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IMD to start issuing predictions for major malaria outbreak from next monsoon: Official
A report released by the Ministry of Earth Sciences this week said nearly Rs 990 crore spent on the National Monsoon Mission and HPC had yielded dividend 50 times the investment made.
India’s COVID-19 caseload goes past 84 lakh with 47,638 fresh infections
A total 77,65,966 people have recuperated from COVID-19 so far, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.32 per cent, while the case fatality rate stands at 1.49 per cent.
The number of active COVID-19 cases remained below 6 lakh for the eighth consecutive day.
There are 5,20,773 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country as on date, which comprises 6.19 per cent of the total caseload, data stated.
DDoS attacks fall 73% in Q3: Kaspersky
“Many companies were not prepared for remote working or did not consider their web assets as critical. For instance, we had several requests from organisations, such as mask manufacturers, that fell victim to DDoS attacks,” Alexey Kiselev, Business Development Manager on the Kaspersky DDoS Protection team, said in a statement.
IRDAI forms panel to modify engineering retail segment products
Among the issues, the panel will revisit the product structures of the erstwhile engineering tariffs relevant for the retail category and make suitable recommendations for revising them.
IRDAI unveils draft norms on shareholders’ compensation post M & A of insurers
The Insurance Act, 1938 has laid down that every policyholder or shareholder or member of each of the insurers, before amalgamation, will have the same interest in, or rights against the insurer resulting from amalgamation as he had in the company of which he was originally a policyholder or shareholder or member
Modi woos global investors as economy shows signs of recovery
“If you want returns with reliability, India is the place to be,” Modi told a virtual conference of 20 major global investors, including sovereign wealth funds and pension fund heads from the US, Europe, Japan and Australia.
WhatsApp gets approval to launch payments feature in India
“Now you can send money to your friends and family through WhatsApp as easily as sending a message. There’s no fee, and it’s supported by more than 140 banks. And because it’s WhatsApp, it’s secure and private too,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg .
“WhatsApp can expand its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) user base in a graded manner starting with a maximum registered user base of 20 million,” the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) said in a statement.
Online transactions, lending and e-wallet services have been growing rapidly in India, led by a government push to make the country’s cash-loving merchants and consumers adopt digital payments.
India’s COVID-19 caseload mounts to 83.64 lakh with 50,210 new cases
The COVID-19 case fatality rate was recorded at 1.49 per cent.
There are 5,27,962 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which comprises 6.31 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated.
Sebi asks financial sector organisations to ensure compliance with CERT-In advisory
Among others, they were also advised to ensure complete protection and seamless control over their critical system by continuous monitoring through direct control and supervision protocol mechanisms while keeping such data within the legal boundary of India.
Need to think of data as infrastructure: CEA
“We need to think of data as a public good… data should be thought of as infrastructure that must be invested upon, much like highways, airports etc,” he said.
“Large scale data has to be extracted without violating any privacy laws. Data must provide a 360 degree view of an individual,” he added.