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Indian Insurance Industry-2025: A Year of Consolidation, Customer Focus and Sustainable Growth
Consumers increasingly opted for higher sum insured policies,...
Cyber Insurance in India: Premiums, Ransomware and the AI
At this time the Indian cyber premium pool is expanding rapidly —...
Going Digital: Customising Premiums for Policyholders
Anuj Parekh, Co-founder and CEO,Healthysure How Technology advancements makes it easier to customize plans to an individual’s unique needs and bring down the premiums In a world where digital advancements are constantly reshaping our lives, the Indian insurance...
Buckling up to save lives: UN celebrates five decades of seat belt laws
“The compulsory wearing of safety belts, as well as helmets for two-wheelers, and increased political commitment to road safety, played a decisive role in the reduction of road deaths throughout Europe from the 1970s onwards,” said Jean Todt, UN Special Envoy for Road...
Shipping Safety: Losses hit a record low in 2022, but jump in fires, other challenges
A combination of factors impacting fire risk, ongoing and new threats posed by the ripple effects of the Ukraine conflict, decarbonization challenges, economic uncertainty, as well as the rising cost of marine claims, means the sector still has plenty of obstacles to...
Re-thinking well-being : How outlooks on life are changing in Asia
Prudential commissioned Economist Impact to write a report exploring how people in Asia, at a time of heightened uncertainty, assess different aspects of their well-being, including their physical and mental health, personal finances, social lives, and interaction...
ANALYSIS-As world’s poor face ‘compounding crises’, what could curb risks?
The number of people in need of humanitarian aid globally has tripled in the last half-decade, to 340 million, said, David Miliband, president of the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid and development organisation About 90% of those live in just...
Climate Risks: Booming demand for ACs to aggravate soaring temperatures
Demand for air conditioners is surging in markets where both incomes and temperatures are rising, populous places like India, China, Indonesia and the Philippines and expanding AC coverage too quickly also threatens to worsen the crisis it’s responding to. Most units...
Fragile Himalayas: Unchecked pilgrimage, construction in Uttarakhand spell disaster for the region
Environmentalists point to the road expansion project as another factor posing a serious risk to the stability of the region, already highly prone to climate-driven disasters, experts say. Crumbling mountainsides, sinking towns and untrammelled construction. It is...
Climate Change: Indian farmers seek to escape debt and suicide
In a new report linking rainfall deficits to higher farmer suicide rates in India's drought-prone states, researchers said climate change was making "agriculture an extremely risky, potentially dangerous and loss-making endeavour" By Roli Srivastava and Bhasker...
Demographic Dividend: India races to get rich before it gets old as population surpasses China’s
Health care is just one illustrative pressure point. Today, India has about five hospital beds per 10,000 people. The ratio in China is about eight times that, and analysts say India will take decades just to reach the level where China currently stands A fleeting...
Health for all: WHO calls for urgent efforts to bridge gaps accentuated by Covid
Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh,Regional Director for South-East Asia,WHO ''In 2017, around 299 million people in the South-East Asia region faced catastrophic health spending, and an estimated 117 million people in the region were pushed or further pushed below the...