Новости за 23.12.2015

Call it the spirit of Christmas. A bunch of startups are using their marketing brains to help spread Christmas cheer among those who need it the most.

American private equity giant Bain Capital and GIC of Singapore have signed an agreement to invest $325 million, or over Rs 2,000 crore, in engineering services company Quest Global for a minority stake.

American private equity giant Bain Capital and GIC of Singapore have signed an agreement to invest $325 million, or over Rs 2,000 crore, in engineering services company Quest Global for a minority stake.

Wipro is acquiring New Jersey-based Viteos Group for $130 million, or over Rs 820 crore, to bolster its portfolio in the capital markets and asset management industry, leveraging the latter's platform-based IT outsourcing services.

Compensation discussions are often tricky and can at times push the process of employee development off-track.

Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan has again flagged concerns over the rising level of bad loans in Indian banks, pointing out that weak corporates with lower debt-servicing capacity may worsen the situation.

The winter solistice saw the city experiencing the lowest temperature on Wednesday morning with the Met department recording 16.2 degree Celsius

Gopal Warkhade, a havildar attached to Thane city police commissioner’s office, has claimed bronze medal in the master’s category of 50-60 age group at the just concluded state power lifting championship at Sangli while competing in 67 kg weight class

Rising incidents of fatalities on Central Railway’s suburban route could be attributed to the absence of medical assistance at stations during the Golden Hour, claimed an activist following the public admission of CR authorities about the lack of trained staff to attend to mishap victims

INS Godavari was decommissioned on Wednesday at the Naval Dock in the city. The ship’s fate will be decided by the government

Industrial units, shops and markets in Noida and Greater Noida must follow a staggered weekly closing roster from January 1 to follow a new decongestion plan that the Gautam Budh Nagar district administration unveiled on Wednesday.

In a thundering speech at Mumbai’s Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Hameed Haroon, the CEO of Pakistan’s DAWN Media Group, exhorted the people of India and Pakistan to bring down the metaphorical “Berlin Wall” that has arisen between the two nations since Independence

From January 1, all police stations in Maharashtra will register first information reports (FIRs) online and the complainant will receive an SMS and a copy of complaint on WhatsApp

In what is being seen as a launch of Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign for the 2017 UP elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally in Gautam Budh Nagar on January 31. Although the occasion would be the launch of 16-lane 33-km stretch between Nizamuddin to Dasna, the UP BJP has grabbed the opportunity to organize the PM’s public rally at a park adjacent to NH 24 in Gautam Budh Nagar.

The 22-km stretch between DN Nagar in Andheri to Mankhurd on the 40km Dahisar-Charkop-Bandra-Mankhurd Metro-II corridor will be elevated and not underground, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has decided. This means the entire corridor will now be elevated

Shortage of doctors has long been ailing the public health department in UP. In a desperate bid to ensure that doctors work in state-run hospitals and health institutes, UP government is mulling making MBBS course free for students willing to sign a bond to serve 10 years in government hospitals once they finish their course. The bond worth Rs 1 or Rs 1.5 crore will be filled up by the students at the time of admission.

Lake-City residents will be served an exhaustive entertainment package on a platter with an array of performances, artwork and workshops of hundreds of artists

Youngsters unlock their creative sides to set up the best star in the neighbourhood. Excited children huddle around baby Jesus’s manger as all gear up for Christmas

On the day Rajya Sabha got stalled over the arrival of stones for construction of Ram Mandir, the carving and chiseling work continued in Ayodhya on Wednesday. When TOI visited the the workshop – Mandir Nirman Karyashala – a handful of artisan were busy with their work, unmindful all the politics going around it.

On the day Rajya Sabha got stalled over the arrival of stones for construction of Ram Mandir, the carving and chiseling work continued in Ayodhya on Wednesday. When TOI visited the the workshop – Mandir Nirman Karyashala – a handful of artisan were busy with their work, unmindful all the politics going around it.

A day after the Bombay high court’s interim order allowing schools to increase fees by up to 15% for the 2016-17 academic year, there was confusion among parents and schools

The freshly drafted Maharashtra Public Universities’ Act, 2015, states that academic bodies must design procedures, policies and practices to introduce more flexible approach to education and of “adaptive pace of learning” with minimum and maximum duration for completion of a degree and other academic programmes

If Mumbaikars are sniffling, coughing or sneezing more than usual, blame the thick haze hanging over the city for the last four days.

Wajid Shaikh, the 25-year-old who went missing from Malwani near Malad with friends and was detained in Pune on Tuesday, does not have any links with ISIS but had come in contact with people who were provoking him, said Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officials.