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46. Meeting Notice for opening of Financial Bids regarding outsourcing of Manpower in the Ministry
47. Inviting proposal for engagement of Consultant for 'Women of India Organic Festival 2018, Delhi
48. Coverage of Anganwadi Workers (AWWs)/ Anganwadi Helpers (AWHs) under the Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY); Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana (PMSBY) and Anganwadi Karyakarti Bima Yojana (AKBY) and benefits available to them
49. Request For Proposal for Engagement of an Event Manager for Women of India Organic Festival 2018
50. Expression of Interest cum Proposal (RFP) for hiring a consultancy agency for Sustainable Development Goals related to women and children.
51. Recommended Panel of Institutions organisation for imparting training Programmes/workshops under Sexual Harassment of Women at Workshop (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013)
52. Hiring of Consultants in Monitoring & Evaluation (ME) Unit of MWCD
53. Admission in Advanced Diploma in Child Guidance and Counselling 2018-19
54. Extension of the Last date in Tender for providing Steno/DEO/MTS in MWCD
55. Minutes of "National Consultation on Child Protection" held on 5th June, 2018 at Jacaranda hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.
56. Expression of Interest for selection of a consultancy agency for sustainable development goals related to women and children
57. List of MoUs signed between India and Uganda during visit of Prime Minister to Uganda
58. NITI Aayog's action plan for air pollution: Old wine in a new bottle? - Mongabay-India
59. Fourth Goa Minister hospitalised in two months
60. Greek wildfires toll rises to 79 amid search for survivors
61. At least 79 people died in huge wildfires around Athens, Greek authorities said today, as rescuers scoured scorched homes and burned-out cars for survivors of one of the world's deadliest fire outbreaks.
62. Juncker to Trump: US, EU are 'close partners, not enemies
63. European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said today the United States and EU were "not enemies" as he began talks with US President Donald Trump aimed at defusing trade tensions between the two key economies.
64. More than 220 dead in IS attacks on Syria's Sweida: monitor
65. The death toll from raids and suicide bombings carried out today by the Islamic State group in Syria's southern Sweida province has risen to over 220 people, a war monitor.
66. Trump, Juncker voice desire to reduce tariffs, trade tensions
67. Anil Ambani writes to Rahul Gandhi on Rafale deal, refutes allegations of lack of experience
68. Vodafone reports slowdown in quarterly growth
69. Reuters watchlist: predicting the next downturn
70. Global Markets: Asia stocks track Wall Street gains, U.S.-EU meet keeps trade in focus
71. Larsen & Toubro fixes record date for dividend
72. Sumeet Industries fixes record date for bonus issue
73. Asia Capital standalone net profit rises 50.00% in the June 2018 quarter
74. Menon Pistons standalone net profit rises 66.89% in the June 2018 quarter
75. Nalin Lease Finance standalone net profit declines 3.23% in the June 2018 quarter
76. Insilco reports standalone net loss of Rs 1.25 crore in the June 2018 quarter
77. EMA India reports standalone net profit of Rs 0.02 crore in the June 2018 quarter
78. Computer Point reports standalone net loss of Rs 0.16 crore in the June 2018 quarter
79. Inox Leisure standalone net profit rises 15.31% in the June 2018 quarter
80. Elantas Beck India standalone net profit declines 2.88% in the June 2018 quarter
81. Glaxosmithkline Pharmaceuticals standalone net profit rises 235.31% in the June 2018 quarter
82. Navin Fluorine International standalone net profit declines 19.39% in the June 2018 quarter
83. Century Plyboards (India) standalone net profit rises 32.97% in the June 2018 quarter
84. BLS Infotech reports standalone net loss of Rs 0.07 crore in the June 2018 quarter
85. Filatex India standalone net profit rises 40.54% in the June 2018 quarter
86. Kajaria Ceramics standalone net profit declines 3.20% in the June 2018 quarter
87. Thirumalai Chemicals standalone net profit declines 16.00% in the June 2018 quarter
88. Punjab Chemicals & Crop Protection standalone net profit rises 13.31% in the June 2018 quarter
89. Kirloskar Pneumatic Company reports standalone net profit of Rs 2.03 crore in the June 2018 quarter
90. Kajaria Ceramics consolidated net profit declines 7.24% in the June 2018 quarter
91. Team Lease Services standalone net profit rises 23.21% in the June 2018 quarter
92. KRBL standalone net profit declines 10.78% in the June 2018 quarter
93. Unique Organics reports standalone net profit of Rs 1.13 crore in the June 2018 quarter
94. Government Hopeful That Recent Measures Will Succeed In Stabilizing Sugar Prices
95. Team Lease Services consolidated net profit rises 32.91% in the June 2018 quarter
96. KRBL consolidated net profit declines 11.38% in the June 2018 quarter
97. Inox Leisure consolidated net profit rises 15.27% in the June 2018 quarter
98. Thirumalai Chemicals consolidated net profit declines 5.75% in the June 2018 quarter
99. Network 18 Media & Investments reports standalone net loss of Rs 76.50 crore in the June 2018 quarter
100. Network 18 Media & Investments reports consolidated net loss of Rs 113.17 crore in the June 2018 quarter
101. Hexaware Technologies consolidated net profit rises 25.45% in the June 2018 quarter
102. Modi govt should grant special category status to Andhra: T K Rangarajan
103. Letter to BS: Modi govt must share data on Goods and Services Tax
104. Letter to BS: Mamata to launch 'remove BJP, save country' campaign
105. Letter to BS: GST Council decisions are sound, but don't follow norms
106. Sebi proposes three-phase process for re-classification of promoters
107. Corporate credit demand gains pace, showing signs of gathering steam
108. Government likely to announce new Chief Economic Advisor next week
109. Steel to silicon: A digital way to make combat forces more lethal, accurate
110. Tipping Point: Large-cap funds beating mid- and small-caps after a long gap
111. File your income tax return before July 31 to avoid paying penal fees
112. Supreme Court's mandated long-term car insurance is good for customers
113. Here's how an informed investor can spot Ponzi scheme and avoid it
114. Why Mukesh Ambani may not be able to repeat a Jio in broadband services
115. Macro economy gives confusing signals to MPC on policy rate front
116. Food in multiplexes: Bombay HC gives Maharashtra govt 14 days to reply
117. Truckers strike: Traders feel the pinch as retail stocks get thin
118. Relief from witch hunt
119. A promise on paper
120. Decoding the Sage
121. Ringing in change
122. The decline and fall of Brand Ivanka
123. Is LIC bailing out debt-laden IL&FS?
124. Making sense of EPFO data
125. Arvind Subramanian's legacy
126. Mamata Banerjee expected to meet oppn leaders during 3-day Delhi visit
127. How Once-Ailing PC Maker Acer Turned Itself Around And The Man Who Did It
128. Thailand's Supatra Dynasty - 4 Generations Of Women Running The Chao Phraya River
129. Uber Riders Report High Fees From 'Vomit Fraud' And Ghost Trips
130. 5 Sights You Must Take In During The Century's Longest Total Lunar Eclipse
131. Update Your iPhones And Androids Now If You Don't Want Your Bluetooth Hacked
132. Global Finance Leader Study: Finance Leaders Share The Top Risks That Matter Most
133. Channel - Block B - Innovation - blog - Position 1 - Uber Riders Report High Fees From 'Vomit Fraud' And Ghost Trips
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147. Indian student killed in Australia
148. Five Indians arrested for smuggling gold in Nepal
149. Following the hospitalisation of another Goa Cabinet Minister Francis D'Souza earlier this week for an undisclosed illness, an ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar has decided to handle his portfolios in his absence, according to a government notification issued on Wednesday.
150. This team never gives excuses of conditions or pitch: Shastri
151. Boeing earnings up, but reports higher costs on tanker
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168. Misty Wednesday morning in Delhi
169. Oracle launches new cloud-based eClinical solution
170. First UK womb transplant
171. Preschool teachers at higher risk of hearing problems
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177. 65% of video consumption in rural India: Smriti Irani
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179. CA, IBM join hands to help businesses innovate faster
180. Demure to Serial Killer: Amruta Khanvilkar Breaks Away from Convention
181. Porn Star sues Trump over ‘hush agreement’
182. Mamata raises oust BJP pitch, says it will get less than 100 LS seats in 2019
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190. Data protection panel likely to submit report by early Aug; may spur amendments in laws like Aadhaar
191. NSSO consumer expenditure survey results likely by June next yr: Minister
192. Trump set for tense trade talks with EU's Juncker
193. BJP's 'Hitlershahi' can't stop my fight: Hardik
194. Trump accuses China of using 'vicious' trade tactics
195. EU threatens US with USD 20 billion tit-for-tat tariffs
196. Mutual funds add 33 lakh folios in Q1 on growing investor interest
197. Thyssenkrupp bags USD 115 million contract for power projects in UP
198. Celibate nature of Lord Ayyappa of Sabarimala temple protected by Constitution, SC told
199. Foetus found in lavatory of Air Asia plane
200. PM Modi outlines 10 guiding principles for deepening India's engagement with Africa
201. BRICS emerging economies meet as US trade war looms
202. NTPC board to consider plan to raise Rs 12,000 crore via NCDs this week
203. Rupee bounces to 1-week high as dollar rally cools, up 15 paise to 68.79
204. DeVos rules would cut estimated $13B in student loan relief
205. Pompeo: US will never recognize Russian annexation of Crimea
206. The Latest: Pompeo: US won't recognize Crimea annexation
207. Pakistan polls: Imran Khan's party leading in 103 seats; PML-N in 59
208. Foetus found in lavatory of AirAsia plane, taekwondo player says she lost it
209. IIPH-H working on drone delivery system for medical products
210. We will never make excuses about pitch and conditions: Ravi Shastri
211. Women in parts of Pakistan vote for first time since Independence
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215. WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday the United States will never recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea as he sought to fend off charges from lawmakers and others that President Donald Trump and his administration are being soft on Russia.
217. WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is taking a tough line on Russia and its actions in Ukraine as skeptical lawmakers are set to demand specifics from him on President Donald Trump's summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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219. Emerging from the two-and-a-half hour meeting, Justice Srikrishna declined to comment on the deliberations held at the closed-door meeting.
220. By Chaitanya KalbagSometime over the next few weeks â€" most likely in his Independence Day speech â€" Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally launch what has already been billed as the world’s biggest public healthcare programme, Ayushman Bharat, or the National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM).The scheme was announced in the 2018-19 Budget and approved by the Cabinet in March. It will vault over all other social welfare projects of the NDA government, like Swachh Bharat, free LPG connections to the poorest families, electricity to all homes, and Jan Dhan bank accounts.It will take years for Ayushman Bharat to be rolled out, but it will gratify what you might call the final-year itch. These go-for-broke compulsions kick in several months before a general election. They are always pro-poor, populist and profligate.To recap, Ayushman Bharat will target 107.4 million ‘poor and vulnerable’ families identified by the 2011 Socio Economic and Caste Census â€" at least 500 million individuals, or about 40% of the population. (Never mind that by the time it is in place, these numbers will be nearly a decade old and probably an underestimate.) A defined-benefit scheme, Ayushman Bharat guarantees insurance of up to Rs 5 lakh per family for secondary and tertiary healthcare. Beneficiaries will pay no premium, and the central and state governments will share the premium costs.How much will it cost? Officials I spoke with estimate the average premium will not exceed Rs 1,000 per family. So, full enrolment may cost the exchequer up to Rs 10,000 crore. (Nagaland has quoted an annual premium of only Rs 444 per family.)As welfare schemes go, Ayushman is dwarfed by the Rs 1.43 trillion spent by the government on food subsidies under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2017-18. NFSA was pushed through by UPA 2 in September 2013 â€" a few months before a general election that it lost. It is also important to remember that none of these schemes is an Eureka innovation. They are based on, and expand, an idea that somebody else thought of. NFSA pledged between 3 and 7 kg of subsidised rice, wheat and coarse grains to over 800 million people, or two-thirds of the population, plus free meals to pregnant women, lactating mothers, malnourished children and the destitute.More of the Same Although the BJP criticised the food security scheme, which expanded efforts by previous governments to sell subsidised foodgrains to India’s poorest, it had no option but to implement it. The Modi government, using digitisation of public distribution system (PDS) records, has tried to curb leakages, cancelling 27.5 million fake ration cards, and linked 194 million ration cards to Aadhaar.Reading between these lines, it is clear it costs a lot to keep millions of Indians in poverty. Although the government is experimenting with direct transfers of food subsidies to beneficiaries, the base prices of rice and wheat are nearly two decades-old and bear no resemblance to market prices â€" hence the huge subsidies.Ayushman Bharat will subsume the Rashtra Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), which was launched in 2008 by the UPA government. That was the year the UPA announced three stimulus packages that included a Rs 71,000-crore farm loan waiver. The recklessness continued after the UPA won the election, and the budget deficit hit a ruinous 6.8% of GDP in 2009-10.As a first stab at near-universal healthcare for the poor, RSBY was a good scheme. It promised annual insurance of Rs 30,000 per family and targeted below poverty line (BPL) families, expanding later to include categories like construction workers, railway porters, street vendors and domestic workers. Beneficiary families used smart cards and only had to pay a one-time Rs 30 registration fee.RSBY lost momentum after the UPA lost power. Originally designed to cover 70 million households by 2017, the latest data show that it has shrunk to 15 states, and only 36.3 million families have been enrolled from a targeted total of 59.1 million as of March 2017. RSBY premiums were capped at Rs 750 per family annually.As you can see, the devil will be in the details of Ayushman Bharat. It will issue e-cards to beneficiary families, but they have to be identified, informed and persuaded to enrol. Most state governments have signed up, including reluctant ones like West Bengal and Rajasthan that had its own Bhamashah programme targeting a wider population. A couple of states are holding out â€" Odisha, which will go to the polls simultaneously with the Lok Sabha, and Telangana, where the old and more comprehensive Aarogyasri health insurance scheme of the Congress era has been adopted and expanded by the current Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government.Right PrescriptionAyushman offers 135 packages, compared with RSBY’s 70. Memoranda of understanding (MoUs) have to be signed with a host of state and private insurers. “The insurers are salivating,” a public health official said, over the potential new business.In March, Indu Bhushan was lured from a 21-year career with the Asian Development Bank to be the CEO of Ayushman Bharat. Bhushan, who was Director-General of the ADB’s East Asia division, has worked on mass healthcare programmes in Thailand â€" where the popular 30-baht scheme led to universal coverage â€" Vietnam and Mongolia. Like Parameswaran Iyer, who left a World Bank job to lead the Swachh Bharat programme, Bhushan is a former IAS officer.
221. Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), which is said to have the backing of the country's millitary, seems all set to form the next government in the country. As per latest PTI reports, was leading in 103 seats while its main rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) was way behind with 59 seats in an election marred by a deadly suicide attack and allegations of manipulations by the powerful military..Meanwhile, reports claimed that Imran Khan has won against MQM's Ali Raza Abidi from Karachi. A party can only form the government if it manages to clinch 172 seats in total.
222. By Mark Bergen & Josh EidelsonEvery day, tens of thousands of people stream into Google offices wearing red name badges. They eat in Google’s cafeterias, ride its commuter shuttles and work alongside its celebrated geeks. But they can’t access all of the company’s celebrated perks. They aren’t entitled to stock and can’t enter certain offices. Many don’t have health insurance.Before each weekly Google all-hands meeting, trays of hors d’oeuvres and, sometimes, kegs of beer are carted into an auditorium and satellite offices around the globe for employees, who wear white badges. Those without white badges are asked to return to their desks.Google’s Alphabet Inc. employs hordes of these red-badged contract workers in addition to its full-fledged staff. They serve meals and clean offices. They write code, handle sales calls, recruit staff, screen YouTube videos, test self-driving cars and even manage entire teams â€" a sea of skilled laborers that fuel the $795 billion company but reap few of the benefits and opportunities available to direct employees. Earlier this year, those contractors outnumbered direct employees for the first time in the company’s twenty-year history, according to a person who viewed the numbers on an internal company database. It's unclear if that is still the case. Alphabet reported 89,058 direct employees at the end of the second quarter. The company declined to comment on the number of contract workers.Other companies, such as Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc., some of the most cash-rich public companies, also rely on a steady influx of contractors. Investors watch employee headcount closely at these tech powerhouses, expecting that they keep posting impressive gains by maintaining skinnier workforces than older corporate titans. Hiring contractors keeps the official headcount low, and frees up millions of dollars to retain superstars in fields like artificial intelligence.The result is an invisible workforce, off the company payrolls, that does the grunt work for the Silicon Valley giants with few of the rewards. “Many of these workers don’t have a voice on the job. They don’t necessarily get the benefits that many of us think about when working at a big, glitzy tech company,” said Maria Noel Fernandez, campaign director for Silicon Valley Rising, a union-backed group based in San Jose, California that advocates on labor and housing issues. “And they’re not really part of this wealth.”Contractors are on the rise at Google as the company spreads into new markets, such as devices and corporate services, which demand a larger salesforce. Conversations with more than 10 former contractors for Google and other Alphabet units paint a portrait of a permanent underclass. Google has a name for them: TVCs, or “temps, vendors and contractors.” They are employed by several outside agencies, including Adecco Group AG, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. and Randstad NV. Google declined to say how many agencies the company uses. Many current and former contract workers and full employees declined to speak on the record because they didn’t want to jeopardize their employment.Some direct employees took unusual steps this year to go to senior leadership with objections about the company’s work with the military, its gender pay gap and its nagging issues with online harassment. Another issue Google employees are discussing bringing to management is the state of the contract workforce, according to four people familiar with the conversations. Yana Calou, an organizer with advocacy group Coworker.org who speaks with Google employees and contractors, said that both groups are concerned about the workers who aren’t full Google employees. “They feel isolated, precarious and like second-class citizens,” Calou said. “It’s a microcosm of what’s happening in the economy as a whole.”In an e-mailed statement, a Google spokeswoman said the company hires TVCs for two primary purposes. One is when the company doesn’t have a particular expertise in-house, such as shuttle bus drivers, quality assurance testers and doctors. Another is for filling temporary positions to cover for parental leave or spikes in work. Some contract workers viewed Google as a generous workplace that boosted their careers. Still, despite their ubiquity there, many felt peripheral. Several noted the subtle slights apparent from their arrival. The first thing people eye at work, one former TVC recalled, is the color of someone’s badge. TVCs aren’t trusted with tasks outside their limited purview. Four different contractors described the sinking feeling of clocking in at 9:00 am only to see full-timers trickle in an hour or two later. The same staff would leave the office around 3:00 pm, often after a midday gym break.“People look down on you even though you're doing the same work,” said one contractor who spent two years at Google managing multiple other employees. Said another ex-TVC: “You’re there, but you’re not there.”Google’s initial flood of contractors came with its first “moonshot.” Dozens of temporary workers were hired, more than a decade ago, to photocopy dog-eared pages for the company’s free digital library, Google Books. Like the company itself, the number of temporary workers has grown wildly.Like other firms, Google relies on outsourcing operations in Southeast Asia -- rows of office workers in India and other countries that label mapping data and handle other relatively simple computing work. But Google also hires highly educated contractors in its backyard. Some TVCs arrive with advanced technical degrees and years of experience, working on niche efforts like renewable energy and sensor design.The line between TVCs and full-timers is clear. One 2016 TVC employment contract from Zenith Talent Corp., a recruiting agency, states that TVCs “will not be entitled to any compensation, options, stock, insurance or other rights or benefits accorded to employees of Google.” The terms hold even if a court later determines the worker was legally a Google employee. Zenith did not respond to requests for comment.Another clause hints at the type of work Google contracts out. The TVC agreement includes a release for any "adult content" contractors may encounter at work. In signing, contractors relieve Google of any liability related to the material. In 2017, the company pledged to hire up to 10,000 content moderators in 2018 after mounting criticism of offensive videos on YouTube. Some of these moderators are full-fledged staff, but Google declined to say how many or provide an update.Several former contractors noted that Google does offer benefits for contractors that other large companies don’t. TVCs can eat at cafeterias for free and use some company facilities like its bowling alleys and gyms. For many, a TVC position offers a foothold for a permanent role at Google or elsewhere. Some highlights, however, come with an asterisk. To ride Google shuttles, which ferry staff to campus for free, TVCs must pay for each ride. In an emailed statement, a Google spokeswoman said that it charges TVCs less than $2 per ride, and if it provided TVCs with free shuttle service, that would be considered a taxable benefit. Several former TVCs said they did not receive pay for sick days.The largest burden for many contractors is health care. All the contractors Bloomberg News spoke with said the contracting agencies, which are responsible for health insurance, offered either inadequate plans or none. One former TVC, who worked for Adecco, said he paid roughly $600 out of pocket a month for coverage to treat diabetes. “Adecco’s only around for [human resources] and crappy benefits,” this person said.Google referred inquiries about benefits for contractor employees to the companies that directly employ them, but said its company culture requires that everyone is treated with care and respect. Adecco spokeswoman Mary Beth Waddill said the contractor does not disclose the terms of its contracts with clients, but that “we take great pride in being an industry leader who continually works to create meaningful career opportunities for all of our employees.”Some TVCs are paid well. Contract software designers and other specialists were offered as much as $150 an hour before taxes, above rival giants, according to two people familiar with the plans. Vendors doing less technical work made less; one 2017 hiring contract in Europe, viewed by Bloomberg News, listed an annual salary of 28,000 Euros ($32,767) Google’s sub-contracted janitors, who today number around 400, have been unionized since the year 2000. According to the Service Employees International Union, which represents them, they earn around $26.39 in total hourly compensation, including the cost of benefits as well as their income. In Google's home county of Santa Clara, a family of four with an income of as much as $94,450 a year is considered by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to be "low income"; total annual compensation for a full-time Google janitorâ€"including benefits as well as wagesâ€" is a bit over half that amount.Google distances itself from responsibility if contractors encounter problems. In both hiring contracts Bloomberg News viewed, the hiring agency is responsible for handling pay, benefits and any grievances contracted employees may have. However, Google asserts authority on key legal matters. Contractors must agree to assist Google in securing the company’s intellectual property, and if Google is unable to get the worker's signature, the search giant becomes the worker’s de facto attorney. Contractors waive their rights to participate in class action lawsuits against Google. One person recently worked at Indian outsourcer HCL Technologies Ltd. fielding customer calls for Google’s ads business. In multiple emails and complaints to HCL, the person described repeated verbal harassment from colleagues â€" including anti-Muslim and anti-Arab taunts. When no action was taken, the person sent emails to a Google manager and Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai. The vendor received no response. HCL investigated the claims and found no cause for action, according to documents reviewed by Bloomberg News. The person asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal from his current job. Google did not provide comment on that episode, but a spokeswoman said that TVCs have access to Google’s complaint channel, and that it reviews those it receives and investigates when appropriate. HCL did not respond to requests for comment.“We have allowed businesses to really sever their responsibility for more and more for the people who create value,” said David Weil, dean of The Heller School at Brandeis University and a former Labor Department official under President Barack Obama. “We’ve allowed them to have their cake and eat it too.”Over the years, Google’s influx of contractors has changed with investment priorities. Google Fiber, its broadband unit, was once a major contractor hub, but has scaled back operations. However, other parts of the company that lean on contract work are ramping up. Google's device sales and cloud-computing units both use call-center support staff to handle customer issues.Artificial intelligence projects may do so as well. Duplex, Google's eerily human-sounding calling service, which debuts this summer, will turn to phone operators when the AI can't carry on the conversation. Some of those operators will be contracted out, executives said recently.Under Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat, Alphabet has tightened its once freewheeling spending. Yet the company hasn’t stopped its appetite for expensive engineers, who can easily fetch $1 million a year or more. That decision necessitates more contractors. Every company division must petition for a budget and staff headcount. Talented engineers are pricey and take bites out of the budget. To compensate, managers will then fill out staff with TVCs, according to José Benitez Cong, a former Google hiring manager who runs the human resources firm Plause. “Companies are scaling faster than ever,” he said. “A company like Google may want to rely on contractors to maintain such growth.” Porat told investors on Monday that much of the new hiring will be in the cloud division and that headcount will increase this quarter, when the company takes on new graduates.Contractors can offer a potential regulatory break, too. Seattle recently weighed a tax based on the staff headcount companies have, a way to reap more from local giant Amazon. Officials in Google's hometown have voiced support. A spokeswoman for Google declined to comment.Google's lengthy hiring process is also factor, Benitez Cong said. Google employees can take several months to recruit, whereas the company can tap TVCs within weeks or even days. They can also be dismissed just as quickly. One contract worker, who spent two years at Google, said TVCs devoted much of their day to “tagging” their work -- a way to document what the worker had done for managers so it could be passed seamlessly to others, or replaced with automation. “I felt the clock ticking,” the person said. “That’s a stressful experience.”Another recalled being sent from San Francisco to New York City, along with direct employees, for a marketing project. Before the assignment wrapped, the contractor got an unexpected email from his hiring agency asking him to turn in his laptop the next day. His stint at Google was up. “People would just disappear,” the ex-contractor said. That day he returned to his hotel, which Google covered, without an exit interview. He remembered the email : “Thanks for the good work.”Last year, a trio of Adecco employees who worked for Google's food delivery service filed two lawsuits at the Los Angeles County court against both companies. The contractors claim Adecco withheld wages and did not provide meals and rest periods required under California law. Through their lawyer, Paul Tashnizi, the employees declined to be interviewed. Some of the claims have been forced into arbitration, and the others are on hold in the meantime.Adecco is a favorite contractor for the tech giant. The Swiss temp agency, which posted 23.6 billion Euros ($26.73 billion) in revenue in 2017, secures staff for Google’s maps, cloud and apps units, as well as for Waymo, Alphabet’s autonomous car unit. For multiple former Adecco hires, however, the company was virtually absent. Several people recalled seeing its staff when they joined Google and again when they left. According to two former Google managers, Adecco takes roughly 20 percent of the pay of Google's contracted employees. Adecco did not answer questions about those claims, but spokeswoman Waddill said that “we continuously listen to our employees’ needs and work to provide them an outstanding experience,” including when it comes to the company’s “unique benefits packages.”In recent years, Google has brought some contract positions in-house. Following criticism, in 2014 it announced that some security guards would become direct staff. Most contractors do not work longer than two year stints, according to multiple contract workers who spoke to Bloomberg News, but some serve multiple terms on the hopes of becoming direct employees. Google did not provide data on how many achieve that.And for many white-collar TVCs, the second-class status at the first-rate tech behemoth pays off. TVCs are asked to list their status as contractors on LinkedIn accounts â€" but they can still mention Google. Chris Szymczak, a former TVC who worked on marketing for Google from Poland, said multiple full-time coworkers served as a reference for future work. “They were just immensely supportive even past our work relationship,” he said. “The gig was a real springboard for me.”That ladder is not available for everyone. One former TVC recalls an uncomfortable lesson. A new executive came to the division, sat down with each staffer and asked about his or her “five-year plan,” a standard managerial tactic. The next day, the manager returned sheepishly, explaining that he didn't realize his report was a contractor rather than full-time staff. He asked that they forget their conversation entirely.
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224. About half of Google’s workers are contractors who don’t receive the same benefits as direct employees.
225. More delays for Spanish S-80 submarine programme
226. The final delivery date for Spain’s new S-80 submarines is set to be pushed back another two years, Jane’s has learned.
227. In January Spanish Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Teodoro López Calderón said the first boat was due to be handed over at the end of 2021 and be operative by
228. More delays for Spanish S80 submarine programme
229. The final delivery date for Spain8217s new S80 submarines is set to be pushed back another two years Jane8217s has learned
230. In January Spanish Navy Chief of Staff Admiral Teodoro L243pez Calder243n said the first boat was due to be handed over at the end of 2021 and be operative by
231. Russia has increasing antisatellite ASAT capabilities that enable it to interfere with or destroy an adversaryrsquos satellites
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233. Interpol fails to issue Red Corner Notice against Zakir Naik
234. Chandigarh: Congress delegation meets CM, wants desecration panel report tabled
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236. Central team inspects Indo-Myanmar border pillar after villagers claim its location was changed
237. Surveyor General of India, said, based on the records with the Survey of India the position of the border pillar is in the right place.…
238. Perched, Parched
239. A series of tree walks in Delhi, in the wake of the move to fell 16,000 trees to develop housing complexes, sensitises participants on what trees mean to the city’s ecology, flora and fauna, and its residents
240. आता मैदानाबाहेर रंगणार सेहवाग-गंभीर जोडीची पार्टनरशीप…
241. Pakistan Elections 2018: After years of dodging political bouncers, is it finally time for Imran Khan’s innings?