by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 16, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
Microsoft 365 services including the collaboration app Teams and Azure Cloud have suffered a major outage and the company said on Tuesday it was trying to bring the services back across the impacted regions. The company said it identified an issue "with a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: India is the only country in the G-20 forum implementing the Paris accord commitments on renewable energy and afforestation, the government informed Rajya Sabha on Monday. Replying to supplementary queries during the Question Hour, Minister for...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
New Delhi: Nearly 146 tonnes of bio-medical waste is generated per day in the country due to diagnostic activities and treatment of COVID-19 patients, the Ministry of Environment informed Parliament on Monday. Responding to a query in the Upper House of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Climate finance of USD 100 billion a year and green technologies for mitigation actions promised in 2009 under the Paris agreement are still ''not on the table'' for developing countries, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
The social media giant, Facebook has found that a small number of users who are reportedly violating the platform norms are responsible for spreading COVID-19 vaccine doubts. According to The Verge, Facebook's examination into " vaccine-hesitant "...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
CAMBRIDGE, England: Regular booster vaccines against the novel coronavirus will be needed because of mutations that make it more transmissible and better able to evade human immunity, the head of Britain's effort to sequence the virus's genomes told Reuters....
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
Chennai: The two-day nationwide strike called by the United Forum of Bank Union in protest against privatisation of the government banks began on Monday. The leader of a major union claimed total success impacting the clearance of two crore cheques/instruments...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
Mumbai: Cinema halls, hotels, restaurants and offices except those related to health and essential services in Maharashtra will function at 50 percent capacity till March 31, the state government said on Monday. Violation of norms will result in the shutting...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News
New Delhi: Rs 2,000 currency notes have not been printed in the last two years even as the quantum of India's highest denomination currency note has come down, the Lok Sabha was informed Monday. In a written reply, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 15, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Policy, Risk Management
New Delhi: The government on Monday said that concerns related to job loss and other facilities will be taken care of when a central public sector company, working in a strategic sector, is divested. Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur, during the...
