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Generic-Viagra safety called into doubt after FDA finds false data by an Indian company
Data from the researcher, Synapse Labs Pvt. Ltd., may have been...
June warmest on record every month since July 2023 breached 1.5 deg C threshold
This was also the 13th consecutive month of record-high...
Water taps may completely dry up in India, warns study
Drastic conservation measures have forestalled that moment in South Africa, but dozens of other countries face similar risks from rising demand, mismanagement and climate change, say the World Resources Institute (WRI).
Political risk and violence, terrorist attacks on the rise:AON
Last year political risk increased in eleven countries, compared to only two countries that saw reduced risk, showing the persistence of political risk across the globe, highlighted by increases in political violence and supply chain disruption. Many countries’ risks of supply chain disruption have risen due to both climate shocks and weakening fiscal positions.
Safety violations in Indian skies down in 2017
"There are 352 number of violations of safety norms by airlines in 2016 whereas 269 numbers of violations were reported in 2017. Therefore, the number of safety violations has reduced in 2017 as compared to 2016,"Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha told...
Allegations against ICICI Bank pose reputational risks: Fitch
Analysts point out that ICICI Bank, India’s largest private sector bank has the Directors and officers(D&O) liability Insurance of substantial amount. The D&O policy provides cover for the personal liability of Directors and Officers arising due to wrongful acts in their managerial capacity. Defence costs are also covered and are payable in advance of final judgment.
Indian investors concerned about data, confidentiality breach by investment adviser: Survey
“The survey shows growing concern among Indian investors who said they have already left or would consider leaving investment firms as a result of a data or confidentiality breach (41 percent), underperformance (39 percent), and lack of communication (37 percent),”
Twitter: 1 million accounts suspended for ‘terrorism promotion’
“We continue to see the positive, significant impact of years of hard work making our site an undesirable place for those seeking to promote terrorism, resulting in this type of activity increasingly shifting away from Twitter,” said the statement from the messaging platform’s public policy team.
87 million users’ data improperly shared, over half a million from India: Facebook
As per a table of compromised users, most of the personal information that may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica are from the US – 70.8 million or 81 per cent. Indonesia and the United Kingdom stand a distant second with 1.1 million users’ data being compromised. India ranks seventh wherein information of 562,455 of its users may have been compromised.
Teslas Don’t Have Black Boxes, Making U.S. Crash Probes Harder
The problem for U.S. accident investigators is that the information wasn’t easily accessible. The data stored on the Tesla is in a proprietary format that can only be accessed by the company. Similarly, the information the vehicles beam to Tesla computers on a regular basis can’t be obtained without the company’s cooperation
Starbucks coffee in California must have cancer warning, judge says
“While plaintiff offered evidence that consumption of coffee increases the risk of harm to the fetus, to infants, to children and to adults, defendants’ medical and epidemiology experts testified that they had no opinion on causation,” Berle wrote in his proposed ruling. “Defendants failed to satisfy their burden of proving … that consumption of coffee confers a benefit to human health.”
Cyber Insurance:How Indian business are taking it lightly
The thing about cyber risk is that it is evolving at a pace which most companies will find hard to keep up with; attacks are getting more sophisticated – from distributed denial of service attacks to ‘man-in-the-middle’ attacks, the risk just keeps changing.