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IndiGo takes delivery of first Airbus plane operating on sustainable fuel
In a statement, Ronojoy Dutta, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo...
India needs to focus on care infra for kids and seniors: Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi, former chief executive, Pepsi Nooyi said families are...
Climate change tops list of world’s ‘extreme risks’
Tim Hodgson, Head of the Thinking Ahead Group, said: “Our extreme risks ranking has seen the emergence of a general trend with financial risks falling down the rankings and non-financial extreme risks growing in significance. Global temperature change becomes the highest ranked risk due to our assessment of higher likelihood coupled with significant impact – in the extreme this would mean mass extinction.
91% Indians feel smart devices improve their overall health
In India, where most of the workforce stays away from family and close relatives, 85 per cent respondents feel that technology is improving their ability to stay in touch with family and friends who live far away, as compared to 75 per cent global respondents.
AI, analytics among tech skills highest in demand: Infosys
“There is not just a talent war — it’s a famine. To succeed, companies must hire, develop, and retain talent better than their competition,” said Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys.
World safest cities index: Tokyo tops list of 60, New Delhi ranks at 53
The index ranks 60 cities on five continents, examining digital, health, infrastructure and personal security factors to assess overall urban safety. The cities that led the index offer easy access to high-quality health care, dedicated cybersecurity teams, disaster continuity planning and/or community-based police patrolling.
Cancer now a bigger killer than heart diseases in rich nations: Study
“The world is witnessing a new epidemiologic transition among the different categories of non-communicable diseases, with cardiovascular disease no longer the leading cause of death in high-income countries,” said Gilles Deganais, emeritus professor at Laval University, in Quebec
Unemployment rate among Indian women more than double of men: Study
The unemployment rate among women in India is more than double of that of men with similar qualifications, a new study has revealed. Titled “Gender Inclusion in Hiring in India”, the study by two Harvard students, Rachel Levenson and Layla O’Kane, noted that 8.7 per cent of working-age urban, educated women in the country are unemployed but only 4 per cent of comparable men find themselves without a job.
Weak systems and funding gaps jeopardize drinking-water and sanitation in the world’s poorest countries:WHO
The UN-Water Global Assessment and Analysis of Sanitation and Drinking-Water 2019 (known as the GLAAS report) surveyed 115 countries and territories, representing 4.5 billion people. It showed that, in an overwhelming majority of countries, the implementation of water, sanitation and hygiene policies and plans is constrained by inadequate human and financial resources. Nineteen countries and one territory reported a funding gap of more than 60% between identified needs and available funding. Less than 15% of countries have the financial or human resources needed to implement their plans.
Why are Amazon fires potentially sparking global climate crisis?
Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre believes 15-17% of the entire Amazon has already been destroyed. At first, researchers thought the tipping point would be 40% destruction. But that has changed with global warming raising temperatures in the Amazon and the increasing number of fires. Nobre now says that the tipping point is more likely at between 20-25%.
Being discreet won’t help: Hackers can intercept smartphone sound and detect what you type
“Based on what we found, I think smartphone makers are going to have to go back to the drawing board and make sure they are enhancing the privacy with which people have access to these sensors in a smartphone,” Eric C. Larson, assistant professor in SMU Lyle School’s Department of Computer Science
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Japanese flying car takes flight – for about a minute
Japan isn’t the only country seeking to usher in a flying-car utopia; Dubai, Singapore, and New Zealand have expressed similar intentions. Google co-founder Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk Corp. is also working on a flying car, as is Uber Technologies Inc.