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Zoom, the video conferencing pioneer, is asking employees who live within a 50-mile radius of its offices to work onsite two days a week, a company spokesperson confirmed in an email. Newyork: The company whose name became synonymous with remote work is joining the...
WHO classifies EG.5 as COVID-19 ‘variant of interest’
"We don't detect a change in severity of EG.5 compared to other sublineages of Omicron that have been in circulation since late 2021.Collectively, available evidence does not suggest that EG.5 has additional public health risks relative to the other currently...
India succeeds in reducing emissions rate by 33% over 14 years – sources
Central Electricity Authority data shows that non-fossil fuel-based power - including hydro, nuclear and renewable energy - accounted for 25.3% of India's total power generation in the fiscal year that ended in March, up from 24.6% three years earlier. Thermal power...
Inflow in mutual fund SIPs at record high of Rs 15,245 cr in July
''The surge in retail investors' interest in mutual funds has translated into impressive inflow across scheme categories. The star performer this month has been SIP, with an impressive over 33 lakh new SIP accounts registered and a record Rs 15,215 crore of monthly...
Govt doubles down on safeguarding Indians from rising cyber crimes: MoS IT
Rajeev Chandrasekhar,Minister of State for Electronics and IT “On being notified by the customer, the bank shall credit (shadow reversal) the amount involved in the unauthorised electronic transaction to the customer’s account within 10 working days from the date of...
ICICI Lombard Gen gets Rs 273 cr GST demand notice
The company has already deposited an amount of Rs 104 crore as GST under protest, without accepting any liability in this regard and would be filing its response against the notice within the prescribed timelines New Delhi: ICICI Lombard General Insurance has become...
No proposal under consideration to change retirement age of central govt employees: Jitendra Singh
"Female government servant and single male govt servants appointed to the civil services and posts in connection with affairs of the Union, are eligible for child care leave (CCL) under Rule 43-C of the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972 for a maximum period...
90 pc reduction in train accidents in India in 22 years Arjun Munda
"Analyzing the trends over the past 20 years reveals a sharp drop in train accidents, plummeting from 473 during the fiscal year 2000-01 to merely 48 in the fiscal year 2022-23," Union Minister Arjun Munda said New Delhi: Union Minister Arjun Munda on Wednesday said...
Severe thunderstorms account for up to 70% of all insured natural catastrophe losses in 1H2023, Swiss Re
Severe convective storms – storms associated with thunder, lightning, heavy rain, hail, strong winds and sudden temperature changes – caused USD 35 billion (nearly 70%) in insured losses worldwide in the first half of 2023. This means that insured losses are almost...
R Thyagarajan: Tycoon who gave away $750 million sees poor bankable
R Thyagarajan R Thyagarajan is arguably one of the world’s most idiosyncratic financiers — in no small part because his multibillion-dollar business, the Shriram Group, has thrived in an industry that tripped up countless others around the globe A pioneer in extending...
Life insurance industry’s premium declines 30% to Rs 27,867 crore in July
Life insurance behemoth Life Insurance Corporation has seen a slow down in its premium accretion in the month of July. The corporation’s total premium has declined by 47 per cent y-o-y to Rs 15386.57 in the month of July Mumbai: Despite bullish performance by the...
US insurers invested in fossil fuels as climate risks to underwriting mount -report
A data sample comprising 77% of U.S. insurers showed they held fossil fuel-related assets worth $536 billion in 2019, and patterns are unlikely to have changed dramatically since then, according to sustainability consultancy ERM, investor advocacy group Ceres and...
Meta Platforms seeks to stop privacy breach fine in Norway -court filing
The regulator has said Meta cannot harvest user data in Norway, such as users' physical locations, and use it to target advertising at them, called behavioural advertising, a business model common to Big Tech. Meta Platforms will be fined 1 million crowns ($97,700)...
Par panel recommends generating tribal disaggregated health data
The Committee recommended that the Ministry of Tribal Affairs work in tandem with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to generate tribal disaggregated health data with separate classifications like girl children, adolescent girls, women of various age groups and...
Show cause notices issued to 143 pharma firms after inspections
Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that the Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry issued a notification on May 22 for amendment in export policy of cough syrups, making it compulsory for cough syrup...
Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 48,461.44 cr transferred by the banks Depositor Education & Awareness Fund
Ministry of Corporate Affairs has informed that the amount lying with Investor Education and Protection Fund, as on March 31, 2023, is Rs 5,714.51 crore, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha New Delhi: Unclaimed deposits...
Heatwaves and high temperatures threatening young lives in South Asia: UNICEF
UNICEF estimates that 76 per cent of children under 18 in the region - 460 million - are exposed to extreme high temperatures where 83 or more days in a year exceed 35° Celsius UN News: Three-quarters of children in South Asia are already exposed to extreme high...
Govt says crop insurance claims worth Rs 2,761.10 cr pending under PMFBY till 2021-22
Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Agriculture Minister Out of the pendency of claims, the maximum was in Rajasthan (Rs 1,387.34 crore), followed by Maharashtra (Rs 336.22 crore), Gujarat (Rs 258.87 crore), Karnataka (Rs 132.25 crore) and Jharkhand (Rs 128.24 crore), the...