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WHO outlines steps to save 7 million lives from cancer

“This is a wake-up call to all of us to tackle the unacceptable inequalities between cancer services in rich and poor countries,” says Dr Ren Minghui, Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage/ Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization. “If people have access to primary care and referral systems then cancer can be detected early, treated effectively and cured. Cancer should not be a death sentence for anyone, anywhere.”

U.S. permits Startup Nuro to deploy up to 5,000 driverless delivery vehicles

The rollout of the R2 vehicle will take place in Houston, with plans for it to deliver items like pizza and groceries. It is about half the width of a regular car, has no steering wheel or seating positions and boasts gull-wing cargo doors reminiscent of the time-traveling car in the “Back to the Future” films.Nuro, a privately held robotics company based in Mountain View, California, said it will begin public road testing to prepare deliveries in Houston in the coming weeks.

ME’s $2 trillion wealth could just vanish in 15 years

Without decisive economic reforms, the richest Middle Eastern states could exhaust their net financial wealth by 2034 as the region becomes a net debtor, the fund projects. Within another decade, their total non-oil wealth would also be exhausted, the IMF said in the report prepared by a team of its Middle East and Central Asia specialists as well as the research department.

IRDAI to expand its regulatory Sandbox project soon:Khuntia

 “ We in Irdai have already allowed a regulatory sandbox regime because we do not know whether the (existing) regulations will be adequate for the new processes that these technologies will need.This is an experiment we we’ll allow for six months and up to one year.If we find that these are old processes which will help transactions and make life easier for the insurer as well as the insured without compromising on the policy holders protection, we will think of tweaking the regulations to make it happen.”

IPO bound LIC to start valuation exercise soon, assets increases by 8% to Rs 32,25,905 cr till Jan end

On the proposed initial public offer (IPO) , MR Kumar said that, there are lot of figures floating around the market capitalization and size of IPO. “We have not done the maths. Unless we do our internal discussion and maths, I dont think we would be able to answer that today. Valuations has to be reasonably, scientifically and lot of work has to be done,”he said.

RBI holds rates steady, raise deposit insurance rate marginally

The RBI has also decided to increase the insurance cost of bank deposits as the cover will be increased to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh which was earlier announced by finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman in Budget 2020. The cost will be increased by 2 paise from 10 paise to 12 paise for a deposit of Rs 100 which wouldn’t increase the costs of the bank