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Health claims should be processed within prescribed timelines:IRDAI
Where a claim is denied or repudiated, the communication about the denial or the repudiation should be made only by the Insurers(not by TPAS) by specifically stating the reasons for the denial or repudiation, while necessarily referring to the corresponding policy conditions. The insurer shall also furnish the grievance redressal procedures available with the Insurance company and with the Insurance Ombudsman along with the detailed addresses of the respective offices, said the IRDAI
Our digital transactions have gone as high as 67 pc now: SBI Chairman
At present, there are 35 million registered users of Yono and the bank is opening over 35,000-40,000 savings accounts per day with the help of the mobile app, he said.
While 59,000 crore car loans aggregating to around Rs 4,000 crore were sanctioned, the bank could generate 15,000 home loan leads worth Rs 4,000 crore with the help of Yono, he added.
The platform also helps in distributing products of the bank’s subsidiaries including SBI Life Insurance, SBI General Insurance and SBI Card and SBI Mutual Fund.
So far in this fiscal, close to 25 lakh personal accident policies and seven lakh life insurance policies have been issued using the Yono platform, Khara said.
Major Whatsapp, Insta outage; services resume soon
Many WhatsApp users reported inability to send and receive messages, while Instagram too was down during the period. Independent tracking portal Downdetector showed a spike in the outage reported by users of both WhatsApp and Instagram.
The Facebook-owned platforms later said the “technical issue” had been resolved.
Need to change Covaxin composition not felt yet due to vaccine’s good efficacy against mutant variants: Government
Covaxin’s efficacy against South African strain is ongoing, he said.
As for the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Covishield, it has shown 74.6 per cent efficacy against the UK strain and has been shown to be effective against the Brazil strain.
However, its efficacy against the South Africa strain is just 10 per cent, the minister stated.
“The total number of cases with UK, South Africa and Brazil variants of the Covid virus in the country as on date is 400,” the Ministry said in a statement.
India saw largest spike in malware attacks in 2020: Report
“2020 offered a perfect storm for cybercriminals and a critical tipping point for the cyber arms race,” SonicWall President and CEO Bill Conner, said in a statement.
“The pandemic — along with remote work, a charged political climate, record prices of cryptocurrency, and threat actors weaponising cloud storage and tools — drove the effectiveness and volume of cyberattacks to new highs.”
Information security, risk management spending to grow 9.5% in India: Gartner
“The overnight move to remote-working in reaction to pandemic exposed organisations’ vulnerabilities while security leaders had to cut down on their security spending in 2020 because of IT budget cuts. In 2021, this trend is reversing,” said Prateek Bhajanka, Senior Principal Research Analyst at Gartner.
Over 26,100 Indian websites hacked in 2020 as per CERT-In data: Dhotre
“According to the logs analysed and made available to CERT-In, the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the computers from where the attacks appear to be originated belong to various countries, including Algeria, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, USA, Vietnam etc,” he said
Irdai lowers min cover, raises max cover under Arogya Sanjeevani policy
“In order to enhance the coverage available under Arogya Sanjeevani Policy, in partial modification of the extant guidelines, insurers shall mandatorily offer the sum insured between Rs 50,000 to Rs 10,00,000 under the standard product Arogya Sanjeevani w.e.f 1st May, 2021 or earlier,” Irdai said in a circular addressed to the general and standalone health insurers.
Why a ban on cryptocurrency could have dire consequences for India
To enforce a ban, authorities would have to develop an intrusive surveillance system that could track all digital and internet activity in the country. Thankfully, India does not have the state capacity to pull that off. More likely, its efforts will only drive the cryptocurrency market underground.
P-notes investment climbs to 33-month high at Rs 91,658 crore in Feb
“A sharp rise in FPIs’ participation through offshore derivative instruments or P-notes in February once again vindicates growing confidence of overseas investors into domestic markets. However, we note that FPIs’ participation through P-note route has been improving in consistently since April 2020,” Binod Modi, Head Strategy at Reliance Securities, said.