Intercaste Marriage by Son costs Priest his Job

As per a report:
A temple priest in Namakkal, Tamil Nadu was sacked after his son married a woman belonging to a community of another caste, which was in opposition to the alliance, in Kumarapalayam near Namakkal, Tamil Nadu. Read full story  here at......Intercaste Marriage by Son costs Priest his Job 

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Graduates not eligible for sweeper job!

Shimla, Graduation may not be a ticket for getting a job for cleaning Shimla’s streets.

The Shimla Municipal Corporation has rejected the candidature of seven applicants. They were graduates but had no experience of sweeping, corporation official Sonam Negi told IANS.Read More................Graduates not eligible for sweeper job!

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Actress gets letter for security guard interview

Panaji, Goa’s state employment agency ‘wants’ a film actress doing her PhD and computer science graduates to appear for job interviews for security guards.

Priyanka Bidaye, who has acted in two regional films and is studying for her PhD in Physical Chemistry, is one of the several dozen people who were sent call letters earlier this month for interview and physical test for the post of a security guard at the state industries department. Read More................Actress gets letter for security guard interview

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Government job to woman who cut off her tongue to honour a politician

A human rights campaigner in India has criticised the award of a government job to a woman who cut off part of her tongue "to honour" a politician.

SV Raja Durai said the decision to give K Sarita a job preparing meals in schools would encourage copycat acts.

Ms Sarita maimed herself as an offering to the chief minister of Tamil Nadu state, and only swift medical help saved her tongue. Read More................Government job to woman who cut off her tongue to honour a politician

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He becomes She to get a job

NAVIPET (NIZAMABAD): Poverty has forced a 24-year-old youth to turn himself into a woman in the district. The youth, a native of Vaddera Colony in the mandal, underwent a sex change operation in Mumbai and returned home recently.

"My family members were shocked and cried for two days when I informed them about the sex change operation," Kondapalli Shankar aka Ankita told TOI. Shankar went under the scalpel six months ago in a Mumbai hospital. Read more.....He becomes she to get a job

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Rush of applicants for hangman job

The 'honour' and status of being known as the man who executed the most notorious terrorist in India's history, the Mumbai attacker Ajmal Amir Kasab, has attracted a rush of new applicants for the job as hangman.

Kasab was convicted on 86 counts of waging war on India, terrorism and joint responsibility for more than 50 murders in an attack in which a total of 166 were killed.

There have been calls for his death sentence to be carried out speedily and for any appeal to be fast-tracked, but hopes of a swift execution have been hindered by India's lack of a single working hangman. Read More................Rush of applicants for hangman job to execute Mumbai attacker

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Four unemployed elephants get jobs

BHOPAL: Four elephants have found a job in the Pench and Satpura tiger reserves in Madhya Pradesh after they were rendered jobless in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Read More................Four elephants get jobs at Pench, Satpura tiger reserves

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After 28 years, twin caught holding brother's job

CHANDIGARH: It happens all the time with identical twins. One sibling impersonates the other and often gets away with it. But few can possibly match the feat of the Singh brothers of Punjab who carried the deception for 28 long years — until one of them pushed his luck too far. Read More................After 28 years, twin caught holding brother's job

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Man to get job 16 years after applying for it

JAIPUR: Observing that a person sitting at the door of the court must not be denied his rights due to the delay in adjudication, the Rajasthan High Court has directed the state government to recruit a man into the Border Home Guards, who had approached the court against his non-selection way back in 1992. Read More................Thanks to HC, man to get job 16 years after applying for it

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A 'temporary' teacher for 18 years loses his job

After working for 18 years at a government-run school in West Bengal, a man lost his job as a judge ruled he had been appointed only temporarily. Read more............A 'temporary' teacher for 18 years loses his job

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Dirty Jobs

I don't think anywhere else in the world such a large population does these DIRTY JOBS or do it at all.

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Fortune-tellers play Career counsellor

PUNE: As if talent, temperament and interests were not enough, more and more students are queuing up at the offices of numerologists and astrologers to help them select the right career.

Parents and students approach them to know the inclination of their wards and select the field accordingly. The number goes up following results and psychologists term the tendency as “anxiety tolerance". Read more..........................................Fortune-tellers play career counsellor

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Man orders father murdered to get his job

A man in Bihar state of India after getting frustrated at failing to find employment, ordered the murder of his father to get his government job, a day before the victim was to retire. Read more.......................Man orders father murdered to get his job

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Man absent for 15 years gets job back

NEW DELHI: Imagine remaining absent from duty for 15 years and still retaining the job. And to top it, securing a court order for payment of half the salary for the period. Read full story at TOI...........................Man absent for 15 years gets job back

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Call for interview after 11 years

Riyaz Saiyad has forgotten the year in which he had applied for job in the city sessions court, Ahmedabad. He has also forgotten the number of vacancies and whether his application was for the post of a clerk, or a peon. Not surprising, since he had applied way back in 1997.

A letter calling him for an interview served as a reminder, after 11 years, about six months back. Read more.....................Call for interview after 11 years

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When Kitty Parties land you a job

In India the latest recruitment hotspots are kitty parties, residents welfare associations (RWAs), art exhibitions, local trains, parks, gymkhana clubs and even children’s painting competitions monitored by parents. Read full article here................A stroll in the park can land you a job

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Judge comes to court drunk, loses job

A civil judge in Chhattisgarh state of India lost his job after he came drunk to the court and abused a lawyer and a staff member. Read more.....................Judge comes to court drunk, loses job

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Cop wrote letters for 22 yrs to get back job

It took Subal Moharana from Harirajpur in Orissa state of India, 22 years to get back his job with Railway Protection Force after a dismissal for allegedly stealing 25 kg of coal from a wagon.Read full story.........Cop wrote letters for 22 yrs to get back job

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Grandpas on job hunt

In India the new-age Grandpas would rather upload their CVs on the internet and spend their retired lives on a corporate swivel chair instead.

"I want to work as long as possible," says Kaushal, one of the Gradpa from Ahmedabad in Gujarat state of India........Read full story here.......Now, grandpas on job hunt

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Accountant quits 'boring' job, turns highway robber

Here is the story of an accountant who left his job of accountancy as he was getting too bored with his job. So this 31-year-old Rajib Chatterjee from West Bengal state of India got attracted to the life of a highwayman robbing people. Over the years, he built up a gang and a notoriety that would put even hardened criminals to shame.......Read full story........Accountant quits 'boring' job, turns highway robber

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