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MUMBAI: The Indian Global Capability Center (GCC) of Deutsche Bank is betting on a startup-style approach to accelerate AI adoption, with its in-house incubator at Deutsche India Pvt Ltd (DIPL) drawing 100 ideas within its first 100 days, reflecting what its leadership describes as an unusually high openness to technological change among the local workforce.Stefan…

SRINAGAR: J&K police’s economic offences wing (EOW) raided three locations in Srinagar and Budgam districts on Thursday in connection with an alleged fraud involving two men who allegedly issued fake medical procurement orders to siphon off govt funds during Covid-19 pandemic.Delhi-based M/s Sanjay Trading Company’s proprietor, Sanjay Kumar Sahu, filed a written complaint with police,…

BENGALURU: India’s e-commerce and quick commerce sector is hiring again, but the playbook has changed. Talent demand rose 35% between 2023 and 2025 to nearly 98,750 roles, even as companies shifted from expansion-led hiring to building technology capability and execution strength, according to a CIEL HR report.The sharpest shift is in technology hiring. Demand for…

TOI correspondent from London: The judges who ruled against fugitive jeweller Nirav Modi’s attempt to reopen his appeal against extradition said their judgment “presents a worrying picture of the use of proscribed treatment to obtain confessions, which was characterised as ‘commonplace and endemic’”.Lord Justice Stuart-Smith and Justice Jay said in their order: “Were it not…

India’s economy is projected to expand by 7.6% in the current fiscal before moderating to 6.1% in 2026-27, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in its interim Economic Outlook report, PTI reported.The multilateral body said the evolving conflict in the Middle East has “human and economic costs” for countries directly involved and…

SRINAGAR: Ulfat Bano collects around 25 letters from the district post office in south Kashmir’s Shopian every morning and sets out on foot. There is no postal van to hop onto or a bicycle she can use if weariness strikes.The 55-year-old trudges through her native village of Hirapora, past stone walls and wooden barns with…

Borrowing costs for homebuyers in the US rose further this week, with the average long-term mortgage rate reaching its highest level in more than six months and adding pressure during the peak spring housing season.Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate increased to 6.38% from 6.22% a week earlier. The rate…

NEW DELHI: Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta on Thursday dubbed “Sheesh Mahal”, a name given by BJP leaders to the former official residence of her predecessor Arvind Kejriwal, a “dark chapter of corruption” and asserted that the truth behind it can no longer be hidden.No immediate reaction was available from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)…

India on Thursday urged members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to restore a fully functional dispute settlement system, saying the current mechanism has deprived countries of effective redressal, PTI reported.Speaking on the opening day of the WTO’s 14th ministerial conference (MC14) in Yaounde, Cameroon, commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal stressed the need to…

NEW DELHI: A professor at a medical college on the outskirts of Bengaluru has been booked for sexual harassment after allegedly re-entering the campus despite being barred and proposing to a female student in a classroom, an incident that later spiralled into a violent confrontation.Police said the episode took place on March 23 at a…