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Updated on: Aug 2021
AI firm to hire 1,500 people for Hyderabad centre
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AI firm to hire 1,500 people for Hyderabad centre

Business process management firm [24]7.ai on Thursday said that it will hire 1,500 people for its Hyderabad centre. The company is ramping up its hiring across India. It will be adding close to 5,000 people to its workforce, taking its employee strength in India to over 8,500 people. After adding 15,000 people, the Hyderabad facility headcount […]

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UP govt to set up 200-acre Data Center Park in Noida
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UP govt to set up 200-acre Data Center Park in Noida

The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh plans to develop a Data Center Park, spread over 200 acre of land at Sector-28 of Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) in the Noida district. The implementation of this plan will begin towards August end. According to the government spokesman, the Data Center Park at Noida will […]

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Ugro Capital to hire 600 more by march, eyes Rs 3,500 crore loan book
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Ugro Capital to hire 600 more by march, eyes Rs 3,500 crore loan book

Ugro Capital, the mid-scale non-banking lender focused on supply-side financing for small businesses, is nearly trebling its headcount to 1,000 to drive both footprint and balance-sheet expansion by March when it expects loan book to sniff at Rs 3,500 crore. The Gurugram-based NBFC has closed July with a live loan of over Rs 1,560 crore on the […]

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Lenskart to hire over 2000 employees across India by next year
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Lenskart to hire over 2000 employees across India by next year

Lenskart, a leading e-commerce portal for eyewear in India plans to hire over 2000 employees across India by 2022, as part of its expansion plan to increase its consumer base, the company said in a statement. The company has been aggressively hiring across verticals especially the tech and data science team, roping in data scientists, business […]

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PwC India to create additional 10,000 jobs in the next 5 years
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PwC India to create additional 10,000 jobs in the next 5 years

Global audit and consultancy firm PwC India has announced to invest up to Rs 1,600 crore and create additional 10,000 jobs in the next 5 years. Announcing its new business strategy ‘The New Equation‘, PwC India said the firm will also increase its campus hiring by over five times in the same time period. The New Equation is based […]

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TCS freshers hiring open, apply online before August 15, 2021
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TCS freshers hiring open, apply online before August 15, 2021

TCS will be hiring more than 40,000 freshers from campuses in the country in the financial year 2021-22. The company has announced the exam date, 30th August 2021 onwards, and the last date to register 15th August 2021. Exams will be conducted by TCS iON which is a strategic unit of the Tata Consultancy Services. Candidates who clear the exam are […]

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Wiley India rolls out a new employee upskilling program
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Wiley India rolls out a new employee upskilling program

Wiley India, a leading global publishing company that has now transitioned to a global education and research organisation, has launched an employee upskilling programme for its employees across offices in the country. The move is aimed at encouraging workplace education and creating ‘Learning Champions‘ within the system, Wiley India said in a statement on Tuesday. Under this initiative, interested employees will […]

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TCS, Wipro, Infosys, HCL Tech to Hire 60K fresher Diversity candidates
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TCS, Wipro, Infosys, HCL Tech to Hire 60K fresher Diversity candidates

IT major, TCS, Wipro, HCL Technologies, and Infosys are planning to hire around 60,000 Diversity candidates this year through campus placements. The companies will hire female candidates for entry-level roles with an aim to boost gender diversity. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is likely to hire 38 to 45 per cent of female employees through the campus placement this […]

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Power sector engineers threaten to go on strike on Aug 10 against new bill
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Power sector engineers threaten to go on strike on Aug 10 against new bill

Mathura: Power sector employees have threatened to go on strike or no work protest on August 10 against the government’s decision to introduce the electricity amendment bill 2021 in the current monsoon session of Parliament, according to All India Power Engineers Federation. The federation claimed that 15 lakh employees of power departments across the country would go […]

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Happiest Minds Technologies to hire 300 people in each next 3 quarters
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Happiest Minds Technologies to hire 300 people in each next 3 quarters

Bengaluru-based software firm Happiest Minds Technologies, which has been facing rising attrition levels of late, is planning to hire 300 techies in each of the next three quarters, its top management has said. The Ashok Soota-promoted 11-year-old company had a high attrition of 14.7 per cent in the June quarter when its total headcount stood at […]

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Sebi amends rules to empower independent directors
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Sebi amends rules to empower independent directors

Capital markets regulator Sebi has overhauled the rules pertaining to the appointment, removal, and remuneration of independent directors to ensure their independence and effectiveness. The development assumes significance in the backdrop of the role of independent directors coming under scrutiny for their failure in detecting and preventing corporate frauds and promoter mismanagement. The new rules will be applicable from […]

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Contractual employees also eligible for maternity leave: Kerala high court
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Contractual employees also eligible for maternity leave: Kerala high court

Kochi: Hon’ble High Court of Kerala said, “Only a woman knows how acutely difficult it is to balance motherhood and her career,” observed the Kerala High Court while criticising the action of the Kerala government in terminating the service of a woman counsellor in Kollam who had gone on maternity leave. Justice Devan Ramachandran of […]

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