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Closing Indian Protection Gap: Gaining momentum
Protection thrives only when trust is strong and here, too, India...
RBI proposes separate categories of business correspondents, uniformity in wages
It also proposes to bring uniformity in the BC ecosystem with...
Re/insurers invoke force majeure, not to pay travel claims triggered by airport shutdown and flight cancellation
``Most of our travel policies have an exclusion that doesn’t cover situations arising due to acts of any public authority like governments forcing airports to shut down,’’ said a senior official of New India Assurance Mumbai: With major escalation of Indo-Pak tension...
PB Fintech raises $218 million for its new healthcare venture
Yashish Dahiya, chairman, PB Fintech The venture, PB Health, will use the funds to set up four to five hospitals in and around New Delhi by 2027, with a long-term plan to build a 25-30 hospital network across 10 Indian cities, PB Fintech chairman Yashish Dahiya told...
UK names China as dominant threat to its national cybersecurity
Richard Horne, chief of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center “China remains the pacing threat in the cyber realm,” Richard Horne, the chief of Britain’s National Cyber Security Center, said in a rare speech on Wednesday. “The continued activity that we’re seeing...
Domestic investors invested 3.7 times more than foreign inflows in equities over last decade: Report
According to a report by Motilal Oswal, domestic institutional investors (DIIs) have invested $195 billion in Indian equities between FY15 and FY25.This is 3.7 times higher than foreign institutional investor (FII) inflows of $53 billion during the same period New...
BSE asks trading members to take measures to ward off any cyber threat
This directive comes after an advisory was received from the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) highlighting a cyber threat campaign specifically targeting Indian organisations operating within the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI)...
Hostilities between India-Pakistan heighten credit risks for both nations: S &P
"The outbreak of hostilities between India and Pakistan has increased regional credit risks, especially for the two sovereigns involved. Our base case is for the intense military actions to be temporary, which will give way to a longer period of contained and sporadic...
Fed leaves rates unchanged, cites rising risk of higher inflation and unemployment
Fed Chair Jerome Powell "Uncertainty about the economic outlook has increased further," the FOMC said at the end of a two-day meeting during which officials agreed unanimously to keep the central bank's benchmark interest rate steady in the 4.25%-4.50% range...
Finmin invites suggestions on draft climate finance taxonomy
India's climate finance taxonomy will facilitate greater resource flow to climate-friendly technologies and activities, enabling the country to achieve the vision of becoming net zero by 2070 while ensuring long-term access to reliable and affordable energy, the...
Banks tighten cyber security network to ward off any threat
"We have strengthened the cyber security mechanism… we have created a 24 hours war room to diffuse any cyber attack… we are prepared for any eventuality," Punjab National Bank MD and CEO Ashok Chandra said New Delhi: Banks have tightened their cyber security network...
Over 200 flights cancelled 18 airports temporarily closed for operations
Sources said that at least 18 airports in the northern and western parts of the country have been temporarily shut. These airports include Srinagar, Leh, Jammu, Amritsar, Pathankot, Chandigarh, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Shimla, Dharamshala and Jamnagar,they added New Delhi/...