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Biocon Foundation Onboards First BioWISE Cohort To Support Women In STEM Careers
9+ hour, 32+ min ago (389+ words) Biocon Foundation, the Corporate Social Responsibility arm of Biocon, in partnership with the Bengaluru Science and Technology Cluster (BeST Cluster) and the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), has onboarded the first cohort of its BioWISE (Women in STEM Empowered)…...
Women’s Day needs action, not applause, to help careers grow
3+ week, 6+ day ago (227+ words) For Orient Technologies, the need is to move the conversation beyond symbolic recognition and towards sustained career support. Ridhima Sawant says the real challenge is not talent scarcity, but the lack of systems that retain and advance women over time....
Tech jobs rise to 1,19,000 in March, but freshers still struggle to find roles
4+ week, 1+ day ago (458+ words) With growing uncertainty in the job market due to artificial intelligence and waves of layoffs, thousands of engineering graduates entering India's tech workforce this year are facing a difficult reality: the market is hiring, but not necessarily for them. India's…...
Women Are Rising in AI-First Careers: 5 Critical Skills To Build For The Future
4+ week, 1+ day ago (598+ words) As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation to everyday deployment, the nature of technology careers is evolving just as quickly. In India's expanding digital economy, women are increasingly stepping beyond traditional tech roles and participating in areas such as machine learning,…...
upGrad Acquires Internshala To Control Career Entry Layer
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (443+ words) The acquisition of upGrad by bringing early-talent marketplace Internshala's entry into its ecosystem points to a structural shift in India's skilling market: platforms are no longer competing on courses; they are competing on outcomes. Announced in Mumbai on February 26, the…...
Entri Ties Up With Udemy to Expand Job-Focused Learning in Indian Languages
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (507+ words) Indian learning platform Entri has entered into a strategic partnership with Udemy to widen access to job-oriented digital skills training across multiple Indian languages, as demand for employability-focused education accelerates beyond English-first audiences. The collaboration brings together Udemy's global catalogue…...
Human + AI is reshaping work, skills and hiring: Study
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (577+ words) All work will be shaped by humans and AI working together rather than engaging with it only intermittently by 2027 said 97% HR leaders, according to a study by Nasscom and Indeed. "Work Reimagined: The Rise of Human " AI Collaboration, an annual…...
Emversity Raises $30 Million To Scale Employability-Led Higher Education
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (507+ words) India's higher education system has expanded rapidly over the past decade. What has lagged behind is employability. Bengaluru-based Emversity is betting that the solution lies not outside universities but embedded within them. Operated by Beyond Odds Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Emversity…...
How Redrob Is Rebuilding AI Economics for India’s Students
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (197+ words) At the centre of this strategy is an architectural departure from large, centralised AI models and a deliberate focus on cost, access, and resilience in low-bandwidth environments. To understand how Redrob plans to execute this at a national scale, CiOL…...
IBM Targets AI, Cybersecurity Skills for 5 Million Learners in India
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (412+ words) As India positions itself as a global hub for emerging technologies, the challenge is no longer just innovation; it is scale-ready talent. IBM has now put a concrete number behind that ambition. The technology major on Thursday announced a commitment…...