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Number of active internet users in India likely to reach 900 mn by 2025, rural may lead: IAMAI
”Vernacular, Voice and Video will emerge as the game changers for the digital ecosystem over the next few years,” Biswapriya Bhattacharjee, Executive Vice President, Insights Division, Kantar said in a statement on the report.
”While internet users grew by 4 per cent in urban India — reaching 323 million users (67 per cent of urban population) in 2020, digital adoption continues to be propelled by rural India – clocking a 13 per cent growth to 299 million internet users (31 per cent of rural population) over the past year,” the report said.
1 Indian firm paying average Rs 55 lakh after ransom attack
The average ransom payment in India was $76,619 (over Rs 55 lakh). However, paying up often doesn’t pay off as Indian organizations that paid the ransom got back, on average, 75 per cent of their data and only 4 per cent got all their data back, according to ‘The State of Ransomware 2021’ report by global cybersecurity leader Sophos.
HDFC Bank commits to becoming carbon neutral by 2031-32
Lockdown 2020: Over 8,700 people died on railway tracks during year, many of them migrants
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Insurtech:Number of insurance patents filed jumps 40% in a year
RPC says that insurance patents filed last year were for innovations as diverse as the use of a system that checks whether a self-driving car is operating autonomously and switches between insurance policies automatically, and a mobile app to speed up the claims process for people affected by natural disasters.
Baby boom for some nations, bust for others: study
Ninety-one nations, mainly in Europe and North and South America, weren’t producing enough children to sustain their current populations, according to the IHME study.But in Africa and Asia fertility rates continued to grow, with the average woman in Niger giving birth to seven children during her lifetime.
Italy’s Generali to stop insuring new coal plants
Generali’s action, which comes ahead of a United Nations climate change conference in Poland in December, is the latest by a big insurance company that targets the coal industry as part of efforts move towards a lower carbon economy.In late 2017, French insurer AXA said it planned to disinvest further from the coal industry. Others that have taken steps include Scor, Swiss Re and Zurich Insurance.
Superbugs to ‘kill millions’ by 2050 unless countries act
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