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COVID-19: India reports 40,120 fresh infections, active cases lowest since March 2020

Aug 13, 2021

Under Nationwide Vaccination Drive, 52,95,82,956 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far, while 57,31,574 doses were administered in the last 24 hours.

Scrappage policy will help phase out unfit, polluting vehicles: PM Modi

Aug 13, 2021

Vehicle scrapping will help phase out unfit and polluting vehicles in an environment-friendly manner, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

Vehicles will not just be scrapped by their age, but also if they are found to be unfit in automated testing, he said.

Ransomware attacks increased by 64% in last one year: Report

Aug 13, 2021

“Ransomware criminals have refined their tactics to create a double extortion scheme. The initial steps towards safeguarding an organisation from any possible ransomware attack involve assuming vulnerability and setting a goal of not paying the ransom,” said Murali Urs, Country Manager, Barracuda Networks India, in a statement.

India set to clear Boeing 737 MAX to fly again soon -report

Aug 13, 2021

Boeing said in a statement it continues to work with global regulators to safely return the 737-8 MAX and 737-9 MAX to service worldwide, and deferred the timeline to India’s air safety regulator.

If the U.S. plane manufacturer gets the go-ahead in India it would end a nearly two-and-a-half-year regulatory grounding of the model in a key travel market.

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International

Coronavirus: New disease spreading in Asia revives SARS fears

Jan 20, 2020

The outbreak has caused alarm because of the link with SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), which killed 349 people in mainland China and another 299 in Hong Kong in 2002-2003.

China posts weakest growth in 29 years as trade war with US bites

Jan 18, 2020

Even with additional stimulus and the trade war truce, economists polled by Reuters expect growth will cool further this year to 5.9%. Policy sources have told Reuters that Beijing plans to set a lower economic growth target of around 6% this year from last year’s 6-6.5%, relying on increased infrastructure spending to ward off a sharper slowdown.

Boeing 737 MAX: Company finds ‘new minor’ software glitch in grounded aircraft

Jan 18, 2020

Boeing is rewriting software that played a role in crashes five months apart in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed 346 people and led regulators to ground the plane worldwide in March 2019.

Political turmoil to be the ‘new normal’ for the world in 2020, risk firm says

Jan 16, 2020

Many governments were caught by surprise by the scale and ferocity of the protests and ended up attempting to crackdown on the movements, deploying what human rights group have said were arbitrary arrests and indiscriminate violence. That response has ended up further radicalizing protesters and provoking more violent demonstrations, Verisk Maplecroft said in its Political Risk Outlook 2020.

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