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5% discount on RGI Health Infinity plan
22 May

5% discount on RGI Health Infinity plan

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Reliance General Insurance has launched an industry first initiative where the company aims to provide additional ease to its customers who are in the process of either buying or renewing their Health Infinity insurance policy with RGI, by offering an additional one time 5% discount to customers who have taken the COVID-19 vaccination. “We want to thank IRDAI for their special approval to Covid Vaccine discount in our Health Infinity product amidst a time where everyone needs to come together and collectively combat the impact of virus. By the means of this incentive, we want to encourage individuals to prioritize…
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CNH Industrial to support employees during pandemic
22 May

CNH Industrial to support employees during pandemic

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CNH Industrial which produces agricultural equipment and construction equipment has undertaken a host of preventive measures to combat COVID-19 along with daily regular sanitization at all their facilities. Besides these regular precautionary procedures, CNH Industrial has undertaken additional measures to safeguard the health and safety of employees. Some of the additional measures undertaken by CNH Industrial include: (1) Insurance for employees and their immediate families for COVID infection, (2) Tie up with Apollo Hospitals, (3) Dedicated task force, (4) Sourcing Oxygen Concentrators from their global counterparts in China and Italy, (5) Maintaining 50% attendance norms, (6) Heads of Departments keep…
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RBI to transfer payout of Rs 99,122 crore to the government
22 May

RBI to transfer payout of Rs 99,122 crore to the government

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The Reserve Bank of India has announced that it will transfer Rs 99,122 crore as surplus to the Centre for the nine months ended March 31, 2021. The central bank, which has followed a July-June accounting year, is transitioning to an April-March accounting year from this fiscal. The surplus is 73.5 per cent higher than the Rs 57,128 crore payout last year. But it works out to an increase of 131.34 per cent over a proportionate payout of Rs 42,846 crore in the nine-month period of the previous year. The amount being transferred is the highest since 2018-19 when the…
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Calcutta Municipal Corporation gears up for Yaas impact
22 May

Calcutta Municipal Corporation gears up for Yaas impact

editor0 CommentsNorth East, ,
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation convened meetings with CESC and disaster management agencies throughout Thursday. The approach was different from last year — 36 hours had passed after Amphan when the CMC convened a coordination meeting to restore normality in the city. Personnel of the National Disaster Response Force will be kept on high alert from May 25, a day before the cyclone is tipped to hit land, officials said.The coastal districts of Gangetic Bengal are set to get rainfall, accompanied by gusts of wind, from May 25 as Cyclone Yaas nears the Bengal coast, the Met office said on Friday.…
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The Atlanta Club of Kolkata converted the Puja Mandap into a safe home
22 May

The Atlanta Club of Kolkata converted the Puja Mandap into a safe home

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Atlanta Club puja committee from Kolkata has converted their puja mandap into a safe home. The puja committee has said that they are possibly the first club in the whole of India to turn into a critical care unit and not just an isolation center. A few days ago, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee held a meeting with the puja committees of Kolkata, urged them to help in the fight against COVID-19. Meanwhile, Atalanta, a typical neighborhood club, which in normal times holds Durga Puja and various other cultural events, and which has now turned into a full-fledged COVID-19…
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22 May

Air India has said a cyber-attack on its data servers affected about 4.5 million customers

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India's national airline Air India has said a cyber-attack on its data servers affected about 4.5 million customers around the world but the compromised servers were later secured, the Indian state-run carrier said in a statement. In its notification to the affected passengers, the airline said that the cyber-attack that compromised the data of millions of passengers from across the world involved personal data registered between August 26, 2011 and February 20, 2021. It said the breached data included the passenger’s name, date of birth, contact information, passport information, ticket information, frequent flyer data and credit card information. It asked…
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On World Meditation Day, here’s some tips for you to calm down your mind and body
22 May

On World Meditation Day, here’s some tips for you to calm down your mind and body

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Shashank Lalwani, Mindfulness and Life Enhancement coach at Institute of Nutrition and Fitness Sciences (INFS) said, “The power of connecting with ourselves helps to take care of our mental health and physical health. One of the most important ways to achieve this is through meditation, which helps create awareness about our emotions, go beyond and understand ourselves more." However, when one sits down to meditate for the first time, it can get difficult to concentrate as the mind wanders and certain uncontrollable thoughts float out of the way. Shashank added, “In order to combat this, here are some tips on how…
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Einstein handwritten “Theory of Special Relativity” sells for $1.2 million
22 May

Einstein handwritten “Theory of Special Relativity” sells for $1.2 million

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Albert Einstein's letter in which he writes out his famous E=mc2 equation has sold at auction for more than $1.2 million about three times more than it was expected to get Boston-based RR Auction said Friday. Archivists at the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem say there are only three other known examples of Einstein writing the world-changing equation in his own hand. This fourth example the only one in a private collection only became public recently according to RR Auction which had expected it to sell for about $400,000. It’s…
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Joe Biden reiterates ‘no shift in commitment to Israel’s security’; backs two-state plan
22 May

Joe Biden reiterates ‘no shift in commitment to Israel’s security’; backs two-state plan

editor0 CommentsNorth East
US President Joe Biden on Friday pledged to help organize efforts to rebuild Gaza and said creating a Palestinian state alongside Israel is the "only answer" to the conflict.Biden also said he had told the Israelis to stop "intercommunal fighting" in the flashpoint city of Jerusalem. However he stressed "there is no shift in my commitment, commitment to the security of Israel" and added that until the region "unequivocally" acknowledges Israel's existence "there will be no peace." US policy under Donald Trump was criticized as being blatantly pro-Israel and ignoring the Palestinians. A Mideast peace plan devised by Trump’s adviser…
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Cyclone Tauktae: 26 still missing, Navy deploys diving teams to look for bodies
22 May

Cyclone Tauktae: 26 still missing, Navy deploys diving teams to look for bodies

editor0 CommentsNorth East
With no trace of 15 personnel from barge P305 and 11 from tugboat Varaprada six days after Cyclone Tauktae fury rendered the vessels adrift, the Navy on Saturday deployed specialised diving teams to boost the search and rescue operations (SAR) off Mumbai coast. “To augment the ongoing SAR ops for the missing crew of Barge P305 and Tug Varaprada, specialised diving teams onboard INS Makar with side-scan sonar and INS Tarasa sailed out early morning today from Mumbai,” a Navy spokesperson tweeted. The death toll on barge P305 that sank in the Arabian Sea on Monday reached 60 on Friday…
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