SpiceJet announces Rs511 ticket offer
NEW DElHI: Commemorating 11 years of its journey so far, budget carrier SpiceJet, has announced “The Anniversary Sale” with one way base fares starting as low as Rs511/- for domestic sectors and Rs2111/- for international sectors (excluding statutory taxes and fees.) The three day sale launched on Tuesday will be open till midnight, 19 May 2016 for domestic travel period 15 June 2016 to 30 September 2016 and international travel period 1st June 2016 to 20th July 2016. The sale is valid only for direct flights within SpiceJet’s network. The special offer is also available on some of the very popular routes like Dehradun, Bagdogra, Udaipur, Jaipur, Goa, Port Blair, Kochi etc in the domestic network and Bangkok, Colombo, Dubai & Muscat in the international network. Tickets for this sale can be booked on www.spicejet.com, SpiceJet’s official mobile apps of iOS and Android, on online travel portals and through travel agents.
India suffers from huge gender pay gap: Monster Salary Index
New Delhi: Amid raging debate over gender pay gap globally, a new report shows the figure for India stands as high as 27 per cent, where men earned a median gross hourly salary of Rs288.68 while women earned Rs207.85 per hour. As per the latest Monster Salary Index, by online career and recruitment solutions provider Monster India, in the IT services sector the median gross hourly salary was the highest at Rs337. But the IT services sector has a huge gender pay gap of 34 per cent. Men in IT services earn Rs 360.9 per hour, while women earn only Rs239.6 per hour.A sector-wise analysis shows the gender pay gap was highest in manufacturing sector (34.9 per cent) and lowest in the BFSI and Transport, logistics, communication, equally standing at 17.7 per cent. According to the report, some of the reasons behind gender pay gap could be the preference for male employees over female employees, preference for promotion of male employees to supervisory positions and career breaks of women due to parenthood duties and other socio-cultural factors.
Internet penetration yet to catch up desired pace, says DoT official
New Delhi: The pace of internet penetration is yet to reach the desired level in spite of telecom companies’ efforts to spread services in the country, a senior Department of Telecom official said on Tuesday. Additional Secretary at DoT N Sivasailam appreciated efforts made by telecom companies to spread mobile phones and services in the country but said internet penetration has yet to happen at intended peace for which efforts are being intensified, as per a statement issued by PHD Chamber. He was speaking on the occasion of World Telecommunication Day –ICT Entrepreneurship for Social Impact organised by the chamber. The National Telecom Policy 2012 has set target to achieve 175 million (17.5 crore) broadband connections by the year 2017 and 600 million by the year 2020 at minimum 2 Mbps download speed and making available higher speeds of at least 100 Mbps on demand.