Tag: Employment

From health to jobs, Covid-19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of life! Last year when the pandemic struck India, many sectors including the IT sector suffered huge losses, which led to massive layoffs, pay cuts and hiring freezes.

With India on a path of sustained recovery from the impact of COVID19, hiring trends in India show encouraging signs. According to the latest Naukri JobSpeak report, hiring in India has touched an all-time high in July 2021. The Naukri JobSpeak Index indicated buoyancy is hiring which is signifies revival of economic growth & recovery.

Job supply in India is increasing and hiring trends are showing encouraging signs.

Balasore/Bhubaneswar: At a time when tomato farmers are being forced to dump their produce confronted by the spectre of distress sale, the Odisha Cold Storage Association has begun an indefinite strike from today alleging lack of government support. Following potato scarcity in the year 2015, the Odisha government had established 26 cold storages across the […]

  Cuttack: More than a hundred workers of a beverage plant in Jagatpur area of Cuttack staged protest in front of the plant on Tuesday demanding permanent employment. According to sources, the protest was launched by the workers after the company started recruiting new people without providing permanent employment to existing workers. To resolve the […]

Bhubaneswar: Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL) chairman Naveen Jindal today urged Odisha government to resume operations of iron ore mines under a new legislative framework with a deferred penalty mechanism. “Odisha Government should take up the issue with Union Government to open and run the closed iron ore mines through ordinance or other means, […]

As per a report published by HP India, women are more inclined to choose gaming as a career than men in South India.

New Delhi: With the job scenario on both Indian and global front changing fast, a report on future job projection in the country by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) released on Friday stated that about 21 percent of the present workforce employed in India will face job threat by the year […]

Bhubaneswar: State Level Single Window Clearance Authority (SLSWCA) today accorded in-principle approval to three investment projects worth Rs 874 crore. Approving the projects at the SLSWCA meeting, chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi directed the concerned departments to facilitate early take-off of these projects by expediting the process for various compliances. Briefing newsmen after the meeting, […]

Bhubaneswar: The new Start-Up policy formulated by the State government, which will be implemented from this month, is targeting to attract Rs 2.5 lakh crore investments in State. The policy which seeks to achieve the objectives set in Vision-2025, also aims to transform Odisha into one of the major manufacturing hubs in Eastern India. According […]

Bhubaneswar: Two years after launching a Special Recruitment Drive to offer employment assistance to engineering students of the Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT), the State government is finally refunding their registration money after miserably failing to provide jobs to students registered under the initiative. The Skill Development and Technical Education department has written to […]

Agartala: The Tripura government has decided to open a special “Agar Conservation Foundation” division to promote cultivation of Agar trees to boost employment and to earn foreign money, a Minister said here on Friday. “After a one day workshop-cum-interactive programme here on Thursday, it was decided to set up an “Agar Conservation Foundation” division under […]

London: Even in a “runaway Artificial Intelligence (AI)” scenario, robots will not render people completely jobless, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told The Sunday Telegraph in an interview. People will always want a job as it gives them “dignity”, Nadella said, adding that the focus should instead be on applying AI technology ethically. “What I think […]

New Delhi: Niti Ayog on Thursday said 31.1 lakh new jobs were created in formal sector between September 2017 to February 2018, stressing that these “eye-opening” numbers put end to all “speculations” on job creation. The government think tank said this was based on the additions made in payrolls from Employees’ Provision Fund Organisation for […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government has accorded in-principle approval for investment of Rs 26,000 crore which will provide employment opportunities to 17,500 people, official sources said. While the State Level Single Window Clearance Committee headed by Chief Secretary A P Padhi today accorded approval for 14 different projects worth investment of Rs 25,474 crore, the same committee […]