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Hospital operators are taking a hard line on how their vendors and suppliers secure their systems, amid a string of third-party cyber incidents that have caused data breaches and lawsuits at healthcare providers. The Health 3rd Party Trust Initiative, an industry group comprising major healthcare providers, on Thursday published best practices for assessing the cybersecurity of suppliers, such as enforcing clarity about service expectations, specific questions to ask vendors and blueprints for resolving security issues.

New Delhi: Markets regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India(Sebi) on Thursday issued a framework for the Corporate Debt Market Development Fund (CDMDF). This comes after Sebi notified the rules for setting up such a fund in the form of an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) which will support markets by buying debt securities during times of financial stress. In the 12-page circular, Sebi said this fund will help in instilling confidence among the participants in the corporate bond market and generally enhance secondary market liquidity by creating a permanent institutional framework for activation in times of market stress.

Every time I have to board flight from Kochi airport in Kerala, I make it a point to go a bit early. I have never experienced heavy rush at this airport. But I always try to reach early only because after all the security formalities are over, I want to spend some time at the book stalls inside the airport terminal.

«Our member editions were very robust at 23% growth on YOY basis and parallelly we acquired a resort in Jaipur a 72 Key Resort which will expand further,» says Kavinder Singh, Mahindra Holidays.Let us understand things for the quarter gone by. I do not want to dwell too much into your bottom line because we understand that there is always this element of you have to keep on parking money because of the accounting policy you follow so I will not spend too much time and on that but let us first understand the big picture. This is boom time for the hospitality industry, are you enjoying the joyride? I think this is something that I wanted to share that we have a strategic objective which we are pursuing now from growing our base of about 5,000 as this quarter we touch 5,000 mark we want to take it to 10,000 over the next seven years that is the big picture so the joyride is on and we will definitely move towards a strategic objective of doubling our own count in about seven years.

In the past three years, states have been stressed with their finances—first due to the pandemic and then due to worries over the phaseout of the Centre’s compensation for possible losses from a switch to goods and services tax (GST). However, economic revival has helped states’ finances improve since then. Stable GST collections may also ensure—finally—modest growth in revenue collection this year.

₹200 per kg in some parts of Mumbai. But with a weight of around 0.6%, they have shown negative inflation for the last three months, with the latest being -35% in June. This reads odd, but it is a statistical reality, as the base was high last year, which has given us such a counter-intuitive outcome.

20% ethanol-blended petrol this year and the country's aim is to cover the entire nation by 2025.  Addressing the G20 Energy Ministerial meeting in Goa, PM Modi said, “We must find ways to bridge technology gaps, promote energy security and work on diversifying supply chains." The central government has connected more than 190 million families with LPG in the last 9 years, while also achieving the historic milestone of connecting every village with electricity. “Our effort is to work for inclusive, resilient, equitable, and sustainable energy for all.

Patrick Collison, the now 34-year-old billionaire CEO of the online payments company Stripe, and economist Tyler Cowen worried scientific progress seemed to be slowing down

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Chhattisgarh Congress president Deepak Baij on Saturday said his party will fight the year-end Assembly polls under Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and other senior leaders. The aim is to win more than 75 seats in the 90-member Assembly, he said at a gathering of party workers in Rajiv Bhawan.

OpenAI, maker of AI chatbot ChatGPT and related products, has received a criminal investigative demand (CID) from the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Washington Post reported on July 13. The CID is reproduced on the newspaper’s website without a date. A CID is similar to a subpoena, and recipients are legally obliged to produce the information they request.

Catch all the live updates with MintThough Indian cricket lovers would like to see skipper Rohit Sharma hits his double century this time, along with debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal hitting his first century, the eyes will be on star player Virat Kohli. Despite his critics slamming him from time to time, Kohli has returned with a bang, though he will be  careful with the delivery that is pitched wide outside the off stump.It is likely to be sunny for the better part of the day with moderate chances of rain.

Concern over the rise of drug-resistant superbugs is spreading beyond hospital wards and health clinics to the world’s major financial centers. A number of large institutional investors are joining together to put pressure on food companies to curb the use of antibiotics in livestock, which the World Health Organization says is contributing to some infections becoming hard to treat with existing drugs.

Mexico’s armed forces are taking control of the capital’s main airport, and the government plans to give the military control of nearly a dozen more across the country as the president takes aim at corruption and mismanagement

New Delhi: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday said India’s bioeconomy jumped from $8 billion in 2014 to $100 billion and the country now targets $150 billion by 2025, Addressing a discussion meeting in New Delhi focused on fostering the Biomanufacturing Initiative of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), the minister said “India’s bioeconomy was just about $8 billion in 2014 and now under Prime Minister Narendra Modi we have at least awakened to the merits of biotechnology and bioeconomy. It has grown up to $100 billion, now we are targeting $150 billion by 2025.

Akhilesh Yadav on Monday met Telangana CM K Chandrashekhar Rao at his residence in Hyderabad in what was seen as further exploration of talks for a larger Opposition unity for 2024 polls, even as BRS and Congress remain locked in the upcoming battle in Telangana. Speaking to media persons in Hyderabad before the meeting, while Yadav refrained from sharing details of the agenda, he said that everybody's aim is common — to dislodge BJP.

HDFC Bank's managing director and chief executive Sashidhar Jagdishan on Saturday said the country's largest lender aims to double every four years. In a letter to the over 4,000 employees from HDFC who joined the bank's rolls on Saturday, Jagdishan said the future is bright, and the work on realising the potential of the merger starts now. «The runway for financial services and mortgage, which are so underserved and under penetrated, is going to be very large.

Brian Winterflood, MBE and founding member of Winterflood Securities, has died.

fiscal deficit for the first two months of this fiscal year through May stood at 2.10 lakh crore rupees, or 11.8% of annual estimates, government data showed today. The fiscal deficit narrowed from 12.3% reported in the comparable year-earlier period. Total receipts stood at 4.16 lakh crore rupees, while overall expenditure in April to May was at 6.26 lakh crore rupees.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has completed a public consultation on stablecoin regulations with an aim to introduce clear regulatory guidelines around the stablecoin market by the end of 2024.

Lawmakers with the United States House Financial Services Committee and House Agriculture Committee have released a draft discussion offering certain crypto assets a pathway to being labeled digital commodities.