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Niti Aayog submits names of PSU banks to be privatised to Core Group of Secretaries on Disinvestment
Industry sources say the likely names are Mumbai based Central Bank and Pune based Bank of Maharashtra.
Following the clearance from the Core Group of Secretaries, headed by the Cabinet Secretary, the finalised names will go to Alternative Mechanism (AM) for its approval and eventually to the Cabinet headed by the Prime Minister for the final nod.
Changes on the regulatory side to facilitate privatisation would start after the Cabinet approval.
India’s biggest torn between BlackRock and funding coal
State Bank of India hasn’t decided whether to help finance the Carmichael mine for Adani Enterprises Ltd, whose main shareholder is Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, following mounting pressure from climate activists and investors, Bloomberg reported in April.
Funding for global energy is at a tipping point. Green bonds and loans from the global banking sector so far this year exceeded the value of fossil financing for the first time since the clinching of the Paris Agreement at the very end of 2015.
LIC’s mega IPO may hit the street in March
Though,the lagislative changes in the LIC Act 1956, to facilitate the LIC IPO, are already in place, the government appointed actuary Milliman is yet to finalise the embedded value of the corporation.
Top Ayurveda institute incorporates allopathy, modern tech; successfully treats 600 Covid patients
Prof Tanuja Nesari said a holistic approach and the integration of ayurveda, allopathy and modern diagnostic technology made it possible.
Maha: Over Rs 348 cr paid to cyclone Nisarga-hit in Raigad
Over two lakh houses were damaged in the cyclone last year for which a compensation of more than Rs 226 crore was paid, it said.
Summit secures additional $2.4 bln for COVID shots for poor countries
The funds will allow COVAX to secure 1.8 billion fully subsidised doses for delivery to lower-income countries in 2021 and early 2022, enough to protect 30% of adults in those nations, GAVI said in a statement.
“We have taken a big step towards ‘one world protected’,” said Jose Manuel Barroso, GAVI chairman. The fresh funds brought total COVAX financing to $9.6 billion, he added.
624 doctors died due to COVID-19 in second wave: IMA
”Last year, 748 doctors across India succumbed to COVID-19, while in the current second wave in a short period we have lost 624 doctors,” a doctor associated with the IMA said.
1 Indian firm paying average Rs 55 lakh after ransom attack
The average ransom payment in India was $76,619 (over Rs 55 lakh). However, paying up often doesn’t pay off as Indian organizations that paid the ransom got back, on average, 75 per cent of their data and only 4 per cent got all their data back, according to ‘The State of Ransomware 2021’ report by global cybersecurity leader Sophos.
Risk of COVID-19 surge threatens Africa’s health facilities
Only around two per cent of the population has received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, compared with the 24 per cent global figure.
In the last two weeks, the continent has recorded a 20 per cent increase in coronavirus infections, compared to the previous fortnight.
“The pandemic is trending upwards in 14 countries and in the past week alone (and) eight countries witnessed an abrupt rise of over 30 per cent in cases,” WHO said in a statement.
Lockdown 2020: Over 8,700 people died on railway tracks during year, many of them migrants
Officials separately said that many of those dead were migrant workers who chose to walk home along the tracks because train routes are considered shorter than roads or highways.