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Bring more people into fold of financial inclusion schemes: Fin Services Secy Nagaraju to banks
Nagaraju said that significant progress has been made in expanding...
War anxiety grips Davos experts with Ukraine peace still elusive: WEF Survey
“Rising geopolitical tensions, a fracturing of global trust and the...
Climate change seen posing health risks for 12 million people in UK
Britain faces a particular health risk from heatwaves due to its large elderly and vulnerable population, said the report, noting that heat-related deaths among the over-65s had risen 21% between 2004 and 2018.
Odisha’s Balasore to get country’s first thunderstorm research testbed: IMD
Bhubaneswar: Odisha's Balasore will get the country's first thunderstorm research testbed, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said. The objective of setting up the thunderstorm testbed is to minimalise human fatalities and loss of...
Another ship in rough Pacific Ocean spills containers overboard
Forty-one empty containers fell from the ship around Jan. 29, according to a website notice from marine-claims consultancy W.K. Webster, which said it has nominated a surveyor to investigate the extent of damage.
The incident is at least the second time this year, and the third time in less than 10 weeks, that a notable number of containers have fallen into the Pacific while ships ply the busy trade lane.
Jharkhand health worker dies after receiving COVID vaccine
Govt blocked 296 mobile apps since 2014, says Union minister Sanjay Dhotre
He said several reports had been received about some of these apps being misused for ”… for stealing and transmitting user data such as financial data, permission for accessing of all possible data available in device, etc and real-time activity surreptitiously to servers located outside India”.
IIT Mandi-led team develops AI app to track home quarantined COVID patients
The mobile application, dubbed LakshmanRekha, uses a combination of biometric verification, geofencing and AI so that no patient can breach the assigned quarantine space.
Geofencing technology uses GPS signals to determine when a person enters a certain boundary.
McKinsey to pay $573 million to settle claims over opioid crisis role: Report
More than 3,200 lawsuits are pending, seeking to hold drug makers, distributors and pharmacies responsible for an opioid addiction epidemic that according to U.S. government data resulted in 450,000 overdose deaths from 1999 to 2018.
India tells Twitter to comply with order to block accounts – sources
Twitter blocked dozens of accounts in India on Monday after the country’s Home Affairs Ministry complained that users were posting content aimed at inciting violence, a government had previously told Reuters.
But it later unblocked some of these accounts, prompting New Delhi to write to the U.S. social media giant demanding that it obey the government order, the technology ministry sources, who declined to be named as the notice to Twitter was not public, told Reuters.
Govts, people incur financial losses in any agitation: MHA
“Delhi Police has informed that Ghazipur, Chilla, Tikri and Singhu borders of the national capital are blocked by the agitating farmers and it is inconvenient for the residents of Delhi and neighbouring States. In any agitation, there is a financial loss incurred by people and governments,” MHA replied in Rajya Sabha today.
Data of 25 lakh Airtel customers in J-K allegedly leaked; telco claims no breach in server
A sample of the leaked database was shared on Twitter by cybersecurity researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia which shows masked details of the subscribers. Rajaharia also shared a video of an email conversation between Bharti Airtel and the hackers with the name of ‘Red Rabbit Team’.