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Co-founder says his name change is pending with EPFO Bengaluru for 3 months: 'Boils my blood'
The co-founder and CTO of fintech startup, Fuze, said that he got his ex-employer to approve the name change and generated a request on June 26 but it has since not been cleared by the KR Puram Whitefield EPFO office.
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Digital arrest scam: Fake police try to cheat journalist over WhatsApp call, get schooled instead
During the entire ordeal, that appeared to last for 1.5 hours, Vijay Gajera was held on 'digital arrest' which meant that he could not end the WhatsApp call or move away from the phone.
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Woman moves across the country to be with boyfriend, gets dumped: 'Shattered'
Jillian Lavin said she thought the relationship was 'amazing' and that the two were planning a future together, until her boyfriend told her after she moved to Texas that he had fallen out of love with her.
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'Genetically, I should be bald': Anti-aging millionaire Bryan Johnson reveals how he grew his hair back
'Don’t wait for visible loss. Many lose up to 50 percent of their hair before they even realise it. The best time to work on your hair is before you start losing it,' Bryan Johnson said.
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Starbucks baristas say they are understaffed, have to put up with rude customers
'I have been told countless times that part of our job is just taking rude customers,' a Starbucks barista said. 'But there's no clear line between 'rude' and 'hostile' and even then I shouldn't have to put up with anyone being rude to me at my job.'
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Bengaluru techie reaches home 4 hours after leaving work amid rain, traffic: 'When will this end?'
Although most companies have enforced a work from home policy due to the adverse conditions, Sudeep P Nambiar has to work from his Whitefield office five days a week. 'I stay in Yelahanka because I have my own house there. It's not easy for everyone to keep changing their house, especially when it's your own house!' he said.
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Rs 55,600 admission fee, Rs 8,400 'parent orientation charges' at nursery school stuns internet
Earlier this year, a real estate consultant in Gurugram has shared that he pays Rs 30,000 a month as his Class 3 son's school fees which the authorities keep increasing annually without offering any explanation to the parents.
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14-year-old falls in love with AI chatbot 'Daenerys Targaryen,' kills self to be with 'her'
The Class 9 student told Dany that he loved her, and that he would soon come home to her. He then put his phone down, picked up his stepfather’s handgun and shot himself.
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Bengaluru floods: Wipro unblocks drain at Sarjapur Road office, eases waterlogging. Video
Blocking the crucial drain at Wipro's campus led to severe waterlogging along Sarjapur Road disrupting the lives of thousands of families in the area, environmentalist Divya Radhakrishnan claimed. In September 2022, the IT giant had removed a 2.4-meter concrete slab from a stormwater drain on its campus as part of a demolition drive by the BBMP.
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Bangladeshi immigrant worked 27 years without a day off to support his kids — judge, doctor, engineer
Abu Bakar would spend most of his earnings home to support his family and his kids' education. Although he did not reveal his salary, according to employment website Indeed, the average monthly salary for a cleaner in Malaysia is about 1,640 ringgit (or Rs 33,400).
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Gujarat man sets up fake court, runs it for 5 years as a 'judge'. Here's how he got caught
The accused 'himself filed cases, passed orders, and tried to make applicants owners of land worth crores,' the police said, adding that a case of cheating was also registered against him in 2015.
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Bengaluru tech leaders protest inaction on poor roads, traffic jams: 'It will only get worse'
Curefoods founder Ankit Nagori shared that it took him three hours to commute 10 km on Tuesday. 'Would have been 4 had I not walked the last 5 km. Earlier it used to be once or twice a year and now it’s almost after every rains,' he said.
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Haryana company gifts 15 cars to employees ahead of Diwali: 'We call them celebrities'
The idea to gift cars to boost employee morale stemmed from owner MK Bhatia's own experience. He said that after he tasted success as an entrepreneur, he bought his first car because he believed people take him more seriously if he arrived in his own car.
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Bengaluru co-founder wants to build an app to rate, review potholes. 'Name it Potluru,' says internet
Sivaramakrishnan Narayanan's tweet ranked high on the humour meter, but the comments also did not disappoint. 'Can we also add pothole of the month' feature and link the star rating with tyre damage ability of the pothole?' asked a user.
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Nandan Nilekani recalls first meeting with Ratan Tata at Infosys Bengaluru: 'Struck by his humility'
After their first meeting in 2001, Ratan Tata invited Nandan Nilekani to co-found a financial inclusion platform for 100 million households, the billionaire co-founder of Infosys shared.
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No, this CEO did not reject her employee's 2-day leave for wedding. But she did get slammed
'Sure, they're about to get married, but they’ve had 2.5 weeks off already, they haven't trained a replacement, we have 2 critical projects to complete,' London-based Scale Systems founder-CEO Lauren Tickner wrote on her first post, triggering massive clapback from readers who did not read the entire thread.
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Naked-chat blackmail: How 55 men, 4 women in Hong Kong fell prey to video chat scam
Usually, scammers use honey traps to target men but now, they have also been masquerading as 'highly educated, high-income and physically attractive' men to entrap women on social media, the Hong Kong police said.
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Bengaluru rains: Mohandas Pai says poor infra is making MNCs consider taking jobs to other cities
Several social media users agreed with the former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai. Some MNCs should really shift out only then some action will be taken. Why are simple pothole and garbage-free roads so difficult to be provided in Bengaluru?
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'I had $50 million and then I had nothing': Al Pacino on his early-career spending habits
The 84-year-old actor was in his seventies when he learned his accountant had mismanaged his funds leaving him almost broke.
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Bill for 3 nights was Rs 3 lakh: Pune CA uses credit card points to stay at Marriott resort for free
Priti Jain said that she had collected 58,000 membership reward points by using her American Express platinum express card for expenditures amounting to Rs 4 lakh.
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Entire board of this startup resigned on same day. Founder says saving it is 'absolutely complicated'
The company’s valuation had dropped from $6 billion in 2021, to under $150 million after going public and when CEO Anne Wojcicki pushed for a plan to buy it and take it private, the board rejected her initial proposal, which didn’t offer shareholders a premium.
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92-year-old veteran soldier amazes internet with shooting skills. She is blind in one eye
Li Guifang's son said she is healthy and has travelled to more than 60 countries to have new experiences. 'She even skydiver. She likes to try the same activities as young people,' he added.
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Tech CEO Jay Chaudhry never had money as a child. Now, he's worth over $11 billion
'Some people get money [and] need to buy five houses and boats and planes and all of this kind of stuff. That’s a headache to me,' Jay Chaudhry said.
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Unemployed Japanese man has 4 'wives', 2 girlfriends, wants to father 54 children
The 36-year-old is a househusband and the father of 10 kids. The household expenses, which amount to more than Rs 5 lakh a month, are split between his wives and girlfriends.
