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Passenger vehicle dispatches stood at 3,77,689 units in February 2025
SIAM Director General Rajesh Menon said, "Positive sentiments in...
Delhi was most polluted city during 2024-25 followed by Patna: Study
Based on Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) air quality...
China’s EV boom saddles its auto insurers with large losses
Despite EV drivers paying anywhere from 20% higher to double the premiums for traditional cars, China’s auto insurers have been nursing losses from covering new energy vehicles for at least three years. The industry lost 5.7 billion yuan ($802 million) from...
Airport chaos highlights rise in high-profile ransomware attacks: cyber experts
The European Union's cybersecurity agency ENISA confirmed on Monday that the hack on Collins Aerospace, owned by RTX , was a ransomware attack, but did not say where the attack originated from. The outage, which hit check-in and baggage drop services, has affected...
US major Everest Re receives license for GIFT-IFSC venture
“Everest’s launch in India presents significant opportunity, as one of the most dynamic reinsurance markets globally, shaped by strong economic growth, and rising demand for the advanced, long-term reinsurance solutions we offer,” said Jill Beggs, Executive Vice...
Insurers start passing on full benefits of zero GST on retail Life and Health covers
``The net outgo for individual consumers has been reduced for products like Health Insurance, Personal Accident & Travel Insurance, maintaining the same policy coverage and claims servicing standards'' Naveen Chandra Jha, MD and CEO, SBI General Insurance New...
Super Typhoon Ragasa barrels through northern Philippines, triggers alerts across Asian region
Packing winds of 215 kph (134 mph) and gusts of up to 295 kph (160 mph), Ragasa slightly intensified as it brushed Babuyan Island and headed for possible landfall over Calayan Island, raising the risk of storm surges exceeding three metres (nine feet), the state...
Heat, Air Quality & Insurance Costs: How climate change is affecting our homes – and our health
Ang Li, Melbourne School of Population and Global This year, ten days of extreme heat in Europe killed roughly 2,300 people, severe flooding on the New South Wales coast left more than 48,000 stranded, and wildfires in Los Angeles destroyed at least 16,000 homes and...
Study finds El Nino linked with making daily extreme rainfall more likely in India’s wetter regions
Researchers from City College of New York and Columbia University in the US said that while light and moderate rain becomes less common during an El Nino, chances of "very heavy downpours" rise steeply in India's wetter regions -- by more than 50 per cent in some...
Central drugs labs find 32 samples to be ‘not of standard quality’ in August
Additionally, the state drugs testing laboratories identified 62 samples as “not of standard quality” (NSQ) in the month under review, they said. In August, three drug samples from Bihar were identified as spurious, which were manufactured by an unauthorised...
Domestic investors buy record Rs 5.3 lakh crore worth equities in 2025 to date, Insurers and pension funds add more than Rs 1 lakh crore
Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) remained net sellers, dumping Rs 1,80,443 crore so far in 2025 after selling Rs 1.21 lakh crore last year New Delhi: Even with a quarter remaining in 2025, domestic institutional investors have net bought a record Rs 5.3 lakh...
‘GST bachat utsav’: Taxes on wide range of goods, services to be reduced starting Monday
Underlining that the mantra of ‘Nagarik Devobhava’ is clearly reflected in the Next Generation GST reforms, the PM highlighted that when the income tax relief and GST reductions are combined, the decisions taken over the past year will result in savings exceeding ₹2.5...