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Ukrainian attack halts oil exports from Russia’s Novo, affecting 2% of global supply, sources say
The attack was one of the biggest on Russian oil-exporting...
Need to harmonise regulations across regulators to reduce compliance friction:DEA Secy
Given the rapidly evolving landscape, Department of Economic...
India has 1,065 dams 50-100 years old, 224 are hundred plus: Govt
According to the National Register of Large Dams (NRLD-2023 edition), compiled jointly by the National Dam Safety Authority (NDSA) and Central Water Commission(CWC), there are 6,138 constructed and 143 under construction dams which aggregate to a total of 6,281 large...
World can expect another zoonotic pandemic any day: Ex-WHO Director
The majority of newly emerging diseases are viral, and they are emerging mostly from the animal world. That means they are zoonosis, like Covid,Mario C.B. Raviglione, former Director of the Global Tuberculosis (TB) Programme at the World Health Organization (WHO). New...
E-commerce to adopt Safety Pledge to protect online consumers on Dec 24
With India projected to have 500 million online shoppers by 2030 and currently hosting 880 million internet users, the initiative addresses critical challenges in the rapidly expanding e-commerce landscape. The pledge requires platforms to cooperate with statutory...
Meta outage hit Facebook Instagram WhatsApp
Meta’s outage is a timely reminder of the need to engineer critical systems to maximise their reliability, including minimising central points of failure and employing engineering principles like fault isolation Melbourne: A major outage is affecting users of popular...
Judges should refrain from using social media: SC
"Judicial officers should not go to Facebook. They should not comment on judgments because tomorrow if the judgment is cited, judge has already expressed one way or the other bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and N Kotiswar Singh New Delhi: Observing that judges have...
Hacking rooftop solar can disrupt of Europe’s Power Grid
The exponential growth of rooftop solar systems means millions more connection points to the grid, creating a massive vulnerability that hackers could exploit. The most serious impact may be cascading grid failures across the continent. That risk is a growing concern...
Early-onset colon cancer cases surge globally; lowest in India: Study
In 13 countries with increasing trends in both age groups, the annual percentage increase in young compared to older adults was larger in Chile, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, Croatia, and Finland, smaller in Thailand, Martinique, Denmark, Costa Rica, and similar in...
Work on to assess safety of AI; job loss from GenAI not intense in India: IT Secy
"Safe and trusted AI is when you do the innovation, try and be responsible about it but there would be an assessment. We will try and see that it is safe and trusted in a manner that works for everybody. That is the other space that we are working on right now. We...
Aon and EBRD launch innovative war risk insurance facility for Ukraine
Under the new €110 million Ukraine Recovery and Reconstruction Guarantee Facility, the EBRD will support global reinsurance companies through a guarantee covering losses on specific war-related risks underwritten by local Ukrainian insurers DUBLIN: Aon plc, a leading...
Govt working on policy of ‘zero casualties’ during disasters: Union Minister Rai in Lok Sabha
“India faces a variety of disasters across seasons. The government is working on the policy of ‘zero casualties’ in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pledge of making India a developed country by 2047,” Union Minister Nityanand Rai said in the Lok Sabha on...