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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...
Investor wealth jumps over Rs 9.30 lakh cr in four days of market rally
''Markets have witnessed an excellent start of the calendar year however we may see a breather now…'' said Ajit Mishra, VP - Research, Religare Broking Ltd. Mumbai: Investors have become richer by over Rs 9.30 lakh crore in four days of market rally, with equity...
Passenger vehicle retail sales dip 11% in Dec amid semiconductor woes
"The month of December is usually seen as a high sales month where OEMs continue to offer best discounts to clear the inventory due to change of the year. It was, however, not the case this time around as retail sales continued to disappoint, thus wrapping up an...
Toyota, VW are plotting to beat Tesla, pour billions into electric cars
“With market demand for EVs clearly outstripping industry’s ability to produce, success in EVs is no longer about the order book, but rather about production capacity, ability to secure supply, and best cost, where Tesla feels it has considerable lead,” Deutsche Bank...
Covid: Hong Kong bans incoming flights from 8 countries, including India
Incoming flights from Australia, Canada, France, India, Pakistan, Philippines, Britain and the United States, including interchanges, would be banned from Jan.8 to Jan 21, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told reporters on Wednesday Hong Kong announced a two-week ban on...
Foxconn unlikely to reopen its iPhone manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu until Jan. 7
The Foxconn plant, located in the state of Tamil Nadu, was closed on Dec. 18, following protests over 250 of its workers being treated for food poisoning. Apple has since placed the factory on probation after discovering that some dormitories and dining rooms did not...
U.S. reports nearly 1 mln COVID-19 cases in a day, setting global record
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that evidence thus far suggests Omicron is causing less severe illness. Nevertheless, public health officials have warned that the sheer volume of Omicron cases threatens to overwhelm hospitals, some of which are already...