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Education company Chegg is helping pay down its employees’ student loan debt. ‘They are creating value for us’

Chegg has a new plan to help its employees deal with their student loans. The student-connected learning platform will give its employees up to $5,000 a year. “If they borrowed money and they are creating value for us, we want to help them,” says CEO Dan Rosenzweig.

The best summer internships will teach you these important career skills

Over half of students graduating college in 2017 have had internship experience. College Works Painting gives student interns the opportunity to manage a house painting business from start to finish. Internships can teach you skills that lay the foundation for your career, according to Ryan Coon, an entrepreneur and former College Works intern.

Young or old, it’s a good time to get a job

Those armed with a newly minted diploma will enter a job market with unemployment near the lowest level in 50 years and job prospects up significantly from just last year.  

Highest Demand Under MGNREGS in April Hints at Possible Return of Reverse Migration

In what could be a direct result of localised lockdown due to spike in covid-19 cases, demand for work by households under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has surged 102 percent in April 2021 to 2.45 crore households from 1.21 crore households a year before.

Anti-COVID-19 2-DG drug developed by DRDO was first studied by Patanjali, claims Acharya Balkrishna

New Delhi: 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG), the anti-COVID-19 drug that has been developed by Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and been given an emergency use nod by Drugs Controller General of India’s (DCGI), was first studied by Patanjali researchers, claimed Acharya Balkrishna.