Next time you order food from Swiggy or Zomato, don’t be surprised if the delivery boy serves you with a smile. Delivery staff at startups such as Swiggy (Bundl Technologies Pvt. Ltd) and Zomato Media Pvt. Ltd have seen their incomes surge in the past six months as the food delivery companies fight an expensive…
Indian Railways offers concessions on ticket prices to 53 different categories, the quantum of which ranges from 10 percent to 100 percent. These reductions in fares are available for senior citizens, disabled passengers, patients, students, war widows, among others, noted Indian Railways’ on it’s portal- indianrail.gov.in. Concession tickets are issued on demand made through the…
UPSC IES Final Result 2018 Released; Check at upsc.gov.in UPSC IES Final Result 2018: Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has released the final list of selected candidates in Engineering Services Examination (ESE) on its official website, upsc.gov.in. The commission had conducted the exam to fill 588 engineering posts in various departments of the central government. The final…
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Pantry cars on Indian Railways trains to be upgraded to international standards! Aiming to improve the quality of food served to passengers on its trains, Indian Railways has decided to completely revamp the pantry cars on long-distance trains. The task has been delegated to IRCTC (Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation), and a circular to…
November is the month for all pensioners to provide life certificates to their bank so that they would continue to receive their pension. Pensioners can submit life certificate in physical form as well as in digital format through Jeevan Praman portal, which is based on Aadhaar. Also remember, a pension is not a largesse or…
Ahead of Diwali, Western Railway, an arm of the Indian Railways, has announced the commencement of new special trains to cater to excess demand. Western Railway will run 23 special trains till the end the of this year, it said on microblogging website – Twitter. Earlier this week, Northern Railway also introduced 78 special trains in order…
IBPS PO Preliminary Result 2018 Released; Check at ibps.in
Renowned business tycoon Savji Dholakia has done it yet again! The diamond trader and the owner of Shri Hari Krishna Exports has gifted 600 cars as Diwali bonus to his employees. Here we have compiled all cars gifted by Savji to his employees till date. Savji Dholakia, the renowned diamond trader from Gujarat is into…
Amazon’s India head and three other persons have been booked after a customer claimed to have received a soap instead of a mobile phone that he had ordered from the e-commerce giant, police said Tuesday. The case was registered at the Bisrakh police station in Greater Noida Monday, they said. The company, however, said it…
WhatsApp Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday confirmed that WhatsApp Status will indeed serve advertisements to the users worldwide. The confirmation comes close on the heels of many speculations about the Facebook-owned company’s plans to monetise the world’s most popular chat app. Daniels is in India on his maiden visit, which is a part of…
In Japan, overwork is such an ingrained part of life that there is a word to describe dying from it: karoshi. Karoshi, which can be translated literally as “overwork death” in Japanese, is occupational sudden mortality. The major medical causes of karōshi deaths are heart attack and stroke due to stress and a starvation diet….