Central PSUs slash 31,000 jobs in FY09
The number of people employed by the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) came down to 15.35 lakh at the end of 2008-09 from 15.66 crore in...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010, 08:23 IST
20 yr old engineers design Earth-bound system
Making their dream a reality, Gokul Kannan and Aswin Kadri, students of M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, designed a system which is...
Wednesday, 03 March 2010, 08:03 IST
Now, firms focus on rewarding high performance
Although pay raises were at an all-time low last year, most employees around the world can expect to see a slight rebound in salary increases in...
Tuesday, 02 March 2010, 17:18 IST
Hyderabad Metro Rail to create 50,000 jobs
Hyderabad Metro Rail is expected to trigger mammoth economic activity in and around the city and provide employment to about 50,000 people, Andhra...
Tuesday, 02 March 2010, 07:40 IST
50,000 company secretaries needed by 2020
With students' enrollment programme being grown by more than 70 percent in the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI), it is being expected that the country may require approximately 50,000 company secretaries (CS) by 2020.
Layoffs among men increase women workforce
With downturn-related job losses affecting females less than males, women are headed toward constituting half of all U.S. employed. Women's share of the workforce increased from 46.5 percent in December 2007 to 47.4 percent in December 2009.