Students of National Law School of India University, Bangalore, will now get internship placements on the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) after the 2 our bodies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).
Representational picture. Photo: Unsplash
As per an official news release, the MoU was signed on January 5, 2024, by Gloria Lim, Chief Executive Officer of SIAC, and Prof (Dr) Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Vice Chancellor, NLSIU, in a digital ceremony.
The signing was attended by Shwetha Bidhuri, Director & Head (South Asia), SIAC, Steffi Mary Punnose, Strategy & Development Manager (South Asia), SIAC, Prof. (Dr.) Nigam Nuggehalli, Registrar, NLSIU and Dr Harisankar Okay. Sathyapalan, Associate Professor of Law & Chair Professor-in-Charge of the DC Singhania Chair on ADR at NLSIU.
NLSIU’s law programme to embody module on SIAC and Institutional Arbitration
Under the brand new bond, SIAC and NLSIU will work collectively to place NLSIU law students in internships at SIAC and collaborate to incorporate a module on “SIAC and Institutional Arbitration” into NLSIU’s law programme.
“Both events can even discover the potential of growing and/or conducting joint coaching programmes, annual lecture, seminars, and different occasions in India to promote the event and follow of worldwide arbitration,” the discharge learn.
The SIAC has anchored the event of Singapore as a key centre for the law and follow of worldwide arbitration. As India goals to set up itself as a hub of worldwide arbitration, NLSIU will take the lead in growing the educational and coaching programmes vital for India’s success in this endeavour. This collaboration with the SIAC will assist us convey worldwide finest requirements and finest practices to the Indian authorized surroundings, collectively promote the event of worldwide business dispute decision mechanisms, and foster a global perspective in the subsequent era of arbitration practitioners.
SIAC is happy to be collaborating with NLSIU to present internship alternatives to law students and to collectively develop programmes that may present helpful publicity to the follow of worldwide arbitration. We consider that such efforts serve to help the event and nurture of the subsequent era of arbitration practitioners and look ahead to partnering with NLSIU on this initiative.
Gandhinagar: The eleventh Academic Advisory Council (AAC) and twelfth Leadership Conclave (LC) of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) can be held on January 08 and 09, 2024, respectively. The extremely regarded annual occasions of the Institute deliver collectively the who’s-who of academia and {industry} from across the globe with the management and school members of the Institute to brainstorm, talk about, and suggest strategic actions for the far-reaching progress and enlargement of IITGN.
The eleventh Academic Advisory Council will assist construct up efficient methods for school analysis and progress, promotion of scholar well-being, holistic growth of employees, new educational programmes, and fostering industry-academia partnerships on the Institute. About 20 eminent academicians related to prestigious institutes equivalent to University of California, USA; University of Miami, USA; ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal; University of South Florida, USA; Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand; IIMA; IIT Kanpur; IIT Bombay; IIT Delhi and others are going to affix on this yr’s AAC at IITGN. They can be joined by 30 members of IITGN’s management.
The twelfth Leadership Conclave on the next day will host about 40 of some of probably the most eminent thinkers, {industry} stalwarts, academicians, enterprise capitalists, and startup mentors from Bankworld Inc, USA; KAAJ ventures, USA; University of South Florida, USA; ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal; IIT Kanpur; IIT Bombay; Nasscom Center of Excellence; NAMTECH; amongst others. They can be joined by 20 members of IITGN’s management to deliberate and provides concepts on creating management for academia, income progress for the long-term sustainability of the Institute, steady engagement with the federal government, mission-oriented fundraising for infrastructure, and fostering industry-academia partnerships.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Saturday (January 6, 2024) issued a directive to Indian air operators, directing them to instantly conduct a one-time inspection of emergency exits on all Boeing 737-8 Max plane at the moment in operation inside their fleets, media stories mentioned.
DGCA directs Indian airlines to conduct inspections following the mid-air Alaska Airlines disaster. Photo Courtesy: Screengrab from X web page
This directive got here after an incident in an Alaska Airlines flight, carrying 174 passengers and 6 crew members, which had to make an emergency touchdown due to the mid-air blowout of an exit door and an adjoining unoccupied seat, reported India Today.
Despite the incident on the Alaska Airlines flight, Boeing has not supplied any particular steerage, mentioned the report.
The aerospace firm mentioned it was conscious of the state of affairs, including that it was prepared to assist the investigation by means of its technical workforce.
The affected plane, the place the exit door and seat malfunction occurred, is a just lately manufactured aircraft that accomplished meeting simply two months in the past and obtained certification in November 2023, in accordance to the report.
Following the incident, Alaska Airlines took the precaution of quickly grounding its complete fleet of Boeing 737-9 plane.
CEO Ben Minicucci said that every plane would endure complete upkeep and security inspections earlier than being returned to service.
In a associated improvement from final week, Boeing urged airlines to examine all 737 MAX airplanes for a possible free bolt within the rudder management system.
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli returned to the T20 paradigm of India when the BCCI named them within the squad for the upcoming sequence towards Afghanistan.
Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli return to Indian T20 squad for Afghanistan sequence. Photo Courtesy: Virat Kohli Instagram web page
Both the cricketers remained out of the Indian squad ever for the reason that nationwide staff misplaced the semi-final conflict towards England in T20 World Cup in 2022.
Pacers Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj have been rested for the sequence.
Arshdeep Singh, Avesh Khan and Mukesh Kumar will lead the tempo battery throughout the upcoming sequence.
Jitesh Sharma and Sanju Samson had been named as wicket-keepers.
The Maldivian authorities on Sunday (January 7, 2024) suspended three ministers for his or her alleged derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi which triggered a row between the 2 nations.
A file image of Indian PM Narendra Modi assembly Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu. Photo Courtesy: PIB
The three ministers had been recognized as Mariyam Shiuna, Malsha Shareef and Mahzoom Majid.
“Those who made such posts on social media whereas in authorities positions have now been suspended from their jobs,” learn an announcement issued by the nation’s authorities as quoted by NDTV.
This comes within the wake of Maldivian Minister Mariyam Shiuna’s disparaging feedback on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “clown” and “puppet” in posts on X, which have since been deleted.
These tweets had been eliminated following criticism and backlash on the micro-blogging website.
Mohamed Nasheed reacts
Former Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed strongly criticized the disparaging remarks made by a Maldivian minister concerning Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi amidst an argument ignited by the minister’s ridicule of PM Modi’s go to to Lakshadweep.
Nasheed voiced dismay on the offensive language utilized by Minister Mariyam Shiuna and harassed that India is a vital ally for the safety and well-being of the Maldives.
What appalling language by Maldives Government official @shiuna_m in direction of the chief of a key ally, that’s instrumental for Maldives’ safety and prosperity. @MMuizzu gov should distance itself from these feedback and provides clear assurance to India they don’t replicate gov coverage.
“What appalling language by Maldives Government official Mariyam Shiuna in direction of the chief of a key ally, that’s instrumental for the Maldives’ safety and prosperity. The Mohamed Muizzu authorities should distance itself from these feedback and provides clear assurance to India they don’t replicate authorities coverage (sic),” the Maldives’ first democratically-elected President, Nasheed, wrote on X.
India-Maldives relationship
The row erupted underneath the shadow of strained India-Maldives ties after President Mohamed Muizzu, who’s seen as a pro-China politician, got here to energy.
Muizzu assumed the presidency of the Maldives in November 2023. As a part of his election promise, he dedicated to withdrawing a bunch of roughly 75 Indian navy personnel from his nation and revising the Maldives’ longstanding “India first” coverage.
‘Boycott Maldives’ is trending on social media following a tweet by a Maldives minister days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s pictorial go to to the Lakshadweep archipelago.
PM Modi’s go to to the nation’s smallest Union Territory comprising 36 islands with an space of 32 sq km was seen as a transfer to advertise tourism on the island.
Preet Chandi has a drink on the South Pole. Screenshot courtesy: Instagram/polarpreet
Antarctica, the final continent on Earth, has few human footsteps; however of what there may be, the ski tracks left by Preet Chandi are very particular.
Nicknamed “Polar Preet”, the British Army officer of Indian origin not too long ago completed one more unsupported solo snowboarding expedition to Antarctica for the yr 2023. She introduced her success with an Instagram put up on the finish of December, headlining it: “Sooooo…I did it once more… just a little sooner.”
She stated in her put up: “I got here again to Antarctica this yr however with out letting the world know upfront [and] accomplished one other solo unsupported expedition from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole however with a very particular aim.”
The half about “got here again” refers to her Antarctica snowboarding expedition in January 2023. A BBC report on that journey stated: “A British Army officer has damaged a second world report in the middle of an Antarctic trek. Preet Chandi, often known as Polar Preet, has not solely surpassed the world report for the longest solo and unsupported polar expedition by a lady, but in addition the general report.”
“My expedition was a feminine pace report”
Chandi, who’s from Derbyshire, England, had first trekked to the South Pole in 2021.
The January 2023 report stated: “In her newest feat, Capt Chandi coated 922 miles (1,485km) in 70 days and 16 hours. Capt Chandi, 33, exceeded the earlier world report of 907 miles (1,459.8km), set by Henry Worsley, a retired Lieutenant Colonel, in 2015.”
The report additionally stated: “The earlier longest unsupported solo feminine distance report was 858 miles (1,381km), accomplished by Anja Blacha in 2020.”
These numbers arrange the context for what is supposed by “sooner”.
Preet Chandi works out laborious to meet her subsequent aim. Photo courtesy: Instagram/polarpreet
Outlining her December 2023 journey within the Instagram put up, Chandi wrote: “My expedition was a feminine pace report. I accomplished the solo unsupported expedition in 31 days, 13 hours and 19 minutes. I’ve utilized for the GWR and awaiting affirmation. It doesn’t belong to me alone. It belongs to everybody that helped me get right here. It is ours. I’m positive I can’t maintain the report for lengthy and can fortunately assist the one who beats it.”
“I pushed as lengthy and laborious as I may”
GWR, or the Guinness World Records, already has Chandi’s title on two certificates — she acquired them for her January 2023 expedition. Describing that journey, she wrote a put up headlined “Failure” on Instagram on April 21. That might sound baffling, because the expedition was evidently a record-breaking success. She elaborated on the rationale.
Guinness World Records certificates for Preet Chandi after her January 2023 expedition. Photo courtesy: Instagram/polarpreet
Her put up defined: “My purpose was to full a solo unsupported expedition of Antarctica and end at Reedy Glacier. I fell about 100 miles quick and failed to meet my preliminary purpose. When I completed, I’ll admit I felt disillusioned.
“But once I use the phrase failure now I don’t imply it to include unfavorable connotations. I failed to attain my preliminary purpose. I had to change the aim and that’s precisely what I did. I stored going for so long as I may. I completed on the 23 Jan 2023, the final passenger flight out of Antarctica was on the 24 Jan. I pushed as lengthy and laborious as I may.”
“Please, dream huge. If you don’t obtain that finish aim, that’s okay”
Pushing oneself has to be a character trait of anybody who traverses a place as daunting as Antarctica. Chandi has that capacity in spades.
BBC Woman’s Hour, which interviewed “Polar Preet” following her January 2023 feat, posted on social media: “Preet says it’s the toughest factor she’s ever finished, however regardless of falling over greater than 40 occasions in at some point and struggling a chilly burn to her calf, she stored going. She desires the expedition to encourage different folks to push their boundaries and consider in themselves.
“Preet additionally advised (interviewer) Anita about her mum assembly her on the airport with parathas when she arrived again to the UK, and the way she’s nonetheless slowly making an attempt to get a huge knot out of her hair after not brushing it for 70 days.”
Preet Chandi with her mum, whom she not too long ago persuaded to climb Snowdon mountain. Photo courtesy: Instagram/polarpreet
In that interview, Chandi strengthened the message of believing in oneself, just doing as a lot as attainable and adapting to conditions: “Please, dream huge. If you don’t obtain that finish aim, that’s okay.”
Urging her viewers to discover what was outdoors the field labelled “regular”, Chandi stated, “If a Punjabi lady from Derby can go and do that, you possibly can go and obtain something, as a result of nothing is not possible.”
“We usually face limitations and naysayers the extra we obtain…”
The earlier Antarctica expedition had left Chandi with fairly an harm — termed “polar thigh”, despite the fact that it was on her calf — to get well from in 2023. The wound was induced not by her gear, however by the wind and chilly in that excessive local weather.
“It began fairly early on within the 70 day exped; it regarded like a bruise to begin with after which a scab. When the scab broke open, the ache bought worse. I rationed my ache reduction for so long as I may and had one pill left for the final 2 weeks (I took that within the final 48hrs),” she defined on Instagram.
Preet Chandi recovers from a very unhealthy calf harm attributable to chilly and wind. Photo courtesy: Instagram/polarpreet
In view of this, the most recent South Pole expedition had been unsure. But “Polar Preet” was no quitter. “It took me a whereas to get well and I didn’t assume I might come again out once more this season. And then that little thought got here into my head… what if…
“Could I try a pace report?? This journey was a bit totally different for me, I truthfully didn’t know if I might be fast sufficient however thought I’ll do every part I can and let’s see!” she wrote on Instagram on the finish of December 2023, giving followers a look into how she had prepped her thoughts for an additional shot at South Pole glory.
Gratitude was expressed, too: “This was a solo expedition however there are such a lot of those that helped me get right here. These journeys are a lot larger than me. It was solely a few years in the past that I didn’t know something about this world and now I’m nonetheless amazed at what I can obtain.
“We usually face limitations and naysayers the extra we obtain, one thing I proceed to wrestle with. But their phrases or actions haven’t stopped me but and don’t allow them to cease you both.”
Chennai, January 01, 2024: Indian Overseas Bank at this time launched ‘Savings Account Portability Online’, a function that has been designed to raise buyer comfort.
For people who need to shift from one location to a different as a consequence of profession shifts, academic pursuits, or varied life transitions, the cumbersome technique of relocating a checking account has been a persistent headache. Historically, this endeavor concerned infinite varieties, protracted queues, and days of ready for the account switch to materialize. With Savings Account Portability Online, Indian Overseas Bank has bid farewell to this arduous course of.
Commenting on the function, Shri Ajay Kumar Srivastava, Managing Director & CEO, Indian Overseas Bank stated, “Indian Overseas Bank will proceed to give attention to creating digital differentiators with evolving applied sciences whereas maintaining in thoughts buyer wants. Our give attention to digitization comes from our unwavering dedication to customer-centricity. By prioritizing the comfort of our prospects and leveraging digital options, we goal to supply a seamless, user-friendly service expertise throughout all contact factors. As a part of our steady endeavours in direction of making our prospects’ banking journey extra environment friendly and simpler, we’re introducing Savings Account Portability Online. We are dedicated to staying on the forefront of expertise with revolutionary options that cater to the evolving wants of the purchasers in at this time’s digital age.”
Indian Overseas Bank’s newly launched on-line account switch course of is kind of easy. Customers can execute account transfers with unprecedented ease.
To provoke an account switch, prospects merely must log in to the IOB web site (www.iob.in) and entry the ‘Transfer of Savings Accounts’ part. Enter the account quantity and registered cell quantity. A one-time password (OTP) might be despatched to the registered cell quantity. Once the OTP is entered, one might specify the specified department for switch and submit. A brand new web page opens, revealing the account quantity and the identify and code of the vacation spot department, confirming the profitable switch.
Crucially, to partake on this seamless service, prospects should guarantee their telephone numbers are precisely registered with the financial institution.
Through this facility, IOB is bridging geographical distances and the inconveniences of conventional account transfers and embracing a future centered on buyer comfort the place simplicity and effectivity converge at one’s fingertips.
~ Overtakes China and secures the third place in world markets, after US and UK ~
December 20, 2023; Mumbai, India: India’s apex industry-led market analysis physique, Market Research Society of India (MRSI) as we speak introduced the launch of its {industry} sizing report titled ‘The Indian Research & Insights Industry 2023 Update’. As per the report, India’s market analysis and insights {industry} grew by 17.6% in FY2023 reaching USD 2.9 Bn from USD 2.7 Bn in FY2022. Currently on the third place globally, India’s market analysis and insights {industry} is additional anticipated to succeed in USD 3.4 Bn in 2024.
With a powerful progress trajectory, supported with world confidence, India is taken into account a expertise hub with robust analytics experience. The progress witnessed aligns with the worldwide analysis and insights {industry}, which posted a considerable 12% enhance to succeed in USD 130 Bn, over USD 118 Bn in the earlier yr. Data analytics is the fastest-growing sector of the worldwide insights {industry} in absolute phrases.
With massive venture commissions and strategic work being revived, India’s market analysis {industry} is properly aligned with the Government of India’s Vision-2030 technique. Custom analysis and analytics have additionally fuelled the home market to develop by 12%. Analytics enterprise from native purchasers continues to develop with an growing deal with combining survey information, consumer information, and social information to derive insights.
Speaking on the {industry}’s progress, Paru Minocha, President at Market Research Society of India mentioned, “The Indian analysis and insights {industry} witnessed one other yr of important progress, attaining a considerable dimension of USD 2.9 Billion. This progress is a testomony to India being the main focus progress marketplace for corporations and the market analysis {industry}’s potential to navigate challenges and capitalize on rising alternatives to allow that progress. In addition, there may be world confidence in India as a expertise hub and as a market that’s pivotal in providing worthwhile insights and analysis options.”
Mitali Chowhan, Director General at Market Research Society of India additional added, “The progress our sector is present process could be very encouraging. This has helped preserve us our Global rating, and infact has moved us as much as the third place in the worldwide Market Research & Insights {industry}. India’s important capabilities, together with our {industry}’s potential to adapt successfully to challenges and thrive on each world and home fronts is one thing we may be proud of.”
The BFSI, FMCG, Technology, and Healthcare sectors proceed to contribute considerably to sectors progress and income. Emerging sectors like Telecom, Electric Vehicles, and Gaming have seen elevated demand for analytics and customized analysis. While on-line information assortment is gaining traction, conventional strategies equivalent to face-to-face interviews stay related for his or her value competitiveness and potential to supply wider protection of the Indian shopper.
Market Research Society of India (MRSI) is a singular, dynamic and a not-for-profit autonomous market analysis physique fashioned in 1988 by a big fraternity of analysis suppliers and customers from throughout India. MRSI works with ESOMAR to carry Indian {industry}’s voice to the worldwide discussion board.
MRSI goals to information, encourage and uphold the best high quality requirements of professionalism for all those that use, want, generate or interpret insights/information in the market analysis {industry}. It is a platform that brings advertising and marketing professionals and perception professionals collectively and instills a code of conduct that must be adopted in the market analysis {industry} in India and showcases developments and improvements that happen.
Marketing and social analysis customers, suppliers, innovators and mills are members of MRSI together with organizations which offer help companies to the {industry}, thus holistically representing the pursuits of the {industry} at massive.
Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar mentioned connectivity, multilateralism, big power competition and regional conflicts whereas meeting main representatives of the Russian strategic community on Monday (December 25, 2023).
S Jaishankar attends top-level meeting in Russia. Photo Courtesy: S Jaishankar X web page
Speaking about his meeting, the Indian Minister tweeted: “An open and ahead wanting interplay with main representatives of the Russian strategic community. Spoke in regards to the significance of rebalancing and the emergence of multipolarity.”
He stated: “Exchanged views on how India-Russia ties will develop in that framework. Also mentioned connectivity, multilateralism, big power competition and regional conflicts.”
Jaishankar stated: “Geopolitics and strategic convergence will all the time hold India-Russia ties on a constructive trajectory.”
Jaishankar is at the moment on a five-day go to to Moscow.
He is visiting the nation as part of the continuing high-level exchanges between the 2 nations.
During this go to, Jaishankar will meet Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia, Denis Manturov, to debate issues associated to financial engagement.
The EAM will meet his counterpart, the Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, for dialogue on bilateral, multilateral and worldwide points.
“Focusing on the robust people-to-people and cultural ties between our two international locations, EAM’s programme will embody engagements in Moscow and in St. Petersburg,” learn a press release issued by the Ministry of External Affairs.
Noted Indian entrepreneurs Dr Neerja Birla and Nikhil Kamath. Screenshot courtesy: Instagram/ neerja_birla and _soniashenoy
Well-known Indian entrepreneurs Nikhil Kamath and Dr Neerja Birla have been appointed to the India Advisory Council of the British Asian Trust, a charity based by King Charles III when he was the Prince of Wales.
Kamath, Co-founder of one of India’s largest stockbrokers Zerodha, apart from the wealth administration agency True Beacon and the enterprise capital agency Gruhas, is the youngest Indian to signal Bill Gates’ and Warren Buffett’s ‘The Giving Pledge’, as a promise to present a minimum of 50 per cent of his wealth to charity. In his new function with the British Asian Trust introduced final week, he hopes to deal with “advanced social challenges” in India.
I’m dedicated to partnering with revolutionary and pioneering social organisations as half of my philanthropic method.
Nikhil Kamath, Co-founder of Zerodha
“I’m, subsequently, honoured to join the British Asian Trust’s India Advisory Council, made up of notable enterprise leaders and philanthropists. Together, we purpose to deal with advanced social challenges innovatively and at scale throughout the nation,” he stated.
Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath with Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das. Photo courtesy: X/ @nikhilkamathcio
Birla, Founder and Chairperson of the Aditya Birla Education Trust, is behind the initiative Mpower, which seeks to foster a optimistic change in attitudes in direction of psychological well being via consciousness and advocacy.
“Mpower has turn into an emblem of hope and a driving drive for change within the psychological well being panorama in India. However, vital obstacles live on in offering the fitting assist for psychological well being to hundreds of thousands of residents within the nation,” she stated.
The British Asian Trust is doing commendable work in [the mental health] house internationally. I’m thrilled to join the British Asian Trust’s India Advisory Council and broaden our work in psychological well being throughout India.
Dr Neerja Birla, Founder and Chairperson of the Aditya Birla Education Trust
Transforming hearts and minds, one class at a time. Minds Matter by Mpower is greater than only a curriculum – it is a dedication to nurturing the psychological well being and social-emotional-psychological properly being of each baby. ?❤️ Together, let’s create lecture rooms that provide a secure… pic.twitter.com/Unv5PdwpVZ
Kamath and Birla join the belief alongside different eminent Indian enterprise and philanthropic leaders, together with Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries, who chairs the Trust’s India Advisory Council.
Bharath Visweswariah, Executive Director – India, on the British Asian Trust, stated, “The inclusion of Nikhil Kamath and Dr Neerja Birla into our advisory council will contribute immensely to the long run of our work in India.
“Nikhil’s ardour for conservation and livelihoods and Dr Birla’s excellent journey in training and psychological well being will assist us broaden our influence innovatively and successfully.”
The Trust was based in 2007 by then Prince Charles (now King Charles III); it claims to have positively impacted the lives of greater than 12 million individuals in South Asia since then.
Diaspora-led worldwide growth organisation
On its web site, the charity described itself as: “We are a diaspora-led worldwide growth organisation, delivering high-quality programmes in South Asia. We concentrate on, and champion the use of, social finance merchandise to drive optimistic change throughout the area.”
Minimising inequality and injustice in South Asia is the overarching purpose of the Trust. Its programmes are “targeted on the areas of training, livelihoods, baby safety, psychological well being, and conservation”.
Advisory councils of the British Asian Trust are “made up of influential people who carry experience and connections” to the charity’s work. “They assist to lift consciousness about our programmes and our method, act as model ambassadors, safe wider assist and provides strategic recommendation,” stated the Trust.
Gandhinagar: The eleventh Academic Advisory Council (AAC) and twelfth Leadership Conclave (LC) of the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) can be held on January 08 and 09, 2024, respectively. The extremely regarded annual occasions of the Institute deliver collectively the who’s-who of academia and {industry} from across the globe with the management and school members of the Institute to brainstorm, talk about, and suggest strategic actions for the far-reaching progress and enlargement of IITGN.
Chennai, January 01, 2024: Indian Overseas Bank at this time launched ‘Savings Account Portability Online’, a function that has been designed to raise buyer comfort.
