2 FRIDAY 28-8-2020 5% of Accenture employees to lose job Trust your institutions on entrance exams, IITs tell students Bengaluru, Aug 28: first reported this, citing an internal staff New Delhi, Aug. 28: Global professional services leader meeting by Accenture CEO Julie Sweet Further delay in con- 17 lakh NEET-JEE admit cards downloaded Accenture which has over 5 lakh em- in mid-August.”She said that despite ducting medical and en- ployees worldwide is to cut at least 5% cutting subcontractors and halting fresh gineering entrance exams New Delhi, Aug. 28: downloaded admit cards petitive exams. NEET and JEE exams, in of its ‘low-performing’ workforce and The government on for the medical and engi- Congress and various view of the COVID-19 recruitment, the company still needed to NEET and JEE will lead thousands of Indians are set to lose reduce numbers,” the report said.India, to a ‘zero academic year’ Thursday defended its neering entrance exams, opposition parties have pandemic and the flood jobs owing to sluggish business during which has the largest Accenture em- and any quick alternative move to go ahead with Union Education Minister demanded that NEET situation in the state, a pandemic. to the crucial exams will NEET and JEE exams de- Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nis- and JEE examinations be senior CMO official told This will be big blow for ‘low- ployee base of nearly 2 lakh employees, dilute the quality of edu- spite mounting pressure hank’ said his ministry deferred due to the CO- reporters in Bhubaneswar. performing’ workforce and thousands of could see thousands of workers being cation and have cascad- to defer them, saying over has been receiving e-mails VID-19 pandemic and “We have received Indians who are set to lose jobs owing affected by the move. ing effects, according to two-thirds of candidates from students and parents floods in parts of the coun- mails from students and to the sluggish business the company is Accenture currently has 513,000 directors of several Indian have downloaded the ad- that these exams should try, even as the Union gov- parents who are in favor witnessing in the recent times. people serving clients in more than Institutes of Technology mit cards which shows not be further postponed. ernment has made it clear of holding exams as they Australian Financial Review (AFR) 120 countries. (IITs). that students want these The minister’s remarks that they will be held as have been preparing for Amid the chorus for exams to be conducted at came a day after seven per schedule with due pre- the exams from at least Storms in US, Australia leave 7 postponement of the two any cost, and asserted that chief ministers of non-BJP cautions. two three years. The Su- exams in view of the it won’t let the Congress ruled states agreed to the On Thursday, Odi- preme Court too opined dead; cause big damage rising COVID-19 cases, party “spoil” students’ fu- need for filing a review pe- sha Chief Minister Naveen that full academic year the IIT Directors appealed ture to find relevance. tition urging the Supreme Patnaik also spoke to can’t be wasted. After two Melbourne/Houston, Aug. 28: ger. The 24-year-old male driver was to students to trust the Noting that over 17 Court to reconsider its Prime Minister Narendra deferments, exam dates A wild storm that hit Australia’s taken to hospital with minor injuries, institutions conducting lakh out of nearly 25 lakh recent order rejecting the Modi over the phone and have been finalized,” the second-largest city knocked out power officials said. the exam. candidates have already postponement of the com- requested him to postpone Education Minister said. to 56,000 homes, contaminated the wa- Around 56,000 homes lost power, “The pandemic has ter supply and felled trees that killed Victoria state Premier Daniel Andrews government has been en- in the world. A quick is also a member of the ment. three people, authorities said on Friday. already disrupted the aca- suring that all necessary alternative to these tests Joint Admission Board “Does anyone have an said. Power was expected to be re- demic plans of many A 4-year-old boy was struck by a tree stored to all by Friday afternoon. arrangements are made will certainly not be as (JAB) of IITs, said the idea how the situation is Thursday evening and died later in students and institutions to safeguard the health gratifying as competing decision to conduct the going to be after three The power failure caused disrup- and we don’t see the virus hospital, police said, as Melbourne was tions at a water purification plant. and safety of the stu- for this examination by exams in September has months or five months ? lashed by wind speeds up to 158 kph going away anytime soon. dents. Delaying the exams all fair means”. not been taken overnight Even if the exam is held Residents in 88 of Melbourne’s 523 We should not let this be (98 mph). suburbs were advised to boil their would have a cascading He said an alternative but after due consider- in September, we won’t Meanwhile, hurricane Laura made a zero academic year as it drinking water until further notice. effect so we should come could be misused as a ation. be able to start classes landfall near Cameron in Louisiana on might have consequences together in understand- precedent to dilute the Das said the public before the middle of Laura, a category 4 hurricane with a on the bright future of Thursday, bringing “catastrophic storm ing its importance and entire admission process may not be aware that November at the earliest. surge, extreme winds and flash flood- maximum wind speed of 150 miles several students,” Ajit K. support the system in to the IIT system which a lot of effort has gone That itself means almost per hour and one of the strongest to Chaturvedi, Director, IIT ing” that killed at least four people, conducting it seamlessly,” may prove to be harm- into preparing to conduct a loss of a semester. caused extensive damage to property hit the US, slammed the Gulf Coast Roorkee, told PTI. he added. ful for the quality of the entrance exams amid Further delay will do early on Thursday and roared through He also said students and snapped electricity supply. According to Viren- undergraduate education the pandemic and after nothing other than loss In Australia, A 59-year-old man was Louisiana. The bulk of the damage and their parents need to dra Tewari, Director, IIT at the IITs. “I urge the that experts have taken a of a year and then next was reported in Louisiana. The storm have faith in the system. killed when a falling tree crushed the Kharagpur, “The exams aspirants to take it up technical decision to hold year you will have two car he was driving. And another tree barreled over Lake Charles, Louisiana, “The decision to con- have a global reputa- as a challenge and show the exams in September first year batches. Are duct these exams has truck a pickup truck on a highway, an industrial and casino city of 80,000 tion for seeking excel- their mettle and sincerity with appropriate security our institutions ready killing a 36-year-old woman passen- people. been taken after con- lence and are considered to the world,” he said. measures, health norms with the infrastructure to sidering every aspect of one of the toughest and Sarit Kumar Das, and the same has been handle such a situation?” NAME CHANGE NAME CHANGE NAME CHANGE the current situation. The prestigious examinations Director, IIT Ropar, who endorsed by the govern- he asked. I, Kalavathy Srinivasan, I, Ammukutty, W/o. Lakshmi I, Naveen Prabhu Boodu, S/o. Kandasamy, Date of Narasimhan, Date of Birth: S/o. 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