Public sector telecom firm BSNL will clear salaries of all employees for February month by Friday, its Chairman and Managing Director Anupam Shrivastava said. "BSNL will pay salary of all employees by today. We are thankful to telecom minister Manoj Sinha for his timely intervention to ensure that salaries of employees are paid at the earliest," the BSNL CMD said.

Bank of Baroda has become one of the first public sector banks to launch a crche/child daycare facility for children of its employees. After launching such a facility at its Mumbai corporate office in Bandra Kurla Complex which houses some 1500-plus employees, the bank intends to roll out more of them at its head office in Vadodara.

Apple has reportedly confirmed it is firing 190-employees from its ambitious self-driving car project called Titan. According to a report in San Francisco Chronicle, the Cupertino-based company has laid off mostly engineers, including 38 engineering programme managers, 33 hardware engineers, 31 product design engineers and 22 software engineers. The layoffs in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale would take effect from April-16, according to the source.