Washington, Apr 26: Facebook today reported a sharp jump in profits in the past quarter, with gains in its user base and strong ad growth as the social network appeared to see no impact from a controversy on privacy. Profit in the first quarter of 2018 jumped 63 percent from a year ago to USD 5 billion, and total revenues increased 49 percent to USD 11.97 billion, Facebook said in an earnings...
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The state government transferred nine IAS officers on Monday. The new postings are as follows: Rajkumar Khatri, principal secretary (higher education); M V Savithri, commissioner for health and family welfare services; M Manjunath Naik, animal husbandry and fisheries secretary; K P Mohan Raj, director of municipal administration; K B Sivakumar, DPAR (services) deputy secretary; B Ramu, tourism...
New Delhi, Apr 20: In a bid to bridge gender inequality, one of Indias largest healthcare network, Oxxy has announced to give a fixed deposit worth Rs 11,000 to every registered newborn girl to help fund her education or professional goals. Under the Oxxy Girl Child Development Programme, every girl born in the country, whose parents register for the same, will be given Rs 11,000 fixed deposit at...
Bengaluru, Apr 19: Many students who appeared for the Common Entrance Test (CET) on Wednesday said that there were typographical errors in the biology paper and that all choices for one question in the mathematics paper were incorrect. Lecturers and faculty members in coaching classes acknowledged that there were errors and demanded that students be given grace marks. Officials of the Karnataka...
Kasaragod, Apr 19: A 12-year-old boy drowned in a river near Kumbla on Tuesday evening. Aveesh, son of Vikraman, a resident of Adukathbayal here, ventured into the Shiriya river for collecting shells along with friends after taking part in a birthday party at his mother’s ancestral residence at Shiriya. Fire and Rescue Services personnel and the police rescued the boy and rushed him to a hospital...
Udupi, Apr 16: An accused in a rape case threw shoes at the special public prosecutor at the District and Sessions Court here recently. According to the police, the incident took place when the Principal District and Sessions Judge, T. Venkatesh Naik, was pronouncing the judgment in a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on April 12. The accused in the case...
Bengaluru, Apr 14: Congress leader from C.V. Raman Nagar P. Ramesh, who had lost to S. Raghu of BJP in the 2013 Assembly elections , by a margin of 8,419 votes, joined the Janata Dal (Secular) on Friday. At one time, Mr. Ramesh was a close aide of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The Income Tax Department had searched his residence and office in December 2015. The party’s State unit president H.D...
Kasaragod, Apr 13: Appaya Naik, a 65-year-old coconut tree climber, was killed near Badiadka on Thursday when a coconut tree got uprooted while he was climbing it. The incident occurred around 9.30 a.m. when he was plucking coconuts at a plot at Panchathadka. Though he was rushed to a local hospital and from there to the General Hospital here, his life could not be saved, police sources said. He...
Mumbai, Apr 12: Walmart Inc is likely to reach a deal to buy a majority stake in Indian e-commerce player Flipkart by the end of June in what could be the U.S. retail giant's biggest acquisition of an online business, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Reuters reported last week that Walmart completed its due diligence on Flipkart and had made a proposal to buy 51 percent or more...
“Learning, learning and continuous learning, ladies and gentleman, is the key differentiator to become a successful organisation.” These words were very powerfully and animatedly stated by the Head of HR of a large Indian Conglomerate at an L&D conference, in Mumbai. Almost all organisations talk about the importance of learning and development, however few do much about it. It is not because they...