NEW DELHI: The Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) is examining a proposal to introduce ‘performance-linked incentives’ for its fund managers, which will see it allocate more funds to those who give better returns. This is part of the new benchmark methodology being developed for debt investments, officials told TOI. It is also assessing benchmarks for…
Accused Vinay Singh (L) hacked Minky Sharma (R) to death in their office in Agra’s Sanjay Place and disposed of the body. AGRA: A 32-year-old HR manager at a private company in Uttar Pradesh’s Agra was beheaded in her office and her legs dismembered allegedly by her lover for talking to another man. The accused…
Not all stories are celebrated because the people they belong too are quietly living with their laurels. Rakesh B. Pal speaks English with near-perfect accent and enunciation. He is sharp, intelligent, and an avid reader. He trains in martial arts every morning, attends dance classes in the evening, and drives an auto for a living….
Amazon is now closely monitoring office attendance, tracking not just presence but also exact hours spent by corporate employees. This escalation in surveillance, revealed by an internal document, flags ‘Low-Time Badgers’ and ‘Zero Badgers’ who don’t meet in-office expectations. The move follows a strict five-day return-to-office mandate, with similar tracking systems emerging at tech rivals…
Elon Musk’s companies – Tesla and SpaceX – struggled in 2008. The tech entrepreneur has talked about it at various public events, for example, in 2018, he told an audience at the South by South West (SXSW) conference that both companies almost went bankrupt in 2008. Now, an old footage from the year has been…
Day after Pjb ex-IG’s suicide bid, FIR filed over Rs 8cr fraud PATIALA: An FIR was filed on Tuesday in connection with a Rs 8 crore online fraud that allegedly drove retired Punjab IG Amar Singh Chahal to attempt suicide a day earlier.Chahal allegedly shot himself on Monday with a licensed revolver of his IRB…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s love for cricket has reportedly made its way inside the company. According to a report by Business Insider, the tech CEO is now using a‘cricket term’ for the software giant’s progress in artificial intelligence (AI). Nadella, the report says, has shifted to telling the company’s top manager that it is in…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is shaking up how the tech giant approaches artificial intelligence with an unconventional leadership strategy: keeping executives out of the room. The CEO has launched a weekly AI accelerator meeting that deliberately excludes senior managers from presenting, instead giving the floor to lower-level technical employees working directly on AI projects. Frontline…
MUMBAI: Institutional investors usually dominate pre-IPO placement, but a host of star individual fund managers crowded ICICI Prudential Asset Management’s (I-Pru MF’s) pre-IPO book. The family offices of two of India’s software sector pioneers – Azim Premji of Wipro and Shiv Nadar of HCL Group – also invested in this round, merchant bankers said. They…
In many Indian households, women are often discouraged from engaging with money matters, either due to a lack of interest or cultural norms. (AI image) There is ample evidence to suggest that women possess the qualities to excel in money management. They are diligent savers, patient investors, and sharp consumers. Yet, they often remain sidelined…