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Bengal Student Rejects Amazon, Google, Accepts Facebook. Salary Is...

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  New Delhi: A student of the Jadavpur University in Kolkata has secured a job at Facebook with an annual pay package of ₹ 1.8 crore. This is the highest pay package offered to any student of the university this year. Bisakh Mondal also got job offers from Google and Amazon but he chose Facebook because of the higher package. "I will join Facebook in September. Before accepting this job, I got offers from Google and Amazon. I thought choosing Facebook would be the best as the pay package offered by them was high," the fourth-year student of computer science and engineering told India Today. Mr Mondal will fly to his workplace in London in September. "I got the job offer on Tuesday night. In the past two years during the Covid-19 pandemic, I got the opportunity to do internships at several organisations and gather knowledge outside my curriculum studies. This has helped me crack the interviews," he was quoted as saying by the Indian Express. Mr Mondal c...

Russian missile strike hits crowded shopping center in Ukraine

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  A missile strike on Monday hit a crowded shopping centre in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, news agency Reuters quoted President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as saying. Zelenskyy stated that over 1,000 people were in the shopping centre when the strike took place, and that “it was impossible to even imagine the number of victims”. Currently, there are no details of causalities. Footage of the attack circulating on social media shows a massive fire raging and smoke coming out of the shopping centre as people panic. Oliver Carroll, Correspondent for the Economist, said “horror scenes”, citing a man speaking on the phone who said people were in the building and the walls of the complex are starting to fall in.