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19th SIRC 2023 on ‘(RE)INSURANCE RESET’ will be held in Singapore from 30 October to 2 November, will be an all in-person event
The Singapore Reinsurers’ Association (SRA) Chair, Marc Haushofer said “The SRA Executive Committee (EXCO) had deliberated intensely over the messaging that would appropriately encapsulate the state of the industry today, which had over the past few months displayed...
India sees 31 pc surge in malware attacks in 2022: SonicWall report
'The increase in cyberattacks in India can be attributed to both the evolving strategies of threat actors and their exploration of new avenues for success, including IoT and crypto-jacking.'' Debasish Mukherjee, Vice President -- APJ at SonicWall It was essential for...
Census unlikely before Lok Sabha polls; citizens to be asked about smartphones, Internet, cereals
The questions in the Census include whether a family has a telephone line, Internet connection, mobile or smartphone, bicycle, scooter or motorcycle or moped, whether it owns a car, jeep or a van The citizens will also be asked what cereal they consume in the...
Centre told to inform outcome of consultations of draft rules to regulate e-pharmacies
Petitioner association South Chemists and Distributors Association, which has challenged the ministry’s August 2018 notification, said the draft rules are being pushed through in serious violation of the law, ignoring the health hazards caused due to sale of medicines...
Data protection bill to drive deep behavioural changes for platforms exploiting data: Chandrasekhar
''Those who have done it (misused data), tracked consumers, used cookies they certainly will have to go though deep behavioural change… Those who are already doing it right, have nothing to fear. But those who have, in a sense, lived off this model of exploitation...
Congress will ‘compel’ Centre to implement old pension scheme in entire country Rajasthan CM Gehlot
On April 6, the Union Finance Ministry set up a committee under Finance Secretary T V Somanathan to review the pension system for government employees. The committee would suggest whether in the light of the existing framework and structure of the National Pension...
IMD keeps forecast for normal monsoon despite El Nino
Any deficiency in showers during the rainy season due to a developing El Niño weather pattern is likely to be offset by a positive Indian Ocean Dipole, Pai said. Showers will improve in July, and compensate any deficit in June, he said. The IMD predicts that monsoon...
Typhoon Mawar is most powerful storm of 2023, so far
Mawar is now one of the three strongest storms ever to hit the North Pacific in May and is the undisputed most powerful — in terms of windspeed — of 2023 so far, according to Jeff Masters, a meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections. But there is still a lot of year...
Dutch watchdog looking into alleged Tesla data breach
The data protection office in Brandenburg, which is home to Tesla’s European gigafactory, described the data leak as “massive.” The data protection watchdog for the Netherlands said on Friday it was aware of possible Tesla data protection breaches, but it was too...
Lloyd’s Register drops ships of top Indian carrier of Russian oil
A major U.S. insurer, the American Club, also told Reuters it was no longer providing cover for Gatik ships, while Russian insurer Ingosstrakh said it would not work with Gatik in future Lloyd’s Register has told India’s Gatik Ship Management, which has become a major...
Rights of consumers to safe internet can never be compromised: Min Chandrasekhar on accountability of Big Tech
Rajeev Chandrasekhar,Minister of Information Technology ''…it is a commitment that we have to the people of India…1.2 billion Indians who are going to use the Indian internet, that we will keep the internet open for them. We will deliver safety and trust on the...
Non-communicable diseases bigger issue than Covid pandemic: Apollo JMD
"Non-communicable disease is a larger pandemic than Covid. We must protect against cancer, cardiovascular, nephro, neuro problems," Apollo Hospitals Joint Managing Director Sangita Reddynoted Spread of non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes, and heart...
Climate change will speed up inflation in next decade, says ECB
Climate change poses risks to price stability by having an upward impact on inflation,” said the researchers Maximilian Kotz, Friderike Kuik, Eliza Lis and Christiane Nickel. That would “place global incomes under pressure from rising prices and could impact inflation...
More trees, taller buildings next to thin streets could reduce “urban heat island” effect
The researchers said that heat island hotspots and mortality rates tended to be greater in urban blocks with a socially disadvantaged population owing to a combination of physical factors, such as impervious surfaces and lack of vegetation, and social factors, such as...
PM asks states, districts to develop long-term vision to make India developed nation by 2047
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NITI Aayog’s eighth Governing Council meeting deliberated on several issues including, health, skill development, women empowerment and infrastructure development, with an aim to make India a developed nation by 2047 New Delhi: Prime...