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Risk Management

How pharma firms are using Blockchain to track down counterfeit drugs

-“The current point-to-point systems infrastructure lacks the ability to keep data in sync across the healthcare supply chain, which ultimately increases the risk of counterfeit, diverted or otherwise illegitimate products,” David Vershure, head of channel and contract management for Roche’s Genentech unit, said in a statement.
-Among the 24 participating companies are Amgen Inc., FedEx Corp., GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis, AmerisourceBergen Corp., Sanofi, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and Walmart Inc.

-The World Health Organization estimates that counterfeit medicines worth 73 billion euros ($79.26 billion) are traded annually.

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Tech Mahindra and Virsec collaborate to deliver advanced Cybersecurity Solutions to customers globally

The Virsec Security Platform stops fileless and in-memory advanced application threats that escape detection by conventional security tools. It also protects applications from the inside, against known and unknown zero-day threats. Virsec patented technology maps acceptable application execution, and instantly detects code execution deviations triggered by cyberattacks. This deterministic process detects and blocks application attacks within milliseconds, with precise forensics at every step.

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I-T Dept to share taxpayers’ PAN, other data with SEBI to help in stock market-related probes

Name and PANs of partners in partnership firm and LLPs, KYC information contained in IT Return like email id, mobile number, address, IP address appearing on the acknowledgement of the filed IT Return, financial particulars of the business as filed in ITR and tax audit report, including income from trading in securities, bank account details.

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U.S. permits Startup Nuro to deploy up to 5,000 driverless delivery vehicles

The rollout of the R2 vehicle will take place in Houston, with plans for it to deliver items like pizza and groceries. It is about half the width of a regular car, has no steering wheel or seating positions and boasts gull-wing cargo doors reminiscent of the time-traveling car in the “Back to the Future” films.Nuro, a privately held robotics company based in Mountain View, California, said it will begin public road testing to prepare deliveries in Houston in the coming weeks.

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