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As dust storms brew, India breathes toxic air throughout the year
The worsening air pollution across north India in the summer has also prompted renewed concerns that it’s no longer just a winter phenomenon, but a year-long public health crisis
Tech Push for Micro Insurance
A perfect mix of technologies like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things is changing the outlook for Microinsurancein India
Despite progress, India has a long way to go in digital and financial inclusion: W20
“While the Jan Dhan Scheme may have brought in an additional 310 million Indians into the banking system between 2014-18, the extent to which they have been ‘meaningfully included’ into the finance system is not very clear,” said W-20 spokesperson Anita Gurumurthy
Natural resources mismanagement pose interruption & liability risks for biz:Allianz Study
“Companies around the world are increasingly confronted with the negative implications of natural capital depletion,” says Chris Bonnet, Manager, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Business Services, AGCS
Srikrishna panel likely recommendations make Google and Amazon Nervous
Srikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from the U.S. and elsewhere operate in the nation of 1.3 billion. His recommendations carry particular weight because India is already the biggest market for companies like Facebook Inc. and offers enormous potential for dozens more. The committee Srikrishna helms will send its bill to the government this week.
AI matching human intelligence still decades away: CA research scientists
Many leading commentators have mentioned from time to time that human intelligence in machines is less than a decade away. Scientists now realise that making machines is easy, but bringing in the whole gamut of ethics, human rights and social construct would be difficult to imbed.
Personal Cyber Insurance-Security Packages Being Tested with Wealthy
With no universal reporting, it is hard to get a good grasp on cyber security problems and figure out a way to solve them. Eva Velasquez, president of the Identity Theft Resource Center (idtheftcenter.org), said that if more people reported hacking incidents it would help.
How Carmakers Raise Prices for Spare Parts Based on ‘Perceived Value’: Reuters
The software works, Accenture told prospective clients, by identifying which spare parts in a manufacturer’s range customers would be content to pay more for, how much to raise prices by and which prices should not be hiked
Strict curbs on global warming to buoy world economy: Study
The Paris accord, among almost 200 nations, set a goal of limiting a rise in average world surface temperatures to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times by 2100, while “pursuing efforts” for 1.5C (2.7F).
Protection from Farm to Florist
For the intermediaries along the value chain, especially wholesalers, Trade Receivables insurance also helps protect profitability