London : Facebook has opened a new office in London and has announced that it would hire 800 people which will take the total strength of its employees in Britain to 2,300 workers by the end of 2018, the media reported on Monday. The new seven-storey office building...
New Delhi : Saudi Arabia continues to be among the most preferred destinations for Indians seeking jobs abroad, resulting in the Gulf kingdom becoming among the highest sources of remittances to India, according to official data. According to figures provided by the...
Bengaluru : Advocating public-private partnerships to improve India's employment ratio, academic and industry experts on Friday stressed on skilling engineering graduates in analytics for better job prospects. "With the advent of new technologies like analytics,...
"I want to become a pilot." When she instinctively answered a question at an event over a decade ago, the dream of a humble bakery worker's daughter had started growing wings. Hijab-wearing Syeda Salva Fatima is now all set to join an airline and is one of the four...
Bengaluru : Karnataka has created about 13.91 lakh jobs in the last four years and is close to achieving the state government's target of generating 15 lakh jobs by 2019, state Large and Medium Industries Minister R.V. Deshpande said on Thursday. "In the past four...
Chennai : The workforce in India operations of global wind turbine major Siemens Gamesa may escape the axe if the Indian government comes with more auctions and clarifies on power purchase agreements (PPA), a top company official said. Siemens Gamesa has announced...
New Delhi/Hyderabad : Telangana on Saturday launched its food processing policy, aiming to attract Rs.20,000 crore investment in the sector over the next five years. The policy also aims to make Telangana the number one state in milk production and livestock and...
Vienna : The unemployment rate in Austria declined 4.6 per cent year-on-year for October, the Social Affairs Ministry said. This equates to 393,029 people in the country presently registered as jobless, Xinhua news agency reported. The number of non-self-employed...
Guwahati : The Assam government on Wednesday signed MoUs with its Singapore counterpart for skilling over 78,000 rural youths in the state by 2019 and greening Guwahati. The Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) and Terms of Reference (ToR) for setting up the North East...
New Delhi : Khadi and handloom are transforming and empowering the poor by bringing positive and qualitative changes in their lives, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday. From the days of 'Khadi for Nation', India first saw 'Khadi for Fashion' and now the...