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Climate change to have severe impact on health emergency services globally: Study
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As digital piracy rises amid pandemic, original content creators losing money: EY
As per a report by Digital TV Research, the loss of revenue for OTT players on account of piracy in India is expected to hit USD 3.08 billion by 2022, while the cost of global online streaming piracy will reach USD 52 billion by 2022.
India slips two spots to rank 117 on 17 Sustainable Development Goals
The State of India’s Environment Report 2021 revealed that India’s rank was 115 last year and dropped by two places primarily because major challenges like ending hunger and achieving food security (SDG 2), achieving gender equality (SDG 5) and building resilient infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialisation and fostering innovation (SDG 9) remain in the country.
The 17 SDGs adopted by UN member states are SDG1- no poverty, SDG 2-zero hunger, SDG3-good health and well-being, SDG4- quality education, SDG 5- gender equality, SDG 6- clean water and sanitation, SDG 7- affordable and clean energy, SDG 8 decent work and economic growth, SDG 9- industry, innovation and infrastructure.
9.27 lakh severely acute malnourished children identified till November last year: RTI
“Malnutrition will be huge comorbidity… if what they are saying that children will be affected more in the next wave holds, then malnutrition will be huge comorbidity and how are they going to address that?” Dola Mohapatra, the executive director, Rise Against Hunger India, agreed that COVID-19 could further exacerbate the situation with shrinking food diversity and low intake combined with episodes of missing food at times.
Coal India alive and sensitive to need of environmental protection: Chairman
The statement assumes significance especially when there have been concerns about global climate change on account of the burning of fossil fuels, including coal, which releases green gases into the atmosphere.
”Restoration of the ecosystem, effective bio-reclamation, effective utilization of water are followed with equal fervor and importance as production,” Agrawal said in a communication.
Why Bitcoin’s wild ride bodes well for the future of digital cash
The mania and panic that have gripped decentralized cryptocurrencies are heightening the attraction of their coming rivals: digital cash, issued by central banks. These tokens will be staid, centralized and state-controlled. That’s exactly what users will want in an Internet of Things world where machines need to settle claims with one another all the time, instantaneously, but without contributing to global warming.
Average 13 lakh new demat accounts added every month since Apr 2020
But, a vast majority of these accounts are inactive. An industry study in March 2020 said only a fourth of then 4 crore accounts were active.
According to Sebi guidelines, a demat account that has not been operated for a year is considered inactive.
Rights for nature: How granting a river personhood’ could help protect it
Galvanised by widespread environmental degradation and rising Indigenous rights movements, indigenous communities around the world are leading the way in upholding the rights of sacred and ancestral rivers. This includes Maori tribal relationships with the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand, the role of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities in the Atrato River in Colombia, and the Yurok Tribal Council’s granting legal rights of personhood to the Klamath River through an ordinance in the United States.
IndusInd Bank to raise climate financing to 3.5% in 2 years
The bank will be increasing the allocation of capital towards climate finance to 3.5 per cent of its loan book over the next two years, which is currently at 2.7 per cent, IndusInd Bank said on the occasion of the World Environment Day.
India reports 1,00,636 new COVID cases, lowest in last 61 days
The new fatalities pushed the COVID death toll in the country to 3,49,186. As many as 36,63,34,111 samples have been tested in the country up to June 6 including 15,87,589 samples tested on Sunday, informed the Indian Council of Medical Research.
US to treat growing ransomware incidents as terror attacks
Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, told The Wall Street Journal that the country is facing a similar challenge like 9/11, and the Bureau has identified about 100 different types of ransomware, several of them being traced to Russia.
“There are a lot of parallels, there’s a lot of importance, and a lot of focus by us on disruption and prevention. There’s a shared responsibility, not just across government agencies but across the private sector and even the average American,” Wray told WSJ on Saturday.