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Emboldened crypto industry seeks to cement political influence and mainstream acceptance
The crypto industry has scored some early wins since Trump took...
Cancer vaccine for women to be available in five to six months, says Union Minister Jadhav
The vaccine will tackle, breast, oral and cervical cancers New...
Banking, financial institutions struggling to deal with increasing fraud incidents: Deloitte survey
Key reasons identified for the increase in fraud incidents over the next two years include large-scale remote working models, increase in customers using non-branch banking channels and the limited/ineffective use of forensic analytics tools to identify potential red...
India’s billionaire count at 142 in 2021, 84% households see income decline in Pandemic: Oxfam India report
More than 4.6 crore Indians, meanwhile, are estimated to have fallen into extreme poverty in 2020 (nearly half of the global new poor according to the United Nations Moreover, the pandemic set gender parity back from 99 years to now 135 years. Women collectively lost...
Drinking water, ash big concern as Tonga damaged after tsunami
The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano triggered a tsunami on the shores of Tonga and cut off phone and internet lines for the entire island. International communication has been severely hampered by damage to an undersea cable, which could take more...
Super-rich thrive as COVID-19 pushes millions into poverty
A new billionaire has been created every 26 hours since the pandemic began. - More than 160 million people are estimated to have been pushed into poverty during the health crisis The world's 10 wealthiest people more than doubled their fortunes to $1.5 trillion during...
Odisha govt teams up with WFP to improve food security, farmers’ resilience to climate change
In a pilot initiative, advisories will be provided to small farmers of the state, which is particularly prone to cyclones, to help them adapt to impact of the climate crisis The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Odisha government have joined hands to...
Nearly half of GDP in cities at risk from nature loss: WEF survey
The good news is that nature-based solutions for infrastructure are 50 per cent cheaper than alternatives and deliver 28 per cent greater added value in terms of productivity, while they can also create much-needed jobs nearly 60 million by 2030 if necessary...
India logs over 2.5 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, 385 deaths in last 24 hrs
Of the total cases, 8,209 total Omicron cases have been detected so far which is an increase of 6.02 per cent since yesterday. The daily positivity rate is 19.65 per cent. Notably, on Sunday, with a positivity rate of 16.28 per cent, India had recorded 2,71,202 fresh...
Additional one percent tax on the 98 richest billionaire families can finance Ayushman Bharat for more than 7 years:Oxfam study
If each of the 10 richest Indian billionaires were to spend USD one million daily, it would take them 84 years to exhaust their current wealth, while an annual wealth tax applied to multi-millionaires and billionaires would raise USD 78.3 billion a year that would be...
China’s economy grows 8.1% to $18 trillion in 2021, expands 4% in the last quarter
The per capita GDP of China reached around USD 12,500 in 2021, exceeding the global average At the end of 2021, China's population on the mainland grew to 1.4126 billion from 1.4120 billion in 2020.China's population increased by 480,000 year-on-year, down from 12...
FPIs invest Rs 3,117 cr in Indian markets in Jan so far
With Union Budget around the corner, FPIs would like to get more clarity and direction from the government about its roadmap towards economic growth before investing substantially in the country’s capital markets. Mumbai:Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) reversed the...