Lucky Gupta, a techie from Hyderabad committed suicide yesterday after his social networking he’d been working on for over a year failed to take off. He used nitrogen gas to kill himself painlessly.
Google is all set to open its biggest office in India yet and its second in Bangalore. According to sources, the internet giant has just signed a lease for a 1 lakh square feet office in the Bagmane World Trade centre, located on the Outer Ring Road.
Pulse candy has done what many businesses can only dream of. It’s achieved what makes for enduring branding case studies and gets mentioned in social media chronicles.
The government in the budget for financial year 2016-17 had announced a new rule around provident funds according to which an employee cannot withdraw their provident fund amount before turning 58. The decision hadn’t gone down well with the majority of employees. While most of the detractors had lashed out on social media against the decision, the protests took an ugly and violent turn in Bengaluru today. Thousands of garment factory workers and others launched angry riots in parts of the city protesting against the government ruling.
Everyone is a part of contributing to the legend that Bangalore is, as much as the mess it’s come to be. And so the onus of helping this once glorious city restore its rightful title also rests with us. Yes even us urban professionals with a 9 to 5 jobs because the bad news is there are no invisible elves that will fix the city for us. The government isn’t efficient enough to turn this city around overnight. The responsibility of cleaning up after us doesn’t lie with some anonymous good hearted volunteers from NGOs.
The good news is, if all of us did our bits, however little, we should see change. Good news is people are doing it. So, here’s a simple list of things, all of us, can within our capacity help.
After Delhi’s population had complained of prices that were 3-4 times the normal fare, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had warned Uber and Ola of “strict action.” His action seems to have worked, and barely a day later, Uber has withdrawn surge pricing.
Ritesh Agarwal is touted as one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the country. Having started Oyo rooms at 18, he knows a thing or two about starting young. Today, Oyo is worth over $500 million and can truly be said to be a disruptor of the hotel industry in India. So when a user on Quora asked on how to start a startup at 18, the then 19 year old Ritesh Agarwal jumped in and shared these insights.
A marginal growth in business and a weak rupee vis a vis the dollar has had Indian IT giant Infosys laughing all the way to the bank. And the highest beneficiary of the gains is Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, who has recently had a 55% pay hike and received an additional 1 crore over his 28 crores variable pay.
Two builders from bangalore were in for a rude shock at the airport when the tickets and VISAs they had booked for a business trip to Singapore, booked through MakeMytrip, turned out to be fake.