by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
GENEVA: Covid-19 appears likely to develop into a seasonal disease, the United Nations said Thursday, cautioning though against relaxing pandemic-related measures simply based on meteorological factors. More than a year after the novel coronavirus first surfaced in...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 19, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: The need to change the composition of Covaxin has not been felt yet in view of good efficacy of the vaccine against mutant variants, the government told Lok Sabha Friday. There are four mutations of the Covid-19 virus in India at present — two...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Life, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha on Thursday approved a bill to raise the foreign investment limit in the insurance sector to 74 per cent with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying while control will go to foreign companies, the majority of directors and key...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
NEW DELHI: Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of...
by AIP Online Bureau | Mar 18, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Pandemic
New Delhi: India's coronavirus infections surged to more than a three-month high on Friday, led by a record daily increase in the western state of Maharashtra, where authorities have adopted fresh curbs to restrain the spread of the disease. India's...
