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G20 determined to use all tools to contain pandemic, save jobs, incomes
“We are determined to continue to use all available policy tools as long as required to safeguard people’s lives, jobs and incomes, support the global economic recovery and enhance the resilence of the financial system, while safeguarding against downside risks,” the statement said.
FB awards $1.98mn to researchers for findings bugs in 2020
The Facebook bug bounty programme helps it detect and fix issues faster.Over the past 10 years, more than 50,000 researchers joined this programme and around 1,500 researchers from 107 countries were awarded a bounty
Airlines need another $80 bn in aid to survive – IATA
While vaccine breakthroughs offer hope, a return to mass travel remains many months away, airlines say. Some will struggle to make it through the northern hemisphere winter, when profits are thin even in normal times.
46,232 new COVID-19 cases in India, tally reaches 90.50 lakh; death toll mounts to 1,32,726
The number of active cases remained below five lakh for the eleventh consecutive day. There are 4,39,747 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country as on date, which comprises 4.86 per cent of the total caseload, as per the data.
The total recoveries have surged to 84,78,124 pushing the national recovery rate to 93.67 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.47 per cent.
Indian-American doctor identifies possible COVID-19 treatment
Published online in the journal Cell, the research coming from the lab of Dr Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, an Indian-born researcher working at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee, identified the drugs after discovering that the hyper inflammatory immune response associated with COVID-19 leads to tissue damage and multi-organ failure in mice by triggering inflammatory cell death pathways
Swiss doctors urge COVID vulnerable to declare end-of-life wishes in advance
As health systems grapple with soaring infection rates, medical professionals working with limited resources and finite space in ICUs can at times face agonising dilemmas, and ethical questions around treating COVID-19 patients have spawned a government review in Britain and a court fight in Germany.
China says carbon trading scheme will cover 2,267 power plants in phase one
Under the scheme, firms are given allowances free of charge based on historical emissions, and have to buy additional permits if they exceed their quota. The total amount they need to buy will account for no more than 20% of their allocation.The quota allocations have been determined based on emissions levels from 2013-2019, but the ministry said the collection of relevant data for last year had been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic and by funding issues.
EU denies gas plants a green finance tag, offers possible hydrogen loophole
The landmark EU rules, due to be finalised this year, will force providers of financial products to disclose from the end of 2021 which investments meet climate criteria, and can therefore be marketed as “sustainable”.
Gaining such a label is likely to help companies tap the growing share of investor cash looking to profit from the region’s multi-trillion-euro shift to a net zero emissions economy by 2050.
PM Modi holds meet to review India’s Covid vaccination strategy
Modi tweeted that the meeting discussed important issues related to progress of vaccine development, regulatory approvals and procurement. “Reviewed various issues like prioritisation of population groups, reaching out to HCWs (health care workers), cold-chain infrastructure augmentation, adding vaccinators and tech platform for vaccine roll-out,” he said.he prime minister directed that a time-bound plan be laid out for speedy regulatory clearances and timely procurement for early roll-out of the vaccination drive when a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available, an official statement later said.
RBI committee recommends reshaping domestic banking industry
In a report made public on Friday, the committee recommended that banking regulations be amended to allow large industrial houses to act as so-called bank promoters, meaning they could take a significant stake in a lender, something the central bank has strongly resisted in the past.
Bajaj Group, Piramal Group and Reliance Industries are well-positioned to expand into banking, said an investment banker who did not wish to be named.