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SC refuses to entertain Jairam Ramesh’s plea on retrospective environmental clearances
The Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) rules 2006 make it...
No major impact on normal life due to one-day nationwide strike call
According to reports, a mixed response was seen in states including...
Centre to ensure safe & trusted AI, Internet platforms must curb deepfakes: Minister
Jitin Prasada,Minister of State for Electronics and IT From hefty penalties ranging from a minimum of Rs 50 crore to a maximum of Rs 250 crore on social media platforms for violating rules to enabling digital markets to grow more responsibly while safeguarding...
Global IT outage: Enhancing cyber resilience
The incident highlights the need to shift our perception of cybersecurity from a mere IT issue to the broader concept of cyber resilience as an integral part of business resilience. In the face of a cyberattack, businesses should be able to recover fast from an...
Global IT outage: A ‘huge wake-up call’ for cyber insurance industry
Insurers are expecting a "wave of notifications" in the coming days, and losses are likely to be seen under business interruption and dependent business interruption insuring clauses, Acrisure Re said in its bulletin. Insurers may also suffer "bricking losses" if the...
Insured losses from CrowdStrike’s outage likely total $540 million to $1.08 billion, says insurer Parametrix
Fortune 500 firms excluding Microsoft to see $5.4 bln in CrowdStrike losses LONDON: U.S. Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft will face $5.4 billion in financial losses from the recent CrowdStrike outage, insurer Parametrix said on Wednesday. CrowdStrike's...
CrowdStrike blames defect in content update for massive IT crash
The incident crashed Microsoft Windows computer systems around the world on Friday, taking down airline, banking and stock exchange operations from Australia and Japan to the UK CrowdStrike Holdings Inc., the cybersecurity company at the center of massive global IT...
CrowdStrike Chaos: (Re)Insurers could withstand preliminary loss estimates, says Fitch
``We expect claims will be mostly within the retentions of primary insurers,'' said Fitch Cyber risk remains difficult for insurers to assess due to the dynamic root causes of claims. Challenges include a lack of effective, widely accepted modeling tools and a limited...
Govt to release financial sector vision, strategy document for 5 years, rules for FDI to be simplified
Shailaja Lall, Partner, Insurance & Reinsurance, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, commented the budget has announced that there will be some simplification of the rules and regulations pertaining to FDI, which will be keenly awaited by foreign investors in...
US, European regulators sign joint statement on effective AI competition
Generative AI has rapidly evolved in recent years and the "technological inflection points" could introduce new means of competing, catalyzing opportunity, innovation and growth, the statement said Regulators in the United States, European Union and Britain have...
Launch of NPS Vatsalya: Securing financial future of young citizens
"The launch of NPS-Vatsalya, allowing parents and guardians to contribute towards minors' future, is a transformative step. This plan seamlessly converts into a regular NPS account once the minor becomes an adult. Thank you, PM Modi, for your visionary approach in...
FM says will evolve solution on New Pension Scheme to addresses relevant issues
Deduction of this expenditure up to 14 per cent of salary from the income of employees in private sector, public sector banks and undertakings, opting for the new tax regime, is proposed to be provided New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday said a...