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Covid-19 continues cause excess mortality in US and UK, says Swiss Re
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Strongest typhoon since 1949 hits Shanghai and knocks out power to some homes
Typhoon Yagi hit China’s southern Hainan island earlier this month...
Govt mulling use of nitrogen filled tyres, silicon-mixed rubber to help reduce accidents
Gadkari said the central government has prepared a Rs 14,000 crore plan for preventing road accidents that could help save precious lives.
CCRIF & World Bank issue first parametric fisheries insurance
The COAST insurance policies provide coverage for fisherfolk and other players in the fisheries industry to enable them to recover quickly after weather-related events. Initial funding for COAST has been provided by the U.S. State Department.
British Airways faces record $230M fine for data breach under new GDPR Rules
The attack involved traffic to the British Airways website being diverted to a fraudulent site, where customer details such as log in, payment card and travel booking details as well as names and addresses were harvested, the ICO said.
DoT likely to start tracking system for lost, stolen mobiles next month
The Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) is ready with the technology and the service is expected to be launched in August. “C-DoT is ready with the technology. The telecom department will approach the minister for its launch after the Parliament session. It should be launched in the next month,” a DoT official told PTI.
Obesity is deadlier than smoking; it can lead to cancer
“Our children could be a smoke-free generation, but we’ve hit a devastating record high for childhood obesity, and now we need urgent Government intervention to end the epidemic. They still have a chance to save lives. Scientists have so far identified that obesity causes 13 types of cancer but the mechanisms aren’t fully understood. So further research is needed to find out more about the ways extra body fat can lead to cancer,” said Michelle Mitchell, the lead researcher of the study
Eco Survey favours the idea of Digital Locker to store citizens’ critical data
DigiLocker makes all their documents available, in a verified format, in one place on the cloud. Citizens only need an internet connected device, smartphone or computer to access the locker.
Global #MeToo movement provides lots of work for London’s top lawyers
Horacio Bernardes Neto, president of the International Bar Association that represents attorneys, said in May that law firms hired to advise corporations on how to handle harassment allegations needed to get their own hiring and workplace behavior in order because of the risk being called out for hypocrisy, after a global survey found one in three female attorneys has been sexually harassed at work.
Vatican defends secrecy of Catholic Confessions amid priest sex scandals
Cardinal Piacenza noted that Francis himself earlier this year called confessional secrecy indispensable, and quoted the pontiff as saying “no human power has jurisdiction” over that secrecy. Piacenza said the tribunal felt it “urgent to recall in the first place the absolute inviolability of the sacramental secrecy, which is based on divine right and admits no exception.”
AIR publishes its catastrophe exposure data schema publicly
“Across the insurance industry, as less time is spent converting formats or ensuring consistency among data sets, stakeholders will have more time to focus on improving the quality of their underlying data and making better risk management decisions,” said Bill Pieroni, CEO, ACORD
DGCA issues safety directions after incidents of planes overshooting runways
It added that while adhering to the minimum cockpit experience, which has already been laid down by the DGCA, the airlines should carry out their own “risk assessment” before conducting operations during adverse weather conditions.