Biggest Story In India Headlines 20th September 2024
A 44-year-old French supermarket worker, Lionel R., pleaded guilty yesterday to having raped his neighbor and friend, Gisele Pelicot, when she was doped by her husband, Dominique Pelicot, for a decade. Of the 50 men accused of sexually assaulting Gisele Pelicot, it is said that this case has shocked France.
In court, Lionel testified that even though he never meant to rape Gisele on December 2, 2018, it was clear that something was not right in the encounter. He admitted that since he did not have Gisele’s consent, the act was rape. His testimony is part of a much more enormous case that has shocked the nation, with Gisele’s husband admitting to drugging her and allowing the rape of strangers while she was unconscious.
During the trial, Lionel confessed, telling Gisele he was asking her forgiveness. “I never meant to hurt you and I did,” he said in court, while asserting that, anyhow, it would be “too late” for apologia. Gisele, aged 71, listened silent during the statement.
Putting an end to controversy over overwork and corporate culture, her father Siby Joseph came out to confess on extreme work pressure that his 26-year-old daughter, Anna Sebastian Perayil, who was an employee of EY, was subjected to. Anna’s death has been debated upon. Disputing the claims by EY India Chairman Rajiv Memani, Anna’s family is convinced that her death was due to work pressure.
Siby Joseph says that Anna would frequently work till 12:30 am, though her family members were asking her to stop. According to him, Anna even complained to her higher officials about the overburdened work hour. Nothing has been done, though. He responded tearfully, “She had lodged a complaint to the assistant manager, but they insisted on working even at night.”
Joseph also attacked EY on communication after the death of Anna; he said that the company contacted only after Anna’s mother Anita Augustine wrote an open letter to Memani. The letter, going viral on social networks, accused EY of driving its employees to physical exhaustion by working them to bone.
The newly-launched iPhone 16 is now just a click away, as quick commerce platform Blinkit delivers the device within 10 minutes of purchase. Founder Albinder Dhindsa took to X – formerly known as Twitter- to share the news that the sales breached the 300-mark and described the day as “one crazy day”.
Blinkit has partnered with Unicorn Infosolutions, the largest Apple Premium Partner in India, to bring the iPhone for the third consecutive year. Consumers in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, and Lucknow can now get their iPhone 16 within minutes-the most rapid approach ever to acquire the latest Apple gadget.
The second thing he said was that Unicorn is offering discounts on select credit cards and EMI options, so that all the customers get to enjoy flexible payment plans.
EY India Chairman Rajiv Memani has spoken out once more to point out that it was indeed tragic how 26-year-old employee Anna Sebastian Perayil passed away. He explained why, in fact, no one from the firm attended her funeral. The incident leaves people questioning the workplace culture at EY, especially after Anna’s mother accused the firm of subjecting her daughter to extreme stress and overwork.
In a LinkedIn post, Memani stated that: “As a father myself I can only imagine the pain Anna’s mom must be suffering.” He explained that the company had been in contact with Anna’s family since the incident and that their thoughts were with them in this trying time.
But was EY representative absent during the funeral of Anna? Everyone would ask how much support it grants its employees. Memani has been refuting for the umpteenth time that Anna had died because of work pressure, but row has snowballed with more details coming to light.
An Indian IT company under fire for its peculiar job requirement that claims to focus on maintaining a balance in personal life, in a manner many found offensive. Hexaware BPS, in its listing for a Talent Acquisition Executive said that the applicant should have “no baggage” and that his “personal life should be sorted.”
The job posting surfaced on Naukri.com and did not take much time to surface on Reddit, where most users were reached. Users accused the company of valuing applicants’ personal lives at the cost of their professional ones, and some would even call it a work-life scenario with wrong equations for balance.
It comes at a time when there are increasing discussions regarding what constitutes an unhealthy or healthy work culture-and programs available for fair employee well-being-and the growing need for a healthy separation between personal and professional lives.
It has also sparked off the debate quite fresh on how toxic working environments have become. The video features former CEO of BharatPe and Shark Tank India judge Ashneer Grover recalling that he quit his job at Ernst & Young (EY) within one working day after receiving a ₹1 crore package deal. The comments made by Grover may be considered controversial, but it’s pertinent relevance to the discussions that have been surfacing post the EY employee Anna Sebastian Perayil’s death.
Grover described his experience at EY as stifling, terming the employees as “Zinda leash (living corpses).” He described how the atmosphere at the office was suffocating, forcing him to feign a chest pain episode in order to get away from the job on his first day. His words, provocative as they are, have elicited as much derision and praise on social media with billionaire Harsh Goenka one of those who laid into Grover for “advocating toxic work culture.”
The company’s flagship Apple stores in Delhi and Mumbai received hundreds of customers as the company started officially selling its long-awaited iPhone 16 series in India today. Hundreds of fans of the brand thronged outside their respective stores to get hold of the latest handsets, first unveiled in the much-awaited Glowtime event this month.
The size of the sheers at BKC in Mumbai and Saket store in Delhi demonstrate that people are still fans of Apple and never get tired of falling in love with its products over and again. Enthusiasts stood in long queues even before dawn, and the buzz around the iPhone 16 increases further to make the brand a brand with an unbreakable customer base.
Joining the chorus of toxic workplace culture at the firm are what yet another former employee of EY comes to reveal: during his time at the company, he was constantly requested to complete 18 hours of work and was frequently called by his managers at midnight. His is just one more testimony of what hundreds of employees of the company say to be true amongst them: that the company regularly overworks its staff.
These charges, coupled with Anna’s untimely death, have thrown a critical limelight on the working atmosphere of EY India, and many are demanding reformation for better employee welfare. The firm’s Chairman, EY India Rajiv Memani, has ruled out overwork as a cause for Anna’s death, but the growing complaints cannot ignore a serious concern inside the company.
Elliott Hill, who is now serving at Nike for nearly three decades, will take over his new position as CEO on Oct 14, replacing the present chief executive John Donahoe. “It’s a key moment for the global sneaker and sportswear giant, which has been facing reduced sales and new entrants like Hoka and On have been upping the pressure on competition.”.
Hill’s rise in Nike is nothing short of miraculous. He first applied for an internship back in 1988 after six months of unsuccessful job hunting. He has since held different leadership positions up to where he is today, the chief. His transition from intern to CEO is inspiration for success stories when faced with adversity, especially in sportswear competition.
The case of a Frenchwoman drugged and raped over a decade by multiple men continues to shock the country as a 44-year-old supermarket employee, Lionel R., admitted on Thursday to having raped an unconscious Gisele Pelicot whose crime was orchestrated by her husband, Dominique Pelicot.
The act is admitted to be sexual assault as he admitted to the court that he did not get the consent of Gisele. He asks forgiveness from Gisele; in response, she sat quietly through his testimony. There are 50 men involved in the case, which has thrown very serious issues like abuse and exploitation. The French public would go shivering with the detail after detail of the case.
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