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June 19, 2023 at 10:37PM Edtech major BYJU's has laid off close to 1,000 employees across departments as part of its restructuring process, sources aware of the development told PTI on Monday. The fresh round of firing comes at a time when the company has entered into a legal battle with lenders in the US for USD 1 billion term loan B. "BYJU's has laid off close to 1,000 employees. However, the final headcount of the company remains around 50,000 because of the addition of new employees," a source aware of the development told PTI. BYJU's had announced cutting about 5 per cent of 2,500 employees over six months starting October 2022 as it unveiled the company's plan to become profitable by March 2023. "The recent layoff is part of the company's cost optimisation process," the source said. An email query sent to BYJU's elicited no reply. (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndica...

June 19, 2023 at 11:41PM Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today lashed out at the Governor' decision to mark the state's Foundation Day. Scoffing at the declaration of June 20 as the "Foundation Day" of Bengal, she pointed out that the state was really born as a painful fallout of partition -- an occasion that is seared into the memory of its people. "The State was not founded on any particular day, least of all on any 20th of June... the pain and trauma of partition was such that people in the state have never commemorated any day as foundation day since India's independence," she wrote in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose. Declaring that she was "stunned and shocked" by the "unilateral decision", she wrote that the process of carving out Bengal out of the undivided State of Bengal in 1947 "involved uprooting of millions of people across the border and death and displacement of innumerable families" . "The eco...

June 19, 2023 at 10:57PM In early June, Microsoft services were down for millions of users across the world. Experts now claim that the outage was most likely caused by hackers who belong to a Russian-linked group, Guardian reported. It was initially believed that the hackers are an Islamic group with links in Sudan as it is being claimed by them.  Last week, Microsoft confirmed that outages to its Outlook service were the result of a DoS attack believed to have been carried out by Anonymous Sudan However, cybersecurity firm CyberCX released a report on Monday that said that Anonymous Sudan is unlikely to be an authentic hacktivist organisation. The firm said that it is likely that it has links with the Russian state.  The firm reasoned that the operation to direct huge amounts of traffic to a service would need tens of thousands of dollars and hence it was unlikely that Anonymous Sudan was a loose collective.  CyberCX also said Anonymous Sudan was publicly...

June 19, 2023 at 10:44PM Two men, a Thai national and a staffer of Vistara airlines, have been arrested for allegedly smuggling gold into India valuing about Rs 58 lakh at the international airport here, a customs official said on Monday. A case was booked in this regard on June 12 against the Thailand national, who had arrived here from Dubai, he said. The accused passenger planned to go back to Bangkok (Thailand) on the same day, the officer said. During investigation, it emerged that he admittedly smuggled the gold in paste form by handing over it to an airline staff, who further acted clandestinely to take it outside the airport without declaring it to the customs and with intention to evading payment of customs duty, according to a statement issued on Monday by the customs department. Total 1.12 kg of gold, valued at Rs 57.65 lakh, has been obtained from the gold paste, it said. The gold was seized and both the accused were arrested, the statement said. A senior customs offi...

June 19, 2023 at 11:57PM A woman in China was left shocked after she was charged an extra 300 yuan (Rs 3,431) because she and her friends were ''not creating a vibrant enough vibe” in a pub, South China Morning Post reported. As per the report, the unidentified woman had booked a VIP booth at the Boom Shake bar in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, to enjoy with her friends.  When the bill for 4,988 yuan (57,053) arrived, they were surprised to find an extra bottle of wine and a mystery charge of 300 yuan added. The woman confronted the staff and was told that the extra charge was a ''punishment'' because the atmosphere around their booth was not good enough. ''He said we were fined as the vibe around us during the last hour there was not vibrant enough,'' the woman told news site Pear Video. The woman who was left speechless by the response said, ''We went there as consumers, not to work to create a vibe. Why should we be penalised?”, add...

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