Two days ago, India’s biggest private sector employer Tata Consultancy Services had announced a massive bonus for staffers amounting to Rs 2,628 crore ($423 million). The special service reward was announced to mark 10 years of the company’s  listing on the Indian bourses and the company will pay each staffer one week’s salary for every year of service completed. Globally, all employees who have completed at least one year of […]

New York: The US’ prestigious Harvard University is set to open its international offices in India, China and South Africa to facilitate research and academic work for its affiliates in those regions.   Harvard is awaiting approval from the Indian government for its School of Public Health to open an office in Mumbai, a report in the college newspaper The Harvard Crimson said.   Apart from Mumbai, Harvard has authorised […]

  As the start up culture grows and evolves rapidly in India, incubators in collaboration with educational institutions look to provide new companies a springboard to stability. Today, a number of students from different educational sectors and institutions have unique ideas of how to solve a problem, target a certain market segment and accordingly run a successful and profitable business. Although jobs with established companies continue to remain popular, an […]

The ‘hacktivist’ collective know as Anonymous is putting pressure on Twitter to suspend or ban the accounts of ISIS supporters. An extension of the #OpISIS campaign — which was launched earlier this year by Anonymous — the clandestine group has released the handles of 9,200 Twitter users who support the radical Islamic State. The list, which was released via @xrsone, is being promoted in hopes that it will force the […]

  Within hours of safely arriving in New Delhi as a couple, Manouj and Kavita were at a court performing the rites for their marriage. The court was about to close, so it was a hasty affair. They managed to snap a total of 19 photos on Manouj’s cellphone. It’s as close to a wedding album as they will get. But the alternative was far worse. What they left behind […]

  Every year, thousands of people move from India’s villages and towns to its cities looking for employment opportunities. They pack their bags and bid their families goodbye with no idea how their life will shape up in a city which is already crowded with people competing for every job opportunity. On the other hand, there are companies that fall short of manpower because they struggle to find the right […]

  At first sight, the cheerful-looking red and white painted building looks like a quiet public rest house in the din and bustle of Hajipur, a fast developing town in India’s northern state of Bihar. But look closely and you see a stream of people entering Aastha Hospital, run by an enterprising doctor couple who left lucrative jobs in India’s lucrative private sector to set up a facility offering quality […]

  Forty thousand York University students are not in class this morning after the university suspended classes following the decision by the school’s non-contract faculty to strike. It is the first strike at York in seven years, but already students on social media were raising the spectre of the last labour disruption by teaching assistants and non-tenure track faculty. That strike, in 2008, lasted three months and ended with provincial […]

Pakistani officials are investigating after the famous green-eyed “Afghan girl” immortalised in a 1985 National Geographic magazine cover was found living in the country on fraudulent identity papers. The haunting image of the then 12-year-old Sharbat Gula, taken in a refugee camp by photographer Steve McCurry, became the most famous cover image in the magazine’s history. After a 17-year search, McCurry tracked Gula down to a remote Afghan village in […]

  The head of the British Army is considering plans to put together a Sikh regiment, The Telegraph quoted a British minister as saying. British Minister Mark Francois told Commons that the Chief of the General Staff (CGS) Sir Nick Carter is reviewing the likelihood of forming a new unit that would inherit many of the “proud traditions of Sikh regiments” from the British Army’s past. Thousands of Sikh soldiers […]