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While the study showed that the new variant, dominant in the UK and now sweeping parts of India, is infecting the cells found in the lungs less, the virus itself is not intending to become milder. "There is this assumption that viruses become more benign over time but...
India’s new COVID-19 cases hit seven-month high of 117,100
The health ministry also reported 302 new deaths, taking the total to 483,178. Total infections stand at 35.23 million Government officials have privately said they are working under the assumption that daily infections will surpass the record of more than 414,000 set...
Auction of Muslim women on Indian app shows tech weaponised for abuse
Scores of Muslim women featured in-app that was taken down * Technologies such as deepfake, tracking used to harass women Victims struggle to be taken seriously, get justice An open source app on the Github platform called 'Bulli Bai' - a derogatory term to describe...
DPIIT to come out with revised FDI policy to facilitate LIC disinvestment: Secy
The matter is being discussed with the Department of Financial Services and Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) New Delhi: The commerce and industry ministry is making changes in the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy to facilitate...
MS Amlin launches its second Asia focussed reinsurance ILS
Phoenix 2 Re has secured USD37.5m of collateralised capacity through a number of Asia-based investors. MS Amlin Asia Pacific worked in conjunction with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), to establish Phoenix 2 Re, using an insurance-linked securities (ILS)...
Explainer: Do 5G telecoms pose a threat to airline safety?
In the airline industry, radar altimeters, which measure altitude, operate in the 4.2-4.4 GHz range and there are concerns that there is not a big enough buffer from the frequencies to be used by the telecoms companies U.S. telecom companies and airlines have been...
France fines Google 150 million euro over cookie breaches
In its statement, the watchdog said it had found that the facebook.com, google.fr and youtube.com websites didn’t allow the refusal of cookies easily, citing Google’s video-streaming platform France’s data privacy watchdog CNIL said on Thursday it had fined Alphabet’s...
Cryptocurrency crime hit record $14 Billion in 2021: Research
Overall cryptocurrency theft grew over five-fold from 2020, with around $3.2 billion worth of coins stolen last year. Around $2.2 billion of those funds, some 72% of the total, were stolen from DeFi sites Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14...
Global food prices rose ‘sharply’ during 2021
The consistently high cost of inputs, the ongoing global pandemic and ever more volatile climatic conditions “leave little room for optimism about a return to more stable market conditions even in 2022 The UN’s benchmark food and commodity prices index rose sharply on...
Sensex slumps 782 points reversing four-days of rally
Heavy selling pressure was witnessed in IT and banking stocks. Infosys, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies slumped more than 2 per cent. HDFC and HDFC Bank both tumbled nearly 2 per cent Mumbai: Reversing four-days of winning streak, the Indian equities markets key...
Omicron spreads in India’s big cities but hospitalisations still low
Nearly 90% of new patients had shown no symptoms and only 8% were hospitalized, city officials said in a daily health bulletin. COVID-19 cases nearly doubled in a day in Delhi to 10,665 on Wednesday, but the state said only 7% of its COVID beds were occupied New...
Lloyd’s creates ‘Product Launchpad’ to replace the ‘Product Innovation Facility’
The rebrand has been supported by the twenty-five members of the initiative from the Lloyd’s market. With a capacity of £150m, several success stories have emerged, for example: a parametric business interruption product for cloud outages, launched by Parametrix in...
MF disclaimers should flow at same speed as rest of ad: Goyal
Piyush Goyal,Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affairs Union Minister Piyush Goyal said financial products have to pass through the prism of trust, transparency and accountability, and asked stock exchanges to be cognizant of the same to...
Make history and eliminate cervical cancer for ever, urges WHO chief
Cervical cancer is also the second most common cancer type for women, with the highest incidence and mortality rates, generally impacting low Human Development Index countries Nearly 90 per cent of 2018 deaths occurred in low and middle-income countries, where the...
India logs 90,928 new COVID-19 cases, positivity rate stands at 6.43 pc
The country has reported 2,630 cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 so far, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare As many as 325 patients lost their lives taking the death toll in the country to 482876. With this, the active caseload in the country...
India reports 1st Omicron death; “Exponential rise” in COVID cases, R naught value higher than 2nd wave peak: Centre
Maharashtra, West Bengal, Delhi, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Jharkhand and Gujarat are emerging as the states of concern ''We are now facing an exponential rise in (the number of) COVID-19 cases and we believe that largely, it is being driven by Omicron,...
Focussed road map, timely govt interventions necessary to achieve net zero target by 2070: ICRA
ICRA Head (Research and Outreach) Rohit Ahuja noted that ambitious targets for COP26 open massive investment opportunities across segments stemming from 500 GW renewables by 2030, higher EV penetration (10 per cent by 2025), and 20 per cent ethanol blending for petrol...
Businesses strengthening support for enforced standards on environmental reporting: Survey
Finance leaders said the foremost barrier to producing useful ESG disclosures is ''getting clarity from investors on what they want from ESG reporting''. New Delhi: A significant percentage of finance leaders in India witnessed a transition from traditional financial...