Samvaad Institute Of Speech And Hearing Is Organizing A Free Webinar

Part of Aphasia Awareness Month, the Samvaad Institute of Speech and Hearing is organizing a free webinar titled ‘Empowering Caregivers in the Journey Through Aphasia’ on 20th June 2025, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. 

Aphasia is a language disorder caused by damage to the brain, often due to stroke or head injury, which affects a person’s ability to speak, understand, read, or write—while leaving their intelligence intact. This condition not only impacts those diagnosed but also places a significant emotional and practical burden on caregivers.This webinar aims to create a supportive space for caregivers and families by offering insights into understanding aphasia, practical care strategies, and real-life success stories.

Individuals with Aphasia or caregivers and family members of individuals with aphasia may benefit from this program. Participants will also have the opportunity to interact with experienced stroke survivors and ask questions. 

To register, please contact 9061804609

7 In 10 Recruiters In Bangalore Measure Hiring Success In Talent Quality: LinkedIn Research

* Nearly Half (49%) Recruiters Define Quality By Skills, Deprioritising Traditional Degrees

* 85% of GCCs across the country now hire based on skills

* AI-assisted messages on LinkedIn Recruiter 2024 are seeing 44% higher acceptance rates globally

AI is transforming the talent landscape in Bangalore, and recruiters are rethinking how they measure hiring success. New research from LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network, reveals that quality of hire is the top measure of success for 71% of recruiters in Bangalore, followed by time to hire (66%) and retention rate (55%). The definition of quality is shifting – almost half (49%) of the city’s recruiters now prioritise practical and transferable skills when assessing talent.

LinkedIn’s India Hiring ROI research, based on responses from over 1,300 HR professionals across 10 cities, finds that 8 in 10 (81%) recruiters in the city are investing up to 70% of their budgets in AI and tech to boost hiring ROI. Almost 8 in 10 (78%) also say that online job platforms like LinkedIn yield the best returns on hiring investments.

Talent gaps key challenge across sectors

Recruitment investments in AI and tech are aimed at solving critical challenges. 65% of recruiters in Bangalore say it’s difficult to find the right mix of tech and soft skills, and 59% struggle to find candidates quickly. The IT sector, known to host a robust hub in Bangalore, is facing similar challenges – across the country, 69% of IT & technology companies struggle to find candidates quickly. Global Capability Centres in Bangalore cite limited training opportunities (63%) and mismatch between global goals and local talent availability (60%) as their biggest talent barriers in the city.

Ruchee Anand, Head of LinkedIn Talent Solutions, India, says, “India’s recruitment landscape is embracing the power of AI, and as an early adopter of all things tech, it is no surprise to see Bangalore see value in AI investments. However, the city’s thriving professional ecosystem poses a greater need for recruiters to invest in tools that can help them navigate a tough talent market. LinkedIn’s AI-powered tools can be instrumental in helping recruiters find and engage the right talent, and turn hiring efforts into business results with precision and impact.”

AI tools boost efficiency, help recruiters grow into strategic career advisors

Bangalore’s recruiters are turning to data analytics (74%) and AI-powering screening tools (63%) to hire faster and better. The IT sector, which is among the largest job creators in Bangalore, is also leaning towards data analytics – 74% of IT & tech organisations across the country are using the tool for better recruitment decisions.

Recruiters are seeing measurable results: 41% of them believe AI can yield improved outcomes for skills-based hiring and increase hiring efficiency. 44% also believe that by automating tasks, AI can give recruiters time back to focus on high-value activities like improving candidate experience.

As AI adoption grows, 95% percent of recruiters in Bangalore expect to step up as ‘strategic career advisors’ in their roles, and 96% plan to use personalised content and data insights to engage candidates more effectively.

Rishi Banerjee, Director, Talent Acquisition, Atlan, says, “At Atlan, we’re not just hiring for today—we’re hiring for what’s next. In an AI-first world, we’re focused on finding impact players who bring strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and the drive to tackle ambiguity head-on. It’s not just about filling roles—it’s about identifying and engaging with talent that’s ready to make an outsized impact. Platforms like LinkedIn have helped us reduce time-to-hire by up to 20% for some key roles, while uncovering high-potential individuals we might’ve missed through traditional channels. That’s helped us build highly talent-dense and future-ready teams—faster.”

LinkedIn’s AI-powered tools are built to help recruiters hire quality candidates faster, with higher response rates

As recruiters face rising pressure to move faster without compromising on quality, LinkedIn’s AI-powered tools are designed to deliver results that matter.

Recruiter 2024, LinkedIn’s first generative AI hiring experience, is already helping hirers connect with qualified candidates more effectively, with AI-assisted messages seeing 44% higher acceptance rates and being responded to 11% faster than standard outreach globally.

LinkedIn's first AI agent Hiring Assistant automates repetitive tasks like sourcing and screening, freeing up recruiters to focus on their most impactful work and strategic priorities like advising hiring managers, interviewing candidates and assessing candidate fit, and building stronger talent pipelines.

Freshworks Names Ian Tickle As Chief Of Global Field Operations

* Tickle transitions from interim role to permanent position, bringing 30 years of global sales experience to continue driving the company’s growth

Freshworks Inc., (NASDAQ: FRSH) today announced the appointment of Ian Tickle as Chief of Global Field Operations (CGFO). Tickle, who has served in this capacity on an interim basis since April, while maintaining his role as Senior Vice President and General Manager of International Sales, will now take on the position full-time to drive the company’s field sales-led growth through new business and customer expansion globally.

Tickle joined Freshworks one year ago, bringing extensive global leadership experience in enterprise software. Prior to Freshworks, he was President and Chief Revenue Officer at Domo and Vice President EMEA, SaaS Solutions, at Oracle. Throughout his career, Tickle has demonstrated expertise in scaling global sales operations, driving revenue growth in competitive markets, and leading organizations through critical transformation initiatives.

“Since joining Freshworks, Ian has distinguished himself as a customer champion and exceptional leader, working across the organization to deliver results for our users, our teams, and our company,” said Dennis Woodside, CEO and president at Freshworks. “He's made a big impact in a short time, and I am excited to see this momentum continue under his leadership as demand for our uncomplicated IT and customer service software grows.”

In Q1 2025 Tickle was instrumental in helping the team to a strong finish, where the company reported revenue growth of 19% year-over-year to $196.3 million, operating cash flow margin of 30% and adjusted free cash flow margin of 28%.

In his new role, Tickle will continue to report directly to CEO Dennis Woodside and serve as part of the company's management team. Based in Freshworks’ London office, he is strategically positioned to maintain the company’s strong global connectivity and reach.

"I'm honored to take on this role permanently and excited about the opportunities ahead for our global field operations," said Ian Tickle, Chief of Global Field Operations at Freshworks. “From day one, my focus has been on building a world-class team that partners across the business to deliver meaningful impact for our customers, our people, and the company. This new role gives me the opportunity to extend that impact more broadly, while staying deeply connected to the needs of our global markets.”

About Freshworks

Freshworks Inc. builds uncomplicated service software that delivers exceptional customer and employee experiences. Its enterprise-grade solutions are powerful yet intuitive, and quick to deliver value. With a people-first approach to AI, Freshworks helps teams be more effective and organizations more productive. More than 73,000 companies — including Bridgestone, New Balance, S&P Global, and Sony Music — trust Freshworks to improve service efficiency and fuel long-term loyalty. For the latest updates, visit freshworks.com and follow Freshworks on LinkedIn, X, and Facebook.

Trichy-Based VDart Announces Strategic Partnership And Investment In US-Based CSCS To Deliver AI-Led Global Supply Chain Solutions

* “With strategic global investments and emphasis on GCC-driven talent solutions, VDart is targeting $500 million in revenue by 2027”

VDart, a global leader in digital technology consulting, system integration, and talent solutions, has recently partnered with Cloud Supply Chain Solutions (CSCS), an AI-driven supply chain software company based in Atlanta. As part of the partnership, VDart is making a strategic investment in CSCS and launching a joint go-to-market strategy to deliver AI-powered, end-to-end supply chain solutions to enterprise customers worldwide.

"Today's supply chains demand agility, transparency and intelligence like never before," said Sidd Ahmed, Founder and CEO of VDart. "By partnering with CSCS, we're combining our strength in digital transformation and talent with their best-in-class intelligent supply chain solutions to help clients drive real impact."

Through this partnership, VDart clients will now have access to the CSCS Intelligent Supply Chain Platform, a next-generation SaaS platform that provides real-time visibility across complex, fragmented supply chains. The platform uses AI-powered optimization to close operational gaps and create seamless end-to-end supply chain intelligence — transforming what were once cost centers into strategic profit engines.

"This partnership allows CSCS to expand into new markets through VDart's extensive enterprise network," said Mansoor Khan, Founder and CEO of CSCS. "Together, we'll help organizations evolve their supply chains from operational burdens into competitive assets."

In addition, VDart customers will gain access to CSCS's comprehensive implementation services for leading supply chain platforms, including Manhattan Associates, Blue Yonder, SAP and Oracle. CSCS has a proven track record of delivering customized integrations and enhancements that address the limitations of legacy supply chain systems.

"Distribution and logistics systems — including TMS, WMS and OMS — are the backbone of modern global supply chains," said Mohamed Irfan Peeran, Managing Director of VDart Digital. "When implemented strategically, these platforms do more than optimize operations they drive topline growth through better customer experiences and improve the bottom line through greater efficiency, real-time visibility and intelligent decision-making. We see this investment as a clear extension of our mission to deliver value across every dimension of our customers' operations."

Kevin Nicholas, Chief Revenue Officer of CSCS, added: "Our combined strengths will empower clients to reduce costs, eliminate inefficiencies and finally make their supply chains work as assets, not liabilities."

Helping you Find More Channels And Businesses On WhatsApp

Today we’re introducing some new features for our Updates tab, which is home to both Channels and Status. We’ve worked over the last two years to make this tab the place for you to discover something new on WhatsApp and it’s now used by 1.5 billion people a day. We’re encouraged by the enthusiasm and also want to help admins, organizations, and businesses grow on WhatsApp.

We’re going to do this in three ways: 

Channel subscriptions: You’ll be able to support your favorite channel by subscribing to receive exclusive updates for a monthly fee.

Promoted Channels: We’ll help you discover new channels that might be interesting to you when you’re looking through the directory. For the first time, admins have a way to increase their Channel's visibility.

Ads in Status: You’ll be able to find a new business and easily start a conversation with them about a product or service they’re promoting in Status.

These new features will appear only on the Updates tab, away from your personal chats. This means if you only use WhatsApp to chat with friends and loved ones there is no change to your experience at all.

Ads built with privacy in mind

Like everything we do at WhatsApp, we’ve built these features in the most private way possible. Your personal messages, calls, and statuses remain end-to-end encrypted, meaning no one (not even us) can see or hear them.

To show ads in Status or Channels you might care about, we'll use limited info like your country or city, language, the Channels you’re following, and how you interact with the ads you see. For people that have chosen to add WhatsApp to the Accounts Center, we'll also use your ad preferences and info from across your Meta accounts.

We will never sell or share your phone number to advertisers. Your personal messages, calls and groups you are in will not be used to determine the ads you may see.

We've been talking about our plans to build a business that does not interrupt your personal chats for years and we believe the Updates tab is the right place for these new features to work. For businesses and Channel admins looking to get started, more information about how to do so is here.

Milind Sridhar From Arjunaa Academy For Achievers Secures A Remarkable AIR 9419 In NEET UG 2025

NEET 2025 Results have been announced today 14-6-2025 Saturday. The Results are now available in the form of Merit List and Score Card. The Merit List is available on the Official Website of NTA www.neet.nta.nic.in. The Score Card can be downloaded by the candidates by entering their credentials.

12,356,531 candidates have qualified the test out of 22,09,318 students who had appeared for the same. Qualifying the test means securing minimum marks set by NTA (National Testing agency) for their category. This enables the candidates to participate in the NEET Counselling sessions for admission into Medical and Dental Colleges though it does not guarantee a seat in any particular college. Admission cut off based on many factors set individually by Colleges plays a role in admission.

One of the leading institutes, Arjunaa Academy for Achievers known for their excellent training for the Competitive Exams like KCET, JEE Mains & Advanced and NEET is thrilled to announce that their student Milind Sridhar has performed extremely well at the NEET Test 2025 by securing an All India Rank 9419. This is an added feather in their already bright cap with outstanding KCET, JEE Mains & Advanced Results. Milind had also cleared the JEE Mains January Attempt with a 93.49 %tile.

HAREESH P K SIR – CEO, FOUNDER of Arjunaa Academy for Achievers and SENIOR FACULTY FOR PCM said, “One of the distinct feature at AAA is that we give toppers the freedom that they can solve additional questions in the classroom once they have completed solving questions given by the teacher.” 

He also spoke about Milind and said, “Success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. Milind is a living example of the same. He would put in several study hours at home and regularly get his doubts clarified. He was a hardworking and consistent student. He was meticulous to the extent that he would analyse the concept before attempting any question. He would not jump to conclusions which resulted in accuracy of the answers. Conceptual understanding was his strength. Last but not the least his humble and polite attitude contributed to his success.”

An ecstatic achiever Milind also shared his views about the Academy that helped him achieve what he has today, “The learning process gained momentum due to the guidance provided by teachers at Arjunaa Academy through their extensive teaching of concepts though I was just out of Grade X aspiring to crack NEET. The Modules provided by the Academy which has a really diverse and relevant collection of problems, helped me to get better at my problem solving ability, especially in Physics and Chemistry which helped me crack JEE Mains though I was a NEET aspirant which boosted my confidence to do well at NEET.”

National Testing Agency (NTA) is an independent autonomous organisation set by Ministry of Education (MoE) under Government of India (GOI). It conducts transparent and efficient tests to help candidates secure admission into higher education institutes. NTA conducts NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) for admission to undergraduate medical education in all medical institutions. The languages in which the NEET (UG) 2025 was conducted are: English, Hindi, Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu making it all language inclusive. NEET (UG) is required for admission to undergraduate courses in each of the disciplines i.e. BAMS, BUMS, BHMS and BSMS courses of the Indian System of Medicine in all Medical Institutions. 

Atlassian's New Loom Features Aim To Transform Business Communication

Atlassian, one of the world's leading publishers of agile collaboration tools, bolsters its Loom asynchronous video platform offering with a swathe of new features aimed at helping organisations communicate at scale.

Whether its live sessions eating up collective team, navigating multiple time zones or bringing training content to life, the way organisational knowledge is often shared at work is broken. Unsurprisingly, Indian workers currently waste more than 17 hours per week tracking down the information they need to do their work – that’s more than two full working days every week.

With Loom, teams can easily record and share AI-powered video messages with teammates and customers to supercharge productivity. New searchable via the Teamwork Graph enables new hires to easily find these resources within weeks or months after their first day, ensuring important information is always accessible.

Additionally, new Loom features available today better support teams in their quest to scale knowledge by enabling them to create clear, consistent, and compelling video content in minutes without burning out calendars or audience attention spans.

New Loom features include:

Overlays: Want to demo a tool? Engage your audience with eye-catching shapes, arrows, and text.

Backgrounds: Want to dress your video up without extra effort? Make your video pop with beautiful backgrounds (in beta).

Stylised captions: No sound, no problem! Make your message more engaging and easier to follow from the first word to the last.

Screenshots: Quickly snap a screenshot of your screen, then customise it with annotations and backgrounds, or edit it with crop and blur.

Improved filler word removal: Loom’s automatic speech clean-up tool has had a glow-up to help eliminate filler words, awkward pauses, and repetitive phrasing, helping individuals get straight to the point.

"If you're creating videos for your team, your company, or your customers, you don’t have time for endless takes or complicated tools. You need to move fast, stay polished, and deliver information that sticks. With Loom editing, you can create clear, consistent, and compelling video content in minutes, not hours. So whether you’re announcing a change, launching a product, or enabling your team, Loom helps you communicate at scale — without burning out your calendar or your audience", said Sanchan Saxena, head of product, Teamwork Foundations, at Atlassian.

Rob Litterst, Senior Manager, Hubspot, comments: “Loom has been a game changer for tech onboarding with our team at Hubspot. It makes it so easy to show new hires exactly how they should use our most important systems. I hate to throw even more tech on someone's plate, but Loom is totally worth it.”

The new Loom features will be available immediately For more information, visit the Atlassian blog: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/loom/scaling-knowledge-with-loom

 About Atlassian

Atlassian unleashes the potential of every team. Our software development, service management and work management software helps teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. The majority of the Fortune 500 and over 300,000 companies of all sizes worldwide - including NASA, BMW, Kiva, Deutsche Bank and Dropbox - rely on our solutions to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time. Learn more about our products, including Jira, Confluence and Jira Service Management at https://atlassian.com.