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Official sources said the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has written to the Union Health Ministry requesting it to drop these pre-call announcements and caller tunes New Delhi; The COVID-19 awareness pre-call audio announcements set by telecom operators at the...
Shanghai to lock down in two stages for testing as COVID cases spike
The city houses factories belonging to the likes of Tesla , Volkswagen and the country's largest chipmaker SMIC, as well as the mainland China headquarters of many international companies China reported a total of 4,448 new asymptomatic infections on March 26, up from...
Banking services to be hit partially over 2-day nation-wide strike on Monday, Tuesday
A number of public sector banks, including country's largest lender SBI, have said that their services may get impacted to a limited extent due to the strike New Delhi: Banking services may be hit partially on Monday and Tuesday as a section of bank employees' unions...
Lamborghini sees ‘huge’ opportunity in India with rising number of HNIs
``What we can see in the Indian market is that we have more and more ultra high net-worth individuals entering the market… We already have the second generation of ultra high net-worth individuals, and their average age is younger than other countries,'' Winkelmann...
IMF prescribes tax raise, social safety measures to Sri Lanka for financial stability
Saying that the country was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, the report highlighted that the country was highly vulnerable to external shocks owing to inadequate foreign currency reserves and high risks to public debt sustainability, exacerbated by the 'Easter...
Generali challengers show hand ahead of investor vote
Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone, a leading investor in Generali, together with entrepreneur Leonardo Del Vecchio, Generali’s third biggest investor, are opposing the reappointment of the insurer’s current chief executive Philippe Donnet as they challenge the influence...
Russian agents charged with targeting U.S. nuclear plant, Saudi oil refinery
The announcement was paired with the unsealing of criminal charges against four Russian government officials, whom the U.S. Department of Justice accused of carrying out two major hacking operations aimed at the global energy sector. Thousands of computers in 135...
US court allows J&J to force cancer victims into potential settlement talks
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan ruled February 25 that J&J can use bankruptcy rules to temporarily block more than 38,000 lawsuits while the company develops a trust fund to permanently end the cases A US court ruling allowing Johnson & Johnson to use a...
Ola e-scooter catches fire in Pune, Co investigating matter
In a detailed statement on Twitter, the Bengaluru-based company stated: ''We are aware of an incident in Pune that happened with one of our scooters in Pune and are investigating to understand the root cause and will share updates in the next few days.'' The company...
FPI outflow shoots past Rs 1 lakh crore mark in 2022
Foreign portfolio investors have sold domestic equities worth Rs 48,261.65 crore so far this month, taking the year-to-date tally this year to a massive Rs 1,14,855.97 crore, according to depositories data. The exodus of foreign investors was largely owing to...
Carbon-based taxation system to help OEMs commit more towards green tech: Lexus
''We have seen in developed nations that carbon-based taxation has taken precedence over any other way to define vehicle taxation policies that we think solves many purposes,'' Lexus India President Naveen Soni told PTI in an interaction A carbon-based taxation system...
Indian airlines operators expected to add 120 new aircraft/year: Scindia
''India is looking at tremendous expansion. Expansion in the area of airlines, expansion in the area of airports. And therefore, fleet augmentation is also important. A country that had a fleet of only 400 aircraft in the year 2013-14 has grown to a fleet of 710...
SCOR appoints Mukul Kishore as APAC chief
Mukul Kishore, CEO, SCOR Global P&C, APAC This is the first time an Indian has been appointed at such a senior level position of the fourth largest global reinsurer In its India operations, Parag Gupta, chief underwriting officer(CUO) has been made...
IVF children have better quality of life as adults, finds study
“When accounting for other factors present in young adulthood, being ART-conceived appears to confer some advantages in quality of life. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we also found that, independently of how the person was conceived, having a better relationship with...
New EU rules regulating U.S. tech giants likely to set global standard
Europe's antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager won backing on Thursday from European Union members and EU lawmakers for her proposal, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), to rein in the powers of the tech giants via legislation for the first time, rather than lengthy antitrust...
Number of vehicles on Delhi roads increased by 3.03 pc in 2020-21 over previous year: Report
The report said of the over 1.22 crore vehicles, 82,39,550 are two-wheelers while 33,84,736 are cars and jeeps The city also has 1,14,869 autorickshaws and 1,12,401 taxis New Delhi: The total number of vehicles in the national capital increased by 3.03 per cent in...
LS passes Finance Bill; completes budgetary exercise for FY23
The number of taxpayers has increased to 9.1 crore from 5 crore a few years back, she said, adding the government is taking steps to widen the tax base and the faceless assessment has been received well by the people She further said that IFSC in Gujarat is making...
Airbus partners with Airlift Global for chopper ambulance service in India
Under the partnership, Airbus and Airlift Global would jointly develop a pilot project integrating air ambulance and medical emergency service for improved healthcare accessibility and connectivity in both urban and rural environments Aircraft-maker Airbus on Friday...