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Murthy's 70-hour week comment for youth sparks nationwide debate

The Morning Standard

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October 28, 2023

INFOSYS founder Narayana Murthy's advice to youngsters to work over 70 hours a week has sparked a debate.

- UMA KANNAN 

Murthy's 70-hour week comment for youth sparks nationwide debate

A few start-up founders and business leaders seconded his viewpoint and some others have opposed saying quality of work is greater than clocking in more hours, and that it is tough for young employees to dedicate 1213 hours each day along with an additional 2-4 hours of commute time. On Thursday, in a conversation with former Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai, Murthy said, "My request is that our youngsters must say, 'this is my country, I want to work 70 hours a week." He stressed that if the country wants to make significant progress, then the youth would have to work hard..

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In a first, Delhi Police uncovers illegal cartridge manufacturing factory in UP

THE Special Cell of Delhi Police has busted an illegal arms and ammunition racket operating in the national capital region and for the first time, unearthed a cartridge manufacturing factory linked to it in Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Amit Kaushik said on Wednesday.

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Roll revision 'dirty trick' from BJP's toolkit: CWC

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FOCUS ON SAFE DISPOSAL, REUSE OF EV BATTERIES

WHILE there is a major push for popularising electric vehicles across India and their numbers are galloping ahead, serious attention needs to be paid to the disposal and reuse of EV batteries—an area that remains largely ignored.

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Court dismisses PIL on shifting Afzal, Bhatt graves

THE Delhi HC on Wednesday dismissed a PIL seeking removal of the graves of executed terrorists Mohammad Afzal Guru and Mohammad Maqbool Bhatt from Tihar Jail, ruling that no law prohibits burials inside prison premises.

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Zelenskyy says India mostly with Ukraine

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Soviet-era MiG-21s to fly into sunset on Sept 26

AFTER serving for 62 long years, the MiG-21 fighter jets, the first supersonic air combat interceptor of the Indian Air Force (IAF), will officially be retired at a decommissioning ceremony on September 26 at the Chandigarh Air Force base, where they were inducted in 1963.

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Dust rises in city as construction work picks up ahead of GRAP

CONSTRUCTION activity has intensified across Delhi-NCR in the run-up to winter, just weeks before restrictions under the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) come into effect.

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4 arrested for selling pirated books: Police

The Delhi Police have arrested four people involved in selling pirated books of a reputed international publisher and also seized more than 3,200 copies worth over %15 lakh, officials said on Wednesday.

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