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Cognizant adopted discriminatory practices against non-Indians: US jury
The verdict came after the IT firm failed to persuade a Los Angeles...
Brazil drought drops Amazon port river level to 122-year low
Scientists predict the Amazon region may not fully recover moisture...
India’s cybersecurity services and product industry revenue at USD 9.85 bn in 2021: Report
“India's cybersecurity industry was at the forefront supporting Government and all critical sectors to manage the heightened cyber security risk in the last two years through the pandemic,'' Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) Secretary Ajay Sawhney said New Delhi:...
EU sets binding 9-month validity of vaccinations for COVID-19 travel pass
After a booster shot, the validity of the COVID-19 pass will be extended further without a set limit, because at the moment there is not enough information about the duration of protection from boosters, an EU official said The European Commission on Tuesday adopted...
No evidence to suggest that existing vaccines don’t work on Omicron: Govt
"There are limited available data, and no peer-reviewed evidence, on vaccine efficacy or effectiveness to date for Omicron," Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said in a written reply New Delhi:There is no evidence to suggest that existing vaccines do not work on...
Personality traits predict performance differently across different jobs: Study
"These findings should prove useful for scholars pursuing a richer understanding of personality -- performance relations and for organizations honing employee talent identification and selection systems," said Wilmot and Deniz Ones, professor of psychology at the...
4 labour codes likely to be implemented by FY23 as many states ready draft rules
Union Labour Minister Bhupender Yadav in a reply to the Rajya Sabha earlier this week had said that the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code is the only code on which the least number of 13 states have pre-published the draft rules New Delhi: The...
The five-day office week isn’t coming back. WFH is here to stay
A fundamental and lasting shift toward teleworking would have significant implications for the structure of economies, from productivity to worker rights and childcare provision There may be no going back to the five-day week in the office, according to a survey of...
CDC advisory prefers Pfizer , Moderna Covid vaccines over J&J shot
The CDC's advisers said Thursday that it was time to recognize a lot has changed since vaccines began rolling out a year ago. More than 200 million Americans are considered fully vaccinated, including about 16 million who got the J&J shot Most Americans should be...
France says facial recognition company Clearview breached privacy law
The CNIL stressed that Clearview's collection of publicly-available facial images on social media and the Internet had no legal basis and breached European Union rules on data privacy. France's data privacy watchdog CNIL has ordered Clearview AI, a facial...
US health tab hit $4T as gov’t opened spigot to fight COVID
The $4.1 trillion tab for 2020 represents an increase of about $365 billion from national health spending in 2019. It works out to $12,530 per person Washington:U.S. health care spending rocketed to $4.1 trillion last year as Congress opened the spigot of federal...
San Francisco to require sick leave for nannies, gardeners
An employer would pay one hour of wages into the sick leave fund for every 30 hours of service from a domestic worker The measure would affect 10,000 people in the city who work in private homes cleaning, cooking, tending children, garden or providing non-medical care...