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Last year, 53 million vehicles, car seats, tires and equipment were recalled, according to the agency.
Climate change bigger economic risk than Pandemic, ECB’s Schnabel says
With climate change posing an even bigger risk, the ECB must keep this issue high on its agenda as it reviews its policy framework, Schnabel told Reuters in an interview.
“Climate change is probably the biggest challenge we are facing, much bigger than the pandemic,” Schnabel said.
“Even though this health shock was entirely unrelated to monetary policy, it nevertheless has huge implications for monetary policy,” she said. “The same is true for climate change and this is why central banks cannot ignore it.”
Tesla targeted in failed ransomware extortion scheme
According to the billionaire, the scheme took aim at the electric car company’s 1.9 million-square-foot factory in Sparks, Nevada, which makes batteries for Tesla vehicles and energy storage units.
This was a serious attack, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Thursday night, responding to a Tesla blog post that detailed the brazen scheme.
Indians seek out fortune tellers to fight COVID-19 blues
Indians are flocking to astrologers, tarot card readers and faith healers as they seek to know what lies ahead and find solutions to current health, financial and mental problems in a country where coronavirus cases have rocketed to 3.3 million – the third-highest in the world – with more than 60,000 deaths.
Global COVID-19 cases cross 25 million as India sets grim record
The official number of global coronavirus cases is now at least five times the number of severe influenza illnesses recorded annually, according to World Health Organization data.
Around the world, there have been more than 840,000 deaths, considered a lagging indicator given the two-week incubation period of the virus. That has exceeded the upper range of 290,000 to 650,000 annual deaths linked to influenza.
Afghanistan flash floods kill 160, search for bodies continues
Thirteen provinces, mostly in the country’s north, had been affected by floods, according to the Ministry for Disaster Management.
Overdue replacement cycle to drive recovery in commercial vehicles:VECV
Meanwhile, according to a senior official of Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM),.automobile demand is picking up but the over-sensitivity and jitteriness of financial companies such as banks and NBFCs are dampening the real conversion of orders to deliveries,
Paytm Mall suffers massive breach,ransom demanded: Report
“According to the messages forwarded to us by our source, the perpetrator claimed the hack happened due to an insider at Paytm Mall. The claims, however, are unverified, but possible. Our sources also forwarded us the messages where the perpetrator also claimed they are receiving the ransom payment from the Paytm mall as well. Leaking data when failing to meet hackers demands is a known technique deployed by various cybercrime groups, including ransomware operators. At this stage, we are unaware that the ransom was paid,” Cyble stated in an official update.
However Paytm has said that it did not find any evidence of data breach, during investigation
Farm sector sees spike in private investment after reforms:Agri secy
The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Ordinance, 2020 was brought in to legalise contract farming.
“These reforms are applicable pan-India. They are moving in the right direction and will help increase the income of farmers,” Agriculture Secretary Sanjay Agarwal.told PTI.
“Large number of industries are planning investments, while some have already invested,” he said.”Lot of things are happening. I was told that a rice company has already entered into contract farming with basmati rice growers in 1,000 acres, while another company has opened a private mandi,” he said without disclosing investment amount.
China approves a new state-back agricultural reinsurance firm: Xinhua
The firm will help expanding the insurance coverage of catastrophe losses, and further safeguard country’s agricultural production, according to the report.