BSNL clears 50% of its debts; Bharti Airtel to buy 3.3% additional stake in Avaada MHBuldhana

Mar 24, 2021

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#IndiaTech

Centre's WhatsApp chatbot MyGov-Corona Helpdesk crosses 30 million users; it is also said that the MyGov-Corona Helpdesk chatbot has got over 45 million conversations on WhatsApp and sent more than 67 million messages. (HT)

BSNL cleared 50% of the debts to its vendors Nokia and ZTE; BSNL got a loan of around Rs 1,800 crore to pay the dues to its vendors. It paid Rs 500 crore to Nokia and Rs 400 crore to ZTE. (FE)

Over 15.5 lakh cybersecurity incidents have been reported in the last two years, says the Centre to Lok Sabha; Government's CERT-In team receives inputs about malware infections in networks of companies across sectors. (FE)

#GlobalTech

Facebook is working on the ‘Green Screen’ filter for Stories as a creative tool; the 'Green Screen' effect, which is now available on Instagram, enables users to add video or image as the background for their videos. (HT)
Apple backs its app reviewing process after Epic Games forwarded its issues to the antitrust watchdog of Australia; Apple clarifies that if an app got rejected from them, the company would allow Apple Team members to deal with the developers. (HT)
YouTube is working on automatic product detection in Videos; this feature helps to detect products used in videos at an instance. (IE)
Qualcomm is said to be working on Switch-like, Android led gaming device; the phone-like device features detachable, Joy-Con-like controllers, with upcoming Android 12, 5G and others. (VE)

#BusinessNews

Interest on PF will be exempted from tax on contributions of up to Rs 5 lakh: Nirmala Sitharaman; earlier in the Union Budget 2021, she introduced an amendment to tax the interest earned on employees’ contribution in excess of Rs 2.5 lakh a year. (MC)

Bharti Airtel will buy a 3.3% additional stake in Avaada MHBuldhana; earlier, the Sunil Bharti Mittal-led firm had acquired a 5.2% stake in the power plant company for Rs 4.55 crore. (MC)

TRAI asks banks, telemarketing firms to comply with new SMS norms immediately; this regulation is set up to prevent spam and fraudulent messages that falsely claim to originate from banks, financial institutions. (MC)
Two Bengal projects from NHAI gets premium bids from Adani, IRB infrastructure; Adani Group accepted to pay 11.5% premium of the capital cost of the Panagarh -Palshit stretch, while IRB Infrastructure offers to pay 10.8% premium for the Palsit to Dankuni stretch. (FE)

#COVID19

India registered 40,715 COVID-19 cases, 276 deaths within 24 hours; the number of people recovered from COVID-19 rose to 1,11,81,253 in India. (NDTV)
In Punjab, 81% of fresh samples test positive for COVID-19 with UK variant; as mostly seen in recent cases, the UK strain of COVID-19 virus raises the risk of death. (TOI)

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