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Wearable healthcare devices, used to improve care, and the lives of old people, could be risking their basic human rights, according to new research report – ‘A Digital Cage is still a Cage’ – by UK-based University of Essex   Many wearable healthcare technologies pose acute risks to the right to privacy, which is particularly serious given that these technologies are used in people’s homes, including in bedrooms and bathrooms   Human Rights and privacy risks may increase as technologies become more sophisticated Researchers at UK-based University of Essex have warned that Digital technology used to improve care, and the lives, of old people could be risking their basic human rights. According to new research, although digital technologies can be used to improve social care, it can also adversely impact human rights and contribute to the segregation and isolation of old people. The report, ‘A Digital Cage is Still a Cage’, argues that emerging technologies used to mon

Credgenics ranked #1 Market Leader in India Retail Lending and #2 Regional Leader in APAC with a stellar record of new order wins Credgenics ranked #1 Star Performer SLT New Entrant in APAC in its first ever participation with inclusion in Industry Leader Special listing Credgenics , the leading provider of loan collections and debt resolution SaaS-based technology solutions to banks, non-banking finance companies and FinTech lenders worldwide, today announced that the platform is ranked #1 leader in India in Retail Lending Systems category by the UK-based research and advisory analyst firm, IBS Intelligence, in their Annual Sales League Table 2022. Credgenics bagged the top spot as the Best Selling Retail Loan Collections Platform in Retail Lending category in India Sales League Table 2022, a reflection of its rapidly increasing market share. Credgenics is also the #2 Regional Leader in APAC based on its large number of new sales orders and the #1 Star Performer SLT New Entrant

Naradha Gana Saba witnessed a magical evening on Sunday "Celebrating SPB" a program sponsored by Apollo Hospitals. World's renowned Veena Maestro Rajhesh Vaidhya brought back the famous tracks sung by the legend Dr.S.P.Balasubrahmanyam through his mesmerising veena notes. Music lovers rejoiced, remembered and honoured the legend. Ms. Suganthy.S, PRO, Apollo Hospitals Chennai felicitated Mastro Rajhesh Vaidhya and renowned playback singer Mr.SPB. Charan during the event. Mr. Parthiban and Mr. K.S. Ravikumar were present on the occasion. The swarm of audience who attended the evening music concert and expressed their love for Dr. SP. Balasubramanyam.

 • Consilio expands its India footprint with new, expanded facilities in Bangalore, Hyderabad & Gurgaon as a key component of its global legal services delivery platform Consilio, a global leader in eDiscovery, document review, risk management, and legal consulting services, announced the launch of new facilities in Gurgaon, Bangalore, and Hyderabad, expanding its global footprint to meet client demand for its legal technologies and services and firmly establishing India as a key talent hub for its growing eDiscovery, risk management, and legal consulting business lines. Consilio builds on an established history of operating global teams with select IT and engineering functions established in India 15 years ago with the more recent expansion supporting all company functions, including service delivery. To accommodate the next stage of expected growth, the company re-envisioned the newly expanded facilities to safely enhance the employee experience and increase opportunities for t

Velammal Main School, Mogappair Campus observed the International Yoga Day on 21st  June, 2022 at the school premises on the theme 'Yoga for Humanity'. The programme commenced seeking the divine grace through the Lord's prayer and  was presided in the auspice presence of our honourable Chief Guest Ms. Yoga Vaishnavi, International Gold Medallist and a Multiple Guinness World Record Holder in Yoga. The unique day featured innumerable benefits of yoga and the significance of celebrating International Yoga Day, 2022 , with the theme being briefed. Several hundreds of students geared up to perform various Yoga asanas with great enthusiasm depicting Yoga as an important tool for promotion of good health and wellbeing. Finally, the Chief Guest addressed the students and  emphasized to enhance the soundness of the mind and the body through yoga. The day concluded on a healthy note. An initiative by Velammal setting a reminder to all to incorporate yoga in every day routine to enjo

A staggering nine of 10 consumers in India (91%) would select an offer that includes a metal payment card if all rewards and benefits were equal, which is up 6% from a prior Edgar, Dunn survey done for Composecure in 2019. This was the highest percentage of all regions surveyed and much higher than the global average of 70%. Other Asia Pacific regions also showed a strong preference for metal cards: 82% of Indonesia, 82% of China, 76% of Hong Kong and 71% of Singapore. The Asia Pacific region consistently ranked highest among the countries for awareness, interest and importance of metal cards. The survey identified India and Indonesia as two of the top nations with awareness and affinity toward metal payment cards. Both countries had the highest percentage of customers who would feel positive about their banks because they offered metal cards, significantly higher than the average survey respondent (89% vs. 58%). Metal payment cards offer financial institutions and other card issuers

The Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram, which is part of the Apollo Hospitals group, recently held a citizens' cycling rally to raise awareness about vertigo and balance issues. Balance disorders (including vertigo) affect around 35% of people over the age of 40 and 85% of people over the age of 80 for a variety of reasons. The Vertigo and Balance Clinic at Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram collaborated with Annanagar Cycles to organise a cycle rally from the Lighthouse at Marina Beach to the Apollo Speciality Hospitals, Vanagaram, in order to raise much-needed awareness about this issue. Flag off was done by Mr. Velu, MLA, Mylapore constituency, Mr. Shivakumar, CEO Apollo Hospitals, and Dr. Rahul Raghavan  Menon, COO, Apollo Hospitals Cluster 2, Mr.Vkumara manikandan, TN marketing manager from ACT Fibernet, G. Shankaranarayanan, Business Development Head, TN, Nippon Paints India, Mr. Velu Balasubramaniam, Founder and CEO, Maiyam55. The rally attracted around 250 riders, i

TANKER (Tamilnad Kidney Research) Foundation is a registered non-profit charitable organization started in June 1993 with the aim of helping under-privileged patients with kidney disease by giving free and subsidized dialysis and one-time financial help for medication, investigation and transplantation and also spread awareness about kidney disease. Dr. K. Jayanth Murali IPS, Director General of Police, graciously consented to the request of the TANKER Foundation to run a full Marathon held on Sunday, 12th June 2022 at IIT Madras to enable the Foundation to raise funds for BP Machines for all Tamilnadu Police Stations so that Police Personnel can check their BP regularly and take corrective action to avoid kidney disease. DGP Dr.Jayanth Murali ran 50 kms and said that when he was approached by TANKER Foundation, he felt the need to do this for his fellow Police personnel as they were under a lot of stress and prone to high BP. He appreciated TANKER for doing this project and said that

 • Indian organizations seem to have a better clarity on various supply chain security gaps compared to other responding nations • 55% expressed highest concern in ransomware threats among all potential supply chain risks • 83% identified he need for better governance in the organization’s supply chain ISACA® has just launched new global research results, Supply Chain Security Gaps: A 2022 Global Research Report that has divulged interesting threats and security gaps in the supply chain ecosystem globally. In India, just like many other developing economies, supply chain challenges have rocked both enterprises and consumers alike, making it harder to access certain goods and maintain business continuity. Increasing security threats have only heightened these concerns, and this ISACA survey report illuminates IT professionals’ key concerns around security challenges and how their organizations are responding to them.  It received responses from more than 1,300 IT professionals wit

Chem Trend, India showcased their products and services at the International Plastics Exhibition in India at Chennai World Trade Center from the 10 – 13 June 2022 at Booth No. B14, Hall H2. Chem-Trend, a world market leader in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of high-performance release agents, purging compounds, and other process chemical specialties, was focusing on sharing insights on release agents, purging compounds.  Chem-Trend serves the thermoplastic sector through its purging compounds called Ultra Purge™ and mold maintenance product line called Lusin®. They are supporting customers in different thermoplastics processes, like injection molding, extrusion, and rotational molding.  Chem-Trend’s approach is working hand-in-hand with the industry and customers to generate solutions that overcome their production challenges. Using a customer-centric approach and deep research and development, they are helping manufacturers to become more efficient. More productive. And

• Focus on channelizing innovation and harnessing strong support from the banking community • Strengthening of multiple functions to augment the pace of global expansion Credgenics, the leading provider of SaaS based collections and debt-recovery technology platform worldwide, today announced the expansion of its core leadership team as part of its next phase growth plan for existing markets and entry into global markets. New additions to the Credgenics leadership team include Vibhor Singhal as Head of Engineering, Nitin Garg as Head of Marketing, Asvini Krishnan as Head of Finance, Manjari Lakshmanan as Head of Product, Aakash Agarwal as Head of Data Science, Sukhpreet Singh as Head of HR, and Abhishek Sharma as Director of Sales.  In addition to the leadership team, Credgenics also plans to hire over 100 new professionals across technology, data science, strategy, sales, finance, support, and operations verticals over the next 12 months. The growing urgency among banks for digiti

Saveetha College of Nursing celebrated Pearl Jubilee to mark the historical milestone in its journey &wrapped up 30 years. The college has been renovated with the theme of “Walk in the Park” into state of Art infrastructure setting an example for Nursing Education Globally as well to prepare for the emerging challenge in the upcoming health care and emphasis on high quality education. The renovated building of SCON was inaugurated by Dr.Ani Grace Kalaimathi, Registrar, Tamil Nadu Nurses and Midwives Council by Ribbon cutting.  This occasion was graced with Dr.N.M Veeraiyan, Chancellor, SIMATS, Dr.Chadaram Sivaji, Vice Chancellor, Dr. V. Deepak Nallaswamy, Director of Academics, SIMATS, invited guest, the Principal Prof.Dr.S. KalaBarathi, Prof.L.Parimala, Vice Principal, Faculty members and students of Saveetha College of Nursing.

Velammal Main School, Mogappair Campus in its  go green mission organized the 'SAPLING PLANTATION DRIVE' on the occasion  of World Environment Day 2022  in association with Indian Oil Corporation Limited and The Ashoka Tree, NGO in its campus on 5th June, 2022. The programme commenced seeking the divine grace through a melodious. Prayer song and  was presided in the auspice presence our honourable guests Mr. Balakrishnan Naik General Manager, HR (IOCL) and Smt. Sravana Rajan, The Ashoka Tree, NGO and Shri K.S. Ponmathi, Senior Principal. The honourable guest addressed on how to safeguard nature for the future by  highlighting the importance of plantation of trees and asserted to instilling in students good habits to secure a better place to live in. An array of programs was staged and the students took up the Go Green Pledge to look after the planted saplings, plant more and more trees and encourage others to do the same. This Plantation Drive was an exclusive initiative by Vel

  ·          New dsPIC33C DSCs add support for AUTOSAR, OS, MCAL drivers and functional safety, enabling robust and secure automotive solutions OEMs are experiencing increasing application complexity and the need for AUTOSAR, ISO 26262 functional safety-compliant and secure solutions as the market for electric and autonomous vehicles grows. For automotive developers looking to design scalable applications for future technology while also meeting the latest automotive requirements, Microchip Technology Inc.  (Nasdaq: MCHP) today announces a comprehensive ecosystem around AUTOSAR-ready dsPIC33C Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs) to enable accelerated development and a high level of system optimization while reducing total system cost. Microchip is expanding its broad portfolio of dsPIC33C DSCs to cover the large memory segment with the new ISO 26262-compliant dsPIC33CK1024MP7xx family. This new family of dsPIC33C DSCs with 1 MB Flash enables applications running automotive software