Soumya Mishra and Sumegha Mishra are siblings. They hail from Ajaypur village, Ashoha block, Unnao district, UP. Their father Raghavendra Kumar Mishra is a teacher and has been living in Delhi since the past 27 years. Elder sister Soumya Mishra completed her training as SDM in 2021 by succeeding in PCS and at present she is SDM in Mirzapur district. 

Soumya secured 18th rank in All India IAS list in her fourth attempt. Her younger sister Sumegha Mishra cracked the IAS exam in her second attempt. Sumegha ranked 253rd. 

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Shakti Dubey of Prayagraj cracked the UPSC 2025 in the 5th attempt

Shakti Dubey of Prayagraj cracked the UPSC 2025 in the 5th attempt. 

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Visually impaired Ravi Raj from Nawada cracked the UPSC 2025 with 182nd rank

Visually impaired Ravi Raj from Nawada, Bihar, cracked the UPSC exam with an impressive 182nd rank. Supported by his mother, Vibha Sinha, who read aloud and wrote his answers, Ravi studied 10 hours daily despite his disability. While cooking, his mother played YouTube lectures for him. Later, Ravi would speak his answers aloud, and she would write them down. Together, mother and son battled every obstacle. 

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At the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue in early January 2025, speaking to journalist Palki Sharma, the chairman of Mahindra Group emphasized the importance of quality over quantity when it comes to work.

When asked how many hours he works in a week, Mahindra said, “This is what I wanted to avoid. I don’t want it to be about time. I don’t want it to be about quantity. Ask me about the quality of my work. Don’t ask me how many hours I have worked.”Taking a dig at Subrahmanyan’s remark—where he questioned, “How long can you stare at your wife?”—Mahindra said, “I want to tell people that I am on X or social media not because I am lonely. My wife is wonderful; I love staring at her. So, I am not here to make friends. I am here because social media is an amazing business tool. How in one platform, I get feedback from 11 million people.” 

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L&T chairman, Mr. S N Subrahmanyan advocated 90-hour work week

“What do you do sitting at home? How long can you stare at your wife? How long can the wives stare at their husbands? Get to the office and start working.”

L&T chairman, Mr. S N Subrahmanyan

advocated 90-hour work week, wanted employees to work on Sundays too in videos and press articles which have gone viral in January 2025. 

This forum and its founder (viz. Deep Banerjee) is on the same page with Mr. S N Subrahmanyan. While supposedly 'working from home', people (mostly in the IT profession) hip hop the entire country alone or with family members and are more busy projecting themselves as travel bloggers and garnering subscribers. They love to be addressed as travel enthusiasts or automobile enthusiasts. If travel blogging or automobiles are their forte, they might as well quit their full time employment to pursue their passion. Rarely have we heard them saying that they are IT enthusiasts. 

If the bluff by these IT guys (who are anything but professionals) are pointed out, they try to justify their unethical act by saying that they try to maintain a 'work life balance' to avoid burning out. These irresponsible bluffers should be made to permanently 'remain at home without job'! 

In reality the large chunk of unethical IT employees who consider themselves to be an enlightened lot are simply moonlighting with no dedication to the profession that fetches them their bread and butter. IT companies are bound to adopt a stance of 'Zero Tolerance To Moonlighting' and strictly 'Ban Moonlighting' where the rot has set in across hierarchical levels. If they don't, they will perish. 

Video courtesy: Moneycontrol 

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Moonlighting - I strictly don't subscribe to it

Moonlighting? 

A strict NO for me.
Simply unthinkable. 

I remember boooooting out a Kolkatan in possibly his late 30s from Indian Roadie. He was the ubiquitous ITwala who was a pass out from some Ghanta Institute of Technology. He was extremely vocal in favour of MOONLIGHTING. Although he was pretty close to me, I was almost sure that he would backsta*b me sooner or later immediately after he got into a heated debate with me one evening on why he felt that moonlighting was his birthright.
I placed him under my virtual scanner. With almost 4 decades of experience in sales/ marketing/ communication, mingling around with thousands of people from all walks of life, I was certain that he just can't be an ethical person. Within about 6 months after that debate, he bared his fangs late one evening. It was clear that he reared an unprecedented level of grudge against me because I was not in the same page as him with respect to 'moonlighting'.
Needless to mention, I was Happy To Evict him from my professional initiatives after he stooped down to foul mouthing me on the phone. 

I am absolutely on the same page with Mr. Narayan Moorthy. 

Video courtesy: Brut India
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Ireland based tech giant Accenture, which employs over 750,000 people across 120 countries, is reportedly delaying the majority of its employees' promotions by six months. 

Last week, the company informed employees that most promotions will be announced in June 2025 instead of December 2024 timeframe, Bloomberg reported, citing sources. 

In October 2023 Accenture announced that it would not be providing salary increases to its employees in India and Sri Lanka in 2023, except where legally required or where commitments were made in critical skill areas. 

The company employs over 300,000 people in India.

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