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Updated on: Sep 2021
Citco opens office in Hyderabad, will hire more than 1,200 employees
Industry

Citco opens office in Hyderabad, will hire more than 1,200 employees

The Citco group of companies (“Citco”), the global alternative investment assets servicer with $1.5 trillion in assets under administration, has announced the launch of a new office in Hyderabad as part of its ongoing expansion in India. The Hyderabad office plans to hire more than 1,200 employees over the next two years and will operate […]

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Welspun elevates Rajendra Mehta as Group CHRO
CHRO Move

Welspun elevates Rajendra Mehta as Group CHRO

Welspun has elevated Rajendra Mehta as Group Chief Human Resource Officer of its entire group from his earlier role as CHRO for Welspun Textiles, effective September 1, 2021. In this new role, Rajendra will be responsible for leading the whole gamut of people and culture function for the entire Welspun Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate, […]

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Vartika Shukla took charge as CMD of Engineers India Limited
C-Suite Move

Vartika Shukla took charge as CMD of Engineers India Limited

Vartika Shukla on September 1 took charge as the first woman Chairperson and Managing Director of public sector enterprise Engineers India Limited (EIL). A graduate in Chemical Engineering from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Vartika joined Engineers India Limited in 1988 and possesses extensive consulting experience comprising Design, Engineering, and Implementation of complexes […]

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HCL Tech has launched a dedicated HCL Cisco Ecosystem Unit
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HCL Tech has launched a dedicated HCL Cisco Ecosystem Unit

HCL and Cisco have a long and successful 360-degree partnership that has enabled enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation journeys by helping them to invent and innovate – leveraging advanced technologies from Cisco and transformative services capabilities from HCL. HCL’s Cisco Ecosystem Unit will create leading-edge competencies, solutions, and business outcome models by leveraging Cisco […]

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LG Display to create 10,000 jobs in Vietnam
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LG Display to create 10,000 jobs in Vietnam

Vietnam has awarded a Licence to South Korea’s LG Display that will see it raise its investment in the northern port city of Haiphong by $1.4 billion, the city’s People’s Committee said on Tuesday. The investment will boost the company’s OLED display output at the Haiphong factory to 13 million to 14 million units per month, from the current 9.6 million […]

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Google delays office return until January next year, CEO Sundar Pichai
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Google delays office return until January next year, CEO Sundar Pichai

Alphabet Inc-owned Google is extending its voluntary return-to-office policy through January next year, CEO Sundar Pichai said on Tuesday, citing uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in many parts of the world. The rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant is also making companies reconsider their mask mandates and vaccination policies. “Beyond January 10, we will enable […]

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Decimal Technologies ropes in Shikha Dhillon as Head- HR from HT Media
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Decimal Technologies ropes in Shikha Dhillon as Head- HR from HT Media

Decimal Technologies, a leading Tech-Fin organization appoints Shikha Dhillon as Head of Human Resources. Prior to this Shikha was working with HT Media as Head- HR for the Radio and Entertainment Business. In her new role, she will be responsible for the entire gamut of People and Culture including employee engagement, performance management, sourcing and […]

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SHRM India to organise Tech Conference and Exposition on 2-3 Sept 2021
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SHRM India to organise Tech Conference and Exposition on 2-3 Sept 2021

SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) India, the world’s largest HR professional society, is organising SHRM India Tech conference on 2-3 September 2021. The theme of the conference is Work Exponentiated The virtual edition of the SHRM Tech Conference with the theme “Work Exponentiated” will witness 2000+ attendees, 120+ speakers, 40+ sessions, 20+ learning hours […]

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HSBC appoints former SBI Chief Rajnish Kumar as Independent Director
C-Suite Move

HSBC appoints former SBI Chief Rajnish Kumar as Independent Director

HSBC, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation has appointed former State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Rajnish Kumar as an Independent Director and a member of Audit Committee and Risk Committee of the Asian entity. He retired from SBI in October 2020 after a 40-year career spanning. His international tenure included stints at SBI’s UK and Canada […]

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Wipro is rolling out salary hikes from September 1, 2021
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Wipro is rolling out salary hikes from September 1, 2021

There is good news for the employees of Bengaluru-based IT major, Wipro. As announced in the month of June this year, the company is rolling out a second salary hike of the year for its employees from 1 September 2021. According to the company statement “Wipro will initiate merit salary increases (MSI) for all eligible […]

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Wipro’s new Rewards & Benefits programs to retain its employees
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Wipro’s new Rewards & Benefits programs to retain its employees

Recently in an Interview with SightsIn Plus, Saurabh Govil, President and CHRO, Wipro Ltd said that Attrition has always been a concern for the industry however now we are witnessing an unprecedented war for talent. He added, “We look at attrition at different levels. One level is the point at which attrition is happening and […]

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No outages in Aadhaar – PAN/EPFO linking, Deadlines will remain same
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No outages in Aadhaar – PAN/EPFO linking, Deadlines will remain same

Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said that all its services are stable and functioning fine. There have been no outages in its Aadhaar – PAN/EPFO linking facility which is authentication-based facility. UIDAI said that as it was going through an essential security upgrade in its systems in a phased manner over the last week, […]

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