Taking forward its newly introduced international webinar series, the second international webinar was successfully organized by the Global Research Foundation for Corporate Governance (GRFCG) on the 15th July 2020 (Wednesday) at 1530 hours (IST) via google meet platform. The Webinar had the presence of internationally acclaimed scholar and academician Dr. Shann Turnbull, Principal, International Institute for Self-Governance, Sydney, Australia as a distinguished speaker to address over 130 participants from across the globe.[1] The webinar started with a warm welcome of the distinguished speaker Dr. Shann Turnbull by the Chairman of the Global…
Year: 2020
HRD minister launches Covid-19 test kit developed by IIT Delhi
Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ and Minister of State (HRD) Sanjay Dhotre launched a low-cost Covid-19 test developed by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT) Delhi on Wednesday. The test, Corosure, has been billed as the most affordable probe free RT-PCR based Covid-19 diagnostic kit. The minister on Tuesday took to Twitter and announced that the kit will be launched on Wednesday. “In line with the Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi ji’s vision, I along with MoS for HRD Shri @SanjayDhotreMP will be e-launching the…
Trump announces to revoke new student visa order
The Trump administration has agreed to rescind its July 6 rule, which temporarily barred international students from staying in the United States unless they attend at least one in-person course, a federal district court judge said on Tuesday. The U-turn by the Trump administration comes following a nationwide outrage against its July 6 order and a series of lawsuits filed by a large number of educational institutions, led by the prestigious Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seeking a permanent injunctive relief to bar the Department of Homeland…
US rejects most of China’s claim in South China sea, says its illegal
Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, on Monday announced a formal rejection of “most” of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea. “The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire. America stands with our Southeast Asian allies and partners in protecting their sovereign rights to offshore resources, consistent with their rights and obligations under international law”, Pompeo said in a statement. He further added he wanted to make clear that China’s “campaign of bullying to control” the disputed…
The Changing Face of Cybercrime Amidst Global Pandemic
The state of the global economy has placed more pressure than ever on the resiliency of IT stacks, as data is the new fuel and data decoders are here to stay in the highly competitive landscape. Twitter India is making a mechanism against the social media accounts in order to stop hatred, fake, instigative and other news which violates the law of the country. The total number of twitter handles in India are around 35 million and total number of Facebook accounts are 350 million and experts say that around…
Waiting For A Cybersecurity disaster to happen
There have been over 5.2 crore cyber-attacks happened between the months of January to March in India. The covid-19 crisis has redefined how we work and communicate with each other. While technology has ensured business continuity, it has opened a pandora box of sorts. At one end, it has resulted in faster adoption of digital banking and other technologies, and at the other end, it has made us vulnerable to cyber-attacks and online frauds. The pace of innovation today is higher than ever before and India ranks fourth in cyberattacks…
Newer Technology Solutions To Ensure Business Continuity During COVID-19
Many organisations are working in India by turning the present crisis into an opportunities as the Nations across the Globe have gone into lockdown and people are struggling to find ways to fight the disease and its spread. The Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically impacted markets all over the world, and the electronics sector is no exception. Almost all product families contributed to this negative result. We have witnessed the huge positive impact of Work From Home (WFH) on organizational survivability, enabled by technology, at Global Scale. Overnight, millions of white-…
A question arises on how would be the future of the workplace ?
Digital transformation may be more critical than ever. Many enterprises had realised the fact on their investment into digital transformation prior to the pandemic are now in a much better position to continue operating smoothly. If businesses are going to be successful in the post-pandemic market, digital transformation will be the key. As the spread of COVID-19 slows down and is contained across the country, a question looming on everyone’s minds on how their plans will evolve for the long term. What will start, stop, or continue after the crisis eases? And what would be the…
Technology has made organizations more dependent by using facial recognition
In the midst of what is termed the Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing the digital world and face recognition is one of them , the world has seen unprecedented advances that have come together to impact everyday life like never before. The convergence of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and many related innovations in the past five years has brought about profound change and disruption to countries, industries and the people who are part of them. In many ways, the future looks bright. A recent announcement…
Modernize the IT Strategy To Navigate COVID-19 and Beyond
Organizations across the globe have asked their workforce to work from home. Security becomes even more important for remote users. Various OEMs are offering digital workspace solutions for a number of organizations including large banks, and educational institutions, but rapidly evolving global events have created an unprecedented requirement for remote working solutions at unprecedented scale with the balancing act of maintaining business continuity while keeping data secure at all endpoints. We are witnessing what will surely be remembered as a historic deployment of remote work and digital access to…