The Pitch Days will be on the TCS campuses on Tuesday in Mumbai and next Thursday in Bengaluru. The one-day events will be open to early-stage start-ups in the financial technology sector.

Called H2H3 (Horizon 2, Horizon 3), the programme operates like an in-house incubator and fund, identifying potent ideas that have the potential to scale up over a two- or three-year timeframe and generate substantial revenues.

Others firms which have submitted applications for the auction that will start on 4 March include the local unit of Vodafone Group Plc, Reliance Communications Ltd, Idea Cellular Ltd, and Tata Teleservice Ltd, the people said.

Air India, which is facing acute shortage of cabin crew, declares one door ‘unserviceable’ on some of its long-haul flights, which lowers the crew requirement. And it happens mainly on flights to New York and Chicago, where it operates most of its flights with 11 crew as against a requirement of 14, crew members, who requested anonymity, said here.

The model, which competes with Honday City and Maruti Ciaz, will be available in both petrol and diesel options and have ten variants.

Independent analysts say though Microsoft in India is yet to catch up with Amazon Web Services, the aggression shown by the company in gaining market share recently is evident. For Microsoft, Azure is a $20-billion revenue business and emerging markets such as India seem growth drivers.

The stock opened at Rs 386 and touched a record high of Rs 402 on NSE. The trading volumes on the counter almost doubled with a combined 7.37 million shares changed hands till 1250 hours on NSE and BSE.

At 2:12PM, the 30-share Sensex was up 218 points at 29,345 and the 50-share Nifty was up 62 points at 8,871.

The Pitch days will be held in the TCS campuses on February 24 in Mumbai and February 26 in Bangalore.

Equity fund managers pumped Rs 550 crore in the stock, even as it was ruling at all-time high levels. The shares moved in a range between Rs 3,341 and Rs 3,730, a record high on a closing basis.