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SBI Gen Insurance appoints PC Kandpal as MD & CEO
Kandpal,DMD SBI,is a seasoned banker and has more than 33 years of experience with SBI.His stint at SBI involves experience in both retail and international banking, human resource, technology and learning and development. He also had a stint in SBI Mutual Fund as the Chief Operating Officer
Pushan Mahapatra,the former MD & CEO has been appointed as Director-Strategic Investments & Digital Initiatives and continues to be Whole Time Director, SBI General Insurance.
Twitter says attackers downloaded data from up to 8 non-verified
Hackers may have also attempted to sell the user names of some of the accounts, it said.
The high-profile accounts that were hacked also included rapper Kanye West, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, investor Warren Buffett, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and the corporate accounts for Uber and Apple.
In its latest statement, Twitter said attackers “manipulated a small number of employees” to gain access to the internal support tools used in the hack.
Southeast Asia budget airline boom turns sour for planemakers, lessors
Single-day spike of 37,148 COVID-19 cases; India’s tally rises to 11,55,191
Wave of promising study results raises hopes for coronavirus vaccines
U.S.companies fear workplace coronavirus precautions do not address airborne risk
Neal Mills,chief medical officer at healthcare benefits group Aon, began fielding questions last week about the WHO’s decision to investigate aerosol transmission, and said employers were slowing the return of remote workers back to their offices.
“They are doing due diligence around how are you going to reduce the transmission of the virus in light of the proposed aerosol nature of COVID-19,” Mills said.
N-95 masks with valved respirators ineffective against Covid-19, says govt
“It is to bring to your knowledge that the use of valved respirator N-95 masks is detrimental to the measures adopted for preventing the spread of coronavirus as it does not prevent the virus from escaping out of the mask. In view of the above, I request you to instruct all concerned to follow the use of face/mouth cover and prevent inappropriate use of N-95 masks,” DGHS Rajiv Garg said in the letter.
India’s COVID-19 fatality rate drops to 2.43% from 3.36% on Jun 17:Health Ministry
“Nineteen states and UTs are performing more than 140 tests per day per million population. Just doing tests is not enough, they have to be done at a level of 140 tests per day per million so that the rate of positivity reduces and comes down to 10 per cent first and then continue the testing process so that the rate of positivity further reduces to 5 per cent or lower,” he said
People are more likely to contract COVID-19 at home, study finds
A study published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on July 16 looked in detail at 5,706 “index patients” who had tested positive for the coronavirus and more than 59,000 people who came into contact with them.
The findings showed just two out of 100 infected people had caught the virus from non-household contacts, while one in 10 had contracted the disease from their own families.
Double-shot coronavirus vaccine tests raise new pandemic challenge for the world
Vaccine experts have warned that the first shots to gain approval against Covid-19 might not be the most effective or efficient. In fact, history shows two doses is a more likely scenario. Almost all standard vaccines are multiple-shot regimens, according to Tony Moody, an immunologist at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute.
Number of registered cos reaches 20.14 lakh at June-end; over 7.4 lakh closed: Official data
The data showed that there were 20,14,969 registered companies as on June 30.
“Of them,7,46,278 companies were closed. 2,242 companies were assigned dormant status as per the Companies Act, 2013; 6,706 were under liquidation; 43,770 companies were in the process of being struck-off… there were 12,15,973 active companies as on June 30, 2020,” it said.
Update your Google Chrome browser now to avoid hackers, says CERT-In
“Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Google Chrome that could allow remote attacker to execute arbitrary code, bypass security restrictions, access sensitive information, contact spoofing attack and denial of service (DoS) attack on the targeted system,” the Computer Emergency Response Team-India (CERT-In) warned in its latest advisory.
U.S.accuses Chinese nationals of hacking spree for COVID-19 data, defense secrets
“Corona Kavach”can now be offered as a group policy:IRDAI
t will also be extremely useful for various categories of frontline workers as groups. In case the group consists entirely of doctors, nurses or healthcare workers, a discount of 5% will also be available as a mark of recognition of their contribution in fighting the society’s battle against Covid-19. The group policy can provide protection to a large number of employees engaged in manufacturing, services, SMEs, MSMEs, logistics sector, migrant workers and bring peace of mind to them, their family members and the employers.
SBI Life’s net profit rises by 5% to Rs390 crore in June quarter
The listed life insurer,though has seen its new business premium falling by three per cent y-o-y to Rs 3060 crore,has increased its gross premium income by 14 per cent y-o-y to Rs 7640 crore in Q1 FY 2021 mainly due to strong growth in renewal premium that has expanded by 30 per cent y-o-y to Rs 4580 crore in the reporting quarter.
AIG to relocate global Headquarters in New York City
`By optimizing and modernizing our New York City area real estate footprint, we will align our workplaces with the objectives of AIG 200, our global, multi-year effort to position AIG for the future,We are designing offices in these three class A buildings that will allow our teams to work more effectively and collaboratively with high-quality infrastructure. Our people are our most important asset, and we remain committed to providing a safe and productive work environment while incorporating key learnings that have emerged while working remotely” said Peter Zaffino, AIG’s President and Global Chief Operating Officer
Record single-day spike of 40,425 COVID-19 cases; India’s tally crosses 11 lakh
The death toll due to the disease rose to 27,497 with 681 fatalities reported in one day.India’s COVID-19 tally crossed the 11-lakh mark, just three days after it crossed the ten-lakh mark.According to the ICMR, a cumulative total of 1,40,47,908 samples have been tested up to July 19 with 2,56,039 samples being tested on Sunday.Of the 681 deaths reported in the last 24 hours, 258 were reported from Maharashtra, 91 from Karnataka, 78 from Tamil Nadu, 56 from Andhra Pradesh, 38 from Uttar Pradesh, 36 from West Bengal, 31 from Delhi, 20 from Gujarat and 15 from Madhya Pradesh.