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Hiring up 4% in Oct'13 over Sep'13: Naukri Job Speak Index

The Naukri Job Speak Index for the month of October 2013 was at 1,286 showing a 4% growth in hiring

New online course format at Minerva Schools

The first batch of the Minerva Schools at KGI, an initiative of the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI) and San Francisco-based Minerva Project, would matriculate in the fall of 2015

Irda extends product refiling deadline for life insurance by 3 months

Earlier deadline was Oct 1 which mean have meant that customers would have limited new products to choose from

Insurance cover coming for online fraud

NPCI calls bids to cover all card based transactions carried on NFS where point of compromise or dispute is on NFS ATM network

On a high note: Music schools crop up as demand rises

Celebrities and international musicians are being roped in by these institutes to give them a feel of the international music market

Aviation institutes on cloud nine as more airlines set to dot Indian skies

Training schools, big and small, experience a surge in student intake

High discounts unlikely to hit general insurers' books

Life insurers bet big on female agents

Several life insurers already have an almost equal proportion of male and female agents

Chola MD launches truck insurance

This would serve as one of the first value added insurance products for truck owners in the country

Axis Bank to continue hiring women graduates via its ISB tie-up

Bank hired 12 women in managerial positions; to hire more this year

Tarun Chugh appointed PNB MetLife MD

Present MD Rajesh Relan to become head of bank distribution for Asia

PSU general insurers cut premiums to attract corporates

Go agressive on group health segment

IIT-B, WUSTL to offer joint EMBA course

IIT-B to set up research park within its campus

Now, general insurers make a beeline for small business owners

Small & medium enterprises prefer simpler products with small cover size

Nilesh Shah to replace Manish Chokhani as CEO of Axis Capital

Chokhani to be an advisor to Axis Bank

NIIT Ltd net profit up 3.4%

NIIT tied up with Autodesk to introduce training programs in design as learning discipline in India

High discounts on insurance may impact general insurers' books

Property premiums being offered at almost 80% discounts

Indian Nuclear Energy Pool may be delayed

GIC Re is the proposed manager of the pool, which will have an initial corpus of Rs 1,050 crore

Digitising policies won't cost insurers much: CAMSRep

CAMS Insurance Repository is a licensed provider of digitised policies

e-KYC set to benefit banking, financial services sectors

With e-KYC you can actually do an online account opening in a bank which will be much more simpler, says Sumant Kathpalia, head, consumer banking, IndusInd Bank