by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: The government on Friday invited bids to develop a chat bot or voice assistance application like Amazon's Alexa or Google Assistant to deliver e-governance services to the public. The artificial intelligence-based conversational platform is expected to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: As India gears up to launch the world's largest immunisation drive, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday said that 10 million healthcare workers and 20 million frontline workers would be given free vaccine in the first phase of the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Risk Management, Technology
WASHINGTON: The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a worrying signal about the spies’ ambition.Source code...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The number of fresh COVID-19 cases was recorded below 20,000 in India on Saturday, taking the country''s caseload to 1,03,05,788, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease crossed 99 lakh, according to the health...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life
New Delhi: All passengers coming from the UK between January 8 and January 30 would be subjected to self-paid COVID-19 tests on arrival, the health ministry said in a standard operating procedure (SOP) issued on Saturday. Moreover, each passenger arriving from...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
New Delhi: The scientists working at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) need to focus on the next generation needs of the armed forces in cybersecurity, space and artificial intelligence, its Chairman G Satheesh Reddy said on Friday. In his...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Banking & Bancassurance, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Pension & Social Security, Policy, Technology
New Delhi: India Post expects to make the Post Office Savings Bank interoperable with other bank accounts by April and will focus on enhancing digitisation of all services in 2021, a senior official of the department said. The postal department during the lockdown was...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Regulation, Technology
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said it has constructed a composite Digital Payments Index (DPI) with March 2018 as the base period to capture the extent of digitisation of payments across the country. "The DPI for March 2019 and March...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
PARIS: Around 50 countries around the world have already started vaccinating their people against Covid-19, barely a year after the first alert by China signalled the start of the epidemic. Here is a snapshot: China, where the pandemic first emerged, was also the...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jan 2, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Israel could well become the first country to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, health officials said on Thursday, with over 10% (1 million) of the population already having received the first of two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine by the 12th day of a...
