Dordrecht : Springer, 2008

New York, NY : Springer, 2006

New York : Springer, [2008]

[Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2020

After Japan annexed the country in 1910, these overseas ministers faced pressure to take a side.

Why Arminians and Reformers squared off 400 years ago.

The Companies (Auditor’s Report) Order, 2020 (Caro 2020) will be applicable for audit of financial statements of eligible companies for financial years commencing on and after April 1, 2019, and would be applicable to all those companies on which Caro 2016 was applicable.

A two-member NCLAT bench led by Chairman Justice S J Mukhopadhaya dismissed the pleas of auditors and other independent directors. The appellate tribunal, however, granted a relief to both auditors and other independent directors by allowing the operation of its earlier interim order passed on July 29, 2019 for two weeks.

The Big Four employ about 200,000 in India. On average, around 40% are women. Clients of the Big Four are pressing for better diversity at workplaces to make them future-ready, a senior partner with a Big Four firm said. However, women in leadership roles cannot be increased overnight, countered another senior executive.

The central bank has been in touch with auditor BSR & Co., which is a part of KPMG India, over the past few months. But the central bank will now specifically look at whether the auditor had issued any warnings over the past 12 months. Officials aware of the central bank’s plans told ET that RBI officials had already held meetings with Yes Bank’s new audit committee.

“Grant Thornton has already started scrutinising documents related to transactions,” said one of the persons in the know. “The existing administrators want to make things transparent so that the matter does not impact the valuation of DHFL assets.”

According to the report by Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a rapid increase in the volume of data requires auditors to be equipped with the latest available technological tools to analyse a much higher volume of data in their audits than previously required.

PwC India is deferring promotions, increments and bonuses for all its employees in India due to Covid impact.

With the new announcements, Deloitte’s partner tally crosses 480. The promotions were across the five verticals — audit, tax, consulting, financial services and risk— but audit division saw the maximum number of partner induction (over 10).

Several industry bodies have told the government that the existing framework in this regard is adequate and benchmarked with the best global practices.

Private labs, which had termed the Rs 4,500 cap as being on the ‘moderate side’, objected to the order as there was no clarity regarding reimbursement for the free tests.

The skill development and entrepreneurship ministry has received multiple queries from firms abroad on apprenticeship norms in India as they scout for new destinations under their ‘one plus one strategy’ of having at least one manufacturing facility outside China.

More than 200 director-level and above posts were available over the past week, according to Xpheno, a staffing firm that compiles data from job portals, LinkedIn and company sites.

About Rs 10 lakh crore worth of output is gone for good while job losses are estimated to have crossed 140 million.

Given the government’s extensive requests on avoiding laying off employees, the majority of companies have not implemented or are not currently considering permanent staff layoff/redundancies (84%) or temporary layoff/furlough (83% without government subsidy support and 91% leveraging government subsidy).

According to the survey, five in 10 companies have deferred or suspended their promotion schedule; at the same time a downward trend on promotions numbers across all job levels was observed wherein 33% of organisations admitted to having reduced it. However, most organisations in IT/ITES, life sciences/pharma and retail sector have refrained from any downwards trend in overall promotion cycle.

Daily wage workers and those employed by small businesses have had to take the biggest blow.

The survey titled ‘Covid-19 and its impact on jobs at India Inc’ aims to understand the impact of the lockdown on the country’s employment scenario. It received 1,345 responses from HR professionals working in different sectors.

IT, media, and manufacturing employees think their firms will do worse in the next 6 months. However, they’re confident about long-term growth - 77% of manufacturing professionals, 67% of media professionals, and 65% of IT professionals thought their companies would pick up in the next 2 years.

Worries about job losses are the highest in the country as 86 per cent being worried about losing their jobs and livelihood post-COVID-19 lockdowns. In comparison, this is only 31 per cent in Britain, 33 per cent in Australia and 41 per cent in the US and a high 71 per cent Hongkongers fear job loses, says the survey.

The company is planning to hire 1000 employees by the end of June across markets. Companies such as Infosys, Wipro, TCS, WNS and others have delayed pay hikes and put promotions on hold as they see uncertainty over business growth in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak across key markets. CSS Corp has also paid 100% of variable salary to the majority of its employees.

The decline in hiring is led by industries like hotel/restaurant/travel/airlines (-91%), auto/ancillary (-82%), retail (-77%) and accounting/finance (-70%). The job market across cities registered a double-digit dip in hiring. The decline was led by metros wherein Delhi declined by 70% followed by Chennai (-62%), Kolkata (-60%) and Mumbai (-60%).

As India Inc prepares for offices to open post the lockdown, the survey assesses the anxiety level of employees and shows a strong desire to do what’s right by their co-workers by complying to new health monitoring compliances, along with a high degree of awareness of changes in routine that await them.

The challenge of retaining staff despite 12.2 crore people losing their jobs in India last month shows how difficult it will be for Modi to restart Asia’s No. 3 economy, where the bulk of the workforce comprises so-called informal labour that are denied security and benefits. Economists predict a rare contraction in national output.

After the lockdown was imposed, imports of rough stones dried up, and nearly 70% of workers left for their hometowns in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha and interiors of Gujarat.

Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan submitted his detailed judgement on the case to the Pakistan Cricket Board, which made it public on Friday.

The idea is to ‘make up for lost time’

Experts from a wide range of disciplines weigh in on the matter

Outwits RoW after drawing with Russia and losing to USA

John Coates cites the examples of positive Summer Games that followed the two world wars of the 20th century.