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Himani Chandna

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Himani Chandna is a Senior Special Correspondent at BW Businessworld covering issues around pharmaceuticals, healthcare, job market, talent acquisition and management of human resources

Latest Articles By Himani Chandna

Sunny Leone: Coming To India Was My best Decision

Sunny Leone has made it to the BBC's 100 most influential women. She is a Bollywood actor, reality TV host and the most searched person on internet in India for four years in a row. She is also a business woman. Known as a control freak about money management, Leone told Himani Chandna that she does not believe in hierarchy at workplace

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Indian employees across cities adopting flexi and digital work spaces, says Microsoft Asia Workplace 2020 Study

84% consider themselves mobile workers; 70% feel empowered to embrace flexi-work

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IBM Study Finds Higher Education to Play a Pivotal Role in Bridging India’s Skill Gap

61 percent of India’s higher education leaders said that the education system is unable to respond to society’s changing needs

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Criteo Appoints Siddharth Dabhade as General Manager India, with a focus to accelerate growth in the market

With the passion and expertise in business expansion, Siddhath Dabhade was welcomed on board.

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“We want to be world class in aviation industry people policies.”

Meet Sukhjit S Pasricha who heads the human resources at IndiGo. Pasricha with over two decades in corporate headhunting has worked with brands such as Bharti Airtel, Pepsico, Spice Communications, Apollo International and Vardhman Group. He has spent more than four years with IndiGo now after his successful stint at Bharti Airtel, Africa operations. Sitting with his boss Aditya Ghosh, BW People's Himani Chandna, Pasricha discusses the disruptive HR practices that IndiGo has coined. Edited Excerpts.

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Coca-cola India announces change in it’s communications team

Arpan Basu to lead Corporate Communications of INSWA Business Unit with a direct reporting to Ishteyaque Amjad, Vice-President Public Affairs and Communication, Coca-Cola India and Southwest Asia

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"We are and we want to be the best company to work for"

Fighting the winds may be his professional compulsion, but Aditya Ghosh, president and whole time director of IndiGo, is as self-effacing as zephyr. With his team, he plans to take off and explore unknown territories of the limitless sky in the rather unpredictable space of aviation. He shares his thoughts over people management skills with Himani Chandna of BW People. Edited Excerpts

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Aditya Ghosh : A leader behind IndiGo's flight to triumph

He never delayed the salaries, even by an hour. He never retrenched the staff. He gave the possibly best salary hikes. Meet the man with the flight plan - Aditya Ghosh knows how to keep the employees happy in a demanding profession.

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GST will revive job market: Adi Godrej

Unwrinkled at heart, 120-year-old diversified conglomerate, The Godrej Group was one of the few companies which stood up for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community. Adi Godrej, chairman of Godrej group has shared tips on how to run a 120 year organisation with an updated forward looking policies on managing the young force. While company is 120 year old, it was a few of those companies which are vocal about rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

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"We have to make India the skill capital of the world"

Pilot cum politician, Rajiv Pratap Rudy is excited to see the countries such as Afghanistan, Malawi, Bangladesh and Bhutan which are absolutely keen to learn from India’s experiences of skill training. Rudy, union minister of state (independent charge) for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), who had already served as a minister in the Vajpayee government, believes there is a very stable government at the Centre, which has given certain directions that are visible. In conversation with BW Businessworld’s Suman K. Jha and Himani Chandna, Rudy says that more and more women candidates are coming forward to learn skills. Edited excerpts:

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