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RBI decides to keep interest rate unchanged at 5.5 pc
Sanjay Malhotra,Governor, Reserve Bank of India The Reserve Bank on...
Pollution boards can impose environmental damages, says SC
Having considered the principles that govern Indian environmental...
Lloyd’s of London hits 35% female leadership target, says it has ‘way to go’
Lloyd’s, which employs around 57,000 people in insurance and broking firms and is aiming for gender parity by 2030, said women now made up more than 43% of the 57,000-strong workforce and that 46% of new hires were women in 2023 London: Lloyd’s of London has hit a...
European regulators crack down on Big Tech
The tech giants have been preparing ahead of a Wednesday deadline to comply with a new European Union law intended to increase competition in the digital economy. The law, called the Digital Markets Act, requires the biggest tech companies to overhaul how some of...
Govt launches Chakshu to report fraud calls, phone number leaks by firms
Union IT and Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that through digital measures to check fraud and crime, the Department of Telecom Services has been able to help citizens save around Rs 1,000 crore in the last nine months and Rs 1,008 crore has been frozen...
AI advisory applicable on big platforms, not on start-ups: MoS IT Chandrasekhar
''Advisory is aimed at the significant platforms and permission seeking from Meity is only for large platforms and will not apply to startups. Advisory is aimed at untested AI platforms from deploying on the Indian Internet,'' Minister of State for Electronics and IT...
Moody’s raises India’s 2024 GDP forecast to 6.8% from 6.1%, India to remain fastest growing G-20 nation ,
"Robust goods and services tax collections, rising auto sales, consumer optimism and double-digit credit growth suggest urban consumption demand remains resilient. On the supply side, expanding manufacturing and services PMIs add to evidence of solid economic...
UN chief appeals for greater support for small islands fighting climate change
“We must have stronger support from the international community - what we call climate justice - which means adequate financing at low cost, quickly decided, in order to allow for all these works that we have been seeing to protect the island against the sea, and...
Social media platforms need Govt nod to launch AI models in India
"It is reiterated that non-compliance to the provisions of the IT Act and/or IT Rules would result in potential penal consequences to the intermediaries or platforms or its users when identified, including but not limited to prosecution under IT Act and several other...
India eliminates extreme poverty: Brookings article
Report said India should now graduate to a higher poverty line, which would then provide an opportunity to redefine existing social protection programs in order to give greater support to the genuine poor New Delhi: India has now officially eliminated ‘extreme...
Strong GDP growth, weak monsoon drove up India’s energy-related carbon emissions in 2023: IEA
''In India, strong GDP growth drove up emissions by around 190 Mt. But a weak monsoon increased demand for electricity and cut hydro production, contributing around one-quarter of the increase in its total emissions in 2023. Per capita emissions in India remain far...
App delisting cannot be permitted: Minister Vaishnaw on Google-Indian startups row
"I have already called Google…I have already called the app developers who have been delisted, we will be meeting them next week. This cannot be permitted..This kind of delisting cannot be permitted," IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw asserted New Delhi: Taking...