Himachal achieves 100% Aadhaar saturation Shimla, December 18 (IANS): With the generation of 72,52,880 Aadhaar cards, Himachal Pradesh has become the sixth state in the country to achieve 100 per cent Aadhaar saturation, an official said on Sunday. The other five states are Delhi, Telangana, Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh, a spokesperson for the state Information Technology Department said. “In order to maintain 100 per cent Aadhaar saturation, we have deployed 780 tablets through Anganwari workers to cover 0-5 age group in the state and 250 tablets will be deployed through health institutions to cover new born babies,” he said. Govt to soft launch malware cleaning system from Dec 20 New Delhi, December 18 (PTI): Government will kick start operations of a long-awaited malware and botnet cleaning centre with soft launch on December 20, a programme aimed at automatically disinfecting computers and mobiles from viruses and malicious software for free. “Major cybersecurity initiative of Digital India. Soft Launch of BotNet cleaning centre of India CERT from December 20,” Ministry of Electronics and IT, Additional Secretary Ajay Kumar tweeted today. Botnet is a network of malicious softwares that can steal information, take control of device function and carry out cyber attacks like Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) that prevent access of websites. Government has earmarked Rs 100 crore for setting up this facility. The project was expected to be launched in 2014. The software will be available for free from the BotNet centre, he said. The new system will do away need of installing anti-virus software in PC and mobile phones. “We are expecting that from around December 26 complete system will be operational,” Kumar said. ‘Of 24 life insurers, only 19 post profits in FY16’ New Delhi, December 18 (PTI): Of the 24 life insurance companies operating in India, only 19 insurers remained profitable in 2015-16 with the sector’s overall profits dipping by 2.57 per cent. During 2015-16, the life insurance industry reported profit after tax at Rs 7,414.97 crore as against Rs 7,611.31 crore for 2014-15, said the annual report by Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI). The life insurers which reported profit are: AvivaLife, Bajaj Allianz, Birla SunLife, Canara HSBC, DHFL Pramerica, EXIDE Life, HDFC Standard, ICICI Prudential, IDBI Federal, India First, Kotak Mahindra, Max Life, PNB MetLife, Sahara India, SBI Life, Shriram Life, Star Union, Tata AIA and LIC of India. The other five companies are: Aegon Life Insurance Company Ltd, Edelweiss Tokio Life Insurance, Bharti Axa Life Insurance, Future Generali India Life and Reliance Nippon. State-owned Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) alone reported profit after tax at Rs 2,517.85 crore, an increase of 38.06 per cent over Rs 1,823.78 crore for 2014-15. The report further said the total net profit of non-life insurance industry dropped to Rs 3,238 crore as against Rs 4,639 crore in 2014-15. All the four public sector insurers reported net profit during the year 2015-16. Quoting Swiss Re report, IRDAI said during 2015, the life insurance premium in India (inflation adjusted) increased by 7.8 per cent when global life insurance premium increased by 4 per cent. The Indian non-life insurance sector witnessed a growth of 8.1 per cent (inflation adjusted) during 2015 whereas the growth in global non-life insurance premium was 3.6 per cent only.
