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Indian Banks Issue 31.67 Cr RuPay Debit Cards To PMJDY Account Holders
In 2018, the government launched PMJDY 2.0 with enhanced features and benefits. Under the new version, the government decided to shift focus from ‘Every Household’ to ‘Every Unbanked Adult’ and free accidental insurance cover on RuPay cards was doubled to Rs 2 lakh...
Fintech funding in Southeast Asia triples to record $3.5 bln this yr – report
Singapore, Southeast Asia's financial hub, accounted for nearly half of the region's deals at $1.6 billion, including six mega rounds worth a combined $972 million. The next most active was Indonesia, the region's most populous country, with $904 million raised,...
Regular booster vaccines are the future in battle with COVID-19 virus, top genome expert says
“We have to appreciate that we were always going to have to have booster doses; immunity to coronavirus doesn’t last forever,” Peacock told Reuters at the non-profit Wellcome Sanger Institute’s 55-acre campus outside Cambridge.
“We already are tweaking the vaccines to deal with what the virus is doing in terms of evolution – so there are variants arising that have a combination of increased transmissibility and an ability to partially evade our immune response,” she said.
Over 3.9 million people facilitated via Vande Bharat Mission: Hardeep Puri
Taking to Twitter, Puri shared data that showed that on December 18 (Friday) itself 8,546 Indians returned from various locations such as Sharjah, Dubai, London, Toronto, San Francisco, among others.
Covid-19 impact: Gold imports down 57% to $6.8 bn in first half of FY21
India is the largest importer of gold, which mainly caters to demand of the jewellery industry. In volume terms, the country imports 800-900 tonnes of gold annually.
Microsoft to let employees work from home permanently: Report
“The Covid-19 pandemic has challenged all of us to think, live and work in new ways,” Microsoft’s Chief People Officer Kathleen Hogan said in a note to employees obtained by the tech news outlet.
“We will offer as much flexibility as possible to support individual workstyles, while balancing business needs and ensuring we live our culture.”
Insurers will seek to benefit from open banking through partnerships post-COVID-19:GlobalData
Jazmin Chong, Insurance Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “The increased implementation of open banking and greater understanding of customers’ information will lead to an uptake of purchases through apps and mobile devices. This is due to the information exchange that insurers will have access to, allowing them to require less information from customers. It will also enable customers to use apps in a fast and more confident manner, as current app purchases still largely require extensive information that is more comfortable to fill out on a computer.”
Google stops responding directly to data requests from Hong Kong government
In July, Facebook Inc, Google and Twitter Inc suspended processing government requests for user data in Hong Kong.
Tech companies have long operated freely in Hong Kong, a financial hub where internet access has been unaffected by the firewall imposed in mainland China, which blocks Google, Twitter and Facebook.
Children carry COVID-19 virus, small study finds
Data on children as sources of coronavirus spread are sparse, and early reports did not find strong evidence of children as major contributors to the deadly virus that has killed 669,632 people globally.
Understanding the transmission potential in children will be key to developing public health guidelines, said the researchers who published the study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.
The size of 20 football fields,world’s largest Covid centre opens in Delhi
It has two segments — a COVID Care Centre (CCC), where asymptomatic positive coronavirus cases will be treated and a Dedicated COVID Health Care (DCHC), which will treat symptomatic cases and have an oxygen support system.