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Climate Goals Still Make Business Sense, Rio Tinto CEO Says
Jakob Stausholm,Chief Executive Officer, Rio Tinto Group His...
Messages like ‘you are slim smart fair’ to unknown woman at night amount to obscenity: Court
Earlier, the accused was convicted by a magistrate court here in...
Govt to bring legal changes, regulations needed for greater social media accountability: Vaishnaw
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Internet on mobile phones and social media platforms have brought powerful and transformative changes, but it must come with realisation of responsibilities, the minister said emphasising that social media and digital world needs to be...
5 million people in India were internally displaced due to climate change and disasters in 2021
The annual Global Trends Report by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) highlighted that globally 100 million people were forced to flee their homes last year due to violence, human rights abuses, food insecurity, the climate crisis, war in Ukraine and other emergencies from...
World has ‘gambled on fossil fuels and lost’, warns Guterres
António Guterres, Secretary General, UN “For decades, many in the fossil fuel industry has invested heavily in pseudo-science and public relations – with a false narrative to minimize their responsibility for climate change and undermine ambitious climate policies.”...
Odisha CM directs state admin to be prepared for natural disasters
Naveen Patnaik chief minister,,Odisha Citing the huge number of natural calamities between June and October, the chief minister said that the period is important and there is a need to strengthen preparations as many natural calamities such as floods, storms and...
E&Y bags Rs10 cr GIPSA award for overhauling 4 PSU general insurers in 10 months
E&Y has beaten three other international consultants, Boston Consulting Group,(BCG), KPMG and AT Kearney to bag this prestigious project As per the new RPF, all the four companies are calling for only one consultant to lay down uniform process in terms of human...
Ukraine grain can be shipped and insurers after removal of Black Sea mines
“It’s not safe for ships to get in or get out at the moment. Until the mines are swept, that situation is not going to change,” said Guy Platten, secretary general of the International Chamber of Shipping, which is also working on opening up maritime channels As the...
India would become USD 5-trillion economy by 2026-27: CEA
''We are now USD 3.3 trillion, it is not such a difficult target to reach. Then if you simply assume 10 per cent nominal GDP growth in dollar terms, then you get to USD 10 trillion by 2033-34 and another doubling with the same rate, said Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V...
Health scheme to be converted into DBT in Andhra Pradesh
Upon availing of treatment under Aarogya Sri, the cost (as fixed by the government) would be paid into the patient's account and thereafter credited into the hospital account in auto-debit mode, a release from the Chief Minister's Office said. "A consent form will be...
Gadkari summons IRDA and CEOs of general insurance cos to take stock of Surety Bonds
Nitin Gadkari, union minister for Road Transport & Highways Though, the government and the IRDA have allowed the general insurers to launch Surety bonds since April 1, no insurers have been able to do it as there are lot of technical and legal gaps needs to be...
Number of income tax returns touch 7.14 crore in FY22: CBDT chairman
For FY22, the tax collection is more than Rs 14 lakh crore, which is fairly good compared to the collection for FY20, as per the chairman New Delhi: The number of income tax returns has increased in FY22 over the previous fiscal, Central Board of Direct Taxes Chairman...