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Maruti Suzuki and TISS launch a 3 year program in automotive retail management

Maruti Suzuki India Limited has partnered with Tata Institute of Social Sciences – School of Vocational Education (TISS-SVE), Mumbai to train youth in automotive retail. Maruti along with TISS-SVE will offer a customized 3 year “Bachelor of Vocation (B.Voc.) in Retail Management with specialization in Automotive Retail”. The programme will focus on imparting industry relevant technical and […]

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2.31 lakh candidates register for CAT 2021

Approximately 2.31 lakh candidates have registered successfully for CAT 2021, the entrance test for some of the finest b-schools in India. The extended CAT registration was closed on September 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm. Applicants will have a 3 day window to edit select fields in their application. A 3-days window from 10.00 am on […]

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MobiKwik adds 4 Independent Directors to its Board

MobiKwik, a fintech company has inducted four new independent directors. This comes post the filing of the company’s Draft Red Herring Prospectus with SEBI on 12th July 2021. The new appointments include experienced investment professional and former MD of Blackstone and Oppenheimer Dr. Punita Kumar Sinha, accomplished diplomat and the former Ambassador of India to […]

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Procter & Gamble now allows all new parents to 8 weeks fully paid parental leave

P&G has announced it’s ‘Share the Care’, a new inclusive parental leave policy in India. This will entitle all new parents including biological parents, domestic partners, adoptive parents, parents in same-sex couples to 8 weeks fully paid parental leave. This builds on the company’s existing maternity leave policy of 26 weeks for birthing mothers and adoption leave of 26 weeks for primary caregivers.

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Procter & Gamble committed to drive Gender Equality across India

Procter & Gamble has today announced its initiatives aimed at accelerating gender equality across India. The company’s announced its declarations were at P&G’s virtual #WeSeeEqual Gender Equality summit. Built on the theme ‘#Unsaid and #Undone’, the summit brought together leading voices on Gender Equality to challenge the current discourse and commit to the actions needed […]

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Salesforce acquires Slack for $27.7 billion

Salesforce, the leading CRM platform company has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Slack Technologies, Inc., an enterprise communications platform. The deal represents an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion.

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Govt Announces Freezing Of Dearness Allowance (DA) Hike For CPSE Employees

In the view of the current crisis due to COVID-19, the government has decided that the Dearness Allowance payable to employees of central public sector enterprises (CPSEs), shall not be paid. The additional allowance due from Oct 1, 2020, will also not be paid. “In the view of the crisis arising out of COVID-19, it […]

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EPFO records 14.9 lakh net new enrolments in September

The EPFO gained 14.90 lakh net subscribers in September 2020, raising its user base by about 30.92 lakh in the first two quarters of the current financial year: says Labour Ministry data  Net new enrolments with retirement fund body EPFO rose to 14.9 lakh in September from 8.8 lakh in August 2020, according to its […]

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CIE-IIITH AI-driven content start-up raises $1M funding

Centre of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE-IIITH) Avishkar accelerator program startup Instoried raises $1 million from pre-series A round of investment, with Mumbai Angels leading the round, and follow-on investments from Venture Catalysts’ 9 Unicorns Fund London-based JPIN and others. Commenting on Instoried’s successful funding, Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, CIE-IIITH said, “All our programs target early-stage deep-tech […]

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The overall health risk of Corporate India remains low: MediBuddy research

As per the patented scoring system, MediBuddy has stated that the overall risk score of Corporate India remains low. The report shows that Corporate India’s overall risk score remains low at 1.8 on a scale of 10. The data is based on MediBuddy’s Annual Health Check-Up program which uses a proprietary scoring method that analyses […]

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NMIMS’ Centre of Excellence in Analytics & Data Science opens admissions For MBA (Business Analytics)

“Business analytics is one of the few careers that has shown resilience against recession and will see a greater demand as enterprises try to utilise all available data to recover from the downturn,” says Dr Bhat NMIMS’ Centre of Excellence in Analytics & Data Science initiated admissions in Mumbai for its widely esteemed MBA (Business […]