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''The most common type of familial inherited cancer is breast and...
Single-day spike of 29,429 COVID-19 cases in India
Of the 582 new deaths reported, 213 are from Maharashtra, 85 from Karnataka, 67 from Tamil Nadu, 43 from Andhra Pradesh, 35 from Delhi, 28 from Uttar Pradesh, 24 from West Bengal, 14 each from Bihar and Gujarat , 10 each from Madhya Pradesh and Telangana.
63.24 per cent of patients have recovered so far
Tokyo Olympics at risk if coronavirus mutates, gets stronger:Japan adviser
“I think the virus is mutating all the time … it may be a much stronger virus that triggers a second wave,” Kiyoshi Kurokawa, a prominent Japanese government adviser,told Reuters. “The Olympics may be postponed again, but I can’t predict.”
‘Hands free’: Automakers race to next level of not quite self-driving cars
Most traditional automakers until recently had resisted allowing drivers to take their hands off the steering wheel for extended periods, concerned about product liability claims. Now, hands-free driving systems offer a new and sorely needed source of profit for automakers and suppliers such as Aptiv Plc , especially when this technology is packaged with other extra-cost options.
Joe Biden announces $2 trillion climate plan, vows to rejoin Paris deal
“We’re going to reverse Trump’s rollbacks of 100 public health and environmental rules – and then forge a path to greater ambition. We’re going to get back into the Paris Agreement – and back into the business of leading the world,” Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said in a major policy address on climate change, which he said poses a serious threat the mankind.
Coronavirus Pandemic:Indian airlines staring at Rs 1.1-1.3 lakh crore revenue loss over 3 years: CRISIL
Curtailed mobility of people due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related restrictions will shrink domestic air passenger traffic by 40-45 percent and international traffic by 60-65 percent, respectively, this fiscal, the report said.
With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging in much of the world, a revival to pre-pandemic levels appears unlikely even next fiscal, it said.
This is a serious jolt to the Indian domestic air travel industry that had logged double-digit growth in seven of the past ten fiscals before its fortunes took a turn for the worse with the bankruptcy and grounding of a couple of major carriers, the report added.
World Population in 2100 could be 2 bn below UN projections: Study
“These forecasts suggest good news for the environment, with less stress on food production systems and lower carbon emissions, as well as significant economic opportunity for parts of sub-Saharan Africa,” lead author Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, told AFP.
“However, most countries outside of Africa will see shrinking workforces and inverting population pyramids, which will have profound negative consequences for the economy.”
Positive news on Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine could come Thursday:report
AstraZeneca’s experimental vaccine is probably the world’s leading candidate and most advanced in terms of development, the World Health Organization’s chief scientist said in June.
The company has signed agreements with governments around the globe to supply the vaccine should it be cleared for use.
Google backs Reliance’s Jio Platforms with $4.5 billion India investmen
The deal with Google will bolster Reliance’s tech ambitions, such as building smart homes, using solutions similar to Amazon.com Inc’s Alexa voice assistant, connected cars and security systems.
Jio and Google will also partner to built a low-cost “4G or even 5G smartphone” for India, Ambani said, in a move that is likely to get tens of millions of Indians to use mobile internet for the first time.
India’s tech hub Bengaluru, other towns back in lockdown amid COVID-19 surge
In all, India has 906,752 cases of the novel coronavirus with 28,498 new infections reported on Tuesday, according to data from the federal health ministry, the third highest total in the world behind Brazil and the United States.
‘Tough day’ for Twitter after hack targets tycoons,stars,politicians
Shares in the social media company tumbled almost 5% in trading after the market close before paring their losses.
In the hours after the initial breach, some of the platform’s biggest users appeared to be struggling to re-establish control of their accounts. In the case of billionaire Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, for example, one tweet soliciting cryptocurrency was removed and, sometime later, another one appeared, and then a third.
Among other high profile accounts affected: rapper Kanye West, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffett, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and the corporate accounts for Uber and Apple . Several accounts of cryptocurrency-focused organizations were also hijacked.