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Airlines can operate maximum of 72.5 pc pre-Covid domestic flights: Govt
The carriers have been operating 65 per cent of their pre-Covid domestic flights since July 5 according to the ministry’s order. Between June 1 and July 5, the cap was at 50 per cent.
The ministry issued a fresh order on Thursday, wherein it modified the July 5 order stating that ”65 per cent capacity may be read as 72.5 per cent capacity”.
Covid jabs may not provide absolute protection but reduces risk of death, complications: Soumya Swaminathan
The World Health Organisation’s chief scientist said there will be a need to be on guard in the months to come as well.
WHO to decide on authorising Indian-made vaccine
Dr. Mariangela Simao, a WHO assistant director-general for vaccines, says the UN health agency’s assessment of the Bharat Biotech vaccine was “quite advanced” and officials hoped for a decision by mid-September.
A new phishing attack lurking to scam banking customers: Advisory
“It has been observed that Indian banking customers are being targeted by a new type of phishing attack using ngrok platform.”
“The malicious actors have abused the ngrok platform to host phishing websites impersonating internet banking portals of Indian banks,” according to the advisory issued by CERT-In on Tuesday.
Sputnik V only 83% effective against Delta
Antibody levels are a good predictor for how effective Moderna Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine is, according to a new study released on Tuesday, a finding which could help speed up future clinical trials for vaccines against the disease.
LS passes amendment bills on homoeopathy, National Commission for Indian System of Medicine
The National Commission for Homoeopathy (Amendment) Bill, 2021, proposes to amend the National Commission for Homoeopathy Act, 2020 to provide a medical education system that improves access to quality and affordable medical education.
The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine (Amendment) Bill, 2021, seeks to repeal the Indian Medicine Central Council Act, 1970 and help make available the Indian system of medicine professionals across the country.
Digital crime on rise, MHA helps 18 states to get cyber forensic labs
A Citizen Financial Cyber Fraud Reporting and Management System module has also been launched for immediate reporting of financial frauds and to stop siphoning off of funds by the fraudsters. Using these facilities, more than 28,000 police and law enforcement agencies personnel and about 1,000 judicial officers have been trained.
These labs commissioned in Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh are fully functional. However, these state cyber labs in Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Punjab, Rajasthan, Mizoram, Manipur, Tripura and Delhi are in the final stage and will start working soon.
Adopt zero trust identity to validate devices in network: Niti Advisor
“We will have to adopt zero trust identity and access management policy to validate each device in the organisation network. Intra-organisations meetings have become very common and inter-organisation is also happening. We need to automate device enrolment and software updates, leverage artificial intelligence tools for threat detection,” Niti Aayog senior adviser for science and technology, Neeraj Sinha said while speaking at an PHD chamber of commerce event on cyber security.
Nearly 72 pc of financial transactions of PSBs done through digital channels: MoS finance
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has informed that it is not considering a separate licensing category for digital banks at present, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha.
Global banks unwind India currency trades worth billions after RBI warning
Some lenders had racked up exposures of more than $1 billion each by using a regulatory loophole created in February to convert rupee deposits into dollars using a buy-sell swap — buying the greenback now while selling the same amount at a specified date in the future. They then used the proceeds to purchase U.S. government debt and profited from the arbitrage, paying around 3.5% on the local currency deposits and earning 4.9% on the 12-month yield on the currency pair.