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Updated on: Mar 2023
Electronics manufacturing to create 10 lakh jobs by 2025-2026
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Electronics manufacturing to create 10 lakh jobs by 2025-2026

Union Minister of State for Skill Development & Entrepreneurship and Electronics & Information Technology Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar said the target of the Narendra Modi Government is to increase electronics manufacturing capability to Rs 24 Lakh crore by 2025-26, which will also help create over 10 lakh jobs. Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar was addressing a packed audience […]

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Infosys Foundation to Foster Learning for Army Widows & Children
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Infosys Foundation to Foster Learning for Army Widows & Children

Infosys Foundation, the philanthropic and CSR arm of Infosys, announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Directorate of Indian Army Veterans (DIAV). This will provide educational grants and scholarships worth INR 30 crore to widows and children of army personnel, who have been impacted by physical casualty. Through this collaboration of Infosys […]

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Truecaller inaugurates office in India will accommodate 250 people
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Truecaller inaugurates office in India will accommodate 250 people

Truecaller, the leading global communications and Caller ID platform, inaugurated its brand new office in the southern city of Bengaluru, India. The office was virtually inaugurated by the Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship & Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India Mr. Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The launch of the Bengaluru office […]

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Read Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s post on 10,000 Jobcuts
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Read Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s post on 10,000 Jobcuts

Meta (formerly named Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has written a letter for his employees when announced a fresh layoff of about 10,000 staff. The CEO also urged employees to work from the office to increase efficiency. Additionally, he also said the company’s analysis shows the employees who worked from the office fared better than those who worked […]

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Startup tells new hires they need to know ChatGPT for a job
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Startup tells new hires they need to know ChatGPT for a job

ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a chatbot developed by OpenAI that is designed to generate human-like responses to natural language queries. It has been trained on a massive amount of text data from the internet, including books, articles, and web pages. Chatgpt can be used in a variety of applications, such as chatbots, virtual assistants, […]

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Layoffs: a laid-off techie hangs himself in Chennai
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Layoffs: a laid-off techie hangs himself in Chennai

Covid-19 changed the situation of working. There have been various companies that even overhired employees which led to layoffs. According to a recent report of TOI, M Vignesh, a 24-year-old software engineer committed suicide by hanging himself in Padi. Parents suspected when M Vignesh’s room remained locked for a long time and there was no […]

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Silicon Valley Bank’s nearly 800 Indian employees face uncertainty
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Silicon Valley Bank’s nearly 800 Indian employees face uncertainty

The Silicon Valley Bank collapsed recently last week. Post this, the regulators took control of Silicon Valley Bank. This is a key lender to startups across the US since the 1980s. On Sunday, US authorities unveiled sweeping measures to rescue depositors’ money at the failed SVB. Due to this, nearly 800 employees working at Silicon […]

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WhatsApp rolling out new group chat feature for Android users
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WhatsApp rolling out new group chat feature for Android users

The US tech conglomerate of Meta, WhatsApp is rolling out a new group chat feature. This feature is available for Android beta. The feature will display profile icons within group chats. According to reports, the new feature is available for some beta testers after installing the latest update of WhatsApp beta for Android on the Play […]

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Ex-Google VP shares skills she looked for hiring candidates
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Ex-Google VP shares skills she looked for hiring candidates

According to CNBC reports, Claire Hughes Johnson is an Ex-Google employee, she worked with google as a VP for 10 years and shared the top skill that she used to look for in people while hiring candidates. In her role with google, she was responsible for Gmail, Google Apps business, and consumer operations. Additionally, she […]

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A woman re-applies to her own job on LinkedIn as it offered higher salary
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A woman re-applies to her own job on LinkedIn as it offered higher salary

A post by a woman named Kimberly Nguyen from New York City is going viral. She applied for the same job again after she realized that her company listed a significantly higher salary for the same role on LinkedIn. Kimberly Nguyen, a 25-year-old woman who is a user experience (UX) writer, shared a series of tweets regarding […]

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No mass layoffs 2023 at Adobe says its CPO
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No mass layoffs 2023 at Adobe says its CPO

An American multinational computer software company, Adobe Chief People Officer Gloria Chen has said that there will be no mass layoffs in 2023. In an interview Chief People Officer Gloria Chen said, “We are committed to not having company-wide layoffs.” “Adobe is not doing company-wide layoffs and we are still hiring for critical roles,” the […]

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WhatsApp says it will leave the UK rather than weaken encryption
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WhatsApp says it will leave the UK rather than weaken encryption

The US tech conglomerate Meta, WhatsApp has said that it will leave the UK rather than weaken encryption. As the country is upcoming with its Online Safety Bill. The UK government will be passing its Online Safety Bill later this year. The government has argued that security should be weakened so that messages can be […]

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