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Indian life insurance industry to launch its Rs 450 crore nationwide multimedia campaign on July 2
Swaminathan S Iyer, member, Life, IRDAI, will be in Mumbai along...
Vessels near Strait of Hormuz transmit unusual messages to prevent attacks
“The perception among shipowners is that due to the convoluted...
Putin signs law to establish Eurasian Reinsurance Company
The company will provide insurance support for the mutual and foreign trade of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries, Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. stimulate the development of investment cooperation, and support export loans and cooperation...
UK Eyes War-Risk Insurance Scheme for Ukraine’s reconstruction
The danger of war damage, as well as longer-term political and economic instability, have seen the costs of insuring investments in Ukraine shoot up, often pricing out both investors and private insurers. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on allies to...
California insurers’ inability to price risk is causing headaches
State regulations ask wildfire insurers to set rates for annual catastrophic coverage as a fraction of damages accrued over 20 years — without mention of models that can capture the accelerated rate of land use change and development, weather and wind trends or the...
Adding genomic info to blood biomarkers yields cost-effective results for chronic disease prevention: Study
"We found that in all the diseases, both genetics and biomarkers could provide useful information about disease risk, even ten years into the future. And the blood biomarkers provided better prediction in nearly all cases - for example, the 10 per cent of individuals...
Brain tumour cases rising ‘steadily’ in India, 20% are children: Doctors
"India is witnessing an increasing trend of central nervous system tumours. The prevalence ranges from 5 to 10 per 1,00,000 population. Very few people know that out of these, only two per cent of tumours turn cancerous," said Ravindra Srivastava, Director...
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...
‘India’s aircraft fleet doubled in past nine years, pvt investment to be over Rs 70k cr’
Domestic air travel in India has soared by an astonishing 130 per cent, with an estimated annual count of 145 million passengers exploring the country's skies "Additionally, international passenger movement has experienced a noteworthy upswing, registering a 50 per...
Govt will regulate AI, other tech from perspective of harm it can inflict on users: MoS IT
''Our approach towards AI or any regulation is that we will regulate it through the prism of user harm. This is a new philosophy, which has started since 2014 that we will protect digital nagriks. We will not allow platforms harming digital nagriks. If they operate...
Extreme weather events claimed 233 lives in India between January and April: Report
Between January and April 2022, extreme weather events claimed 86 lives and damaged 0.03 million hectare of cropland, according to the report. Lightning and storms occurred on 58 days this time as compared to 35 days during the corresponding period in 2022. Most of...
Over 11% Indians diabetic, 36 per cent have hypertension: Lancet survey shows
''The steep increase in NCDs can be attributed mostly to the lifestyle choices of people such as diet, physical activity, stress levels etc. The positive news is that interventions can be used to curb the trend. Our study has multiple implications for the planning and...