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Coldplay concert in Ahmedabad rumours send hotel rates soaring from Rs 8,000 to Rs 60,000 a night
A room with two single beds with a city view at Courtyard by Marriott is available for Rs 8,176 per night including taxes for September 27, a Friday. But when checked for January 24, also a Friday, the rate for the same room is priced at Rs 60,088 including taxes, as per Marriott's website.
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'Most landlords thought I was a broker': Urban Company SVP on finding office space in Bengaluru
The Urban Company headquarters is located in Koramangala and it has been about 15 months since they moved into the new office space. 'We love it,' Amit Das, a senior vice president, said.
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Sugandh Sharma apologies for Bengaluru-North Indians reels: 'I love each and every language'
The digital creator also tagged Bengaluru Police in her apology reel on Instagram. The development comes after she was slammed on social media, pro-Kannada groups visited her office in Koramangala, and filed a complaint against her at the Koramangala police station on Monday.
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'I don't even like Coldplay': Delhi woman's day-long struggle to buy Rs 12,000 tickets for family is viral
The ticket prices started at Rs 3,500, but when it reached 12,000, Naomi Barton said it was the amount she pays as rent in Delhi. 'I am beginning to lose respect for my cousins,' she said as she was trying to get the Coldplay concert tickets for her family.
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Ex-AWS techie reveals 3 'wild' tricks Amazon employees use to avoid returning to office
The software engineer with Amazon Web Services was forced to quit after the tech giant asked him to move cities and work from the office. He called the methods adopted by employees 'true ingenuity and innovation' which was not focused on only 'shipping stuff for customers'.
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'Silent sacking': What is it and why is Amazon allegedly using it to cut its workforce
Amazon had, since 2022, offered its laid-off employees a severance package that included a separation payment, transitional health benefits, and job placement. By 'silently sacking' employees, the tech giant will not have to go through the entire process, saving time and resources.
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'Bill for 5 nights was Rs 27.5 lakh': Techie reveals how he stayed at Marriott Masai Mara for free
The 34-year-old is now gearing up for a trip to Singapore. 'I'll be flying first class on Singapore Airlines suites which costs around Rs 3 lakh. It is an aspirational experience for all aviation geeks and I paid only Rs 3,000 for it. The rest was funded by the reward points,' Anirban Chowdhury said.
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Ex-AWS techie claims Amazon is 'silent sacking' employees in 5 phases: 'It's a strategic move'
The former Amazon employee, who was forced to quit after the tech giant asked him to move cities and work from the office, called the company's move an effort to reduce their headcount, avoid massive tax liability, and increase profit margins.
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'Never imagined I’d be at the company for 27 years': Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
'My plan (which my wife and I agreed to on a bar napkin in 1997) was to be here a few years and move back to NYC,' Amazon head Andy Jassy wrote in his memo on Monday.
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Oracle chairman dethrones Jeff Bezos as world's second richest person. 10 points on Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison owns just under 40 percent of the software giant, Oracle. He was a board member for Tesla and now only trails CEO Elon Musk’s $250.7 billion fortune for the title of the world’s richest person.
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Amazon orders employees to work from office 5 days a week, internet calls it 'stealth layoff'
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's announcement has been called a 'stealth layoff' by many on social media because it is likely to push employees who want to prioritise a better work-life balance into finding new jobs.
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella believes leaders are turning into event managers. Here's why
'If I say I have a meeting, nobody is going to show up but if I say I have an event, people are going to come,' Satya Nadella said during a chat with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
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Nadella on Microsoft's 'productivity paradox': 85% managers think workers are slacking, 85% staff say...
Satya Nadella also stressed on the need for industry leaders to develop soft skills to better manage their employees in a changing environment. 'We have this paradox on how you can see these things in two different ways. And the only way around it to me is you have got to use data. Dogma is not going to help,' he said.
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Elon Musk reacts as 'childless cat lady' Taylor Swift supports Kamala Harris: 'I will give you a child'
Elon Musk, who welcomed his twelfth child in June, has been a vocal advocate for people producing more babies while Taylor Swift identified herself as a 'childless cat lady' -- a reference to comments made by Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance in 2021 about 'childless cat ladies' running the country.
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Bengaluru's Brookfield Layout residents pool in Rs 4 lakh to restore dug-up road with help from Bescom
The entire project was estimated to be worth Rs 5.07 lakh. Bescom paid Rs 1.5 lakh while the residents crowd funded the rest. 'The quality of life matters a lot to the thousand-odd families that stay in the neighbourhood,' said Siddharth, the top contributor.
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Anupam Mittal is 'blown away' by good roads in Rajasthan: 'Mumbai waalon ne kya paap kiya?'
Even filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri joined ranks with Anupam Mittal and trolled BMC for its 'innovative' footpath designs and poor quality roads. Last week, he shared a news story on how Mumbai residents began to perform pothole pujas in a unique protest against bad roads. 'It's so bad that it's funny,' Agnihotri had said.
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AC switched off, felt suffocated: Tejas Express passenger after train gets stuck in flooded Vadodara
Passenger Prithwiraj Mukherjee also accused the Railways of giving preferential treatment to Vande Bharat since it was allowed to ply on flooded tracks to reach Ahmedabad, but as Railway Seva pointed out, Vande Bharat can run in deep waters measuring more than 200 mm without having the water reach it's electrical equipment -- a feature that Tejas Express does not have.
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Flipkart customer claims he bought speakers for Rs 30,000, received one worth Rs 2,300
Abhishek Bhatnagar also shared an unboxing video that showed a properly packed Sonos speaker box inside the sealed Flipkart carton. The clip, however, does not show the Flipkart customer, opening the Sonos box.
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Bengaluru army officer 'disciplines' traffic violator with a stick. Internet finds it 'satisfying'. Watch
During an altercation between a driver and a scooter rider who was driving in the wrong side, an officer steps out of an armed forces truck stationed nearby and intervenes. He smacks the motorist on the head for breaking traffic rules and appears to tell him off.
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Nikhil Kamath goes on a mushroom walk in Bengaluru's Cubbon Park. See post
According to entrepreneur Aymen Aslam, who had also participated in the walk and had spotted the Zerodha co-founder, Nikhil Kamath 'came in alone. Super nonchalant.'
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'Health-illiterate boomer uncle': Liver Doc, Sridhar Vembu clash over benefits of walking barefoot
The public spat between hepatologist Dr Cyriac Abby Philips and Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu continued across multiple posts on X. While the doctor called Vembu a 'science illiterate', Vembu hit back, calling Dr Philips 'arrogant' and urged his followers to stay away from such doctors.
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Indigo loses flyer's bag with items worth Rs 45,000, offers him Rs 2,450 as compensation
The incident happened in July when a faulty update from CrowdStrike caused a global IT outage and Indigo offered the compensation a month later.
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Liver Doc shares how 39-year-old heavy drinker vomited 3 litres blood, died of multiple organ failure
The patient was rich and was apparently loved by all because he would host monthly parties at his place where he was the 'biggest entertainment' for his cousins and friends since he could drink the maximum amount of liquor.
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Bengaluru entrepreneur says he was almost killed by a water tanker: 'India is not a safe country'
After an altercation over rash driving, AI-based startup founder Dhruv Bhatia said he suddenly noticed the tanker being driven straight towards him off the road.
