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RBI Guv asks banks to have robust systems to curb digital frauds
Sanjay Malhotra,Governor,RBI While dwelling upon IT risk management...
Police cannot serve notices through WhatsApp or electronic modes: SC
The Justice Sundresh-led Bench added that states and Union...
Global food safety net: Getting Thinner
So-called “multiple breadbasket failures” are likely to become sharply more likely at higher levels of global warming. At 2 degrees of warming, the risk that five of the world’s corn-producing regions fail simultaneously goes from a once-in-16-years to a...
After muted debut, LIC investors seek Aramco-style dividend
Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD and CEO, BSE, MR Kumar, Chairperson, Life Insurance Corporation and Tuhin Kanta Pandey, DIPAM Secretary pose after the company's IPO listing ceremony at the BSE in Mumbai With the demand for a handsome payout, LIC investors are taking a leaf...
Costa Rica Cyber ransomware highlights sovereign cyber-risk: Fitch
Newly inaugurated President Rodrigo Chaves Robles declared a national emergency on 8 May in response to the continuing ransomware attack, for which Russia-based international criminal group Conti has claimed responsibility The number of ransomware attacks more than...
Poor workers bear the brunt of India’s heatwave
More than two dozen people have died of suspected heat strokes since late March, and power demand has hit multi-year highs Federal government data showed that heat stress was the most-common cause of death, after lightning, from forces of nature in the last twenty...
Cryptos pose a bigger threat to the stability of country’s financial system, say RBI officials to Parliamentary panel
Pointing out that cryptocurrencies have the potential to be a medium of exchange and replace the rupee in financial transactions both domestic and cross border, central bank officials said these currencies "can replace a part of monetary system it will also undermine...
Govt to soon approve recast of Banks Board Bureau
The Delhi High Court(Delhi HC), while disposing one of the cases , has already disapproved BBB's power to select directors of public sector insurance companies while another case questioning the BBB's power to appoint CMDS of PSU general insurance companies will come...
More lives are lost in road accidents than in war: MoS Gen VK Singh
According to recent government data, total 3,66,138 road accidents occurred in India during 2020, causing 1,31,714 deaths New Delhi: India loses more people in road accidents than in a war, Union Minister General (retd) V K Singh said on Friday. Addressing an event...
NDMA reviews preparations ahead of monsoon, plans NDRF deployment in flood-prone areas
Use of Damini App, Nowcast, as also various Google alerts for effective early warning dissemination was emphasised to achieve a target of zero mortality in the coming monsoon season, an official statement said New Delhi: The monsoon this year is likely to be normal...
Tata Group chief outlines five mega trends for future business growth
Tata Group Chairman N. Chandrasekaran "In the last two years, the internet has penetrated ever further into our daily lives. At the same time, advances in AI, cloud, and data technology have raised forward.This development is a huge opportunity for India because of...
Consumer inflation at 8-year high of 7.79%, to ‘trigger’ quicker rate hikes by RBI
Given the tone of urgency in RBI's statement to support the altered inflation-growth dynamics, "we now revise our call and expect the RBI to hike repo rate by an additional 60 bps in the rest of FY23". New Delhi: Sounding a red alert on India's CPI inflation at an...