Johnson and Johnson India on Friday announced an enhanced paternity leave policy under which new and adoptive fathers will be entitled to eight weeks of paid leave during the first year of birth or adoption.

For new mothers, the company has been offering up to 26 weeks of maternity leave for the past six years.

State-run power giant NTPC on Wednesday said it has offered 27.4 million equity shares to its employees at a discounted price of Rs 159.60 per scrip.

The discounted price was fixed after factoring in 5 per cent discount to the cut off price of Rs 168, discovered through the Offer For Sale of equity shares of NTPC carried out by the government on August 29-30.

Fresh triggers in the equity markets caused the Sensex and Nifty to trade on a negative note in Wednesday's morning trade.

The 30-share BSE Sensex opened on 31,713.50, down by 95.95 points while the broader 50-share NSE Nifty lost 52.95 points to start trading on 9,899.25. However both the indices soon extended losses as Sensex tanked more than 220 points to hit the intra-day low of 31,586.53 within the first half an hour of trading.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based chatbot ‘Eva’ — built for HDFC Bank by Bengaluru-based Senseforth AI Research — has successfully addressed over 2.7 million customer queries in six months to become the country’s largest banking chatbot. According to HDFC Bank, it collaborated with Senseforth and launched ‘EVA’ (Electronic Virtual Assistant) in March this year on its website www.hdfcbank.com. Since then, ‘Eva’ has interacted with over 530,000 unique users, holding 1.2 million conversations and addressing 2.7 million queries with ease.

Reliance Industries (RIL) was up 1% at Rs 1,650, extending its 6.6% surge in past five trading sessions on BSE, after the company fixed September 9 as the record date for 1:1 bonus issue. The stock will turn ex-bonus tomorrow on September 7.

The stock outperformed the market by gaining 7.7% from Rs 1,532 on August 28, as compared to 1% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex.

Ashok Leyland Defence Systems (ALDS), part of Hinduja Group flagship Ashok Leyland, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on cooperation with Rosoboronexport (ROE), Russia, and an Indian firm ELCOM Group, to provide tracked vehicle solutions to Indian armed forces.

Rosoboronexport (ROE), Russia, is the only state-run firm in Russia for export of an entire range of military products and technologies. ELCOM Group is a player in strategic electronics, avionics and tactical communication globally.

Mumbai: The rupee on Wednesday weakened for the fourth session to hit a three-week low against the US dollar after foreign institutional investors (FIIs) liquidated their investments in the domestic markets.

At 2pm, the rupee was trading at 64.17 a dollar, down 0.06% from its Tuesday’s close of 64.13. The rupee opened at 64.18 a dollar and touched a low of 64.26, a level last seen on 16 August.

Honda Motorcycles and Scooters India (HMSI), the country’s largest scooter manufacturer, has managed to increase its market share in the motorcycle segment to 17% in the April-August period of the current fiscal, compared with 13% in the corresponding period last year.

As a result the Japanese two-wheeler manufacturer has overtaken Bajaj Auto and TVS Motors in motorcycle sales to grab the second spot in terms of unit sales in states like Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Odisha.

Coal India (CIL) has drawn up an emergency plan to regulate coal movement to the non-power sector for pushing additional coal to the thermal power plants. In the long run, it plans to redefine its priorities much on the lines of the governance practiced in Central Coalfields (CCL). Redefining priorities has helped in complete transformation of this CIL subsidiary, both in terms of physical and financial parameters.

When it comes to securing data in the Cloud, enterprises, including small and medium businesses (SMBs), have to learn that security is not an isolated offering but an inherent part of the end-to-end architecture as they begin to adopt the ecosystem, a top Microsoft executive has reiterated. It is often said that there are only two types of companies — ones who know they have been hacked and the ones who don’t know that they have been hacked. “All of us have some level of exposure to malware and it is unintentional.

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