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DGCA monitoring 737 Max performance, re-certification to take time
The Boeing 737 Max aircraft was grounded worldwide in 2019 after two fatal crashes.
In India, SpiceJet is the only operator of Boeing 737 Max aircraft. It has 13 such aircraft in its fleet.
Kumar said India’s aviation safety ranking is expected to improve as the International Civil Aviation Organisation will conduct an audit of the sector in the coming months.
10 Years After Nuclear Disaster, How Dangerous Is the Fukushima Plant?
The plant’s operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co., says the tsunami couldn’t have been anticipated, but reports from government and independent investigations and recent court decisions described the disaster at the plant as human-made and a result of safety negligence, lax oversight by regulators and collusion.
Committed to expanding institutes of medical excellence for high-quality care for all: Vardhan
Translation medicine has a great future. This centre at AIIMS, Bhopal, has been built with an aim to accelerate the discovery of new diagnostic tools and treatments by using a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative, ”bench-to-bedside” approach, the Union health minister added.
Microsoft says ransom-seeking hackers taking advantage of server flaws
In Germany alone, officials have said that up to 60,000 networks remained vulnerable. All manner of hackers have begun taking advantage of the holes – one security firm recently counted 10 separate hacking groups using the flaws – but ransomware operators are among the most feared.
German ‘insurtech’ Wefox plans risk-prevention product
Using data from mobile phones or digital smart homes will make it possible to warn of looming danger, for example, to drivers from poor road conditions, or from leaving a window open at home when a storm is looming.
The risk prevention product will not crunch personal data to price Wefox’s products – a common complaint among younger drivers who often have to agree to digital surveillance to get an affordable insurance deal.
Delhi govt directs malls, hotels, offices, restaurants to make space for electric vehicles with EV chargers
“Our vision is that by 2024, 25 per cent of new vehicles must be electric. Approximately Rs 30,000 subsidies are to be given for 2/3-wheelers while Rs 1.5 lakh for 4-wheelers. We are starting the ‘Switch Delhi’ campaign today to make people aware of clean vehicles,” Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Kejriwal.
Tesla in talks with India’s Tata Power for EV charging infrastructure – report
The talks between Tata Power and Tesla are in the initial stages and no arrangements have been finalised yet, the report said.
Tata Power’s electric vehicle charging business constantly explores growth opportunities but has not finalised any new agreements, the company said in a statement to stock exchanges.
Uber, Lyft team up on database to expose abusive drivers
To protect privacy, no passenger information will be shared in the database and the incidents that resulted in a driver’s dismissal will be listed in six broad categories: attempted non-consensual sexual penetration; non-consensual touching of a sexual body part; non-consensual kissing of a sexual body part; non-consensual kissing of a non-sexual body part; non-consensual sexual penetration; and fatal physical assaults.
China harvesting 20% of world’s data including from India
“If the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has access to 20 per cent of the data going through the world’s VPNs generally, they should be expected to be using that data for a massive global spying operation that could translate into winning wars, shifting global power, and aiding the rise of an empire,” the expert warned.In India, approximately 129 million people use VPN to access the internet and we do not know how many of those now have data that has been compromised.
84% of Indians prefer firms that protect personal data
The survey results come at a time when there is no comprehensive data privacy law in place in the country and India is rapidly going digital.
While a majority (78 per cent) of Indian consumers broadly know how many organisations use, store or have access to their personal data (e.g. email address, contact number, bank details etc.), 22 per cent still “don’t have a clue” about it.