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Versova police have registered a cheating case against Jitendra Sharma and Rakesh Pranigrahi for illegally selling director Vikram Bhatt’s office discs containing raw movie footage. The discs were sold under Pranigrahi’s orders, and both accused stopped cooperating after staff asked for the discs’ return. Charges were filed under criminal breach of trust. The Versova police…
Silent layoffs are on the rise in Indian tech sector The Indian tech industry is experiencing a wave of workforce changes in 2025 that is reshaping employment in the sector. Over 50,000 tech jobs are projected to be at risk this year, said Neeti Sharma, CEO of Teamlease Digital, in an interaction with ET. This…
Over 250 employees of B9 Beverages, the company behind Bira 91 craft beer, have called for a change in the company’s leadership and the removal of founder Ankur Jain from management.The employees sent a petition to the company’s board, major investors including Kirin Holdings and Peak XV Partners, and the largest lender, Anicut Capital. The…
Scott Sutfin-Glowski, a principal software engineer at Microsoft for 13 years, announced his resignation Thursday in a mass email sent to thousands of colleagues, protesting the company’s continued cloud services contracts with the Israeli military. “I can no longer accept enabling what may be the worst atrocities of our time,” Sutfin-Glowski wrote, choosing to leave…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka has become the first state in India to approve 12 menstrual leaves for women in a year.The state govt announced that women working in state government offices, garment factories, multinational companies, IT firms, and other private-sector organisations will now be entitled to one paid menstrual leave per month. Officials stated that the…
Google is reportedly adding more restrictions for its remote employees. A new report claims that the tech giant is updating its “Work from Anywhere” policy, which was introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic. This policy allowed employees to work from any location outside of their main office for up to four weeks per calendar year. According…
Google is under scrutiny after internal documents revealed that the company has asked its UB-based employees to opt into a third-party AI healthcare tool — Nayya. As reported by Business Insider, in an internal memo Google has asked the employees to opt for Nayya if they want to receive health benefits via its parent company,…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has sent an internal memo to the company’s staff stating that the chip maker will continue to sponsor H-1B visas and cover all associated costs. The development comes following President Donald Trump’s executive order imposing $100,000 annual fees on H-1B visas. In the memo, Huang writes that “Immigration is at the…
7 Ways Kerala’s Right to Disconnect Bill 2025 Can Protect Employees from Burnout (Image: Pexels) In the digital age, work has seeped into personal hours via emails, messages, calls and video links that demand attention long after the “official” day ends. Recognising this, Kerala is moving to introduce a Right to Disconnect Bill 2025, aimed…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella drew laughter from employees during a recent all-hands meeting when addressing concerns about the company’s confusing array of Copilot products, a report has said. The CEO suggests “a billion users of each” app would solve the branding problem as employees raise customer confusion concerns.Citing an audio from the internal town hall,…
