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Govt bans 118 more mobile apps, including PUBG
It said the IT Ministry had received complaints from various sources, including several reports about misuse of some mobile apps available on Android and iOS platforms for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting users’ data to servers outside India.
Steroids cut death rates among critically ill COVID-19 patients, major study finds
“Steroids are a cheap and readily available medication, and our analysis has confirmed that they are effective in reducing deaths amongst the people most severely affected by COVID-19,” Jonathan Sterne, a professor of medical statistics and epidemiology at Britain’s Bristol University who worked on the analysis, told the briefing.
54% COVID-19 cases in age group 18-44 yrs, 51 pc deaths among those aged 60 yrs and above
The health ministry stressed that more than 70 per cent of the deaths occurred due to comorbidities.
Germany’s Merkel says world needs to do more to combat climate change
The European Commission will next month propose a new 2030 climate target for a 50% or 55% emissions reduction against 1990 levels, compared with an existing goal for a 40%.
Germany is Europe’s largest greenhouse gas emitter, and the country’s environment ministry said last week that, while it can meet its climate target for 2020, it would have missed the goal if the economic havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic had not caused a large drop in emissions.
COVID-19 tally in India climbs to 36,91, 166
The COVID-19 case fatality rate has further declined to 1.77 per cent.
There are 7,85,996 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 21.29 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
India’s recovery to take time after economy shrinks 24% in June quarter
Some private economists, however, said the fiscal year that began in April could see a contraction of nearly 10%, the worst performance since India won independence from British colonial rule in 1947, and likely to push millions more into poverty.
North Korean hackers ramp up bank heists: U.S. government cyber alert
“North Korean cyber actors have demonstrated an imaginative knack for adjusting their tactics to exploit the financial sector as well as any other sector through illicit cyber operations,” Bryan Ware, a senior cybersecurity official at the U.S. Homeland Security Department, said in a prepared statement.
Cybersecurity experts and foreign policy analysts have said these types of hacking operations are conducted to help fund the North Korean government, which is cash-strapped due to expansive sanctions continuously placed on it by the U.S. and other western countries.
IRDA forms panel to examine relaunching of Index-linked products by life insurers
Currently, IRDAI, product regulations do not specifically permit insurers to sell index linked products and life insurers have been requesting the IRDAI to allow them to offer index linked products.
The working group will examine the need for index-linked products in India , availability of various indexes and how it will better serve the needs and interests of customers relative to traditional savings product.
Google, Apple roll out built-in COVID-19 exposure notifications to phones
The new system – called Exposure Notifications Express – will allow public health officials to submit a small configuration file to Apple and Google. The two tech companies will then use the file to set up systems that phone owners can opt in to in order to determine whether they have been near someone who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus
Small the new big for hotels post-pandemic, says Oyo CEO
“Small hotels are going to be in vogue. In my view, small is going to be the new big, wherein people will rethink a lot about going back to that 1,000-room hotel versus going to a 40-room niche hotel.”