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Key reasons identified for the increase in fraud incidents over the next two years include large-scale remote working models, increase in customers using non-branch banking channels and the limited/ineffective use of forensic analytics tools to identify potential red...
India’s billionaire count at 142 in 2021, 84% households see income decline in Pandemic: Oxfam India report
More than 4.6 crore Indians, meanwhile, are estimated to have fallen into extreme poverty in 2020 (nearly half of the global new poor according to the United Nations Moreover, the pandemic set gender parity back from 99 years to now 135 years. Women collectively lost...
Drinking water, ash big concern as Tonga damaged after tsunami
The eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano triggered a tsunami on the shores of Tonga and cut off phone and internet lines for the entire island. International communication has been severely hampered by damage to an undersea cable, which could take more...
Explainer: Scientists struggle to monitor Tonga volcano after massive eruption
Saturday's eruption was so powerful that space satellites captured not only huge clouds of ash but also an atmospheric shockwave that radiated out from the volcano at close to the speed of sound Some volcanologists are likening the eruption to the 1991 Pinatubo...
Super-rich thrive as COVID-19 pushes millions into poverty
A new billionaire has been created every 26 hours since the pandemic began. - More than 160 million people are estimated to have been pushed into poverty during the health crisis The world's 10 wealthiest people more than doubled their fortunes to $1.5 trillion during...
Odisha govt teams up with WFP to improve food security, farmers’ resilience to climate change
In a pilot initiative, advisories will be provided to small farmers of the state, which is particularly prone to cyclones, to help them adapt to impact of the climate crisis The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Odisha government have joined hands to...
Nearly half of GDP in cities at risk from nature loss: WEF survey
The good news is that nature-based solutions for infrastructure are 50 per cent cheaper than alternatives and deliver 28 per cent greater added value in terms of productivity, while they can also create much-needed jobs nearly 60 million by 2030 if necessary...
India logs over 2.5 lakh fresh COVID-19 cases, 385 deaths in last 24 hrs
Of the total cases, 8,209 total Omicron cases have been detected so far which is an increase of 6.02 per cent since yesterday. The daily positivity rate is 19.65 per cent. Notably, on Sunday, with a positivity rate of 16.28 per cent, India had recorded 2,71,202 fresh...
Additional one percent tax on the 98 richest billionaire families can finance Ayushman Bharat for more than 7 years:Oxfam study
If each of the 10 richest Indian billionaires were to spend USD one million daily, it would take them 84 years to exhaust their current wealth, while an annual wealth tax applied to multi-millionaires and billionaires would raise USD 78.3 billion a year that would be...
No one can be forced to get vaccinated against their wishes: Centre to SC
"It is submitted that the direction and guidelines released by Government of India and Ministry of Health and Family Welfare do not envisage any forcible vaccination without obtaining consent of the concerned individual.It is submitted that vaccination for COVID-19 is...
China’s economy grows 8.1% to $18 trillion in 2021, expands 4% in the last quarter
The per capita GDP of China reached around USD 12,500 in 2021, exceeding the global average At the end of 2021, China's population on the mainland grew to 1.4126 billion from 1.4120 billion in 2020.China's population increased by 480,000 year-on-year, down from 12...
FPIs invest Rs 3,117 cr in Indian markets in Jan so far
With Union Budget around the corner, FPIs would like to get more clarity and direction from the government about its roadmap towards economic growth before investing substantially in the country’s capital markets. Mumbai:Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) reversed the...
UK to abolish PCR Test for vaccinated people returning to country: Reports
"We are looking at removing all COVID tests for vaccinated travelers by the end of January, which is likely to coincide with the review of the plan B measures on January 26," the source said, as quoted by the media London:The United Kingdom will abolish mandatory...
Over 5 million Chinese students suffer from spinal deformity
On China's Twitter-like social media platform Sina Weibo, many netizens have attributed the condition of the Chinese students to heavy schoolbags, and inappropriate sizes and heights of desks for children in different physical developmental stages reported Global...
147,492 children lost parents due to Covid since April 2020: NCPCR to SC
The Commission said the data uploaded up to January 11 showed the status of children in need of care and protection included orphans (10,094), lost either parent (1,36,910) and abandoned (488) taking the total to 1,47,492. The National Commission for Protection of...
Gold imports rise over 2-fold to $38 bn in Apr-Dec 2021
India is the world's second-biggest gold consumer after China. The imports mainly take care of the demand by the jewellery industry India's gold imports, which has a bearing on the country's current account deficit (CAD), more than doubled to $38 billion during...
From pandemic to endemic: Can 2022 succeed where 2021 failed?
Health experts, however, are preaching caution, saying there’s too much uncertainty about how the virus will evolve, how much immunity society has built up and potential damage if people stop being careful After two years of contagion and death, Covid is shifting...
Investors seek safe havens as Omicorn spreads in Asian markets
“Asia will be better braced to cope with omicron waves, which may prove to be more short-lived,” said Wai Ho Leong, a strategist at Modular Asset Management. “Markets that are better vaccinated and have timely social distancing curbs are also likely to recover faster...