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Harmonize guidance on radioactivity in food and drinking water reach milestone
The establishment of the new framework will also help in case there is radiological contamination of food and drinking water due to an accident.
“In the event of a nuclear or radiological accident anywhere in the world, the technical expertise to measure radionuclides in food will be essential for public reassurance and, in certain situations, the basis for imposing restrictions,” Colgan said.
Law without order: investors grapple with China’s regulatory risk
The Chinese Communist Party’s uneasy relationship with private business has always weighed on the minds of Western investors who seek legal and regulatory certainty to place their bets.
Yet Beijing’s recent moves are unsettling even seasoned investors who are otherwise used to navigating corporate China’s murky auditing and poor governance in order to chase growth in the world’s second-largest economy.
National Digital Health Mission: Comments invited on consultation paper on unified health interface
Dr. R S Sharma, CEO of, National Health Authority, said the National Digital Health Mission is endeavoring to make digital public goods for the healthcare industry to make it more accessible, affordable and efficient.
”To facilitate this, we are taking a consultative approach to develop the National Digital Health Ecosystem. We have come up with the concept of Unified Health Interface], designed on the lines of UPI which has revolutionized digital payments and the financial sector.’To enable inclusivity and widen the perspectives, I urge all stakeholders to go through the shared consultation papers and provide us with their valuable feedback,” he said.
Kerala vet doc gets patent for biodiesel from chicken waste
He said 100 kg of chicken waste, procured from slaughterhouses for which he gets paid up to Rs 7 a kg, can produce 1 liter of biodiesel, which offers over 38 km and can be sold at 40 percent of the diesel price now.
After seven-and-a-half years, the Indian Patent Office finally granted us the patent on July 7, 2021, for inventing ‘biodiesel produced from rendered chicken oil’, John Abraham, a veterinary-doctor-turned-inventor, an associate professor at the veterinary college here under the Kerala Veterinary & Animal Sciences University, told PTI from Wayanad.The higher mileage and lower pollution are because chicken waste contains 62 percent fat, offering the key energy content of Cetane at 72, while in normal diesel it is only 64. It also increases engine efficiency by 11 percent due to the presence of more oxygen, and reduces smoke levels by over 47 percent, Abraham said.
Govt officials world over among 1,400 WhatsApp users targeted in 2019: CEO
WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart disclosed the new details about individuals who were targeted in the attack after revelations this week by the Pegasus Project, a collaboration of 17 media organisations which investigated NSO, the Israeli company that sells its powerful surveillance software to government clients around the world.
India plans more power islands to counter cyber, terrorist threats
The plan follows a major power outage in India’s financial hub Mumbai last year that brought the city to a halt and prompted speculation about a cyber attack. The year before, the country’s nuclear power monopoly reported computer systems at one of its generation plants had been attacked by malware. Power grids the world over are increasingly digitalized, leaving them vulnerable to such attacks.
Islanding systems feature generation capacity and can isolate automatically from the main grid in the event of an outage. For the new systems, provinces need to submit proposals for setting up generation and storage capacities, power minister Raj Kumar Singh Singh said
Websites of airlines, banks, tech companies down in widespread outage
This is the third such incident in a span of just two months, after multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe in June, with some reports pointing to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computing services provider
EVs double market share in Europe
All-electric vehicles accounted for 7.5 per cent of new car sales in Europe in the three months from April through June, against 3.5 per cent during that period last year.
In absolute terms, sales of battery electric vehicles more than tripled across Europe to reach 210,298 cars.
Intel chief warns chip shortage could continue for up to two years
The global chip shortage comes as demand for cars has spiked during the global economy’s recovery from the coronavirus crisis, driving up prices of new and used vehicles.
Some carmakers have adapted to the chip shortage by dropping features from their models, while others have built vehicles without the necessary chips and then parked them until their assembly can be finished later.
Nearly 140 phishing incidents observed by CERT-In during H1 2021
Some of these include the launch of the National Cyber Crime reporting portal to enable the public to report incidents pertaining to all types of cybercrimes with a special focus on cybercrimes against women and children, and CERT-In working in coordination with service providers, regulators and law enforcement agencies (LEAs) to track and disable phishing websites and facilitating the investigation of fraudulent activities.
Besides, CERT-In issues alerts and advisories regarding the latest cyber threats and countermeasures on regular basis to ensure safe usage of digital technologies, the minister said.