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SBI Gen Insurance appoints PC Kandpal as MD & CEO
Kandpal,DMD SBI,is a seasoned banker and has more than 33 years of experience with SBI.His stint at SBI involves experience in both retail and international banking, human resource, technology and learning and development. He also had a stint in SBI Mutual Fund as the Chief Operating Officer
Pushan Mahapatra,the former MD & CEO has been appointed as Director-Strategic Investments & Digital Initiatives and continues to be Whole Time Director, SBI General Insurance.
Twitter says attackers downloaded data from up to 8 non-verified
Hackers may have also attempted to sell the user names of some of the accounts, it said.
The high-profile accounts that were hacked also included rapper Kanye West, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffett, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and the corporate accounts for Uber and Apple.
In its latest statement, Twitter said attackers “manipulated a small number of employees” to gain access to the internal support tools used in the hack.
Southeast Asia budget airline boom turns sour for planemakers, lessors
With borders shut and economic growth stunted, a return to the low-cost international travel needed for them to afford all of the planes they have on order looks increasingly doubtful – a worrying sign for the companies that make and lease aircraft.
Single-day spike of 37,148 COVID-19 cases; India’s tally rises to 11,55,191
There are 4,02,529 active cases of the coronavirus infection currently in the country, while 7,24,577 people have recovered till now. Thus, 62.72 per cent people have recovered so far.
This is the sixth consecutive day when COVID-19 cases increased by more than 30,000.
U.S.companies fear workplace coronavirus precautions do not address airborne risk
Neal Mills,chief medical officer at healthcare benefits group Aon, began fielding questions last week about the WHO’s decision to investigate aerosol transmission, and said employers were slowing the return of remote workers back to their offices.
“They are doing due diligence around how are you going to reduce the transmission of the virus in light of the proposed aerosol nature of COVID-19,” Mills said.
India’s COVID-19 fatality rate drops to 2.43% from 3.36% on Jun 17:Health Ministry
“Nineteen states and UTs are performing more than 140 tests per day per million population. Just doing tests is not enough, they have to be done at a level of 140 tests per day per million so that the rate of positivity reduces and comes down to 10 per cent first and then continue the testing process so that the rate of positivity further reduces to 5 per cent or lower,” he said
People are more likely to contract COVID-19 at home, study finds
A study published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on July 16 looked in detail at 5,706 “index patients” who had tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 59,000 people who came into contact with them.
The findings showed just two out of 100 infected people had caught the virus from non-household contacts, while one in 10 had contracted the disease from their own families.
Update your Google Chrome browser now to avoid hackers, says CERT-In
“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome that could allow remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions, access sensitive information, contact spoofing attack and denial of service (DoS) attack on the targeted system,” the Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In) warned in its latest advisory.
“Corona Kavach”can now be offered as a group policy:IRDAI
t will also be extremely useful for various categories of frontline workers as groups. In case the group consists entirely of doctors, nurses or healthcare workers, a discount of 5% will also be available as a mark of recognition of their contribution in fighting the society’s battle against Covid-19. The group policy can provide protection to a large number of employees engaged in manufacturing, services, SMEs, MSMEs, logistics sector, migrant workers and bring peace of mind to them, their family members and the employers.
Insurance software firm Majesco acquired by PE outfit Thoma Bravo for $594M
“We are extremely excited to partner with Thoma Bravo,a firm with an established track record of working with companies transitioning to the cloud.This transaction delivers significant cash value to our stockholders.Moreover, the added flexibility we will have as a private company, combined with the benefit of Thoma Bravo’s knowledge and domain expertise, can allow us to more effectively focus on our long-term investment and growth objectives, to the benefit of our employees, customers and partners.We are in alignment with Thoma Bravo on our strategic vision to help global insurers transition to the cloud,” Majesco CEO Adam Elster said