by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic, Workplace/Employee Benefits
Nearly 80 per cent of corporate employees want to work from home at least once a week post-COVID, according to a survey by property consultant JLL India. In its survey Workers Preference Barometer for India, JLL India found that employees would prefer to work two days...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Pandemic
A succession of more-transmissible SARS-CoV-2 variants has emerged over the past year, each harbouring a constellation of mutations. The most worrisome so far is the so-called delta variant. Is delta more virulent? Possibly as it appears patients are more likely...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
India is likely to receive above average rainfall in September, the state-run weather office said on Wednesday, helping millions of farmers who had to endure patchy rains in July and August. Monsoon rains were 10% above average in June. "According to...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Disaster & Management, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life, Reinsurance
GENEVA: The number of disasters, such as floods and heatwaves, driven by climate change have increased fivefold over the past 50 years, killing more than 2 million people and costing $3.64 trillion in total losses, a U.N. agency said on Wednesday. The World...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 1, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
Sept 01: Amazon.com Inc. is taking the first steps toward cracking India’s outmoded agricultural sector, hoping to secure the farm produce that yields two-thirds of the country’s $1 trillion in annual retail spending. The Seattle-headquartered giant has...
