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Updated on: Apr 2022
BharatPe puts behind Grover episode, posts record growth- CEO Suhail Sameer
Industry

BharatPe puts behind Grover episode, posts record growth- CEO Suhail Sameer

Putting behind the controversy around its co-founder Ashneer Grover, fintech startup BharatPe has posted record growth in the fiscal year ended March 31 and is on track to break even and list on stock exchanges in the next 18-24 months, its CEO Suhail Sameer said. In an interview with PTI, he said while the board […]

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Capgemini India to hire 60K people in 2022 including WFH, Freshers jobs
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Capgemini India to hire 60K people in 2022 including WFH, Freshers jobs

Capgemini, a French multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company planning to hire 60,000 new employees in India this year which is higher than it did in the year 2021. The demand for digital-led solutions has raised, Capgemini India chief executive officer Ashwin Yardi has said. Capgemini has grown faster in India than the reported growth for the group in the year 2021. Since […]

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Force Motors partners with ASDC to upskill dealership employees
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Force Motors partners with ASDC to upskill dealership employees

Force Motors on Friday said it has tied up with the Automotive Skills Development Council (ASDC) to recruit and to enhance skill set of the workforce at its dealerships. A service agreement in this regard was inked between the two entities on Friday, the Pune-based company said in a statement. “Through this strategic service agreement, […]

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The Status of Jobs in the Manufacturing Sector- Labour Ministry
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The Status of Jobs in the Manufacturing Sector- Labour Ministry

As per the Economic Survey Reports, estimated employment in Manufacturing Sector in India was 5.7 crore in 2017-18, 6.12 crore in 2018-19 which was further increased to 6.24 crore in 2019-20. Labour Bureau under the Ministry of Labour & Employment conducts Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) as part of All India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey […]

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TCS Digital Hiring: registration ends on 15 April 2022
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TCS Digital Hiring: registration ends on 15 April 2022

India’s largest IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is hiring fresh graduates and postgraduates from the year of passing 2022 under the TCS Digital Hiring Drive. TCS, which hired 43,000 freshers in the first half of fiscal 2022, said in the third quarter itself it hired the 34,000 freshers planned for the entire second half and will likely […]

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Wipro appoints Capgemini Veteran Anis Chenchah as CEO, APMEA
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Wipro appoints Capgemini Veteran Anis Chenchah as CEO, APMEA

Bengaluru-based IT Major, Wipro Limited has announced the appointment of Anis Chenchah as member of the Wipro Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer, APMEA (Asia Pacific, India, Middle East and Africa). Anis has over two decades of experience in Consulting, IT and Business Process Services. He joins from Capgemini where he was the Global CEO […]

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Unacademy lays off 600 employees as part of a cost-cutting measure
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Unacademy lays off 600 employees as part of a cost-cutting measure

Edtech unicorn Unacademy, which recently launched an experience centre- Unacademy Store, has laid off nearly 600 employees, almost 10% of its workforce. The SoftBank-backed start-up employs over 6,000 people, and this firing is said to be a cost-cutting measure. Sources familiar with the development said nearly half of the employees fired were educators, and they were […]

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KPMG appoints Accenture’s Divya Priyambada as Director – HR
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KPMG appoints Accenture’s Divya Priyambada as Director – HR

KPMG, a British-Dutch multinational professional services network has appointed Divya Priyambada as Human Resources Director. Prior to this, she was associated with Accenture as HR lead- Accenture Digital India. In this new role, she is responsible for the people and culture agenda of the organization and reports to Mr. Sunit Sinha, Head of People, KPMG […]

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InfoVision to hire additional 2,000 engineers in India
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InfoVision to hire additional 2,000 engineers in India

InfoVision Inc, a global digital services and product company, is looking to strengthen its presence in India by hiring an additional 2,000 software engineers across its the country’s development centres by 2023. The US-based services and solutions provider plans to make significant investments in India’s technology talent by ramping up its engineering services operations through […]

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Google offering electric scooters to ease employees’ return to the office
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Google offering electric scooters to ease employees’ return to the office

As the COVID-19 pandemic starts to settle down in some parts of the globe, Google is returning its employees to in-person offices. Now, Google is offering up access to electric scooters for its employees to assist in daily commutes. To motivate employees to return to the office, Google is offering free electric scooters to them. […]

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Addverb Technologies appoints Brajesh Jha as Head- HR
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Addverb Technologies appoints Brajesh Jha as Head- HR

Addverb Technologies, leading robotics, and automation company, on Wednesday, announced the appointments of Tapan Pattnayak as Director – System Architecture and Brajesh Jha as Head HR – International & Corporate for Global Operations. These appointments come in the backdrop of Addverb’s recent global expansion across US, Singapore, Europe and Australia markets, and recent fundraise from […]

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J&K administration extends child care leave to ‘single male employees’
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J&K administration extends child care leave to ‘single male employees’

A male government employee who is a divorcee or widower will now get child care leave as applicable to women in Jammu and Kashmir, according to a notification issued on Wednesday. This step has been taken by the Department of Finance as a major welfare measure for employees, following the approval of child care leave […]

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