Category: Jobs

New Delhi, January 11 Easing the eligibility criterion, the National Testing Agency (NTA) has allowed top 20 percentile students of all education boards, including those of states, for admission to various national institutes. Earlier, only students securing 75 per cent or above in the Class XII board examination were eligible…

Karam Prakash New Delhi, January 9 As India has invited top international universities to open their campuses in the country, educationalists fear further privatisation of higher education and collapse of the state universities. The entire exercise of creating room for foreign universities will be at the cost of state-run educational…

Aditi Tandon New Delhi, December 26 Budding animators, gamers and visual effect artists will soon find their hobbies mainstreamed in the Indian educational and job systems with the government readying school curriculum and dedicated undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in the booming AVGC (Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming and Comics). The idea…

New Delhi, December 25 A mixed bag of opportunities is likely to greet job aspirants in the New Year as telecom and services-oriented sectors are anticipated to accelerate hiring after recent gloomy months of pink slips in the technology segment amid global economic turmoil. Short-term opportunities will be on the…

Chandigarh, December 20 Anshu Sood of Hoshiarpur, a student of the University Business School (UBS), Panjab University, has bagged the highest package of Rs 58.48 lakh per annum from Tolaram Group for a managerial post. This marked an increase of 10.22 per cent in the highest package, which was Rs…

New Delhi, December 19The Supreme Court has asked the Centre and IITs to follow the reservation policy for admission to research degree programmes and recruitment of faculty members at IITs as provided under the Central Educational Institutions (Reservation in Teachers’ Cadre) Act, 2019.The Act provides for reservation in teaching positions…

New Delhi, December 8 Amid reports of mass layoffs by several firms, including in the IT sector, Labour and Employment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Thursday said any retrenchment and layoffs are deemed to be illegal if not carried out as per the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act. The minister…

New Delhi, December 6 IT company Microsoft will train and certify over 1 lakh software developers in India in a month under its pan-India “Future Ready Champions of Code” program, the company said on Tuesday. The month-long programme will be supported by Microsoft’s customers and partners incuding Accenture, HCLTech, Icertis,…

New Delhi, December 2 During the first in-person mode of placement drive after the pandemic, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) recorded an increase in international offers for its students with several of them bagging packages exceeding Rs 1 crore per annum. At IIT Madras, at least 25 students have…

New Delhi, November 6 The Union health ministry is working to finalise guidelines to do away with the bond policy for doctors based on the National Medical Commission’s recommendations in this regard, official sources said. According to the bond policy, doctors are required to serve for a specific period in…

IANS New Delhi, October 30 Most of the toppers in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (Advanced) are taking admission in Computer Science and related engineering courses. The craze of ‘Computer Science engineering’ is so much that many students are not taking admission in IITs as they do not want to…

Mumbai, October 10 The country’s largest IT services exporter TCS on Monday said moonlighting is an “ethical issue” and against its core values but has not taken any action against any staff. The company, which employs over 6.16 lakh people, will take into account all the relevant dimensions while forming…

Ravi S Singh New Delhi, September 24 The Centre is understood to be concerned about sweeping punitive action taken by major companies against employees for their alleged moonlighting or taking up dual employment. Well-placed sources said the government is presently following the development, but the possibility of the Union government’s…

New Delhi, September 16 As several students, disappointed with the results of the Common University Entrance Test (CUET-UG), took to social media to express “lack of clarity” and “confusion” over their percentile, UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar on Friday said universities would prepare the rank list on the basis…

Chandigarh, September 11 Chinmay Khokar has emerged as the tricity topper by securing all-India rank 42 in the JEE Advanced, results of which were announced on Sunday. Harsh Jakhar from Sector 35 came second, securing AIR 48, while Anirudh Garg from Sector 16 finished third with 50th rank. Khokar…