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Contractual Employees At UNESCO Sites In Assam Not Paid Since November 2024
The contractual employees, engaged by the Directorate of Archaeology to look after 167 monuments across Assam, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of Ahom era 'Moidams', claimed that they have not received their salaries for at least six months.
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L&T Fined Rs 1 Crore After Deadly Girder Collapse At Chennai Metro Site
Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has imposed a Rs 1 crore penalty on its contractor, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), after an accident at its Manapakkam construction site led to the death of a 43-year-old worker on Thursday.
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Indian-Origin Man Jailed For Cheating Contractors In Singapore
An Indian-origin man was on Wednesday sentenced to two-and-a-half years' jail after he pleaded guilty to 21 out of 62 charges of cheating.
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Coinbase Breach Said to Be Linked to Customer Data Leak in India
Coinbase said in the May SEC filing that it knew contractors accessed employee data "without business need" in "previous months." A May 14 SEC filing revealed that part of the breach involved an India-based employee of the US outsourcing firm TaskUs photographing her work computer with a personal phone.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Is A Defence Contractor Now, Partners With Anduril For AI-Powered Products
The AI-powered military devices are expected to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to soldiers in the field.
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Brazil Sues China's BYD For ₹300 Crore Over 'Slave-Like' Conditions For Workers
Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD, accusing the company and its contractors of subjecting Chinese workers to inhumane, "slave-like" conditions.
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UP Journalist, Wife Claim Harassment Over Corruption Report, Drink Poison
A local journalist and his wife posted a video accusing a sub-divisional magistrate, a nagar panchayat chairman and a contractor of harassment and consumed poison on camera.
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US DoJ Said to Open Probe Into Coinbase Data Breach, Firm Claims Involvement of Indian Employees
Coinbase has reportedly claimed that the contractors and employees who were bribed to leak its user data to the cyberattackers were from India. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has now joined the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the ongoing investigation.
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Duolingo To Phase Out Human Contractors And Replace Them With AI
The company justified its switch in approach, stating that it had taken a similar call in 2012 by betting big on mobile.
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Probe Agency ED Raids Multiple Locations In Madhya Pradesh In Liquor Trade Scam
The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at multiple locations in Madhya Pradesh as part of a money laundering probe linked to alleged about Rs 50 crore worth irregularities in liquor trade between 2015-16 and 2017-18 financial yearS.
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Chhattisgarh Journalist Was Killed For Road Construction Fraud Report: Cops
Freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was killed for reporting irregularities in road construction work in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur and the murder was planned by a contractor along with his two brothers and a supervisor, as per a charge sheet.
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2 Contractors Arrested After Labourers Die While Cleaning Water Tank In Mumbai
Two labour contractors were arrested on Monday in connection with the deaths of four persons a day earlier while cleaning the water tank of an under-construction building in south Mumbai, a police official said.
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Trump Job Cuts Threaten Climate Research, Public Safety, Warn Scientists
Climate scientist Tom Di Liberto had dreamed of working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since college. After more than a decade as a contractor, he finally secured a full-time position nearly two years ago.
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Elon Musk's DOGE Team Raises Major Cyber Security Concerns
An internal report by an outside contractor warned that the access given to the DOGE team "poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau has ever faced."
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Apple Said to Be in Final Stages of Selecting a Key Supplier for Foldable Display
Apple's foldable phone has been in the rumour mill for quite some time now. While leaks about the launch timeline of the first foldable iPhone are doing rounds on the Web, a new leak suggests that the company is finalising its supply chain's main contractor for the foldable screen. The Cupertino-based company seems to be keeping strict technical re...
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Contractual Employees At UNESCO Sites In Assam Not Paid Since November 2024
The contractual employees, engaged by the Directorate of Archaeology to look after 167 monuments across Assam, including the UNESCO World Heritage site of Ahom era 'Moidams', claimed that they have not received their salaries for at least six months.
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L&T Fined Rs 1 Crore After Deadly Girder Collapse At Chennai Metro Site
Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) has imposed a Rs 1 crore penalty on its contractor, Larsen & Toubro (L&T), after an accident at its Manapakkam construction site led to the death of a 43-year-old worker on Thursday.
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Indian-Origin Man Jailed For Cheating Contractors In Singapore
An Indian-origin man was on Wednesday sentenced to two-and-a-half years' jail after he pleaded guilty to 21 out of 62 charges of cheating.
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Coinbase Breach Said to Be Linked to Customer Data Leak in India
Coinbase said in the May SEC filing that it knew contractors accessed employee data "without business need" in "previous months." A May 14 SEC filing revealed that part of the breach involved an India-based employee of the US outsourcing firm TaskUs photographing her work computer with a personal phone.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Is A Defence Contractor Now, Partners With Anduril For AI-Powered Products
The AI-powered military devices are expected to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to soldiers in the field.
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Brazil Sues China's BYD For ₹300 Crore Over 'Slave-Like' Conditions For Workers
Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD, accusing the company and its contractors of subjecting Chinese workers to inhumane, "slave-like" conditions.
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UP Journalist, Wife Claim Harassment Over Corruption Report, Drink Poison
A local journalist and his wife posted a video accusing a sub-divisional magistrate, a nagar panchayat chairman and a contractor of harassment and consumed poison on camera.
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US DoJ Said to Open Probe Into Coinbase Data Breach, Firm Claims Involvement of Indian Employees
Coinbase has reportedly claimed that the contractors and employees who were bribed to leak its user data to the cyberattackers were from India. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has now joined the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the ongoing investigation.
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Duolingo To Phase Out Human Contractors And Replace Them With AI
The company justified its switch in approach, stating that it had taken a similar call in 2012 by betting big on mobile.
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Probe Agency ED Raids Multiple Locations In Madhya Pradesh In Liquor Trade Scam
The Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at multiple locations in Madhya Pradesh as part of a money laundering probe linked to alleged about Rs 50 crore worth irregularities in liquor trade between 2015-16 and 2017-18 financial yearS.
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Chhattisgarh Journalist Was Killed For Road Construction Fraud Report: Cops
Freelance journalist Mukesh Chandrakar was killed for reporting irregularities in road construction work in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur and the murder was planned by a contractor along with his two brothers and a supervisor, as per a charge sheet.
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2 Contractors Arrested After Labourers Die While Cleaning Water Tank In Mumbai
Two labour contractors were arrested on Monday in connection with the deaths of four persons a day earlier while cleaning the water tank of an under-construction building in south Mumbai, a police official said.
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Trump Job Cuts Threaten Climate Research, Public Safety, Warn Scientists
Climate scientist Tom Di Liberto had dreamed of working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) since college. After more than a decade as a contractor, he finally secured a full-time position nearly two years ago.
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Elon Musk's DOGE Team Raises Major Cyber Security Concerns
An internal report by an outside contractor warned that the access given to the DOGE team "poses the single greatest insider threat risk the Bureau has ever faced."
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Apple Said to Be in Final Stages of Selecting a Key Supplier for Foldable Display
Apple's foldable phone has been in the rumour mill for quite some time now. While leaks about the launch timeline of the first foldable iPhone are doing rounds on the Web, a new leak suggests that the company is finalising its supply chain's main contractor for the foldable screen. The Cupertino-based company seems to be keeping strict technical re...
