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Contract of insurance is of utmost good faith, says Supreme Court
The top court said this while setting aside the March this year verdict of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) which had dismissed the plea of an insurance firm against the order asking it to pay full death claim along with interest to the mother of the deceased.
NGT slams Centre over inadequate measures to prevent wastage of groundwater
“Overriding environmental law principle of ‘Polluter Pays’ must be invoked by all the regulators to ensure that wastage of water is not profitable and cost of such wastage is recovered which is necessary for restoration of the environment without merely limiting to statutory changes which are no substitute to ‘Polluter Pays’ principle,” the bench said.
COVID-19: India records 54,366 new infections, 690 deaths
A total of 69,48,497 people have recuperated from the disease so far pushing the national recovery rate to 89.53 per cent while the case fatality rate due to COVID-19 was recorded at 1.51 per cent.
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 10,01,13,085 samples have been tested up to October 22 with 14,42,722 samples being tested on Thursday.
Next 3 months decisive in determining Covid situation: Harsh Vardhan
Addressing a review meeting with officials of the Uttar Pradesh government, Vardhan said, “Appropriate measures are being taken to combat COVID-19. But the next three months are going to be decisive in determining the situation of COVID in the country. If we take adequate precaution and follow COVID-appropriate behaviour in the coming festival and winter season, we will be in a better position to fight corona.”
He asserted that the state needs to focus on increasing testing, surveillance, contact tracing, and early diagnosis to keep fatality rate low.
No foolproof anonymity: Justice Srikrishna on data protection
“What is thought to be anonymous can be de-anonymised tomorrow. Therefore, there is no foolproof anonymity. All that law can say is take it as anonymous, if you do de-anonymity, identify the person, then you will be answerable to the law,” Justice Srikrishna said at a FICCI event.
The draft of the personal data protection bill, approved by the Cabinet in December 2019, proposes a penalty of up to Rs 15 crore and up to three-year jail term for company executives for violating privacy norms.
Startups, SMEs most vulnerable in India to cyberattacks: Report
The most common forms of cybersecurity challenges faced by startups are negligence by employees and employee mobility, according to the report.
The most common forms of employee negligence which lead to cyberattacks including data breaches are accidental loss of the device containing confidential data, leaving the workstation unprotected or unattended, sharing confidential information such as passwords via paper notes and remote working using an unsecured or public network connection.
India has set aside $7 billion to vaccinate the world’s second Biggest Population
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration estimates an all-in cost of about $6-$7 per person in the nation of 1.3 billion, the people said, asking not to be identified as the details are private. The money provisioned so far is for the current financial year ending March 31 and there will be no shortage of further funds for this purpose, they added.A Finance Ministry spokesman couldn’t immediately be reached when tried on his mobile.
India’s Dr Reddy’s isolates data center services after cyberattack
Dr Reddy’s, India’s No.2 drugmaker by market value, had shut its key plants globally due to the breach at its servers.
Its plants in the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, India and Russia were impacted, the report added.
Kotak Life forays into health insurance;launches Kotak Health Shield
G. Murlidhar, MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Life Insurance Company Ltd. said, “Rising health treatment costs continues to be a major financial strain to crores of Indians across geographies, and our new Kotak Health Shield is yet another insurance policy from Kotak Life that has been designed to address the much required insurance cover to Indian consumers. Kotak Health Shield is an affordable health insurance policy that covers major critical illnesses.”
COVID-19: India records 55,839 new infections, 702 deaths
The active cases of coronavirus infection remained below eight lakh for the sixth consecutive day
There are 7,15,812 active cases of coronavirus infection in the country which accounts for 9.29 per cent of the total caseload, the data stated
According to the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), a cumulative total of 9,86,70,363 samples have been tested up to October 21, of which 14,69,984 were tested on Wednesday.