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Moonlighting: Industry divided over ‘little extra income’

Opportunity India Desk Sep 26, 2022 - 4 min read

The tech companies and techies are at loggerheads over practice of moonlighting. Recently, Wipro firied 300 of its employees over the alleged moonlighting, which is a trend pushed by the post-pandemic era in the professional spheres across the world. In the last few months, the term ‘moonlighting’ has entered conversations about the workplace. This conversation has ...

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The Polar Bears, VUCA and Start-Ups

Opportunity India Desk Sep 26, 2022 - 5 min read

The vast spread of the Arctic ice is home to the polar bears, one of the most resilient mammals on earth. Amongst its species, the polar bears are the largest in size and these mammals live a solitary life in this frigid region. Seeing them on television programs of nature and wildlife, their graceful appearance ...

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TerraPay Partners With NPCI International For Seamless Merchant Payments Via UPI

Opportunity India Desk Sep 23, 2022 - 3 min read

TerraPay, a leading global payments infrastructure group announced its partnership with NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), the International arm of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). This association with NIPL will allow Indian customers and merchants in India with an active Unified Payments Interface Id (UPI Id) to make and accept cross-border payments seamlessly by leveraging ...

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Gautam Adani Listed As World’s Second Richest Man Briefly

Opportunity India Desk Sep 16, 2022 - 2 min read

Gautam Adani on Friday became the world’s second richest person after surpassing Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Louis Vuitton's Bernard Arnault to grab the spot with a net worth USD 154.7 billion, according to the Forbes’ real-time billionaires list before he was pushed back to the third position by Arnault. Elon Musk remains the richest person with ...

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CPSEs Require Special Permission To Sell Stakes To State Governments

Opportunity India Desk Sep 16, 2022 - 3 min read

Acting on a recent Cabinet decision to empower the boards of the Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) to privatise, disinvest or close their subsidiaries and sell stakes in joint ventures, the department of investment and public asset management (Dipam) issued a directive according to which Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) will now require to take ...

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100 Per Cent Work From Home In SEZs Likely: Piyush Goyal

Opportunity India Desk Sep 14, 2022 - 3 min read

Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday said that the government is looking into the industry’s demand to allow 100 per cent work from home (WFH) for those who are working in Special Economic Zones (SEZs). According to the government, this move will increase the employment opportunities in the smaller cities. He said, “We had permitted ...

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To The New Launches ‘Saarthi’ For Underprivileged Students

Opportunity India Desk Sep 14, 2022 - 3 min read

TO THE NEW, a digital technology company, has recently launched ‘Saarthi’, a mentorship programme for underprivileged students, under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative ‘Pahal’. Partnering with Association for India’s Development (AID), Noida, the company’s employees have volunteered to mentor and guide the students using their knowledge and experience. To date, over 50 students from ...

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Abhishek Mishra Appointed As Member Of Consultative Committee Of FCI

Opportunity India Desk Sep 12, 2022 - 1 min read

Piyush Goyal, the Minister of Textiles, Commerce and Industry, and Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, has appointed Abhishek Mishra, CEO of Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival (DPIFF) as the Member of the Consultative Committee, Food Corporation of India (FCI), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution said on Monday. The youth leader has ...

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Crime In India Major Road Block To Economic Growth

Opportunity India Desk Sep 09, 2022 - 3 min read

Crime in India is a major impediment to economic growth and development that discourage long-term investment and new employment opportunities. As per the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report, total crimes in India declined by 7.6 per cent to 61 lakh in 2021. Crime rate registered per lakh population has declined to 445.9 in ...

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Credit For Increase In Russian Oil In India Goes To PM: Sitharaman

Opportunity India Desk Sep 08, 2022 - 3 min read

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that the credit of increased share of Russian oil in India goes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statesmanship to take the decision of boosting imports of Russian oil at discounts as it helped in reducing the import bills. Speaking at Taming the inflation -- event organised by ...

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