2023

Mar 29, 2023, 07:30AM ISTSource: TOI.inSalary hike discussion: Appraisal season is approaching and you must be wondering how much pay hike will you get in 2023? What are the average salary hike expectations for every sector, and which sectors will get the best and the worst hikes this year? Answering these important questions is Roopank Chaudhary, Partner, Aon India & South Asia. In this episode of...

THANE: Aggrieved by a police constable for checking his car, a man abducted and assaulted the on duty constable in 2017 has been convicted and sentenced to five years of rigorous imprisonment by the Thane sessions court. The accused Ali Rajak Pathan, was convicted by additional sessions judge Rachna R Tehrawho also imposed a fine of Rs 1500. Two other accomplices of the accused identified as Rahul Rama...

KOLKATA: The sexual assault and murder of the seven-year-old girl in Tiljala was a planned crime, with the accused, Alok Kumar Sah, having stalked the child for at least two weeks, police said. Alok had clicked her photographs and studied her movements, especially her whereabouts on weekends, the probe revealed. Cops said Alok had chosen the day of the murder carefully. "Alok Kumar Sah had been...

CHENNAI: Up to nine people can get infected while travelling on a half-full city bus with one Covid-19 positive passenger, shows a study by scientists at the Anna University and Puducherry-based ICMRVector Control Research Centre. The numbers can increase if there are more infected patients or if the bus is more crowded or if the passengers travel longer distances. In the study, recently published in...

NOIDA: A police team had to be deployed at Supertech Ecovillage 2 in Greater Noida after a group of residents objected to a gathering for namaz on Monday evening.The residents said they did not have any objection to people offering prayers in the society's commercial compound, but alleged that many of them were outsiders. This, they said, had put the society's security at risk.Around 8.30pm on Monday, a...

MUMBAI: Daily detection of Covid-19 cases in the state more than doubled on Tuesday in comparison with Monday's tally, showing a steady rise in transmission. Experts said the recombinant subvariant XBB 1.16, which was isolated in the first week of March by genomic scientists from Maharashtra, is responsible for 60% of the cases. The subvariant has also been linked with a death -though not with increased...

MUMBAI: Mutual fund companies are wooing retail investors who seek to avail of long-term tax benefits in debt funds in the last few days of the fiscal ending March 31. Last week, the government withdrew indexation benefits for investors in mutual fund schemes that hold less than 35% domestic equity in their portfolio. The new norms will apply from April 1, 2023.According to industry players, the demand...

NEW DELHI: With the Supreme Court agreeing to hear on Wednesday a Kerala man's petition seeking contempt action against Maharashtra for failing to rein in hate speeches by Hindu organisations despite SC orders, solicitor general Tushar Mehta asked why is the petitioner seeking to target one community."Why petitioner Shaheen Abdullah from Kerala is blind to hate speeches close to his home? Why is he...

MUMBAI: Holding that the special CBI trial court Judge passed a wrong order in January 2018 in a 2009 custodial torture and death case, the Bombay high court setting it aside directed framing of a murder charge against three accused police officials.The forensic report had said Shaikh had died due to contusions on head, noted Justice P D Naik and said the trial court order in not framing the murder...

NEW DELHI: The government on Tuesday cancelled the licences of 18 pharmaceutical companies for manufacturing of spurious medicines following an inspection by the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) on 76 companies across 20 states."Huge crackdown under way on pharma companies across the country related to manufacturing of spurious medicines," news agency ANI reported quoting sources."Action on 70...