Two days after an engineer was found dead in a Noida stadium under mysterious circumstances, the police are still clueless as to whether it was a suicide or murder. Engineers India Limited employee, Shashank Yadav, 28, was found dead in a Noida stadium restroom 2 days ago. ...
11:07 AM, Mar 16, 2013
New Delhi: In a major breakthrough in the Kingfisher Airlines crisis, all employees have agreed to the management offer to pay them salaries for three months before Diwali. Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal has said that all employees have agreed to resume work from Thursday itself. The management has promised to pay salaries for March within 24 hours. The rest have to be paid within the next two weeks before Diwali....
03:10 PM, Oct 25, 2012
London: A small British company has developed a way to create petrol from air and water, technology it hopes may one day contribute to large-scale production of green fuels. Engineers at Air Fuel Synthesis (AFS) in Teeside, northern England, say they have produced 5 litres of synthetic petrol over a period of three months. The technique involves extracting carbon dioxide from air and hydrogen from water, and combining them in...
12:56 AM, Oct 20, 2012
New Delhi: Trouble also continues for Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines. A day after its flights were grounded by a strike, Kingfisher CEO Sanjay Agarwal met the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and promised to restart operations by Friday. Agarwal also explained the partial lockout at the DGCA office. Kingfisher has promised to restart operations by Friday. For that to happen employees who've gone without salaries for over seven months...
07:59 AM, Oct 03, 2012
Mumbai: A section of engineers of the 'near-bankrupt' Kingfisher Airlines went on a strike on Sunday evening over non-payment of salaries, affecting the flight operations. Sources said that Kingfisher engineers manhandled a senior manager at the Mumbai airport. Sources also said that all fights between Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore have been cancelled. "Passengers are stuck inside aircraft after ground staff refused to man aerobridges to allow them to disembark," Sources...
09:01 PM, Sep 30, 2012
Mumbai: Close on the heels of its pilots going on strike demanding salaries, a section of Kingfisher Airlines engineers did not report for work on Monday protesting non-payment of March salaries, forcing the airline to use the services of managers to certify the aircraft for operations. There was, however, no impact on the operations as no flight was cancelled or delayed because of the fresh labour unrest at the ailing...
10:14 PM, Sep 03, 2012
Mumbai: Beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines faced fresh trouble on Saturday with a section of pilots going on strike demanding immediate payment of salaries for March, resulting in cancellation of 19 flights. "Eight departures from Mumbai and an equal number of flights from other places to the city have been cancelled due to non-availability of pilots in the wake of the strike by a section of its pilots," a Mumbai International Airport...
06:41 PM, Aug 18, 2012
Bangalore: As many as 1,797 engineers serving in various state government departments face the threat of losing their jobs as the High Court on Friday upheld the KAT order quashing their appointments. The court held that the postings were in violation of special rules formulated by the state in 2001 to fill backlog posts in various departments. A division bench comprising Justice N Kumar and Justice H S Kempanna quashed...
12:22 PM, Jul 14, 2012
Mumbai: About 80 engineers have quit beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines during the past four months due to non-payment of salaries by the near-bankrupt carrier, sources said. "Some 60-80 engineers have already quit the carrier in the last 4-5 months, as they could not sustain non-payment of salaries. And more are planning to do so," airline sources said. Some more engineers are in the process of bidding good-bye to the carrier, they...
11:47 AM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: After Google, which recently closed the deal with Motorola, now Facebook is trying to get into the hardware game. According to a New York Times report, Facebook is planning to come up with its own smartphone by next year. "Employees of Facebook and several engineers who have been sought out by recruiters there, as well as people briefed on Facebook's plans, say the company hopes to release its...
12:17 PM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: Technology major IBM and software exporter Infosys have emerged as the most preferred employers for engineering and non-engineering graduates, respectively, says a survey. "IBM and Infosys have emerged as the most preferred employers by both engineering (BE/BTech) as well as non engineering graduate (BSc/BBA, BA, BCA) students," said the survey conducted by job portal Firstnaukri.com, focused on entry level hiring. According to the portal, both the companies are...
05:15 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Around 200 Kingfisher Airlines engineers on Saturday skipped work due to non-payments of December salaries. According to sources, Kingfisher is expected to resolve the issue by Monday. However, according to sources, no flights of the Kingfisher Airlines have been affected due to the engineers skipping the work. This comes a day after the airlines announced it had begun the process of importing aviation fuel, which is slated to...
03:06 PM, Apr 21, 2012
Santa Clara: Mike Bell likens his new job at Intel Corp to piloting a glider. The engineer Intel is counting on to spearhead a belated drive into the smartphone arena has refocused its development arm, brought in new blood, and tried to inculcate an appreciation for gadgetry at the decades-old institution. Now, with Intel at a critical juncture as it prepares to trot out the first smartphones powered by its...
04:11 PM, Dec 24, 2011
New Delhi: Engineers from Delhi and Bihar are the best when it comes to IT product, IT services, KPO, BPO, software testing and hardware networking roles, according to a survey. The National Employability Study 2011 by Aspiring Minds after analysing the employability scores of over 1.2 lakh final year engineering graduates reveals that while Delhi engineers are the best when it comes to IT services, BPO, KPO, software testing and...
12:27 PM, Dec 17, 2011
Islamabad: In a second major attack in as many days, suspected militants in Pakistan's restive southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday attacked a group of Chinese engineers being escorted by security forces, killing five persons and injuring 11 others. The Chinese engineers escaped unhurt in the attack in which three security personnel were among those killed, officials were quoted as saying by TV news channels. The incident occurred in Dera Bugti...
02:56 PM, Nov 22, 2011
Engineers from the tech hub of the country Bangalore come out in support of Anna Hazare. ...
08:58 AM, Aug 17, 2011
New York: The year 2011 is the best of times for software engineers and the worst of times for roustabouts, according to a survey of the nation's best and worst jobs released on Wednesday. Software engineers have the top jobs, thanks to the exploding demand for high-tech gadgets and the appetite for applications for iPods, tablets and other devices, said the survey by online jobs site CareerCast.com. Software engineers enjoy...
11:30 AM, Jan 06, 2011
Even before the mourning for those who lost their lives in Mangalore is over, there is more trouble for Air India. ...
09:38 AM, May 26, 2010
![AI engineers protest gag order, go on strike]( "AI engineers protest gag order, go on strike")
Air India management had sent a note to employees warning of action if they speak to the media. ...
12:45 PM, May 25, 2010
