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Nearly half of health insurance buyers in India cited rising medical expenses’ as reason for purchasing insurance: Report
Interestingly, it also mentioned that nearly 30 per cent of...
Embrace healthy lifestyle, eat balanced diet, monitor timely to control hypertension: Nadda
JP Nadda,Union Health Minister Hypertension, often termed the...
Vaccine against cervical cancer to be included in national immunisation programme by mid-2023: NTAGI chief
India is home to about 16 per cent of the world's women and accounts for about a quarter of all cervical cancer incidences and nearly a third of global cervical cancer deaths. Indian women face a 1.6 per cent lifetime cumulative risk of developing cervical cancer and...
Govt notifies IRDA’s new regulations on `Registration of Indian Insurance companies” facilitating larger PE investment
-Investment through Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) has been made optional for Private Equity (PE) Funds enabling them to directly invest in insurance companies, providing more flexibility, Now, subsidiary companies are also allowed to be promotors of insurance...
China’s factories to the world brace for Tsunami of Covid cases
The resulting eruption in infections is set to be a key test for a vast network of factories that account for almost one-third of the world’s manufacturing output. Those plants are now taking extraordinary steps to ward off infections From locking in workers to...
Financialisation of savings to jump to 74pc of GDP by FY27: Crisil Report
Directed efforts at financial inclusion, digitalisation, a longer-term trend of rising middle-class disposable incomes, and government incentives on these instruments have better channelled these savings to the industry have also helped, the report said....
Green bonds likely to be issued in Jan-March quarter, government tells Parliament
Green Bonds will help the government in tapping the requisite finance from potential investors for deployment in public sector projects aimed at reducing the carbon intensity of the economy New Delhi:The sovereign green bonds are likely to be issued during...
AP Cabinet raises the social pension to Rs 2,750 per month
The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Tuesday gave its green signal to increase the social pension to Rs 2,750 per month from the existing Rs 2,500. The increased pension will be distributed from January 1, 2023. According to an official release, an additional expenditure of...
Climate change could cost pension funds billions, EU watchdog says
Only 14% of pension schemes said they were already using environmental stress-testing in their own risk management, a subgroup that performed better than their peers in the test, EIOPA said. Pension funds across the European Union would lose billions of euros from...
Fed lifts rates by half percentage point, sees economy nearing stall speed
The U.S. central bank's projection of the target federal funds rate rising to 5.1% in 2023 is slightly higher than investors expected heading into this week's two-day policy meeting and appeared biased if anything to move higher WASHINGTON: The Federal Reserve raised...
India’s COVID-19 tally not rising due to hybrid immunity -Top Health Expert
New Delhi: COVID-19 Working Group NTAGI Chairman N K Arora on Wednesday said that despite South Asian countries reporting an increase in COVID-19 cases, India is not getting affected because of hybrid immunization. However, Dr. Arora warned that India still needs to...
GST Council likely to decide on decriminalisation of GST offences, setting up appellate tribunals on Saturday
The committee has also suggested that the fee for compounding offences be reduced to 25 per cent of the tax amount, from 50-150 per cent currently Currently as per the GST Act, the amount payable for compounding of offences is 50 per cent of the tax amount involved...