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NEW DELHI : State-run Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) is installing Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) software at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) in New Delhi for continuous monitoring of computers following repeated cyber-attacks. This is being done on the advice of the National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre (NCIIPC) and Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), which recently found malware on computers connected with MTNL. AIIMS Delhi has faced disruption in services due to cyberattacks, following which all doctors and medical staff have been advised to use AIIMS computers on its closed networks.

Conducting transactions in the financial universe has always been a significant feature that enables the transfer of assets and value. However, The traditional finance ecosystem has managed to take control of individual funds. This is why Satoshi Nakamoto pioneered Bitcoin. Therefore, Bitcoin enabled easy transaction and value exchange through its native token, BTC. 

Wednesday, October 4th, 2023 – New crypto Bitcoin BSC is off to a flying start after launching on the PancakeSwap decentralized exchange today, immediately rocketing in price 50% to $1.48 and grabbing a market capitalization of $30 million.

Hungary’s foreign minister says that his government wants guarantees from Kyiv that a Hungarian bank that was removed from a Ukrainian list of sponsors of Russia’s war will not be placed back on that list in the future

Joe Biden plans to announce on Wednesday that his administration has approved an additional $9 billion in student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers, the White House said. Biden has said he will pursue new measures to provide student loan relief to Americans after the Supreme Court blocked his plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. The president's announcement, planned for 1 p.m. EDT at the White House, will bring the total approved debt cancellation by the Biden administration to $127 billion for nearly 3.6 million Americans, the White House said. According to a White House fact sheet, the new measures include: — $5.2 billion in additional debt relief for 53,000 borrowers under Public Service Loan Forgiveness programs — nearly $2.8 billion in new debt relief for nearly 51,000 borrowers through fixes to «income-driven repayment,» which the White House says are borrowers who made 20 years or more of payments «but never got the relief they were entitled to.» — And $1.2 billion for nearly 22,000 borrowers who have a disability who have been identified and approved for discharge through a data match with the Social Security Administration.

Mining algorithms are the backbone of blockchain-based networks like Bitcoin and other protocols. 

Qantas says Qatar Airways carries more Australians out of the country than tourists in, dismissing claims from the travel sector that denying the Middle Eastern carrier’s bid to add flights has damaged the economy as “overstated”.

The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, days after he was suspended from his post

President Joe Biden has announced that the manufacturers of all of the first 10 prescription drugs selected for Medicare’s first price negotiations have agreed to participate

ALSO READ: Cosmic curio: A little bit of Bennu According to NASA, the debris of the asteroid should "help us better understand the types of asteroids that could threaten Earth." It ended its 3.86-billion-mile (6.21-billion-kilometer) journey after touching down in the desert in the western state of Utah on Sunday. Osiris-Rex released its capsule early Sunday from an altitude of more than 67,000 miles. Also read: NASA's craft carrying largest samples of asteroid Bennu lands on Earth The fiery passage through the atmosphere came only in the last 13 minutes, as the capsule hurtled downward at a speed of more than 27,000 miles per hour, with temperatures of up to 5,000 Fahrenheit (2,760 Celsius).

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(Reuters) — Australian lender Westpac said on Wednesday it had cancelled the sale of its Fiji and Papua New Guinea businesses, ending a years-long process that was beset by regulatory problems.

Invesitng.com — The House voted Tuesday to oust Kevin McCarthy from his position as speaker — an historic outcome that hasn't ever been seen in Congress. 

CUET). The test, started in 2022 and conducted by the National Testing Agency, is mandatory for about 3,00,000 seats in around 250 universities across India. These include the University of Delhi, more than 90 constituent colleges of which offered admissions to bachelor’s courses only through CUET in the 2023 session. Test prep company Vidya Mandir Classes is charging Rs 1.2 lakh fee for a two-year CUET classroom programme of 300 hours, while one-year classroom programme of 170 hours costs Rs 70,000.

The Treasurer’s office raised no objection to extending the competition watchdog’s monitoring of price gouging by airlines, but said Transport Minister Catherine King would need to determine it is a priority.

With only three months of deals left in the year, it’s time to review the scoreboard. A trio of top-tier investment banks – Barrenjoey, UBS and Macquarie – are angling for a top spot on the equity capital markets league table, Dealogic data reveals.

₹153.6 crore, according to Tuesday’s volume-weighted average price of Adani Enterprises. "This strategic increase reflects IHC's conviction in the world-leading incubation model of AEL," IHC said in a statement to the Abu Dhabi stock exchange. IHC also highlighted the inherent strength of AEL's airports, data centers, green hydrogen and other businesses, and its ability to capitalize on India's robust growth journey.

Click here! “If the concerned intermediary, after receiving information about the demise of the investor from the notifier or nominee after inferring the same, does not have access to or is not in a position to obtain the death certificate, then it will inform the nominee (s) that the KYC status of the investor has been flagged off as “On Hold" and require them to furnish the death certificate of the concerned investor." the circular added. The Sebi circular further read “after verification of the death certificate, the concerned intermediary will have to, on the same day of verification, submit a KYC modification request to the KRA that "information on death of investor received; death certificate verified" and also upload the relevant documents." The intermediary will have to block all debit transactions in the account or folios of the deceased investor, the circular added.

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