-Hindustan Times Over the years, in the absence of competent faculty and industry training facilities, most B-schools other than the premiere institutes began churning out graduates who were far from job-ready. Job offers for fresh management graduates in India are at a five-year low, official data show, a trend experts blame on a sluggish economy as well as a mismatch between the years-old curriculum and industry expectations. In 2016-17, just 47% of Master...
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Don't create panic on Aadhaar linking: SC to banks, telcos -Amit Anand Choudhary
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court eased on Friday the pressure mounted by banks and telecom companies on customers through frequent messages to link Aadhaar with bank accounts and mobile phone numbers and ordered that they intimate people about the deadline for doing so. A bench of Justices A K Sikri and Ashok Bhushan said even judges are not spared from such messages, which the petitioners termed as part...
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-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday refused to pass an interim order staying the linking of Aadhaar with mobile numbers and bank accounts, saying that it is leaving the issue to be decided on by a Constitution bench in the last week of November. At the same time though, the top court chastised banks and mobile telephone companies for creating panic by sending customers messages saying...
More »World Bank's False Praise Pleases Besieged Modi -Subodh Varma
-Newsclick.in A World Bank study ignores slumping economy and raging joblessness to praise ‘reforms’. A charming little bromance seems to be brewing between the World Bank and India’s Modi-led government. A series of reports by the World Bank has praised Modi for various kinds of “reforms”. The latest is the so called “Doing Business” report of the World Bank which lavishes praise on the Modi govt. for making it easier to do...
More »Declared dead and denied food, pension -Piyush Srivastava
-The Telegraph Lucknow: For 18 months since April last year, Phulwasi Devi and 34 other elderly residents of Pipariya village couldn't figure out why they hadn't been receiving their subsidised food grain or old-age pension. It took them an 18km bus ride last Monday to find out, from the district social welfare department office, that they had all been marked "dead" in official records.. The 35 victims, who include 20 women and 30...
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