To promote gender diversity across all management levels, top telecom operator Bharti Airtel has increased maternity leave for its women employees to 22 weeks from 12 weeks. This is in addition to flexible work options for working mothers to ensure a smooth transition to full working hours, the company said in a statement today. Microsoft India extends maternity leave to […]
» Read moreDistrict Election officials today seized Rs seven lakh from a car near here. Officials said they seized the amount during a vehicle check at Elumathur, 20 km from here. The passenger, a PWD contractor, said he had drawn the amount from a bank and would submit a receipt for it soon, officials said. The money was seized and it was […]
» Read morepartial solar eclipse will be seen in India on Wednesday morning with the north-eastern parts of the country expected to see a large fraction of the disc of the Sun, eclipsed by the Moon. The total solar eclipse, where the sun will be 100% obscured, will only be visible from parts of Indonesia including Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi, and from […]
» Read moreBengaluru-based hacker Anand Prakash has been awarded $15,000 (approximately Rs 10 lakh) for finding a bug in Facebook’s login system. The bug, if exploited, could let hackers access a user’s messages, photos and even debit/credit card details stored in the payments section, among others. In a blog post, Prakash – who also works as a security analyst at Flipkart – […]
» Read moreAt least 21 terrorists were killed in fresh air strikes when Pakistani fighter jets pounded militant hideouts in Shawal Valley, a mountainous area in North Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. “Operations continue. Important heights & passes along Pak—Afghan Border secured. Valley’s sanitisation in progress,” Asim Bajwa, DG Inter—Services Public Relations Twitted. “21 terrorists were killed last night when military jets pounded militant […]
» Read moreChief Ministers of Telangana and Maharashtra K. Chandrasekhar Rao and Devendra Fadnavis, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at Mumbai on Tuesday on setting up an inter-state water board on Godavari projects, ending decades of discord between the two States on utilisation of water in the river Godavari and its tributaries. The agreement will pave the pay for the two […]
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