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EU to force companies to buy components from non-Chinese suppliers, FT reports
Under the new legislation companies would be limited to buying...
Falling fertility sparks push for more children in India
The country’s total fertility rate (TFR), the average number of...
Chubb releases details structure of the Gulf Maritime Insurance Facility with DFC
The facility will provide war marine risk insurance for hull & liability as well as cargo. Coverage will be offered for war hull risk insurance, for war P&I insurance and war cargo insurance. NEW YORK:Chubb, the world's largest publicly traded property and...
Post Brexit,UK seeks closer EU ties on financial services for growth
Six years after Britain left the European Union, Keir Starmer’s Labour administration is trying to forge closer links with the bloc, and Reeves has identified financial services as a key area that can help revive the UK’s stuttering economy. As part of that, ministers...
Govt launches carbon market portal,domestic market to start within next 4 months
Manohar Lal the Union Minister for Power & Housing and Urban Affairs said the carbon market would function as a mechanism to balance emissions by allowing entities with surplus carbon credits to sell them to those falling short of compliance targets. New Delhi:The...
Foetus older than 5 months would be treated as ‘person’ in eyes of law,entitled for compensation: HC
Justice Prashant Kumar of the court's Lucknow bench held that a foetus beyond a certain stage of development acquires the status of an independent life and that the loss of such a foetus cannot be ignored. It observed that the death of the unborn child must be treated...
Safer Roads:NHAI to deploy AI powered dashcam monitoring system for 40,000 km of National Highway network
The project aims to enhance remote tracking and road condition assessments using high-resolution imagery and video data. Specialized dashboard cameras will be mounted on Route Patrol Vehicles (RPVs) to conduct weekly surveys on all the stretches comprehensively....
Tariff refund lawsuits surge amid uncertainty about US plans
Nearly 1,000 new cases were filed in a US trade court since March 1, according to a Bloomberg News review of publicly available records. That’s roughly a third of the more than 3,000 tariff lawsuits brought over the past year. The number of companies suing for tariff...
Nearly 45% of Indian road accidents fatalities involve 2-wheelers, says Secy, MoRTH
Reaffirming the Government’s focus on high-risk areas, he informed that 100 districts with the highest number of accidents have already been identified for targeted interventions. New Delhi:V Umashankar,secretary, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, remarked that...
Train accidents decline by 90 pc since 2014-15, says Ashwini Vaishnaw
Data shared by the minister showed that during 2004-05 to 2013-14, there were 1,711 consequential train accidents, resulting in 904 deaths and 3,155 injuries. This declined to 678 accidents between 2014-15 and 2023-24, with 748 deaths and 2,087 injuries. New Delhi:The...
EU moves to ban AI that creates nonconsensual sexual images
While Europe has a number of rules that make it illegal to produce and share sexual material without the subject’s consent, this amendment is the first to specifically target AI platforms. Lawmakers opted to target AI technology besides its users, due to swift...
Govt’s proposal to preload national ID app Aadhaar on phones opposed by smartphone firms
MAIT also wrote to Indian IT ministry official Ravinder Kumar Meena on March 10, opposing the government's request for pre-installation of another app, Sachet, a disaster alert service. While the government maintains that the system is safe and secure, it has faced...