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International push to improve food safety

by | Feb 12, 2019 | , , ,

Climate change and the globalization of food production, coupled with a growing global population and increasing urbanization, pose new challenges to food safety.  Food systems are becoming even more complex and interlinked, blurring lines of regulatory responsibility.  Solutions to these potential problems require intersectoral and concerted international action.

Reliance Insurance files fresh IPO papers, removes Edelweiss as merchant banker

by | Feb 11, 2019 | , ,

The firm had earlier filed its draft papers in October 2017 for which it received the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s approval in November 2017. 
The Sebi’s approval for IPOs is valid for one year, which expired on November 29, 2018, in the case of Reliance General Insurance Company, according to data available with the markets watchdog. 

2018 fourth hottest year on record: NASA

by | Feb 10, 2019 | ,

“2018 is yet again an extremely warm year on top of a long-term global warming trend,” GISS Director Gavin Schmidt said in a statement on Wednesday. Since the 1880s, the average global surface temperature has risen about 1 degree Celsius. This warming has been driven in large part by increased emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activities.

Significant beneficial owners in companies to face strict action for wrong disclosures

by | Feb 10, 2019 | , , ,

Significant beneficial owners, who fail to make a declaration regarding their ownership, could face fine, imprisonment or both under the Companies Act. In instances, where such entities have willfully provided incorrect information, then such acts would be considered as fraud under the Act. Similarly, companies that fail to maintain registers of significant beneficial owners would also face action, as per the rules. 

Shortage of funds key challenge in job creation: Garg

by | Feb 10, 2019 |

“The government has carried out innumerable programmes of investment in the rural areas whether it is the ‘Prime Minister’s Awas Yojana’ where crores of houses are being constructed or large programmes of roads in rural areas and National Highway. Every house results into employment generation. There is a large programme for expanding the LPG connections and fuel delivery. All of them have the potential of generating jobs,” he said. 

Microsoft targets healthcare with medical records in the cloud, bots and more

by | Feb 9, 2019 | ,

Health care lags behind some other industries in moving data to internet-based storage, and while health records have mostly gone digital, they are often stored in different databases that can’t share information easily. That makes it hard to create systems that use new artificial intelligence and data analysis techniques to track patient well-being and find new targeted therapies.

Informal sector workers can join PMSYM pension scheme from Feb 15

by | Feb 9, 2019 | , ,

The monthly contribution by the worker joining the scheme would be Rs 55, with matching contributions from the government. The contributions would rise at higher age. The worker joining the scheme at the age of 40 years would contribute Rs 200, while workers at the age of 29 years would pay Rs 100. The scheme will cover unorganised workers who are working or engaged as home based workers, street vendors, mid-day meal workers, head loaders, brick kiln workers, cobblers, rag pickers, domestic workers, washer men, rickshaw pullers, landless labourers, agricultural workers, construction workers, among others. < ..