The e-commerce sector gave a much higher average hike of 16-20 per cent to its executives.
The company has also stepped up its courtship of machine-learning PhD's, joining Google, Amazon, Facebook and others in a fierce contest
But how much has the national team actually improved?
Maria Sharapova joined Serena Williams in making an early exit from the Australian Open on Monday but defending champion Victoria Azarenka swept into the quarter-finals with an 18th straight victory at Melbourne Park.
AB de Villiers played a match-winning knock of 79 not out from just 47 balls against Gujarat in the Qualifier 1 match to help RCB stage one of the greatest comebacks in the history of the tournament, after the hosts were reduced to 29 for five at one stage chasing 160 for victory.
Modi asked bureaucrats to imagine whether or not their life has become "robotic". "If it has happened than this impacts the whole government and system. We can't be robotic. That can't be our life," the prime minister said during an hour-long interaction with civil servants at the 9th Civil Services Day function at Vigyan Bhawan.
India is witnessing its own tech tsunami, and is poised to become the second largest global startup hub by the end of the decade
Emraan Hashmi and Esha Gupta have seen failure and come out stronger.
Bernard Tomic is set to sit out the Australian Open after Tennis Australia (TA) decided not to award him a wildcard to the main draw, the organisers said on Thursday.
Does Mumbai's Masala Library live up to its reputation? Harnoor Channi Tiwary finds out!
Sukanya Verma recaps all the action at this year's MAMI.
Images from Tuesday's matches at the Australian Open.
A round-up of Day 1 of the Ranji Trophy group matches played on Thursday.
'You walk out of Mukkabaaz feeling good about yourself, but unlike Kashyap's best pictures, it releases you from the responsibility of seeing yourself in it; the movie is darn clever, most of the way, but it hardly has any wisdom,' says Sreehari Nair.
'This was Kohli's veneration for his master: The man who had inspired him to pick up a cricket bat in the first place, the man he had grown up watching. Just that now, he was exactly like him, or, dare it be suggested, maybe a shade better while chasing down daunting totals,' says Dhruv Munjal.
"I am a bad boy in the film and I am one in real life as well," says the star.
A round-up of all the Ranji Trophy matches played on Sunday
India has never had so many highly-ranked shuttlers.
Images from matches played on Day 4 of the Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Thursday
'I miss Tabu's beauty, her graceful presence, her delicate smile and the texture of her voice, with which she can convey so many things -- the lonely mother, the lover, the seductress, the wronged woman, or a young woman charmed by an older man,' says Aseem Chhabra.
Charles Darwin found his passion playing with rocks halfway around the world.
The gulf between Hindi cinema's finest current actor and his contemporaries widens with each film. But even Irrfan Khan, in Mick Jagger's words, can't always get what he wants. Raja Sen tells us why that's not a bad thing.
In the second part of a series, we bring you recipes from chef Vikas Khanna's latest book.
Indian economy about to take-off