Violent and fatal anti-quota protests rock Bangladesh | Protests

Violent and fatal anti-quota protests rock Bangladesh | Protests

NewsFeed Protests in Bangladesh against the reimposition of a quota system for government jobs have turned deadly. Dozens of people were killed in demonstrations calling for an end to the quota system, which favours the children of fighters in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Students are also demanding…

Elon Musk beats 0m severance lawsuit by fired Twitter workers | Social Media News

Elon Musk beats $500m severance lawsuit by fired Twitter workers | Social Media News

The US judge said the federal law governing benefit plans did not cover the former employees’ claims. Elon Musk has won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming he refused to pay at least $500m of severance to thousands of Twitter employees he fired in mass layoffs after buying the social media company…

India’s Modi urged to set ‘ambitious’ economic agenda after poll humbling | Business and Economy News

India’s Modi urged to set ‘ambitious’ economic agenda after poll humbling | Business and Economy News

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaigned on India’s sizeable economic expansion in the lead-up to the country’s recent national elections. Since Modi came to power in 2014, GDP per capita has risen from about $5,000 to more than $7,500. India’s GDP growth hit 8.4…

Jobless engineers, MBAs: The hidden army of Indian election ‘consultants’ | India Election 2024

Jobless engineers, MBAs: The hidden army of Indian election ‘consultants’ | India Election 2024

“How many tennis balls can fit in a passenger plane?” Neeraj, a young economics graduate from the premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), was given 15 minutes to solve this question during his interview rounds at Nation With Namo (NwN), one of the in-house political consultancies of India’s governing Bharatiya…

India’s Urban Company revolutionised gig work for women. Then it bled them | Business and Economy

India’s Urban Company revolutionised gig work for women. Then it bled them | Business and Economy

Bengaluru, India — After years of working at a salon in Bengaluru, Shakeela Banu made a major life change in 2018 and joined Urban Company (UC), an app-based home services platform that has more than 52,000 workers across Indian cities, one-third of whom are women. At first, Banu was happy…

Undeterred by Gaza war, thousands of Indians turn up for jobs in Israel | Unemployment

Undeterred by Gaza war, thousands of Indians turn up for jobs in Israel | Unemployment

Rohtak, India – It’s a frigid January morning and the sun has not risen yet. A shivering Pramod Sharma queues up outside the main entrance of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) campus in Rohtak, a small town in the northern Indian state of Haryana, about 84km (52 miles) from New Delhi….