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Updated on: Oct 2021
OYO appoints Paralympian Deepa Malik as independent director
C-Suite Move

OYO appoints Paralympian Deepa Malik as independent director

Hospitality firm OYO has appointed Deepa Malik, an Indian athlete and a silver-medalist at the 2016 Paralympic Games, as an independent director on the company’s board of directors as of September 26, 2021, the company said in a statement. Malik is currently President of the Paralympic Committee of India (PCI). She joins the board of OYO which has three other independent […]

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3 employees killed in shooting at postal facility in Memphis
Industry

3 employees killed in shooting at postal facility in Memphis

Two U.S. Postal Service workers were fatally shot Tuesday at a postal facility in Memphis and a third employee identified as the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said. It was the third high-profile shooting in or near that west Tennessee city in weeks. U.S. Postal Inspector Susan Link said the three postal workers […]

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TCS invites freshers applications for its new ‘Smart Hiring Program’
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TCS invites freshers applications for its new ‘Smart Hiring Program’

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has announced its second-quarter results last week. The company is planning to recruit more than 35,000 freshers in the second half of the current financial year. The company has already added 43,000 freshers in the first six months of this financial year. That means the IT major will hire a total of 78,000 […]

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HCL partners with Google Cloud for healthcare, life sciences solutions
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HCL partners with Google Cloud for healthcare, life sciences solutions

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, has expanded its strategic partnership with Google Cloud to jointly launch healthcare and life sciences solutions for customers. This partnership will deliver the best of HCL and Google Cloud’s deep health care and life sciences domain capabilities and investments through co-innovation and address the shifts in the […]

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Over 3 crore unorganized workers registered on E-shram portal
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Over 3 crore unorganized workers registered on E-shram portal

Union Minister for Labour and Employment, Shri Bhupender Yadav has informed that across the country more than 3 crore have registered themselves on the E-shram portal, the first-ever National Database of Unorganized Workers (NDUW) in the country. Earlier, the 177th Governing Body Meeting and 78th Annual General Body meeting of the Dattopant Thengadi National Board for Workers Education […]

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IPM India appoints BharatPe’s Jasneet Kaur as Director- People & Culture
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IPM India appoints BharatPe’s Jasneet Kaur as Director- People & Culture

IPM India, Wholesale Trading Private Limited today announced the appointment of Jasneet Kaur as Director, People, and Culture, effective from September 20, 2021. Prior to this, she was the CHRO at BharatPe. In her new role, she will report into Alexander Reisch, MD, IPM India. With her joining, the senior management team for IPM […]

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EPFO may soon credit interest for 2020-21 in subscribers account
EPFO

EPFO may soon credit interest for 2020-21 in subscribers account

EPFO, (Employees Provident Fund Organisation) is planning to bring some festive cheer to the salaried employees by crediting the interest declared for 2020-21 in the accounts of 6 crore subscribers. The interest rate of 8.5%, declared for 2020-21 in March this year, has been awaiting the finance ministry’s approval for over six months now. According to […]

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Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance elevates Anup Seth as Chief D&I Officer
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Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance elevates Anup Seth as Chief D&I Officer

Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance has elevated Anup Seth as its first Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer. Earlier he was working as Chief Distribution Officer. However, he will carry out these new responsibilities in addition to his role as the chief distribution officer. Commenting on Anup’s elevation, Vikas Bansal, Chief Human Resource Officer, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance said, “This development is the beginning of […]

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Adani Group takes over management of Jaipur International Airport
Industry

Adani Group takes over management of Jaipur International Airport

Adani Group on Monday took over the responsibilities of the Jaipur International Airport from the Airports Authority of India (AAI). The airport has been leased out to the group by the government of India for a period of 50 years. Airport director J S Balhara handed over a symbolic key of the airport to Chief Airport Officer Adani Jaipur International Ltd Vishnu Jha in […]

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Jindal Stainless appoints Suresh Bose as Chief Human Resources Officer
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Jindal Stainless appoints Suresh Bose as Chief Human Resources Officer

Jindal Stainless has announced the appointment of Suresh Bose as Chief Human Resources Officer. In his new role, as the leader of HR functions, he will be responsible for driving people strategy, workplace culture, talent management and future growth. Jindal Stainless entities employ over 20,000 people, directly and indirectly. Suresh comes with close to three decades of […]

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Salary issues resolved; cases by lessors will not help anyone: SpiceJet
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Salary issues resolved; cases by lessors will not help anyone: SpiceJet

The court cases filed by aircraft lessors to recover their dues don’t assist anybody very much and all such disputes eventually end in settlements, SpiceJet CMD Ajay Singh said last week. SpiceJet employees are now being paid their full salaries on time and all issues related to their pays have been resolved, he told PTI in an interview. Delhi […]

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Capgemini invites applications for freshers hiring, apply before Oct 15
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Capgemini invites applications for freshers hiring, apply before Oct 15

Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology invites applications for Pooled Campus Drive 2021 of batch Engineering / MCA freshers. The company said on the advertisement page, “We create opportunities for our colleagues to work on new-age technologies, along with the opportunity […]

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