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Binny Bansal and others invest $ 65 mn in Acko general insurance

The company is backed by Amazon, Accel, SAIF, Intact Ventures, RPS Ventures, Binny Bansal -co-founder of Flipkart,Narayan Murthy’s Catamaran Ventures, Swiss Re, Transamerica Ventures, Kris Gopalakrishnan – Co-founder of Infosys,AtulNishar – Founder & Chairman of Hexaware Technologies,Ashish Dhawan of ChrysCapital, Hemendra Kothari of DSP Blackrock, Rajeev Gupta, veteran investment banker and Founder of Arpwood Capital, Subba Rao of NuVentures and Venk Krishnan.

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India’s data usage to grow at 73% CAGR by 2022: Assocham-PwC study

While internet penetration is increasing in India, with mobile internet penetration set to reach 56.7 per cent in 2022 from a mere 30.2 per cent in 2017, connectivity and consistency in speed issues need to be addressed, said the study titled ‘Video on Demand: Entertainment reimagined’.It further said that in a country where approximately 65-70 per cent of the population resides in rural areas, no service meant for the masses can afford to ignore this market. 

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Hybrid car-plane, van with gemstones: Luxury takes centre stage at Geneva Motor Show

The Battista is the first so-called hypercar – which are ultra-light, ultra-fast aerodynamic cars – that is fully electric, according to a Pininfarina sales rep on the floor.Only 150 Battistas will be made, each with a 1,900 horsepower engine can go from 0 to 100 kilometres (0-62 miles) per hour in less than two seconds. The vehicle, which carries a price tag of around two million euros ($2.2 million), was conceived for enthusiasts who have “money … and a really great passion for cars,” the sales rep said. 

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Business organisations need to pay up to Rs 20 for using Aadhaar services: UIDAI

“The entities have been incurring a cost of Rs. 150-200 per KYC sans Aadhaar. They have been demanding to use Aadhaar-based authentication and KYC services on account of these being convenient to them and their customers and also the fact that they will save huge amount which they currently incur in doing KYC through traditional means such as paper, physical verification, etc,” an official source told PTI.

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U.S. bans Lithium Battery Cargo on passenger planes

U.S. regulators identified 39 incidents in air cargo transportation between 2010 and 2016, with 13 involving lithium batteries and smoke, fire, extreme heat, or explosion that would have been affected by the new rules. In one instance, packages of lithium ion cells were found smoldering in an aircraft unit load device during unloading, suggesting the initial thermal runaway likely occurred while the shipment was on the aircraft.

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