by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Pandemic, Risk Management
JOHANNESBURG: The South African government's compensation fund to cover potential injuries from COVID-19 vaccines could cost around 250 million rand ($17.5 million) in the first year, the health minister said in response to questions in parliament. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 21, 2021 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Non-Life
KITUI, Kenya: When Kenyan farmer Waki Munyalo's crop of lentils shrank by three quarters last year because of unusually low rainfall, disaster was averted thanks to a simple remedy that was previously unavailable to most African farmers – insurance. Munyalo,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 21, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, International News, Risk Management, Technology
TikTok, the wildly popular video app, and its Chinese parent ByteDance could face a damages claim worth billions of pounds (dollars) in London's High Court over allegations they illegally harvested the private data of millions of European children. Anne Longfield,...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 20, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: As more states went for lockdown-like restrictions to battle the raging second COVID-19 wave, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday stressed that use of lockdown should be the ''last resort'' and that the focus should rather be on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 20, 2021 | Indian News, Life
Mumbai: Bouncing back from prolonged Covid 19 pandemic disruptions, the life insurance industry, at Rs 2,78 trillion, has recorded 7.50 per cent year on year(Y-O-Y) growth in its new premium income during FY 2020-21. Though,state owned Life...
