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A bill has been proposed in US, which can reduce the total number of H1B visas by 15,000. Considering that the bill is being supported by both Republican and Democratic parties, the probability of its approval is more positive than…

Nasscom is confident that IT industry in India is headed for some high octane growth in 2016, as they have said that 2.7 lakh new jobs would be generated by the industry in the next 12 months. Driving this new hiring frenzy would be…

Revenues of Samsung India are falling, and such is the alarming situation that they are firing employees to reduce their expenses. As per media reports, Samsung may fire 5% of their staff in India within next few months; which…

Zomato has confirmed that they are laying off 300 employees, or roughly 10% of their workforce, in order to concentrate more on profit-making niches. Severely hit would be their content teams, which are responsible for live data…

Bangalore Police has received Intelligence inputs that terrorists and extremists are infiltrating IT startups in the city. To stop this, mandatory police verification for all employees would be soon announced by them. As of now, only…

In India, around 600,000 engineers graduate annually from various colleges; while some of them chose the profession because of their engineering passion, some of them were pressurized from their parents. But a new study has revealed…

It seems that the firing of Housing.com’s co-founder & ex-CEO Rahul Yadav was just a beginning. Within the next 90 days, 600 employees of Housing.com, or 23% of their entire workforce would be fired. As per a report in ET, the…

NASSCOM has just released a report concerning tech sector (IT-BPO), which enlists top 20 companies in India. As per the report, these 20 firms hired 1.25 million workers during the fiscal year 2014-15, which is little more than 30% of…

Online job portal Monster is launching a ‘Love What You Do’ campaign urging jobseekers to follow their passion in their current jobs. Money is a very powerful entity. It can build empires and even break kingdoms down. It can take some…

Many have written about the various stages of grief they go through at the end of a relationship. This has become the premise for many comedy sketches, books and movies like 500 days of summer (talk about stuck-up !). Today, I would…