Articles by Ritu Maria Johny
Google trims its mental health team, wellness head claims being laid off
Google laid off San Francisco-based Kristin Maczko, who had been with the company for the last 15 years.

Updated on Jan 31, 2023 04:27 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Visakhapatnam: 7 things to know about new Andhra Pradesh capital
The largest and most populous city in Andhra Pradesh, it is also the second largest city on the east coast of India.

Updated on Jan 31, 2023 03:40 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Internet hails woman who says she got job with 50% hike, days after being fired
The user - whose handle is @2020LawGrad - tweeted on January 25 that she was laid off after being informed that her personality was not a “fit”.

Published on Jan 31, 2023 01:40 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
Budget 2023: What are the expectations of railway sector?
According to Sujjain Talwar, co-founding partner of Economic Laws Practice, with the expected entry of superfast Vande Bharat Express, upgrading of tracks may become the focal point.

Published on Jan 31, 2023 12:36 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
Google lays off worker during parental leave: ‘Fired while feeding baby at 2 am’
Google laid off a lawyer, who had been working with the tech giant as an associate product counsel for the past six months.

Updated on Jan 31, 2023 11:15 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
'Thank you, Nitin Gadkari': Anand Mahindra's tweet on this 'economic highway'
The chairman of Mahindra Group said that the Delhi - Mumbai expressway will provide a huge fillip to GDP growth.

Published on Jan 31, 2023 09:37 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
At 6.1%, India to be fastest-growing economy, projects IMF; China at 5.2%
India remains the fastest-growing economy in the world with the current estimates surpassing overall growth in emerging and developing Asia.

Updated on Jan 31, 2023 01:18 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
After Google Map shows wrong route, iPhone 14's SOS saves two women in Canada
According to Dwight Yochim, a senior manager with BC Search and Rescue, this was possibly the first use of the feature in British Columbia.

Published on Jan 30, 2023 04:03 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
PagerDuty CEO quotes Martin Luther King Jr in layoff email, faces flak
On Twitter, users lambasted her for being “tone deaf”, and criticised her for using the word “refinements” instead of layoffs.

Published on Jan 30, 2023 04:01 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Aliens will go undetected if we don't cut down on space junk, say experts
Compared to 2019, the number of satellites have risen by four times with the current estimate being that over 8,000 machines are orbiting the Earth.

Published on Jan 30, 2023 02:36 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Google worker claims he was fired for rejecting female colleague's advances
Ryan Olohan claimed that Tiffany Miller groped him during a company dinner at Manhattan in December 2019.

Updated on Jan 31, 2023 11:30 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Uber CEO Dara was ready to reject the job offer until Spotify CEO said this…
In a recent interview with LinkedIn CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi revealed that his first reaction to the Uber job was “Heck no!”

Published on Jan 30, 2023 11:57 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Why Nirmala Sitharaman's Budget 2023 likely to avoid populist measures
In the last 20 years, only two out of four full-year budgets presented before general elections had a significantly higher chunk on rural spending, compared to defence and infrastructure.

Updated on Jan 30, 2023 10:01 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Zuckerberg's Meta gearing up for more layoffs? This report suggests so
As per the report, Zuckerberg thinks that several layers of management are a waste of resources.

Published on Jan 29, 2023 05:12 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
2023 BMW X1 launched at ₹45.90 lakh: Check key features
It will be locally produced at the BMW group plant in Chennai.

Published on Jan 29, 2023 04:00 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
‘Not Switzerland or Kashmir’: Nagaland min shares stunning pics from this state
Comparing it to popular tourist spots like Switzerland and Kashmir, the BJP state president tweeted that the photographs were from the newly built Chighu Resort at Anini in Arunachal Pradesh.

Updated on Jan 29, 2023 12:34 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
This 45-year-old Biotech CEO spends $2 million a year to be 18 again
Bryan Johnson even has a machine to monitor the number of erections at night, which are reportedly similar to a teenager’s.

Published on Jan 29, 2023 09:15 AM IST
Republic Day 2023: From Beijing to Dushanbe, how the diaspora marked 74th R-day
From Maldives to Australia, members of the Indian community shared glimpses from their Republic Day celebrations.

Published on Jan 26, 2023 05:51 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Google employees in California may no longer enjoy free massages. Here's why
Out of 1,845 employees fired from the tech giant’s headquarters in California, 24 massage therapists were part of the Mountain View office.

Published on Jan 26, 2023 03:09 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Republic Day 2023: Women riders debut on BSF camel contingent
While a total of 24 women underwent training to ride on camels, 12 women hailing from Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, were chosen for the parade.

Published on Jan 26, 2023 11:31 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Written by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
Republic Day 2023: PM Modi pays homage to bravehearts at National War Memorial
PM Modi observed two-minute silence as a homage to the supreme sacrifices of the armed personnel in protecting the nation.

Published on Jan 26, 2023 10:18 AM IST
Elon Musk changed Twitter name to ‘Mr Tweet’ and this might be the reason why
On Thursday, Musk tweeted with a laughing emoji that he had changed his Twitter handle to ‘Mr. Tweet’.

Published on Jan 26, 2023 09:21 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Chandrashekar Srinivasan
Woman, whose app-themed resume got her Spotify job, laid off
In April last year, Emily Vu was hired as a PM intern with Spotify after her green and grey coloured resume went viral on Twitter.

Published on Jan 25, 2023 03:46 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
Republic Day 2023: How to watch President Murmu's address to nation today
The regional channels of Doordarshan will telecast the President's address in local languages, too.

Updated on Jan 25, 2023 04:20 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Google sacks married couple with 4-month-old baby; woman was on maternity leave
A former marketing manager at Google, Allie went on parental leave soon after the birth of her first child in 2022.

Updated on Jan 25, 2023 01:02 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Anand Mahindra hails Sonam Wangchuk as a ‘climate hero’. Here's why
The education innovator is on a mission to protect the “eco-fragile” Ladakh and had announced a five day “climate fast” at Khardung La.

Published on Jan 25, 2023 10:54 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Republic Day 2023: Ban on flying objects; check dos and don'ts at Kartavya Path
Delhi Traffic Police also requested citizens to contact the nearest officer if they spotted any suspicious objects or activity.

Updated on Jan 25, 2023 08:27 AM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aniruddha Dhar
Budget 2023: What are different kinds of budget presented by Centre?
According to the differences in revenue and expenditure, the budget is categorised into three main types - balanced, surplus and deficit.

Updated on Jan 24, 2023 04:15 PM IST
Ritu Maria Johny | Edited by Aryan Prakash
‘24*7 job, no work-life balance’: Zomato posts 800 vacancies amid mass layoffs
In a LinkedIn post, Goyal shared that the company is hiring across five positions.

Updated on Jan 24, 2023 11:40 AM IST
Influencer makes reel on highway, fined ₹17K by Ghaziabad Police
Vaishali Chaudhary Khutail, who boasts over 6.5 lakh followers on Instagram, is seen striking several poses beside her car in the clip, while other vehicles pass by.

Updated on Jan 24, 2023 11:42 AM IST
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