To stay ahead in the digital banking space, State Bank of India (SBI) is buttressing its human resources (HR) systems and practices. The bank, India’s largest lender, will take steps such as audit of its HR systems and practices. For this, it will rope in a consultant.

SBI will also conduct, for the first time, an employee engagement survey to get feedback on the effectiveness of HR practices and policies that are in vogue. Ashwini Mehra, deputy managing director and corporate development officer at SBI, said audits would be conducted every five or six years. The last such exercise was done in 2009 by HR consulting firm Hewitt.

Amidst the golbal terrorism chaos, Institute for Economics & Peace has released it's Global Terrorism Index. Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Syria are the worst hit countries by terrorism. In the year 2014, these countries suffered the largest number terrorist attacks.

According to the index, in the year 2014, the number of lives lost to terrorism increased by 80% and these five countries were victims of total 78% of these attacks.

A Rs 98,000-crore project to lay India's first bullet train network between commercial nerve centre of Mumbai and Ahmedabad was today finalised at the annual summit talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe.

"No less historic is our decision to introduce High Speed Rail on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad sector through Japan's Shinkansen, known for its speed, reliability and safety," Modi said at a joint media event with Abe.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today granted a solatium of Rs four lakh each to the kin of 23 people killed in rain-related incidents in the State.

All the victims were killed in the first week of this month in Kanchipuram district.

Gold prices jumped by Rs 290 to regain the Rs 26,000-level at the bullion market today on the back of a firm trend overseas and pick-up in buying by jewellers to meet wedding season demand.

However, silver remained weak and lost Rs 200 at Rs 33,850 per kg on reduced offtake by industrial units and coin makers.

Software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) emerged as the biggest wealth creator in the past five years, while MMTC and Reliance Industries topped the list of companies where investors lost the most, says a study.

According to wealth creation study conducted by financial services company Motilal Oswal, TCS created wealth worth Rs 3,458 billion for the period 2010-15, followed by ITC (Rs 1,565 billion) and HDFC Bank (Rs 1,540 billion).

There is a curious mismatch between the number of shareholders reported by The Associated Journals in its filings to the ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) and the number of shareholders as claimed by senior Congress leaders in recent interviews.

Business Standard has reviewed annual returns of The Associated Journals for six years starting September 2009. In each of those years the number of shareholders was in four digits. Annual returns report the number of shareholders as on a specific date, usually the date of the company’s annual general meeting.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the ‘Make in India’ initiative has become a movement in Japan and the island nation has created a fund of about USD 12 billion for it.

“Today, there is a ‘Make In India’ movement in Japan. I have been told that USD 11-12 billion fund has been earmarked for it. This clearly indicates how both the countries can move forward,” he said while addressing the India-Japan Business Leaders Forum here.

Mahindra & Mahindra is close to signing a deal to buy Italian car designer Pininfarina , two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday, the latest purchase of an iconic Italian brand by an Asian company.

The terms of the deal have been agreed by both parties after months of talks and an announcement could come as soon as next week, the sources said.

Lingering concerns over the passage of GST Bill in the ongoing Parliament’s winter session and factors such as interest rate hike worries by the US Federal Reserve next week, falling commodity prices, funds outflow by foreign institutional investors and bleak global cues dragged the key benchmark indices over 2 per cent down for the week ended December 11. This week Sensex and Nifty fell 593.68 points and 171.45 points to 25,044.43 and 7,610.45, respectively.

During the week, Cairn India (down 9.80 per cent), Punjab National Bank (down 8.60 per cent), Vedanta (down 8.50 per cent), Coal India (down 8.20 per cent) and YES Bank (down 7.60 per cent) slid the most in the Nifty pack.

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