Tag: Coronavirus pandemic

MCX India offers 3x salary to employees working from office

MCX, the largest commodities bourse in India with a market share of more than 90%, is offering up to 3x more salaries to its select few employees, who are working from office. MCX employs around 400 people across India and 300 of them are based in its Mumbai headquarters. “Since last Friday, 50 of our…

Cognizant to give an additional 25% salary to some of its employees

US-headquartered IT firm Cognizant Technology Solutions is looking to pay an additional 25% of base pay to some of its employees in India and the Philippines as a major chunk of its offshore workforce is working remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic. As the world battles coronavirus pandemic, different companies are trying in their own…

Asian Paints pledges Rs35 cr towards Covid-19 relief

Industrialists and companies across the globe are coming together to fight these unprecedented situations created due to the coronavirus pandemic. Every day companies and leaders are joining the fight against Covid-19, announcing their contribution to contain the further spread of the coronavirus in India and the world.  Asian Paints has announced its contribution of Rs.…

HCL Technologies’ statement on the coronavirus situation

HCL Technologies, an Indian multinational information technology service and consulting company, releases a statement to update its employees and others associated with the company on how it is dealing with unprecedented situations caused by the coronavirus pandemic. According to their statement: “HCL Technologies Ltd (HCL) has been monitoring the Covid-19 outbreak since late January and…

Infosys terminates employee over controversial social media post on coronavirus

Indian tech giant Infosys recently announced that it has sacked one of its employees who wrote an “inappropriate post” on Twitter about the coronavirus pandemic. Announcing the termination of the employee’s services through Twitter, Infosys said, “Infosys has completed its investigation on the social media post by one of its employees, and we believe that…

L&T donates 150Cr to PM Cares, defers extra pay revision to employees

India’s leading technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and financial services conglomerate Larsen & Toubro, recently announced that it is committed to participating in corporate India’s response to COVID-19 through funds, community welfare plans and through leveraging its expertise to offer assistance. Responding to the call given by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, the company will donate…

How to stay focussed and dedicated while working from home

Work-from-home, remote working or telecommuting, whatever you may call it, but handling all your work-related tasks from the comfort of your couch is now becoming a normal thing and you won’t be judged for that. Due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, work-from-home is now the talk of the town.  The coronavirus outbreak, which first originated…

Frankfurt-headquartered Innoplexus announces major findings in potential combination therapies for Covid-19

Innoplexus AG announced some first results in its artificial intelligence enabled search for a COVID-19 antiviral treatment. Innoplexus began by scanning data on previously approved drugs for off-label potential in treating COVID-19, using its proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) and big data platform to generate actionable insights from hundreds of terabytes of structured and unstructured public…

Godrej group joins the fight against Covid-19

India’s industrialists are coming together to fight the novel coronavirus that has created havoc in the entire world. In order to stop the further spreading of the virus, countries are on full nationwide lockdown. In such crisis, the Godrej group has come forward to join the fight in order to overcome the unprecedented coronavirus pandemic,…

TVS Motor and Sundaram-Clayton join hands to fight Covid-19

TVS Motor Company, India’s one of the largest manufacturers of two-wheelers and three-wheelers and die-caster Sundaram-Clayton Ltd. (SCL) have announced spending Rs 30 crore to support the nationwide efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.  ’This is an unprecedented crisis that requires all of us to cooperate and support each other as a nation,’’ said…

Coronavirus: Biocon & Biocon Biologics ensuring manufacturing of life-saving medicines

Biocon Ltd. and Biocon Biologics have activated business continuity plans across their functions to meet the needs of patients, partners, customers and other stakeholders who depend on its products. As a global company, it has presence across India, UAE, Malaysia, Singapore, Europe, U.S. and are adjusting all operations to fully comply with regulations issued by…

Moody’s pledges $1 mn in funding for Covid-19 relief

Moody’s Corporation announced that it will fund a $1 million program of charitable donations and other support to help address the immediate and long-term impact of COVID-19. Moody’s will extend support to its existing philanthropic partners to help small businesses and education systems and reconfigure its employee volunteer programs to assist communities most affected by…