Washington: Keeping middle managers happy with their supervisors is the key to retaining the lower-level workers they manage and avoiding expensive turnover costs, according to a Vanderbilt University study.

As the deadline for enlisting operators for intra-state airline services in Uttar Pradesh (UP) ended recently, three airline companies have approached the State Tourism Department with interest to commence operations as per guidelines of the new Intra-state Aviation Policy announced by the government. The State Tourism Department has identified 12 routes to be covered through intra-state air operations.

Washington: Bad hiring decisions cost employers millions of dollars, damage workplace morale, reduce productivity and account for more than half of employee turnover nationwide. It doesn’t have to be that way according to a new study that reveals how a few minor changes in the wording of a job advertisement can increase the size and quality of an applicant pool.

New Delhi: The annual rate of inflation stood at  -0.39% for the month of January, 2015 (over January, 2014) as compared to 0.11% for the previous month and 5.11% during the corresponding month of the previous year. Build up inflation rate in the financial year so far was -1.11% compared to a build up rate of 5.23% in the corresponding period of the previous year.

Washington: They may not all be as sinister as Kevin Spacey or as inappropriate as Jennifer Anniston in the Hollywood blockbuster “Horrible Bosses,” but recent research conducted by three University of Louisville professors highlighted that up to 36% of American workers – and possibly higher – work for a “horrible” or “dysfunctional” boss.

The annual presentation of the Union Budget mapping out in exhaustive details the income and expenditure of the Central Government for the fiscal year beginning on April 1 and how it proposes to spend and the ways and means to find the funds for spending will all be revealed on February 28, the last day of this month. 

London: A recent survey has revealed that 65.2% of entrepreneurs who are planning to go into business with family members will do so in 2015. 

Gainesville: For every degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the world loses 6 percent of its wheat crop, according to a new global study led by a University of Florida scientist. That’s one fourth of the annual global wheat trade, which reached 147 million tons in 2013.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has made the appointments to the NITI Aayog. Arvind Panagariya, Economist, is appointed as Vice Chairman. (Read in Hindi: प्रधानमंत्री ने नीति आयोग में की नियुक्तियां)

New Delhi: The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) led ‘Make in India’ (MII) initiative, has become the largest and fastest growing government initiative ever, on digital leaving behind every other government department like MEA (Ministry of External Affairs), Home Ministry or the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. (Read in Hindi: डिजिटल मंच पर बनी सबसे तेज सरकारी पहल बना ‘मेक इन इंडिया’)