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Capgemni seen laying off 9,000 employees in India to hire in US
09 May 2017
Close on the heels of reports that IT major Cognizant laying off 6,000 of its Indian employees to hire more staff in the US, French IT giant Capgemni is now reported to be planning to lay off 9,000 employees
Russia bans Chinese instant messaging app WeChat
06 May 2017
After Infosys, Cognizant to ramp up US hiring
06 May 2017
After Infosys, Cognizant to ramp up US hiring
06 May 2017
Google busts email phishing scam
04 May 2017
Cloud infrastructure as a service to exceed data centre outsourcing costs in India in 2017: Gartner
02 May 2017
Paytm plans to raise Rs12,000 cr from Japan’s SoftBank
28 Apr 2017
Paytm, in tie-up with MMTC’s Swiss venture PAMP SA, on Thursday, launched a wealth-management platform that allows customers to invest as low as Re1 in gold, and also launched ‘Digital Gold’ that allows its 200-million plus users to buy, store and sell gold instantly
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The life and times of Manmohan Singh, former Prime Minister of India
By Cygnus | 28 Dec 2024
On 27th December 2024 India and the world lost one of their finest statespersons in a hundred years. Manmohan Singh, born on 26th September 1932, in Gah, Punjab (now in Pakistan)
The remarkable Ratan Tata
By Kiron Kasbekar | 23 Oct 2024
One newspaper report of Ratan Tata’s passing away showed an old photo of him climbing into the cockpit of a Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter.
Lighter than air, yet very, very powerful
By Kiron Kasbekar | 03 Jan 2024
In March 2013 Chinese scientists pulled off a remarkable feat. They created the world’s lightest aerogel. Tipping the scales at a mere 0.16 milligrams per cubic centimeter – that’s a sixth of the weight of air!
COP28 explained: A closer look at COP28's climate change solutions
By Aniket Gupta | 27 Dec 2023
The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, took place from 30th November 2023, to 13th December 2023, at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
What is a Ponzi scheme?
By Aniket Gupta | 06 Dec 2023
Ponzi schemes have long captivated the public imagination, drawing unsuspecting investors into a web of illusion and deception.
The Rise and Rise of HDFC Bank
03 Jul 2023
HDFC, which surged ahead of global majors like HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc and left Indian peers like State Bank of India and ICICI Bank in market capitalisation, now ranks fourth largest among the world’s most valuable banks, after JPMorgan Chase & Co, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd and Bank of America Corp
India’s Millet Revolution To Enrich Global Food Basket
02 Apr 2023
Millets, a healthier and cheaper substitute to wheat and rice, are indigenous to many parts of the world, especially in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa, and offers a big scope for expanding production and consumption in the foodgrain deficient African continent
Market predator Hindenburg preys on Adani stock
06 Mar 2023
Almost a month after the damning report of short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani Group that claimed that the seven stocks within the group were about 85 per cent overvalued, one of the group's stocks, Adani Total Gas, closed at Rs835 on the BSE, down nearly 79 per cent from its 24 January level, almost close to reaching that valuation