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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], April 29 (ANI/NewsVoir): The Open Group, the vendor-neutral technology consortium, today announced the adoption of the ArchiMate® Specification, a standard of The Open Group, in the publication of India s ICT Reference Architecture for Smart Cities (ICTRA), marking a milestone for accelerating smart cities initiatives globally.
The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs (MoHUA), alongside city administrations in the country, has developed the ICTRA (Indian Standard IS18000:2020) which makes the internationally recognized ArchiMate® Specification available for smart cities applications across India.
The ICTRA has been designed to address real issues that cities are aiming to solve through digital technology, providing a shared framework to improve interoperability and enable vendors to commodify solutio
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The complete list of witnesses who testified included,
The Honorable Josh Stein, Attorney General, State of North Carolina;
Ms. Lisa Stifler, Director of State Policy, Center for Responsible Lending;
Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III, Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas;
Mr. Brian Brooks, Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency; and
Dr. Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Columbia Business School.
Dr. Haynes testimony opposed the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency s plan to enable predatory lenders to ignore state interest rate caps by paying a bank willing to masquerade as the true lender and appealed to the committee to pass a cap of 36%.
Powell waves inflation worries away
ACCELERATING GROWTH: The US central bank maintained interest rates near zero and kept bond purchases at US$120 billion a month to support an economic recovery
Bloomberg
US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell had a ready answer to counter criticism that the US central bank is running risks with inflation, as he signaled it would maintain aggressive support as the nation’s recovery gathers speed.
“The economy is beginning to move ahead with real momentum,” Powell told reporters on Wednesday after the Fed held interest rates near zero and kept bond purchases at US$120 billion a month.
Tvasta’s 3D printed house is India’s first attempt at integrating technology into construction automation. Tvasta
India’s first 3D-printed home may provide a solution to the country’s shortage of affordable housing, using a technology that is quicker, cheaper and more efficient than traditional construction, housing experts said.
The single-storey home, measuring about 56 square metres (600 square feet), was built by Tvasta Manufacturing Solutions in the southern Indian city of Chennai, in collaboration with home-building charity Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter.
A home can be built in just five days and be customised, so the technology is suitable for the government’s affordable housing programme, as well as for disaster resettlement, said Adithya Jain, Tvasta’s co-founder and chief executive officer.