Pukhrayan: Rescue workers concluded their search of the mangled carriages of a derailed train on Monday, bringing the number of passengers killed in the disaster to at least 142 and the injured to more than 200.

Sunday’s derailment in Uttar Pradesh was India’s deadliest train crash since 2010 and has renewed concern about the poor safety standard of the state-run network, which is a lifeline for millions of Indians but has suffered from chronic underinvestment.

With lenders doubtful over the completion of Samrala Chowk and Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad (KUA) Package VI projects, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has terminated the ventures, sources confirmed to FE. Both projects were to be built through the hybrid annuity model (HAM). Raghav Chandra, chairman, NHAI, told FE that both the projects have been terminated. Chandra, however, denied that banks were uncomfortable lending to the projects.

In early trade, the benchmark BSE Sensex rebounded over 120 points and the NSE Nifty regained the 8,100-mark in the opening trade today on value-buying in select blue-chips amid a firming trend on other Asian bourses. Besides, covering-up of short positions by speculators supported the recovery. The 30-share index was trading higher by 120.02 points, or 0.45%, at 26,270.45 with sectoral indices led by oil&gas, metal and PSU leading the recovery.

The Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has asked its field offices to settle death claims within a period of seven days from the date of receipt of proposal and retirement claims on the day of retirement.

Last month during the PRAGATI review meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had desired that claims related to death cases be prioritized and expedited and retirement claims may be settled on the day of retirement.

Criticizing the role of media on the report of Vijay Mallya's loan waiver, State Bank of India's Chair-Managing director, Arundhati Bhattacharya on Friday denied any intent of the loan being waivered for the embattled liquor baron.

"This allegation is a mischievous allegation done by the certain parts of the media to unnecessarily give us a bad name and to smudge our reputation. It is a technically accounting entry that is done in order to clean the balance sheet," Bhattacharya told ANI here.

A top American lawmaker has said the economic reforms unleashed by India would not only boost its growth but also accelerate the Indo-US relationship. “Reforms put in place has helped us realised this impressive growth. I see an opportunity here to accelerate this (India-US) relationship,” Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the powerful House Foreign Relations, told a global meeting of Hindu businesses and entrepreneurs here.

Bajaj Auto rolled out the first batch of their much awaited super premium 400 cc bike from the Chakan plant on Friday. The first batch of these powerful bikes were rolled out by an all-women engineer assembly line. The motorcycle is slated for a mid-December 2016 launch.

What makes the roll-out even more special is the fact that the assembly line, which has produced these powerful bikes is fully managed by women engineers. “This is a milestone event for Bajaj Auto as a manufacturer embracing the best technology as well an organisation committed to gender diversity,” the company said.

Microsoft will tie executive bonuses to workforce diversity goals after the company saw a second consecutive year of declines in the percentage of women employees, owing to its exit from the phone handset market. The percentage of women working at Microsoft fell to 25.8 per cent from 26.8 per cent of the company's workforce as of September 30, largely because the Nokia handset factories that Microsoft divested employed a larger number of women, said Gwen Houston, the company's chief diversity and inclusion officer.

You know you’ve been wanting to play around with that new version of Microsoft Paint — if only to see if it is, indeed, that big of an update to the long-maligned drawing application that’s been shipping with Windows since the mid-1980s.

Paint 3D is unquestionably one of the biggest refreshes in the application’s history. In fact, it’s really a complete rethink, one that serves as a major cornerstone for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update, aimed at making 3D content creation an essential part of the operating system.

New Delhi: Despite expanding distribution channels from just Reliance-owned retail stores to others, Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd is struggling with slow subscriber growth and the subscriber run rate has fallen to less than 50% after the first 15 days of the launch. In fact, the company’s sale of SIM cards has been hit adversely after the government’s demonetisation move as there has been a 40-50% dip in the footfall in comparison to last month, Motilal Oswal noted in a 16 November report.

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