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IIT professor's take on corporate bosses wanting 70-hour work week 'with 0 overtime pay' wins hearts
Nirmalya Kajuri, an assistant professor of Physics at IIT Mandi, said that in the US, Europe, and China, irrespective of what line of work professionals are in, they get paid for overtime if they work for more than 40 hours a week.
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COO recalls Indian boss rejecting a 'capable' marketing candidate as he played guitar: 'I regret it'
Parminder Singh had worked with Google for over six years as a managing director for Google's advertising business in the Asia Pacific region. He has also worked as a managing director for X (then Twitter) for three years.
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Ex-Google techie says he got a promotion and Rs 80 lakh bonus 8 months after being hired
'My first two months at Google? Honestly, they were weird,' Jerry Lee, who worked with the tech giant for three years, said.
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Bill Gates reveals how he turned idle time into deep thinking: 'It was also crucial to my success'
During his time at Microsoft in the ’90s, Bill Gates used to take an annual 'Think Week,' when he would isolate himself in a cabin on Washington’s Hood Canal with nothing but a big bag of books and technical papers.
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Ex-Amazon executive reveals how Jeff Bezos reacted when a VP argued with him over Prime
There were several debates on this topic and once, retired Amazon executive Ethan Evans recalls, the argument between Jeff Bezos and his VP went on for so long that the CFO stepped in and asked, 'Jeff, do you want me to end this?'
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Tata Copper water triggers debate over possible toxicity. What Apollo Hospitals' doctor said
Neurologist Dr Sudhir Kumar shared that the best way to add copper to the body is to either have food items that naturally have copper in it or to store water in copper vessels.
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Why millionaire Bryan Johnson used Anil Kapoor-Juhi Chawla song for a lesson in sexual health
This comes ahead of Bryan Johnson's India tour. The 37-year-old is scheduled to join Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal for an event in Mumbai on Sunday.
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Harsh Goenka points out Gurgaon cremation ground air is less polluted than rest of the city, Delhi
Last week, the authorities in Gurgaon implemented urgent measures to address an air quality crisis and requested private organisations and multinational corporations to adopt a 50 percent work-from-home policy.
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Bengaluru groom gets underwear delivered in 10 minutes: 'Instamart deserves a seat at the mandap'
Ramnath Shenoy first relaised that he forgot to bring his yellow kurta for the haldi ceremony. After placing an order on Instamart, a kurta was delivered to him in eight minutes. Later, he figured out that he didn't even have extra underwear to change into after the ritual.
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Ex-techie creates 'really basic' AI photo app, earns Rs 8.4 lakh a month: 'Taught all of this on YouTube'
When asked about the kind of marketing he used for his services, Hitesh Choudhary said that his first client -- who was also his friend -- was handling the distribution over WhatsApp. 'Secret is that I charged the very first client/friend,' he said.
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Liver Doc on Railways viral CPR video: TTE 'stole a kiss from the passenger without his consent'
The clip also showed the TTE performing mouth-to-mouth breathing on the passenger who was visibly conscious and responsive. 'He should be booked for criminal offence,' Dr Cyriac Abby Philips said.
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Doctors slam Railways after TTE does CPR on elderly man who had a heart attack: 'He was awake'
Doctors requested the Railways to delete the video as performing CPR on a conscious patient can lead to multiple rib fractures and cause death. Meanwhile, an activist, Dr Vishnu Rajgadia, has filed an RTI request enquiring the TTE's medical training and details of Railways' investigation of the incident.
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'You're not in Bangladesh, speak in Hindi not Bangla': Woman tells Kolkata metro passenger
'I live in West Bengal, in my hometown, not yours. You can't be in my state and insult me for speaking in Bengali,' the other woman retorted, but the argument soon escalated with more passengers taking offense to being called Bangladeshi for speaking in Bengali.
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Harsh Goenka on Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal's job alert: 'Rs 20 lakh fee excludes talented...'
Referring to the job description for the role of chief of staff at Zomato shared by CEO Deepinder Goyal, industrialist Harsh Goenka said, 'Asking to pay for a job feels exploitative, even if positioned as learning.'
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'We have over 10,000 applications': Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal after Rs 20 lakh-fee job alert
Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said they would be closing the application process for the chief of staff position by 6 pm on Thursday.
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This Indian startup is also looking for a chief of staff. 'We will pay you Rs 21 lakh in first year'
Ganesh Sonawane, the founder and CEO of Pune-based Frido, said that the company would also be open to offering employee stock ownership plans (ESOP) to the chief of staff and other employees who excel at work.
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Sudha Murty seeking my help to research on adulterated food is 'biggest honour': Food Pharmer
Revant Himatsingka aka Food Pharmer said he would be assisting Sudha Murty with more research for the upcoming winter session of the Rajya Sabha.
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Vizag man calls Kolkata 'dirtiest city of India' in viral post: 'Open gutters, urine smell everywhere'
DS Balaji said he saw vendors sitting atop open drains to sell their wares. 'No, I have never seen it anywhere else in India. No matter how poor, or bad the infrastructure is. And I have travelled a lot. It's just a lack of civic and hygiene in the city, which is so sad to see.'
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Bengaluru influencer molested by 10-year-old boy while vlogging at BTM Layout: 'I don't feel safe here'
The incident happened while Neha Biswal was returning home from work. She said she was even more disappointed because although the molester was caught, several residents asked her to let him go because he was a child.
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Deepinder Goyal explains why 18kg mushroom with incorrect dates were found at Zomato warehouse
'I am not sure why just these small number of mushroom packets worth Rs 7,200 (out of the crores of inventory in the warehouse), which were never going to make it to customers, are being talked about the media,' Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said.
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Billionaire Nikhil Kamath's team reveals how to get featured in his 'WTF is' podcast: 'Not by paying...'
Last December, according to data from Apple and Podtail 'WTF is' was the ninth most popular podcast in India. A screenshot of Nikhil Kamath's Spotify report also showed that it was also among the best new podcasts and top global video podcasts featured on the audio streaming platform.
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Bengaluru Swiggy executive is impressed with job seeker's 'old-school approach': 'It worked'
'Now, this isn't the first time someone has approached me, but it's the first time through a physical letter sent via India Post!' Saptarshi Prakash said, adding that it genuinely caught his attention.
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Bengaluru techie, 24, quits Oracle, bags Rs 60 LPA job with Uber: 'Studied 7 months for interview'
Chitransh Anand says he would not mind working extra hours at his new job. 'At this stage of my career, I am not worried about work-life balance,' he said.
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'Elon Musk is a true American patriot,' says Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu, asks him to 'fight on'
The controversy surrounding Musk — which started after he voiced his support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump — intensified after the Wall Street Journal reported on his alleged connection with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the last two years.
