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“We know from our earlier experience that fraudsters see this pandemic as an opportunity to trick European consumers,” Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders said in a statement.
“We need to be even more agile during the second wave currently hitting Europe,” he added after a meeting with platform executives at which he encouraged them to join forces to strengthen their response to would-be fraudsters.
English judge blocks $6.6 billion Brazil lawsuit against BHP over burst dam
The case is the latest battle to establish whether multinationals can be held liable for the conduct of subsidiaries abroad.
The collapse of the Fundao dam, which is owned by the Samarco joint venture between BHP and Brazilian iron ore mining giant Vale VALE3.SA, killed 19 and sent a torrent of mining waste into communities, the Doce river, and the Atlantic Ocean, 650 kilometres (400 miles) away. It was Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.
The ruling comes about 18 months after the UK Supreme Court ruled that nearly 2,000 Zambian villagers could sue miner Vedanta in England for alleged pollution in Africa because substantial justice was not obtainable in Zambia.
One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – Lancet study
People have been worried that COVID-19 survivors will be at greater risk of mental health problems, and our findings … show this to be likely,” said Paul Harrison, a professor of psychiatry at Britain’s Oxford University.
Doctors and scientists around the world urgently need to investigate the causes and identify new treatments for mental illness after COVID-19, Harrison said.
“(Health) services need to be ready to provide care, especially since our results are likely to be underestimates (of the number of psychiatric patients),” he added.
India’s October car, motorbike sales skid as dealers caution over stock
The sales numbers, based on vehicles registered in the country, were higher than September as more people visited car showrooms, but the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association (FADA) warned that momentum is slow.
New cars fared better than older models, entry-level motorcycles saw poor demand and discounts offered by automakers in October 2019 were higher – all of which affected sales this year, FADA President Vinkesh Gulati said in a statement
Automakers log dip in fleet sales in Sep qtr amid coronavirus pandemic
“There has been extreme aversion on the part of customers against shared mobility and public transport and they are obviously looking at personal transport. If we look at the figures in our portfolio, fleet sales which include shared mobility, in the second quarter there was a drop of 69 per cent,” Maruti Suzuki India Executive Director (Sales and Marketing) Shashank Srivastava said.
Buffett’s Berkshire suffers in Covid pandemic even as Apple boosts profit
Insurance profit fell 58% to $802 million, reflecting lower premiums at Geico, COVID-19, Hurricanes Laura and Sally, and lower income from investments as interest rates tumble.
Geico awarded drivers $2.5 billion of credits on policy renewals this year, and Berkshire said its accounting for those credits should hurt underwriting results through March 2021.
Global uncertainty could risk World War Three – UK military chief
“I think we are living at a moment in time where the world is a very uncertain and anxious place and of course, the dynamic of global competition is a feature of our lives as well, and I think the real risk we have with quite a lot of the regional conflicts that are gong on at the moment, is you could see escalation lead to miscalculation,” Carter told Sky News.
Covid-19 in India breach 8.5 million mark, over 45,000 infections in 24 hrs
New Delhi: India's COVID-19 caseload went past 85 lakh, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 78,68,968 pushing the national recovery rate to 92.49 per cent,accordingto the Union Health Ministry data updated on Sunday. The...
Govt working to make India automobile manufacturing hub in next 5 years: Gadkari
He also said that Indian manufacturers have the capability to make efficient EVs that can not only create more jobs but also provide opportunities for exports.
“e-Mobility is going to be the future mode of transport with greater efficiency and less impact on the environment. Import of crude oil and air pollution are two major concerns for the country. We need to have an integrated approach for EVs,” he added.
Biden seen reversing climate deregulation
Among his main accomplishments, Trump withdrew the United Stated from the Paris Agreement to combat global warming; replaced Obama-era rules meant to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and drilling operations; reduced automobile fuel efficiency targets; downsized wilderness national monuments; gave permits to energy companies seeking to build oil pipelines; and proposed opening new parts of the Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans to drilling
With cases soaring, Biden to announce COVID-19 task force
The coronavirus task force will be charged with developing a blueprint for containing the disease once Biden takes office in January. It will be headed by three co-chairs, former surgeon general Vivek Murthy, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner David Kessler, and Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith of Yale University, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Global coronavirus cases exceed 50 million after 30-day spike
The pandemic’s recent acceleration has been ferocious. It took 32 days for the number of cases to rise from 30 million to 40 million. It took just 21 days to add another 10 million.
Europe, with about 12 million cases, is the worst-affected region, overtaking Latin America. Europe accounts for 24% of COVID-19 deaths.
The region is logging about 1 million new infections every three days or so, according to a Reuters analysis. That is 51% of the global total.
FPIs invest Rs 8,381 cr in first five trading sessions of November
Himanshu Srivastava, Associate Director – Manager Research, Morningstar India, said opening of the economy, resumption of business activities and better than expected quarterly results have kept investor interest intact. The fall in the Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in India and weak US dollar also augured well, he added.
Pak airlines may be banned from flying to 188 countries over pilots issue
Due to the licence scam, flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has already been barred from flying to the UK and the European Union, The Express Tribune report said.
The scam cam to light after Ghulam Sarwar Khan, the Federal Minister for Aviation, had revealed in August that 262 pilots including 141 of the PIA held fake credentials.
IIT study cites risk of plastic contamination in drinking tea from disposable paper cups
“Our research has confirmed contamination of the hot liquid served in paper cups due to the degradation of microplastics and other hazardous components from the lining material of the cup. Paper cups are usually lined by a thin layer of hydrophobic film which is made of mostly plastic (polyethylene) and sometimes co-polymers to hold the liquid in the paper cup. Within 15 minutes this microplastic layer degrades as a reaction to hot water, ” said Sudha Goel, Associate Professor at IIT Kharagpur
Bigbasket faces potential data breach; details of 2 crore users put on sale on dark web
The only customer data that we maintain are email IDs, phone numbers, order details, and addresses so these are the details that could potentially have been accessed. We have a robust information security framework that employs best-in-class resources and technologies to manage our information. We will continue to proactively engage with best-in-class information security experts to strengthen this further,” Bigbasket said.
Parliamentary panel seeks info from app companies on data breach check protocols
The Parliamentary panel asked companies about what data they collect from users and where they store it.
The committee has earlier expressed concerns over data breach by social media platforms and mobile application based companies.
The companies said that they localise data which in turn reduces response time and helps them offering better services. They said that data is stored in countries where they operate.
Hackers stole source code from govt agencies, private firms: FBI
The FBI alert warned the owners of SonarQube, a web-based application that companies integrate into their software build chains to test source code and discover security flaws before rolling out code and applications into production environments.
The actors exploit known configuration vulnerabilities, allowing them to gain access to proprietary code, exfiltrate it and post the data publicly.
The FBI has identified multiple potential computer intrusions that correlate to leaks associated with SonarQube configuration vulnerabilities.