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Climate change a growing health emergency, Lancet Countdown warns
The report's authors call for climate change to be formally...
South Korea’s financial industry hit by a second wave of cyberattacks in a month
Organizations worldwide are also working to patch critical flaws in...
AI could unlock USD 2.52 trillion in annual global economic value, rising costs pose risk: McKinsey
The research identified financial services as the sector with the largest potential economic gains from AI, estimated at USD 530 billion annually, followed by education at USD 410 billion, technology, media and telecommunications at USD 360 billion, and healthcare at...
Meta sued in Australian class action over alleged social media harm to children
The lawsuit, filed in the Federal Court, Australia’s second-highest, by law firm MinterEllison this month could be the first in Australia to blame social media for harming its users, particularly children and teenagers. A class-action lawsuit has been filed in an...
Centre beats March 2027 target, issues 11 crore unique farmer IDs under AgriStack
Shivraj Singh Chouhan.Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare The Farmer ID initiative is designed to provide farmers with a unique digital identity, enabling transparent, efficient and timely access to government schemes, bank credit, crop insurance and disaster...
Financial Stability and Development Council reviews cyber resilience of Indian financial sector
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister The FSDC discussed reducing cost of intermediation in the financial sector Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also urged the regulators and stakeholders concerned to expedite the process of refund of unclaimed assets...
MHA seeks public opinion on developing broadband network for security, disaster response personnel
The ministry has chosen 10 pilot locations for the project — the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Amritsar, Bastar, Bengaluru, Guwahati, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Mumbai, Rudraprayag and Visakhapatnam. New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Home Affairs on Friday said it has sought...
Regulatory Reset: Deciding the economic value of insurance distribution
IRDAI’s consultation paper ``Recalibrating Economics of Insurance Distribution'' goes beyond commission rationalisation to propose a sweeping overhaul of India’s insurance distribution ecosystem, covering intermediary structures, remuneration, accountability, expense...
Hacking attempts surge as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws
The emergency shutdowns of banking, airline, rail, tax and government services from Tokyo to Helsinki mark one of the most dramatic tests of the decades-old programming tools that keep the web running, exposing how deeply governments and companies depend on code that...
AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say
The outages that spread across government sites in Europe and elsewhere beginning on Wednesday happened after the discovery of weaknesses in PHP, a venerable programming language that powers a huge swath of the internet. Operators have been rushing to fix their...
State Bank of India reports cyberattack involving nearly 3,900 customer records
SBI is investigating the breach after a preliminary analysis identified nearly 4,000 records containing customers’ personal information, the bank said in an exchange filing Wednesday. About 375,000 records available on the dark web were analyzed as part of the initial...
Sanjay Lalla to head EASE project for PSU general insurers
The proposed EASE framework could provide a common reform roadmap for public sector general insurers, with a focus on improving productivity, strengthening governance, modernising technology platforms and enhancing customer service. Its effectiveness, however, will...