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Budget 26-27:Builds assets, de‑risks infra, broadens growth and removes operational bottlenecks
Girija Subramanian, CMD, New India Assurnace The government is...
Budget-26-27:Allocation for PM-JAY raised 5.56% to ₹ 9,500 crore
Nirmala Sitharaman,Finance minister Allied Health Professional...
Govt to ensure ease of living for all citizens: FM Sitharaman
Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Finance Minister She also stated that the reforms undertaken since 2014 will continue, which will further provide macroeconomic stability and growth for India. She also highlighted India's commendable growth story in recent years amidst...
Parametric Play: Insurance helps 46,000 Indian women avoid deadly work during heat waves
As soon as temperatures breached 43.6C in Ahmedabad, Makwana and thousands of other women were told that ICICI Lombard, an insurance company, would pay them a portion of their daily wages. The Self-Employed Women’s Association labour union runs the insurance...
WHO confirms human case of bird flu in India, 2nd case since 2019
While the H9N2 virus typically tends to cause mild illness, the United Nations agency said that further sporadic human cases could occur as this virus is one of the most prevalent avian influenza viruses circulating in poultry in different regions New Delhi: The World...
Major world economies seek to halt new private sector coal financing
If approved, the draft proposal by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, would be the first move by a multilateral institution to curb financing for coal, one of the biggest causes of climate change, which produces more carbon dioxide emissions...
India fastest growing economy to clock 6.7 pc growth over 3 years World Bank
"India will remain the fastest-growing of the world's largest economies, although its pace of expansion is expected to moderate. After a high growth rate in FY2023/24, steady growth of 6.7 per cent per year, on average, is projected for the three fiscal years...
Household consumption expenditure jumps in India as incomes rise
In absolute terms, the monthly per capita consumption expenditure in the country’s rural areas shot up to Rs 2,008 in 2022-23 from Rs 1,430 in 2011-12 Urban India also recorded a robust gain of 33 per cent with per capita household consumption expenditure rising to Rs...
Domestic passenger vehicle sales rise 4% in May to 347,492 units: SIAM
Moreover, the two-wheeler segment saw a notable 10% rise in sales, reaching 16,20,084 units in May, compared to 14,71,550 units in the same period last year New Delhi: India's passenger vehicle wholesales experienced a 4% year-on-year growth in May 2023, totaling...
Russian Oil tanker does secret cargo switch near Singapore to dodge US sanctions
Russia has shipped about 3.4 million barrels a day of crude so far this year, valued at about $37 billion at the point of export, and working around western sanctions has been part of that The first Russian oil tanker attempting to deliver crude while under US...
Former Allianz employee pleads guilty to fraud over $7-billion funds collapse
The case stemmed from the March 2020 collapse of the German insurer’s now-defunct Structured Alpha funds, which Tournant had created and oversaw as chief investment officer A former Allianz fund manager pleaded guilty on Friday over his role in a meltdown of private...
Issuance of CAT bonds just hit a record high
Issuance of the bonds, including non-property and private transactions, reached an all-time high of more than $16 billion in 2023. The current value of outstanding cat bonds stands at $49 billion, Artemis estimates. Crucially, last year saw relatively few weather...