Bengaluru:“I’ll give you my entire first month’s salary if your referral gets me hired.”The plea, once rare and awkward, is becoming increasingly common on LinkedIn and Reddit, where freshers and early-career professionals are promising their first paycheque — or even cash incentives — for referrals that could open the door to a job.The posts, spanning…
Gangapriya Chakraverti, MD, Ford Business Solutions, with State industries minister Keerthana Sampath at the Coimbatore facility Chennai: Ford Business Solutions (FBS) India, Ford Motor’s global capability center, opened a new office in Coimbatore. Spread over 82,000 sqft, with seating for about 800 team members, it is the third location in the country, after its technology…
Hyderabad: Telangana’s govt degree colleges will introduce 11 new courses under the Apprenticeship Embedded Degree Programme (AEDP) from this academic year, expanding the total number of courses to 24 across 96 colleges, commissioner of technical education A Sridevasena said on Monday.Addressing a press briefing, she said the programme aims to enrol 8,000 students this year,…
Katwa: Vigilantes on Tuesday morning allegedly thrashed four men ferrying cattle at Madhaitala in Katwa subdivision of East Burdwan district. Police later arrested the four men and seized the cattle.According to police, the four men were transporting five cattle, for farming purposes, when they were intercepted by a group claiming to be BJP supporters. The…
Bengaluru: While leaving Krishnarajapuram railway station Wednesday afternoon after seeing off his wife, 32-year-old Vijay Kumar thought everything was fine. His wife, who had boarded MGR Chennai Central-Sainagar Shirdi Superfast Express, however, left behind a trolley bag at the station with jewellery worth Rs 5 lakh.The train left Krishnarajapuram at 3.55pm and headed towards Yelahanka….
TVK chief C Joseph Vijay on Sunday was sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister after the May 4 verdict declared his party as the single largest in the assembly. CHENNAI: TVK chief C Joseph Vijay on Sunday was sworn in as Tamil Nadu chief minister after the May 4 verdict declared his party as…
New Delhi: Twelve people were rescued after a major fire broke out in a slum cluster in central Delhi’s Takia Kale Khan late Monday night. The blaze engulfed around 30 huts.Delhi Fire Service (DFS) got a call regarding the fire at 11.22 pm from Balmiki Basti in Takia Kale Khan, following which 24 fire tenders…
A still from Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Mayanagar” KOLKATA: At this year’s National Film Awards, the regional jury selected five Bengali films — Anjan Dutt’s “Chaalchitra Ekhon”, Aditya Vikram Sengupta’s “Mayanagar”, Saurav Palodhi’s “Onko Ki Kothin”, Samik Roychowdhury’s “Beline”, and Sayan Bandyopadhyay’s “Doaansh” — from a pool of 24 entries to advance for central panel consideration….
A growing number of leaders from India-based global capability centres (GCCs) are making their way into the Fortune 500 C-suite, underscoring the rising strategic importance of these centres and the influence of their leadership.Recent examples include Kalyani Sekar, senior vice-president and chief data and AI officer at Verizon; Hari Vasudev, executive vice-president and CTO of…
VELLORE: A woman gave birth to a baby boy on board a moving train on Tuesday morning, shortly after the train crossed Ambur in Tamil Nadu. The mother and the newborn were safely detrained at Katpadi railway station and shifted to a hospital. The passenger, Jamuna Majhi, wife of Jitu Sarakia, of Lanjigarh in Kalahandi…
