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Sep212020 by adminNo Comments

SBI launches e-facility for restructuring of retail loans for borrowers affected by Covid-19 stress

Finance

Mumbai: The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Monday said it has launched a facility on its website to help retail customers check their eligibility for one-time loan restructuring announced by the RBI. Last month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had announced a one-time restructuring scheme for personal loan and corporate borrowers affected by COVID-19 stress. "We thought instead of people actually visiting our branches, we can provide this tool and they can initially check their eligibility," the bank's managing director (retail & digital banking) C S Setty told reporters. An eligible customer, however, will have to later visit the bank's branch for completion of other formalities such as signing of papers and others, he said. The bank's retail customer will be as...

Jan112020 by adminNo Comments

Languages affected differently by brain disease

Health

There are differences in the way English and Italian speakers are affected by dementia-related language problems, a small study suggests.While English speakers had trouble pronouncing words, Italian speakers came out with shorter, simpler sentences.The findings could help ensure accurate diagnoses for people from different cultures, the researchers said.Diagnostic criteria are often based on English-speaking patients.In the University of California study of 20 English-speaking patients and 18 Italian-speaking patients, all had primary progressive aphasia - a neuro-degenerative disease which affects areas of the brain linked to language.It is a feature of Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disorders.Brain scans and tests showe...

Nov182019 by adminNo Comments

New hope for trees affected by ash dieback

Science

Scientists say there is new hope in the fight against a disease that is devastating ash trees.A study has identified the genes that give trees resistance to ash dieback, which arrived in the UK in 2012 and has now spread to almost every part of the country.The discovery suggests that trees could now be bred that are unaffected by the epidemic.The research is published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.Prof Richard Buggs, from the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, said: "I hope this work will lead to us safeguarding ash populations for future generations." Media playback is unsupported on your device Ash dieback is caused by the fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, which originated in As...

Sep282019 by adminNo Comments

Thomas Cook: How the collapse affected me

Business

When Thomas Cook collapsed on Monday, the effects were felt across the world as tourists scoured for information on how to get home and many staff, despite having lost their jobs, stoically helped them.The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) hired 45 jets to bring holidaymakers back, with only 5% of them so far delayed by a day or more.During the coming days it will bring back the remainder of the 155,000 UK holidaymakers stuck overseas.As well as workers and customers, the collapse hit suppliers such as hotel owners and will have created a hole in the supply of holidays.The holidaymaker Julia Jones, an education consultant, was on holiday exploring Greek islands when the news broke. Her husband returned on Wednesday, but she ...

Oct52018 by adminNo Comments

Viruses affected gene flow between humans, Neanderthals

Science

Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Previous studies have confirmed interbreeding among humans and Neanderthals. Now, a new genetic survey has revealed gene flow between humans and Neanderthals was mediated by viral transmissions. "It's not a stretch to imagine that when modern humans met up with Neanderthals, they infected each other with pathogens that came from their respective environments," David Enard, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, said in a news release. "By interbreeding with each other, they also passed along genetic adaptations to cope with some of those pathogens." Scientists think humans first interacted with Neanderthals in Eurasia, after migrating out of Africa 70,000 years ago. Humans brought viruses that Neanderthals had no natural im...