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Faster, inclusive payment services to deliver widespread benefits: Shaktikanta Das

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

Mumbai, Sep 4 (PTI): Reserve Bank Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said faster, transparent and more inclusive payment services will deliver widespread benefits as he flagged concerns over high cost and slow cross-border payments. ”Notwithstanding the progress made so far, the key challenges to the existing cross-border payment systems continue to be high cost, low speed, limited access and insufficient transparency. Faster, cheaper, more transparent and more inclusive cross-border payment services would deliver widespread benefits to people and economies worldwide. ”It would also support economic growth, international trade and financial inclusion,” Das said at the concluding session of the G20

Super-gonorrhoea cases rising and could even be silent killer, says WHO

Geneva, 4 September 2023: Top scientists have warned that potentially fatal silent killer super-gonorrhoea is on the rise with a warning to Brits who may be concerned about the deadly sexually-transmitted disease. The WHO also considers Neisseria gonorrhoea, also known as super gonorrhoea, a “priority microorganism” and they are monitoring it closely, experts say, for signs of drug-resistance. Sexually transmitted diseases can spread fast through populations via people having unprotected sex but many can be treated with antibiotics. But Neisseria gonorrhoea, or N. gonorrhoea, is causing concern for the WHO as it is extremely drug resistant, The Star reports. Dr

CBI books former CMD of Indian Railway Finance Corporation over alleged financial irregularities

New Delhi [India], September 4 (ANI): CBI has registered a case against Amitabha Banerjee, former CMD of Indian Railway Finance Corporation (IRFC) in connection with irregularities in the purchase and distribution of exorbitant gold and non-gold items from funds of IRFC. The FIR into the matter reads that CBI has received a complaint that alleges financial embezzlement on the part of officials of IRFC including Amitabha Banerjee, the then CMD of IRFC (Indian Railway Finance Corporation) in connection with procurement/purchase and distribution of exorbitant gold and non-gold items from funds of IRFC. It further reads that vigilance, Railway Board scrutinized

No link between COVID-19 vaccines used in India and heart attack risk: Study

New Delhi, Sep 4 (PTI There is no association between the COVID-19 vaccines used in India — Covishield and Covaxin — and increase in the risk of heart attacks, according to an observational study which emphasises the protective effect of the jabs. The research, published recently in the journal PLOS One, determined the impact of COVID-19 vaccination on mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) or heart attack. The retrospective study used data from 1,578 people admitted to G B Pant hospital in Delhi between August 2021 and August 2022. As many as 1,086 (68.8 per cent) were vaccinated against COVID-19

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