies in 2019. As many as 92 per cent companies that participated in the survey plan to give an increment in 2021 compared to only 60 per cent last year.
Suggesting that layoffs in the information technology and business process outsourcing industry are still less than 1 per cent of the total workforce, top National Association of Software and Service Companies executives have said that the industry has not yet come in the grip of large-scale layoffs.
As part of a cost-cutting plan, the bank is now dismantling its stock broking, equity research, and equity listing desks worldwide.
Woods said amputation "was on the table" during the three-week hospital recovery in California.
With no spectators allowed on the course it was a solemn scene as golfers and their caddies, heads bowed, stood silently on greens, tees, fairways and the practice range.
Job cuts announced by US employers fell for the fourth consecutive month in May to over 1,10,000, recording a 16 per cent dip from layoffs announced in April, but the decline could be shortlived as downsizing may pick up pace after the summer months, a report has said.
Dealers say the significant increase in sales was driven by a need to plug the diminishing inventory as most dealerships were transitioning from BS-IV to BS-VI when the Covid-19 lockdown was announced.
Serena Williams shook off some COVID-19 layoff rust to grind out a 7-6(6), 3-6, 7-6(0) win over Dutch qualifier Arantxa Rus on Monday to move into the third round of the Western and Southern Open.
Not just in the IT sector, Capgemini is probably the only company, in India, which has offered salary increments.
Atletico Madrid have taken the decision to cut the wages of their staff, including the players, to ease the financial burden on the club as they struggle with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the La Liga club said
The new owner may be allowed to dispose of assets accruing from the 10-26 per cent of the net assets of the company.
'IPL is something that I have enjoyed a lot and I would like to make a comeback very strong and I'm just looking forward to it.'
eBay says it has cut jobs at its centre in Bengaluru in favour of shifting them to other locations around the world.
'It will be a competitive market more than ever due to the layoffs that have happened.'
The Auto Component Manufacturers Association of India on Wednesday sought reduction in GST rate to a uniform level of 18 per cent for the entire automobile industry to stimulate demand and help save around 10 lakh jobs, which are at risk due to prolonged slowdown in vehicle sales.
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