The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), India is home to 12% of the world’s smokers, killing nearly 10 million people annually. While the long-term effects that smoking causes are known to many of us, however, there are other
When it comes to choosing DTH operators in the country, there are a few names which stand out from the rest. If we were to ask you to name a few of these operators, then chances are some of the names that would be on the tip of your tongue would include Tata Sky, Dish TV
New Delhi: The Public Provident Fund or PPF account although has a lock-in of 15 years, it provides loan and partial withdrawal facility before the end of tenure. While a loan from PPF account can be availed between the third and sixth financial year of opening the PPF account, partial withdrawal facility from PPF is
The organized sector employees may soon get an option of increasing their take-home salaries by reducing their monthly contribution to the employees’ provident fund (EPF). According to reports, the Social Security Code Bill, 2019, which has been approved by the cabinet and is likely to be tabled in Parliament this week, is likely to allow
WhatsApp will stop working on millions of older mobile devices globally as the company has withdrawn support for such phones. The users on Windows Phones will be locked out forever after December 31, said Facebook. “WhatsApp will stop working on millions of phones in the next couple of months as the company withdraws support for
The country’s largest public lender State Bank of India (SBI) has reduced its lending rates by 10 basis points or bps across all tenors on Monday. In a press release, SBI said it has cut marginal cost-based lending rates (MCLR) by 10 bps across all tenors and added that the one-year MCLR will now come
Google’s latest security bulletin (for December 2019) has ‘bad news’ for Android smartphoneusers. The advisory names three security flaws, one of which Google has termed as “most severe”. For, it can permanently brick your Android smartphones. Here’s all you need to know about this ‘dangerous threat’ and more … The threat has been revealed in Google’s December 2019 Android Security
US-headquartered Amazon has disabled its search-seeding tool which helped merchants improve search results on its India marketplace. The service has been reportedly stopped after the marketplace found merchants abusing the tool. Sellers or merchants often press to appear on the first couple of pages as they find it helpful in attracting more consumers. The search-seeding
The government on December 9 said more than Rs 10 lakh crore have been disbursed under the Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana till November 1, 2019. The PMMY is a scheme launched by the prime minister on April 8, 2015, for providing loans up to Rs 10 lakh to non-corporate, non-farm small/micro enterprises. “Under the Pradhan
Microsoft has discovered that over 44 million users of its Azure and Microsoft Services Accounts (MSA) are using leaked credentials to log into their accounts. The Microsoft identity threat research team regularly checks billions of credentials obtained from different breaches to look for compromised credentials in the Microsoft systems. In 2019, the threat research team
