Pandemic News

The Bar Council of India (BCI) has postponed the All India Bar Examination (AIBE) 2020. AIBE 2020 exam scheduled to be held on August 16 was postponed due to the rising numbers of Coronavirus (COVID-19) across the country. The written exam ...

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has released the new guidelines for phased re-opening (Unlock 3). According to the recent Unlock 3 guidelines, schools, colleges, educational and coaching institutions will remain closed till August 31 outside the Containment Zones. Online/ ...

Employees placed with Google will now be working from home (WFH) until June next year, according to the company's new work policy, making it the largest tech giant to have a such long-term commitment with its workforce. The latest announcement by ...

The Maharashtra State Council for Educational Research and Training has launched four YouTube channels for Marathi and Urdu medium students targeting from Class 1 to 10. Minister of School Education Varsha Gaikwad informed through her official twitter handle. It has also ...

LinkedIn, a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft, has said that it will be laying off 6 per cent of its global workforce, or 960 jobs owing to the sustained impact of COVID-19 pandemic on its sales and hiring operations. The ...

IndiGo - the biggest private airline in India will be formally laying off 10 per cent of its employees in a bid to offset the decline in its revenues after being struck by the COVID pandemic, and resultant lockdown in the ...

The Staff Selection Commission has released the SSC calendar 2020 revised for various recruitment examinations. Interested candidates who are aspiring for the competitive examinations can visit the official site of SSC to check the Staff Selection Commission calendar 2020. The SSC ...

The COVID-10 pandemic has led to an "unprecedented education emergency" and disrupted children's education so much so that up to 9.7 million children will be faced with the risk of dropping out of school spurred by the economic crisis, according to ...

The Directorate of Government Examinations, Tamil Nadu (TNDGE) has released the TN 12th Hall Tickets 2020. The Tamil Nadu Board had released the Class 12th hall tickets or admit cards for the state-level board examinations. Students who have registered for the ...

All the Delhi state university exams are likely to be cancelled, including the end-term exams of students in the final year owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, as announced by Dy. Chief Minister Manish Sisodia. With Delhi being one of the ...

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) has cancelled the Class 10 (Secondary) and Class 12 (Senior Secondary) board exams 2020 scheduled in March and rescheduled from July 17. The NIOS board exams 2020 cancelled in wake of COVID-19 spread in the ...

Harvard University together with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over its move to strip international students of their F-1 visas (student visa), if their curriculum goes completely online owing to the COVID-19 ...

Buckingham Palace, the London residence of Queen Elizabeth II and the administrative capital of the Royal Household, has come under the cloud of COVID-19 pandemic, with hundreds of its employees facing the prospects of a job loss spurred by a steep ...

The suspension of H-1B and L-1 visas by the U.S administration till December 2020 is likely to cost the Indian IT Companies Rs. 1,200 crore with a marginal loss of 25-30 basis points (0.25-0.30 per cent) in their profitability this fiscal, ...