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Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebar‘Playing with fire’: Twitter’s India snub sparks debate on compliance, free speech
Twitter initially complied but later restored most of the accounts, citing “insufficient justification” to continue the suspensions. The technology ministry warned the company, in a letter seen by Reuters, of legal “consequences” that could include fines or jail, saying the government was not required to justify its demand to ban accounts.
Pfizer withdraws application for emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in India
RBI holds interest rates steady at record lows as economic outlook improves
“Going forward, the Indian economy is poised to move in only one direction and that is upwards. It is our strong conviction, backed by forecasts, that in 2021/22, we would undo the damage that COVID-19 has inflicted on the economy,” Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das said after announcing the rate decision.
The repo rate or RBI’s key lending rate was held at 4% while the reverse repo rate or its borrowing rate was left unchanged at 3.35%.
RBI unveils ‘One Nation One Ombudsman’ for grievance redressal of financial consumers
The RBI has said major payment system operators in the country would be required to facilitate setting-up of a centralised industry-wide 24×7 helpline for addressing customer queries in respect of various digital payment products and give information on available grievance redress mechanisms by September 2021.
Unequal allocation of vaccines could cost the world economy $9.2 trn
Over 290,000 cyber security incidents related to banking reported in 2020
US insurance industry M&A deals total $4.57bn in Q4 2020:GlobalData
Brazil’s Eletrobras says nuclear unit hit with cyberattack
The network that was attacked by ransomware is not related to the operational systems of nuclear energy plants Angra 1 and Angra 2, said Centrais Eletricas Brasileiras, as Eletrobras is formally known.
Subsidiary Eletronuclear has suspended use of some of its administrative software to protect its data, the company said in the filing.
Stone Point Capital and Insight Partners to acquire CoreLogic for $6 billion
Chuck Davis, CEO of Stone Point Capital, said, “CoreLogic is a mission critical vendor and data provider across industry sectors in which Stone Point has specialized over the past 20 years, including mortgage, residential real estate and P&C insurance. CoreLogic’s proprietary data assets are increasingly important to its customers, and we look forward to leveraging our network within the broader financial services industry to support the company’s next phase of growth.”
Insurers play waiting game amid push for post-Brexit Solvency II equivalence
COVID-19: India records 12,408 new cases, 120 fresh fatalities
The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged to 1,04,96,308 pushing the national COVID-19 recovery rate to 97.16 per cent, while the COVID-19 case fatality rate stands at 1.43 per cent.
The COVID-19 active caseload remained below 2 lakh.
There are 1,51,460 active cases of coronavirus infections in the country which comprises 1.40 per cent of the total cases, the data stated.
Seeing positive signs, but Indian aviation sector still in eye of storm: Airbus India
“I think it is time for Indian carriers to scale up their operations and gain control of the international traffic as well. Also, we observe that air travellers have adapted to COVID-19 with a preference to point-to-point non-stop travel to avoid connections. Again, that is the opportunity to develop long haul travel from India,” he stated.
When will the Covid-19 pandemic end? In 7 years at today’s vaccine rates
No blanket permission given for surveillance under NETRA, NATGRID: Centre To HC
The ASG told the court that the permissions are only given in cases that affect the sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of the country, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign States, public order, etc.The affidavit further states that the standard operating procedure (SOP) for carrying out surveillance mandates that permission for the same shall be sought only if the information required cannot be acquired by any other reasonable means.
High levels of toxic heavy metals found in some baby food – U.S. report
Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat who chairs the panel that released the report, said it found “these manufacturers knowingly sell baby food containing high levels of toxic heavy metals … It’s time that we develop much better standards for the sake of future generations.” A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) spokesman said the agency was reviewing the report.
Delhi govt floats tender to set up 100 EV charging stations
Each station will have five charging points, making it a total of 500 such points. The charging stations will be set up within a year, Jain said.
There will be a mandate for minimum 20 per cent slow chargers and 10 per cent fast chargers at these charging stations to cater to all kinds of EVs. Majority of these sites will be at Metro stations and DTC bus depots, he said.
Indian CEOs have a new challenge — employees working from anywhere in the remote era
DPIIT ‘definitely’ working on new e-commerce policy: Govt official
“Who should be accountable for counterfeit products sold through an e-commerce company. Data is an important issue. The entire data issue will be governed by what actually the data law will be, which is before Parliament. That is why we are not in a hurry to finalise it (the policy)… So, whatever will be the final outcome of that data bill, it will apply to everybody who will deal with data,” the official said a regulator for the sector may come if required.