Entrepreneurial activity has percolated through every sphere of human endeavor. Of late the students coming from Madrassas or Islamic seminaries, those who mostly look for the jobs in mosques and seminaries as Imams, Muazzins (those calling faithful for prayers...
Singapore-based BIGO announces $100 mn investment in India
New Delhi : Singapore-based social media platform BIGO Technology on Monday announced an investment of over $100 million to expand its business in India in the next three years, creating nearly 1,000 jobs. As part of the investment, the internet company will start a...
Infosys to train students in US for digital jobs
Bengaluru : Infosys is partnering with the Community College of Rhode Island to set up a digital economy aspirations lab for training students in the US for digital jobs, said the software major on Wednesday. "Our digital innovation and design centre at Providence in...
EPF enrolment, Income tax data cannot measure job creation: Experts
By Saurabh Katkurwar, New Delhi : Amid the controversy over the withholding of a report on the country's unemployment situation, the government has cited data from provident fund records, Income Tax filings and the National Pension System (NPS), besides a possible...
Shortage of funds key challenge in job creation: Economic Affairs Secretary
By Manish Gupta and Vishav, New Delhi : Asserting India's fast economic growth is not without generation of jobs, Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg said the country actually faces shortage of capital more than the scarcity of jobs. While most Indians...
IT exemption threshold may go up in interim budget
New Delhi : With middle-class apathy on the rise, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley may double the income tax exemption threshold for the salaried from the present Rs 2.5 lakhs to Rs 5 lakhs while also reinstating tax-free status for medical expenses and transport...
Promises galore in debt-ridden Telangana
By Mohammed Shafeeq, Hyderabad : From farm loan waiver up to Rs 2 lakh to unemployment allowance and from doubling security pensions to free cows, laptops and bicycles, major political parties in debt-ridden Telangana are promising the moon to the voters. The main...
GM stock slips as Trump threatens to cut subsidies
New York : General Motors (GM) stock fell on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump stepped up his attack on the company, threatening to cut all subsidies after the automaker announced thousands of jobs cuts and closure of several plants across North America. "Very...
Amazon Web Services to help skilled students find Cloud computing jobs
By Nishant Arora, Las Vegas : As tech companies the world over face an acute crunch of skilled workforce in the field of Cloud computing, retail giant Amazon's Cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has decided to go beyond providing training and certification to now...
Samsung to hire 300 engineers from IITs
Gurugram : Samsung India is planning to hire over 300 engineers from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) this placement season to strengthen its Research and Development (R&D) operations in the country, a company spokesperson said on Tuesday. Company...