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From stigma to scale: How Antara is building India’s senior-care ecosystem

As attitudes towards ageing shift in post-pandemic India, Antara Senior Care is carving out a multi-vertical elder-care platform spanning senior living, care homes and health products. In a conversation with CNBC-TV18, Executive Chairperson Tara Singh Vachani outlines how rising longevity, changing family structures and a growing focus on wellness are driving demand—while regulatory gaps and lack of standards remain the sector’s biggest scaling challenge.

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Namma Yatri enters corporate mobility with OneBanc, extends its zero-commission model to enterprise rides

Ride-hailing platform Namma Yatri has partnered with OneBanc to enter the corporate mobility market, extending its open-network, commission-free operating model to enterprise travel and employee ride benefits. Under the partnership, enterprises will gain access to an integrated corporate mobility workflow that combines employee travel booking, policy enforcement, expense capture, invoicing, and reconciliation within a single automated system. The integration is designed to offer predictable pricing and streamlined booking for employees, audit-ready and compliant data for finance teams, and fair, commission-free earnings for drivers operating on Namma Yatri’s platform. OneBanc is an AI-powered Employer Money Tracking System (EMTS) that automates payroll, benefits, and expense management for enterprises. With the integration, all corporate rides booked on Namma Yatri are automatically captured within OneBanc’s platform. The system validates route details, timestamps, merchant informat...

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Infosys partners with Cognition to deploy AI software engineer Devin across global enterprises

Infosys has entered into a strategic collaboration with US-based AI coding company Cognition to deploy Devin, the AI software engineer, across its internal engineering teams and global client engagements. The partnership marks one of the largest enterprise rollouts of agentic software engineering tools to date, spanning highly regulated and complex industry environments. Under the collaboration, Infosys will integrate Devin into its engineering ecosystem through Infosys Topaz Fabric, the company’s agentic AI services suite that brings together infrastructure, models, data, applications and workflows into a composable, agent-ready architecture. The combined offering is aimed at accelerating time-to-market, improving developer productivity, and shortening technology modernisation cycles for enterprises. Infosys has been using Devin internally for the past six months and has reported material improvements in engineering quality and efficiency. According to the company, complex modernis...

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Samsung Electronics plans large share buyback to fund employee stock compensation

Samsung Electronics has announced plans to purchase 2.5 trillion won worth of its own shares as part of a long-term employee and executive compensation strategy. The move underlines the company’s growing emphasis on stock-based incentives linked to performance and value creation. The share acquisition will be carried out through open-market purchases between 8 January and [...] The post Samsung Electronics plans large share buyback to fund employee stock compensation appeared first on HR Katha .