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Brightway Insurance announces precautionary measures for COVID-19
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The company has implemented a plan to allow all employees to work remotely

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Reavis Named Chief People Officer at Ohio Insurtech Root
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Columbus, Ohio-based Root Inc., the parent company of online insurer Root Insurance, has appointed Annette Reavis as its first chief people officer. Reavis has more than 20 years of human resource and business experience. She previously spent a decade at …

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IT, data panel to work with Microsoft, Cisco for info flow to tackle Covid
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“Start-ups and large corporates are also giving ideas on tackling this emergency. C-DAC Pune has offered supercomputing for gene sequencing of the virus, this we have passed on to ICMR (Indian Council for Medical Research),” a senior government official told ET, adding that the next step was working on the data.

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Govt extends implementation of uniform stamp duty for capital market instruments to July 1
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The finance ministry also clarified that there is no change in the financial year. «There is no extension of the Financial Year,» said a finance ministry statement, clarifying that the notification issued by the department of revenue pertained to amendments in the Indian Stamp Act.

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Food, medicine supply still choked; Transport bottlenecks show signs of easing
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Prices of potato, dairy items and meat may rise further with cold storages running out of refrigerants. The poultry industry is in distress as they are unable to get feed for birds. Retail chains said customers continued to hoard, leaving very low stocks of staples like atta, poha, rajmaand packaged food like biscuits and instant […]

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Nizamuddin Basti cordoned off after spike in Covid-19 cases
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District authorities took around 200 people from the cluster to three government hospitals and around 2,000 people were home quarantined in and around the basti. Nine preachers who came from Andaman & Nicobar tested positive for Covid-19. A 65-year-old preacher who attended the convention passed away in Srinagar last week.

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Doctor recommended no action for U.S.' Pelosi after coronavirus contact
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A startup is building computer chips using human neurons
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One of the most promising approaches to artificial intelligence is to try to mimic how the human brain works in software. But now an Australian startup has gone a step further. It’s actually building miniature disembodied brains, using real, biological neurons embedded on a specialized computer chip. Cortical Labs, based in Melbourne, is hoping to […]

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Social distancing creates $8 trillion in economic benefits, study says
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Subscribe to Outbreak, a daily roundup of stories on the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on global business, delivered free to your inbox. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, some people are worried that continued forced social distancing could be disastrous for the U.S. economy. But a pair of researchers at the University of […]

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